You are all warmly invited as usual. Mass takeover welcome. ;-)
Our next meeting will be the coming Saturday, Easter Saturday, from
13:00 to 17:30, in the Broadoaks Social Club.
http://www.broadoaksocialclub.net/where.html
Rumour has it that the Easter Bunny will be visiting/have visited.
But
> >> Make sure you clean off all the old crud with acetone or similar, then
> >> replace with fresh stuff. I'm unconvinced that any one brand is better
> >> than another - I use a large tube of Servisol.
> >
> > It seems everyone is of the same opinion. Something to do over Easter...
>
> If the
On 13/04/14 23:49, Dr A. J. Trickett wrote:
On Sunday 13 Apr 2014, you wrote:
My gut feeling is that the CPU cooler paste is probably past it?
Yes.
I seem to get about 3 years from modern stuff; at 7, your machine is long
overdue for a re-pasting.
Make sure you clean off all the old crud with
Blender allows you to select if you want to use CPU or GPU for rendering.
On 14 April 2014 15:37, Jan Henkins wrote:
> On 2014-04-14 13:33, Anton Piatek wrote:
>
>> A compilation of something big would stress it. Anything 3d rendering
>> will stress the gpu more though.
>>
>> No idea of specifi
On 2014-04-14 13:33, Anton Piatek wrote:
A compilation of something big would stress it. Anything 3d rendering
will stress the gpu more though.
No idea of specific workload tools though
How about good old povray? AFAICR the standard povray doesn't use a GPU,
it uses the system CPU. Back in th
A compilation of something big would stress it. Anything 3d rendering will
stress the gpu more though.
No idea of specific workload tools though
Anton
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Yeah it's gotta be the thermal paste I have worked on alot of kit over the
years where the original supplier has used cheap cement type paste with has a
habit of drying up completely over the years leaving you with a toaster. Also
is a common occurrence with laptops again lost count of the amoun
Hmm, I suspect I may be getting a similar problem with my box (2 x
Opteron 2GHz dual core processors); if I work it too hard (processor
loading up to 90ish% on all four cores) it just shuts down. I suspect it
will be an "interesting" task to take off the Zalman coolers, re-paste
and refit...
