I do a lot of 3d rendering and this uses 100% of my q6600 for extended periods of time. The problem is that it's warm where I live and this causes my PC to shut down due to overheating during particularly hot days. This isn't very good when you're trying to render out hundreds (or even thousands) of images with a deadline breathing down your neck.
I have one core that runs up to 8 degrees higher than my coolest core which I believe is the one causing my system to shut down. My current solutions are to either disable the problematic core, underclock my cpu or limit the cpu usage using a program called BES (battle encoder shirase). The problem with BES is that it limits the usage of the entire cpu, and this slows down my render times more than needed. Is there any way to have three cores running at 100% while my hottest core runs at, say, 75%? Thanks for any help that you can provide.
CPU: Q6600
OS: Windows XP x64
I have one core that runs up to 8 degrees higher than my coolest core which I believe is the one causing my system to shut down. My current solutions are to either disable the problematic core, underclock my cpu or limit the cpu usage using a program called BES (battle encoder shirase). The problem with BES is that it limits the usage of the entire cpu, and this slows down my render times more than needed. Is there any way to have three cores running at 100% while my hottest core runs at, say, 75%? Thanks for any help that you can provide.
CPU: Q6600
OS: Windows XP x64