"Oleguer Vilella" <ole### [at] infonegociocom> wrote in message 
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>
> I think 2GB RAM it's enough and the processor de 3.X
> (X=any numer). I have listened about a new kind of processor 
> "HiperTrindink"
> (I think) that they work very well with mathmatical operations. Do you 
> know
> them?

Guess that must be HyperThreading  :-D

I have a Pentium IV 3.06 GHz with the HT. Been a while since I looked at 
benchmarks about the Intel HyperThreading. I think it improves POV-Ray's use 
of FPU but only when nothing else is running. In other words, two instances 
of POV is like running them on two conventional CPU's. Better to run only 
one instance of POV, then the system can do whatever else at the same time. 
The gain HT has is mostly in multitasking.

I can't remember what results I had when testing out the HT CPU but I know 
it wasn't doing very well with two instances of POV-Ray assigned to each 
virtual CPU.

P.S.

Oleguer, your weather (from e-mail) makes it seem pleasant there compared to 
here. Lost power for two hours today during a thunderstorm, temperature 
going from 90 F to 70 F (32 C to 21 C) with some marble-sized hail. Had to 
unplug the computer during a render taking six hours, would rather save the 
computer than the rendering.

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