#Pentium 75, 90, or 100?
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Hi, I am about to purchase a Pentium based system for 3DS.
Given the same amount of ram (16mb) & disk performance does anyone have any
opinion regarding performance differences between a Pentium 75, 90, or 100Mhz
system for 3DS.
Cost considerations are leaning towards a P75 but I might consider spending a
little extra money if there is a "substantial" difference in rendering speed,
etc.
Thanks for any insight!
Regards, Craig Meadows
Crieg,
The more memory you have the better. I have a pentium 90 and I would
recieve more speed if I had 32 megs instead of 16. I wonder if a 486/66 would
out do my pentium if it had 32 megs. The more memory will not help on small
files but as soon as 3ds has to access the disk it slows way down. Does anyone
have a test file to use I would love to compare my Pentium/16 megs against a
486/66/32 megs. Anyone ?????
Mike
Why not. Do you have a mesh in mind? I'm sure Chapel or something could be set
to use around 30Mb of RAM. I can guarantee the P90 will outperform my 66 even
with the paging though. I'll bet it's still better than 2X faster. But an
interesting test anyway.
LEt me know.
DM
I got a 486 dx4/100 with 32 megs and its about 2xfaster in 3ds than a Pentium90
with 8megs. Memory is the key for speed in 3DS, so if you can safe a few $ with
buying a pentium 75 instead a 100 and spend it on memory instead you have the
better machine.
Teut
I rendered Chapel.3ds from the WCT CDROM on my 486/66/32 meg in 14:34 minutes.
Memory used = 27080, Swap=0. Some extra time might be involved from my old SONY
CD Drive, Single speed, when readying the materials. I used all the file
defaults:
800×600
Null Display
Alpha=Yes
Camera View
This can serve as a benchmark against the system I am currently building:
Micronics P90-512k Cache
64 meg RAM
Seagate Barracuda 2 gig
NEC Quad Speed CD
Adaptec SCSI
NEC 21XP Monitor
I'll post my times on this machine when it is completed.
Mike