Any OCed animators?

[Billy Napalm]

Just curious...

I received my brand spanking new AI7, Kingston 512mb pc3200 RAM and p4 2.6c processor the other day (and there was much rejoicing). After setting everything up, I wasted no time in getting some renders down in Lightwave and After Effects. I took note of the times, which were much faster than my previous set up would allow. The next logical step would be using the uguru to pump my clock up to 3.2ghz, which was only a few clicks of a mouse away. That was quite nice, considering I was upgrading from a p3 600mhz, which really only ever ran at sad, sad 590mhz.

Once my comp was running at 3.2ghz, I decided to do some more renders in Lightwave and After Effects. Was it any faster than it was when it was running at 2.6? Sadly enough, no.

My question: Does anyone do animation work on an OCed machine, and has noticed an improvement from their previous setup? I'm certain that I'm doing something wrong, and would like to get the most out of my machine.

Thanks!

[caboob]

Could you detail what you mean by "setup"? For instance, did you reformat your drive, install chipset driver?...

[Trueweltall]

I thought video rendering used your video card? :P

[MLMIB]

nope, video card only affects viewport rendering(aka when ur working on the file itself)

if you want to wait a week, I'll have an answer, getting a 2.8 thats gunna go to 3.6

until than I'd be interested to talk to ya, MLMIB on aim

[Billy Napalm]

Originally posted by caboob
Could you detail what you mean by "setup"? For instance, did you reformat your drive, install chipset driver?...

When I refer to "previous setup", I mean your computer before you overclocked it.

Originally posted by MLMIB
if you want to wait a week, I'll have an answer, getting a 2.8 thats gunna go to 3.6


Sweet, I hope people have managed to get better render times by OCing, since that's the reason why I bought the AI7.

[hkh]

Hey I work with 3ds max and when I got my new computer and overclocked it from 2.4 to 3.2 I did see a difference but ram is what makes the biggest difference I am going to get 2gb for my PC my other one hase 4gb pc 2700 and a p4ghz and a ATI 9600pro were my new one has a 9800pro and it is 2 or three times faster.