when i click Render, a fan in my desktop speeds up loudly
Aristoc
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I noticed when i click Render using Daz studio 4.6 that at some point during the process a fan in side my desktop seems to get louder as if it is going faster. Is it the fan on the CPU? or from the Video card? I can't tell.
This happens occasionaly while viewing.
I have an Intel i7 8 MG RAM and a GTX 460 1GB DDR5
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That ought to be the CPU fan, as rendering in DAZ is done by the CPU, not the card.
Keep an eye on things - I managed to fry my ol' laptop CPU with rendering. Though I doubt that your CPU will be fried. :-)
If you download this:
Msi Afterburner
It will show you if your CPU or GPU is overheating causing the fans to ramp up.. Totally free and legit, can also customise the fans to speed up and slow down depending on there temperature.
i just wondered if everyone else is hearing a little bit of this increased fan speeds or is it rare?
thank you!
Happens on my i7 system too. Keep in mind that when you hit Render, you are suddenly going to be using all of the cores in your CPU at nearly 100%. Some motherboards are set to detect high CPU utilization and preemptively increase the fan speed. My CPU doesn't get very much warmer, the MB is seeing utilization and acting before that happens.
I have tools similar to the MSI Afterburner that Monkey Griff linked. But mostly, I just let the system do what it needs to do to keep things cool.
I think this is proprietary to MSI cards.
btw you can limit the core use on a 3Delight render, there was a thread for it somewhere around here.
if you use Reality or Luxus to LuxRender you can turn it down right in the LuxRender interface or before it gets there with the Reality interface. I don't own Luxus, I don't know if it does this before it gets to LuxRender to do it's job.
It runs on Nvidia and ATI... I have Quadro 4000 at home runs fine. I must admit website looks dated but best tool I've found for customizing fan speeds, it can even show realtime GPU temp in task bar.
Never heard of MSI Card before..
Nvidia inspector is also a good download, does exactly same thing with less bells and whistles but just for GPU and Nvidia cards obv..
Heres MSI UI.. Youtube link
If you have not heard that before it might just mean the fans need some de-dusting. Fans tend to get noisier over time.
If its really loud check that the case fan has not failed, and the CPU fan is not having to do everything by itself.
NVida and ATI/AMD sell chips to vendors like ASUS, Galaxy and MSI for instance. Some of the higher end NVidia card are actually manufactured by NVidia but the vast majority get produced by these and many other board makers.
MSI has been around for years and have established themselves as one of the larger names in motherboards and video cards.
http://us.msi.com/product/mb/
lol never heard of MSI before.. until now, my bad :) im aware Asus do imitation cards of Nvidia and ATI.
eitherway its a decent temp tool and as far as I know works on alot of GPU's.
My GPU fan speed was doing the same of ramping up and making alot of noise, Ran MSI Afterburner and Nvidia Inspector and found out my GPU Temp was reaching 90c+. Opened my Pc cleaned out the fans/heat sink on my graphics card ( which were blocked with dust) and went back to a stable 55c.. with no Fan speed ramp up so its nice and quiet now.
And just to point out my Nvidia Quadro 4000 is 100% nvidia not MSI..
Depends on the hardware, the temperature meters and how sensitive the heat system is. I got two MacPros, one 2009 and one 2013. The 2009 sounds like a starting Jet when I render, the 2013 don't even make any noise at all, both running, both has recently got dusted cooling towers.
My old system did that as a normal thing during renders. I did run a CPU heat meter on my desk top just to be safe but as mentioned it was just the system doing its job. During Renders the CPU hits 100% and all cores, that can over heat the CPU if the Fan does not kick in to keep the chip at or below normal operating temperatures. I do recommend a temp meter on any PC that will be used for rendering for long periods of time. I also suggest keeping your system fans good and clean at all times, I cleaned once a week as I'm a smoker. I now use liquid cooling so the fans stay pretty steady now but my liquid temp will increase a small amount during renders now. I still clean my fans weekly.
CPU temps are at least 70 ' C All 4 quad cores at 100% usage.
I loaded Piazza the full scene and then hit render. with the high quality render settings someone posted a little while ago.
Any more suggestions or is this the best I am going to get. It sounds like a little fan is running in the desktop. I do NOT want a loud computer no matter what the solution. If one is even needed. Thank you
P.S. The GPU by the way was at 0% usage.
DAZ Studio is 100% CPU based render engine. the GPU only runs your Viewport in DAZ studio. That looks to be well within op temps so your PC is doing its job. Be sure to look up your CPU temp profile and know IF your temp starts getting too high.