Re: [Hampshire] Over heating CPU

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Author: Philip Stubbs
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To: jan, Hampshire LUG Discussion List
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Over heating CPU
Blender allows you to select if you want to use CPU or GPU for rendering.


On 14 April 2014 15:37, Jan Henkins <jan@???> 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 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 the day when I played around with such toys
> there was specific patches needed to use it with CUDA or OpenCL/Stream.
> Another useful method to stress-test a CPU is to do movie encoding or
> transcoding.
>
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> Jan Henkins
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