3960X Rendering

[ripplysquirrel]

ok over the past few days i have been mmming and aaahhing over the 3960X for my new rig... as mentioned i do a lot of rendering in mental ray through maya and i was wondering if its sensible to have the CPU OC'ed to 4.7GHz and then stress it further with the insane renders i do... i would purchase an H100 cooler to sit ontop but i dont want to exceed 70-80 degrees as it would rapidly reduce the life of the CPU...

any advice welcome!

K

 

[ripplysquirrel]

cheers for the link... its not the speed im to interested though.. its the heat

 

[ripplysquirrel]

yer i may look into it... considering the benchmarks aswell... does seem like an extra £300 for nothing... cheers guys!