[JAVA3D] Performance question

Hello there,

I have complex 3D object with about 10,000 quads, no textures - actually the series of

objects, about 20 quads each. Currently it is running 500 MHz DELL with 280 MB ram and

Revolution 3D graphics card ( from Number Nine technology) - about 2-3 years old card - I am

even not sure how much memory it has.

When the rotation and or zooming is performed on the 3D object, the CPU monitor shows

frequently 100% CPU and the object barely moves ( very slow).

Here is the question: If I upgrade to 2GHz / 512 MB RAM machine, with, let's say, nvidia 32/64 card

what kind of performance improvement could I expect - 30% or more like 300% ? I know that it is

hard to answer this, but if anybody had a chance to perform similar upgrade recently, it would be nice

to know before spending $2k on the new machine. I need to speed things up at least few times ... Is there

specific video card that handles quads better than others ??

The memory seems to go (VR) to about 400MB used, so I am assuming that some paging is going on

at that time, thus 512 MB ram is what I thought would help.

Any experience shared is appreciated much !!

Thanks,

Zoran

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