Quote Originally Posted by KTE View Post
Some of the benches are real bad. I mean POV-Ray built in bench took around 30 minutes and only ever used 114W AC. That's just above idle and I really don't think if coding was making use of cores efficiently it would be 114W. That shows there's a bottleneck somewhere which the coding is limited to.
It seems you're using version 3.6 which doesn't support multithreading. You need to update it to version 3.7 (only patch is available, no stand-alone version exists).
http://www.povray.org/download/