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#P90 CPU's

    10-Jun-94 10:02:43
Sb: #106888-#P90 CPU's
Fm: John Ellis 72440,3046
To: Stephen Grisez 72730,3634
Stephen, You might want to consider getting the Optimize IPAS with models of 10 to 13.5 Mb sizes. It really does a nice job minimizing vertices and faces and can help significantly increase rendering times. >> There will always be 64+ in the CPU. << The extra 256 cache will definitely help. In theory you'd like to have 256k cache for every 32 Mb of RAM. Its hard to say exactly how much of a performance increase you'll get but between 5 and 10% would not be unreasonable, which can really add up over a few hundred frames. To get a feel for it you can turn off the cache in your 66 and time a render, then turn it back on again. I take it that you are already using 72 pin simms in your 66? If not you will not be able to use the RAM from your 66 in your P90. Something to be aware of. Micron's pricing on ram is very competive BTW. -JE