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  Re: Pentium4 1.5GHz and Pentium 3 650MHz speed  
From: Jong
Date: 30 Aug 2001 09:23:43
Message: <3b8e3e5f@news.povray.org>
Dear Jaime,

 Thank you for your help.
btw, does POV-ray also support Windows 2000 on top of NT? Sorry for my dumb
question.

Jong
"Jaime Vives Piqueres" <jai### [at] ignoranciaorg> wrote in message
news:3B8E2A7F.33ECE13A@ignorancia.org...

> >
> > Dear povers,
> >
> >  I just installed on my new P4 1.5GHz(RDRAM128MB) with WindowsMe the
POV-ray
> > 3.1g. I compared the rendering speed running the same POV scene
files(size
> > of 9MB) which was exported from Rhino3D modeler. The speed margin of the
> > 1.5GHz was just 25-30% over the P3 650MHz Windows98SE(SDRAM almost
312MB).
> > Do I better run the POV under MS2000 instead of the Me to get much
faster
> > raytracing?
> >
> > Thanks for you help.
> > Jong
>
>   Hmmm... that really sounds as a very little improvement... From what I
> heared about ME, it can be the real problem. Anyhow, you can render some
> of the benchs to see if the P4 is too slow, and compare with other ME
> users...
>
> --
> Jaime Vives Piqueres
>
> La Persistencia de la Ignorancia
> http://www.ignorancia.org/


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