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6 Sep 2024 00:22:47 EDT (-0400)
  Re: help on CPU upgrade  
From: Margus Ramst
Date: 20 Feb 2000 19:36:13
Message: <38B088FD.109488F9@peak.edu.ee>
Nieminen Juha wrote:
> 
>   Raytracing is not memory intensive? What about those 100-Megs povray files?
> 

Yes, it will start to shift towards memory intensive. But raw CPU horsepower is
a much more limiting factor. Besides, 100-meg files usually cause a lot of
swapping and CPU->RAM bandwidth becomes pretty meaningless.

Margus


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