"Norbert Kern" <nor### [at] t-onlinede> wrote in message
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> Hi Jong,
>
> you should look at http://www.tabsnet.com/benchmark/pbench.php3.
> The fastest P4 (1.7 GHz) has about the same power as a 1.1 GHz Athlon in
> this pov benchmark.
> A 1.4 GHz P4 runs Pov-Ray about 47 % faster than a 650 MHz Coppermine with
> the orriginal 3.1g-version. So your personal P4 seems to be quite slow
even
> for a P4.
>
> Beside my own 1.4 GHz Athlon runs 58 % (!) faster than a P4 with the same
> frequency according to the published data.
>
> Norbert
>
>
Also try www.emmulators.com/pentium4.html  (IIRC) It should explain just WHY
the P4 is so slow

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"Data" <not@all> wrote in message news:3b93c8ba@news.povray.org...
>
> "Norbert Kern" <nor### [at] t-onlinede> wrote in message
> news:3b8fae2e@news.povray.org...
> > Hi Jong,
> >
> > you should look at http://www.tabsnet.com/benchmark/pbench.php3.
> > The fastest P4 (1.7 GHz) has about the same power as a 1.1 GHz Athlon in
> > this pov benchmark.
> > A 1.4 GHz P4 runs Pov-Ray about 47 % faster than a 650 MHz Coppermine
with
> > the orriginal 3.1g-version. So your personal P4 seems to be quite slow
> even
> > for a P4.
> >
> > Beside my own 1.4 GHz Athlon runs 58 % (!) faster than a P4 with the
same
> > frequency according to the published data.
> >
> > Norbert
> >
> >
> Also try www.emmulators.com/pentium4.html  (IIRC) It should explain just
WHY
> the P4 is so slow
>
Correction:
http://www.emulators.com/pentium4.htm

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By the way, everyone is welcome to post his or her Benchmarkresult too
http://www.tabsnet.com/

Tilly

"Jong" <jjk### [at] mmewhaackr> wrote in message
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> 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
>
>

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