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29 Jul 2024 16:23:14 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Quad Core, Baby!  
From: Stephen
Date: 2 Jul 2011 13:26:27
Message: <4e0f54c3$1@news.povray.org>
On 02/07/2011 6:11 PM, John VanSickle wrote:
> The old Athlon XP 2400 with half a gig of RAM up and died a couple weeks ago.
> It was due to happen; I built the system in 2003.  Got an HP quad core Athlon
> system.
>
> Single-core rendering is almost twice as fast, and with all four cores rendering
> is 7.6 times as fast.
>
> So I make the frames larger (512x288 vs. 320x240), and up the AA levels as well.
>
> Life is good.
>
So Rusty comes back in turbo?



-- 
Regards
     Stephen


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