Insanely faster render with Vegas?

[John Rofrano]

[David Norman] “I just finished a 3930 6 core build that runs at 3.2 GHZ stock and I OCed it to 4.5 ghz (unlocked multiplier makes it easy) and I am seeing about 30-40% decrease in render times with the same project from my 4 core i7 3770 CPU.”

David, do you over clock with the software tools provided or do you go into the BIOS and tweak things? I’ve never over clocked my Core i7-3930K Sandy Bridge-E but Im thinking it’s time to get more punch out of it with some gentle OC’ing.

~jr

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[David Norman]

with older CPU and motherboards I did all my overclocking in the bios with extensive stress testing and such…. I started with the Opteron 140 CPU on the Socket 939 🙂

but with the newer motherboards the software “auto” overclocking is so good and simple there is not a reason to do it the old way.

but like any short cut it is important to understand the concept behind the shortcut.

I used the “fast” overclock function and not the “extreme”

I am using the Corsair H100i with 4 fans in push/pull configuration for CPU cooling and it does an okay job…. I cant OC as far as the CPU will go because the massive heat dumb the 3930k is…

I am pulling 450w at the wall measured by my UPS (With my LCDs attached as well)

I learned everything I know about OCing at [H]ardforum back in the early 2000’s

I remember using a graphite pencil to bridge the laser cut traces on celeron CPUs 🙂

PM me if you want/need help with OCing

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[John Rofrano]

David Thanks. I’m going to start with the software tools as you suggested and monitor things closely.

Thanks again!

~jr

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[Jeff Bauer]

John,

The more I research this, the more I am beginning to think that each format is unique. In that, one may perform better with 2 CPU cores than 4 or 6 cores. Another will use all the available cores to deliver the best performance. Still another might take advantage of multiple GPU’s, while still another may only be able to utilize a single GPU core… It seems to boil down to what CODEC’s are being used.

Another possible issue is mother board bandwidth. On some boards multiple slots/connections may share bandwidth. There may be a bottleneck in the data flow among CPU, GPU, and drives.

Jeff

[John Rofrano]

Both are probably true. Some CODECs are a lot easier to process than others and some may be GPU accelerated while others are not so you are correct that formats play a role in performance too.

~jr

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