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Hardware / Re: Would you change anything about this setup?

« on: 2018-07-02, 14:44:10 »

Only 1.275, from what I've seen people seem to go up to 1.5/1.6 so I think this is pretty 'safe'. I think I might be able to knock that back a little but it needs tested bit by bit and I decided I better actually get on with some work today! :)

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Hardware / Re: Would you change anything about this setup?

« on: 2018-07-02, 14:38:30 »

Thanks for the reply! I knocked everything back a bit and actually the performance improved a tad, so I may have found the sweet spot for my card, and got 1m 11s on the Corona benchmark. I've been using it for a while and temperatures and performance are good, so I think I'll keep it like this for now. I've left the RAM as it is as I don't reeeeally know what I'm doing there and it seems to have plenty in reserve.

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Hardware / Re: Would you change anything about this setup?

« on: 2018-06-28, 09:31:50 »

Thank you for a very thorough reply!

I didn’t know about a lot of these settings so I will check them out and see how it goes.

I also started testing a bit of overclocking last night with Ryzen Master, and quickly realised I was naive to think it was a quick process :-D

Anyway, I was only using the Corona benchmark to check if performance was improving at at all. I’m guessing I should be trying other benchmarks too, to check for stability, as well as actually in C4D. The best I got to was 1.12secs, down from the 1.15secs, which doesn’t seem like much but I guess it’s a 4% improvement. I need to play with it a bit more but I’m concerned about temperatures, there’s a lot of conflicting posts online about the 1950x not going above 68 degrees C? Supposedly this is when thermal throttling kicks in. I edged it over this temperature and all 16 cores were running just fine with no reduction, but I’m not sure what temperatures are safe for a long render for example. I don’t want to fry my expensive new computer!

Regarding the RAM, I will check later when at home again and monitor it during the mountain range render and see what happens. Am I right in saying the RAM clocking can be ramped up too? At the moment it’s at 1200 Mhz.

Sorry for all the noob questions.

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Hardware / Would you change anything about this setup?

« on: 2018-06-27, 18:43:27 »

Hi all,

I'm wondering whether there is anything I can do to my set up which would help with Corona rendering speed in Cinema 4d, this is my current set up:

Threadripper 1950X (16 core)
32gb RAM
GeForce 8Gb GTX1080
250Gb SSD

Will I notice a significant improvement in speed by overclocking the Ryzen? Sounds like it will generally go to 3.8-3.9 GHz OC'd.

I was experimenting with landscape forms (mountain ranges) and terrain mask to create snow in C4d recently and found it really choked up my machine for 1024x1024 72dpi image. Even 'stopping' the render was a pain as my mouse was jumping around all over the place - not sure what would cause this, just the CPU being maxed out? I understand overclocking isn't going to take ages to set up or anything (haven't done it before), so I guess I can just try it and compare?

My Corona benchmark results attached, 1min 15s.

I know this isn't particularly slow, but it does tend to feel a bit painful when following a tutorial and their interactive render regions are just constantly updating while they work, I guess they're running very expensive CPU's and that's just life....

Thank you.