Vortex Swirling wrote:
I have been wondering what makes for a fast Fractint setup nowadays?
A real fast PC running straight DOS. :-) But I use two machines for the rendering of Jim's FOTDs: • A 10-year old P3 running Win-98. • An 7-year old P4 running Win-XP.
What I would like for the group to do is pick one of the FOTD's which is computationally intensive. Then those who'd like to participate generate said fractal and report times with a system description.
The recent "Seahorse Valley-12" has a rather lengthy calc-time. We already know how long it took on Jim's machine. Too bad FractInt will not run on my double QuadCore 64-bit 16-MB RAM machine. Up until a couple of months ago, it rated the highest in speed doing similar fractal rendering tests in two other email lists.
Also any tweaks or suggested improvements in system setup are welcome.
I can make a few when it comes to the Windows OS. There are so many things that get established a certain way with the default settings. And they really slow machines down. Sincerely, P.N.L. ------------------------------------------------- http://home.att.net/~Paul.N.Lee/PNL_Fractals.html http://www.Nahee.com/Fractals/