Just benched my dads brand new work comp (P4 1.3GHz with 640MB rdram) against my Athlon t-bird 1.1 with 512Mb pc133 sdram in Bryce5.

Time to render the same file on both the comps:

Athlon system : 1min 32sec
P4 system: 2min 36sec

Both have win 2k and all the latest drivers.

Well.. i'm glad i didn't buy a P4..

[This message has been edited by ClawViper (edited September 24, 2001).]