On 02/07/2011 06:11 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.

This does not bode well for my aging Athlon 2X 4200+ socket-939 built in 
2005... o_O

> 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.

For any increase in compute power, a comparable increase in rendering 
settings will nullify any speed improvement. ;-)

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