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29 Jul 2024 16:19:28 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Quad Core, Baby!  
From: jhu
Date: 2 Jul 2011 15:55:00
Message: <web.4e0f76ace064bff5bae9faee0@news.povray.org>
"John VanSickle" <evi### [at] hotmailcom> 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.
>
> Regards,
> John

You were making Rusty videos on something that old???


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