DSTA wrote:
"I'm surprised to see the P4s beating the XPs so easily, so I'm wondering if it's using an equally clever method for CPU detection as Windows Media Encoder 7."
It's certainly a possibility, take a look here, notice that Intel is sponsering the Lightwave [7] World Tour !!
<A HREF="http://www.lightwave3d.com/intel/tour.html" target="_new">http://www.lightwave3d.com/intel/tour.html</A>
I have e-mail'ed the guys at Newtek which is responsible for Lightware 7b, and asked them if Lightwave 7b is able to utilize the AMD Athlon XP's support for SSE. I'll let you know as soon as I get a response.
In the meantime I think I'll acquire the program and start using it for no reason other than to feel good about my powerful P4.
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--------------------- P4 1700 MHz ---------------------
Overcloked 1700 MHz P4 Willamette Socket 478 with stock cooling benchmarked using SiSoft Sandra. "Crippled" by an Antec 300W P4 power-supply.
CPU Arithmetic.
Dhrystone ALU:..............4039
Whetstone FPU/SSE2:.....1097/2571 MFLOPS
Multi-Media:
Integer iSSE2:...............8304 it/s
Floating-Point iSSE2:.....10109 it/s
Memory Bandwidth:
RAM Int MMX:...............1950 MB/s
RAM Float FPU:.............1957 MB/s