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November 24th, 2016 20:00
Dell XPS temperatures when rendering and closed
Hi folks. I just got a 15-inch XPS and I work with 3D. Mainly 3DS Max. The machine is awesome.
Question: can it handle pure rendering? The machine is pretty fast and I got temperatures like 82-83 degrees Celcius while using 100% of the CPU for minutes. It this ok? For a desktop CPU with stock cooler its ok, I know... but I can render stuff for like hours and no problem?
Of course I plan to buy one of those stands with coolers below to help cooling but for now I do not need to worry about it or I really should avoid it?
And using it in shell mode (with external monitors attached and closed), things might get worse?
I know I'm being kinda too scared but this is a pretty expensive machine and I really want to avoid any problems.
Thanks!
DELL-Lijo J
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November 25th, 2016 00:00
Hi,
We’re listening and welcome to the community. Please let us know the exact system model, system configuration and the version of the 3DS Max, so that we can check the details and let you know with the right information.
Villts
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November 25th, 2016 14:00
Hi Lijo, thanks for the reply.
This is more like a thermal question regardless of the system I work. About my work, I use 3DS Max 2017 with no problem. The machine handles it very well, and it does not use 100% of the CPU or gets overheat, only when rendering, which in this case a software/plugin developed by Chaosgroup called v-ray that does it. It's a raytraced renderer that brings final images. Very cool stuff used for VFX and even advertising.
Anyway, I daily render stuff for testing purposes, for about an hour or two, but final images takes sometimes too much hours or even days to render because I need more rays to produce less noise and so on, with very high resolutions. It's like exporting HUGE videos, using only the CPU and the RAM. Would take hours using 100% of the CPU.
It's not a daily process, it might happen once in a week maybe. Just want to know if it's safe to do it using this machine, I'm just afraid of melting and burning stuff.
Thanks!