[Edwardoplunkett]

One of my more learned colleagues taught me to build PCs a few years ago. The motherboard he reccomended (Asus) came with software that allows you to vary the CPU speed quite easliy by increasing supply voltage or upping the frequency. There are various ways to overclock, and I am by no means an expert, hence my rendering problems – which were due to the extra heat generated during rendering (cpu at 100% for extended periods of time).

Regarding how hot things are acutally getting – Somehow temps are output of the mobo and CPU, and various apps (Everest for one) can output that data to the user. My Asus OC utility shows CPU speed, temp, cooling fan speed, etc.

OC in moderation, can give you notably faster performance that stock CPU speeds. OC in excess can fry expensive CPUs or cause your pc or apps to hang/crash. You have to find the right balance of speed vs. problems. I am going to continue to run my machine at 2.8 all the time, except when I need to render, when I’ll drop it back to stock 2.4ghz.

Google overclocking for all you need to know…

Regards,

Ed

[Edwardoplunkett]

Thanks for the response.

After hacking with it all day I have figured it out…
1. Too many processes running in the background. Killed nearly everything and now I’m getting about 10 minutes of rendered mpeg2 in about a half an hour.

I’ll try DVD-A next to see if that helps as well in the short term. Long term plans are complete PC upgrade. More on that later…

2. Had another problem – Vegas would crash after about 5 minutes of rendering. Turns out my chip was getting too hot with 100% cpu hit due to rendering as well as the extra heat from overclocking. I dialed the chip back down to a stock 2.4GHZ, and things are working fine now.

Now to burn a DVD…

More questions to come I’m sure. Thanks for your help.

Regards,

Ed