i7 4790k Rendering Time in Premiere Pro CC

[rosenaaron]

Specs:
Intel i7 4790k @4.00 GHz w/ Phanteks PH-TC14PE
8 GB Gskill Ripjaws @1600 MHz
Sandisk 128 GB SSD (OS)
WD Blue 500 GB HDD
AMD XFX DD r9 280x GPU

With this current system above, I am trying to render a small, 8 minute 1080 p video @ 60 FPS. This render takes over an hour and a half. I have CPUID and AIDA64, they both show that the CPU is running at 4000 MHz, and CPU usage is only around 81%. As I am writing this, I noticed that the CPU throttling went up to 18% max on AIDA64, is there any way I can prevent this throttling? I have a decent heatsink on the CPU right now, so why is it throttling?

 

[KenGrinsven]

What are your temps?
Are you sure you correctly applied thermal paste?

 

[rosenaaron]

What are your temps?
Are you sure you correctly applied thermal paste?

I am fairly sure the thermal paste is applied well, and my temps are around 70-80% during this render

 

[KenGrinsven]

What are your temps?
Are you sure you correctly applied thermal paste?

I am fairly sure the thermal paste is applied well, and my temps are around 70-80% during this render

70-80%? Do you mean Degrees celcius?

 

[rosenaaron]

What are your temps?
Are you sure you correctly applied thermal paste?

I am fairly sure the thermal paste is applied well, and my temps are around 70-80% during this render

70-80%? Do you mean Degrees celcius?

Yes sorry

 

[KenGrinsven]

What are your temps?
Are you sure you correctly applied thermal paste?

I am fairly sure the thermal paste is applied well, and my temps are around 70-80% during this render

70-80%? Do you mean Degrees celcius?

Yes sorry

No problem.

Was the 18% CPU throttling just a peak, or was it staying at 18%?
Do you happen to have a picture of the graph?

 

[rosenaaron]

What are your temps?
Are you sure you correctly applied thermal paste?

I am fairly sure the thermal paste is applied well, and my temps are around 70-80% during this render

70-80%? Do you mean Degrees celcius?

Yes sorry

No problem.

Was the 18% CPU throttling just a peak, or was it staying at 18%?
Do you happen to have a picture of the graph?

The graph mainly showed CPU usage at 80% the whole time, the max CPU throttling was 18%, but was mainly around 15% the whole time, I don't have a picture of the graph, but all the other parts in my system weren't being used that much, the CPU was on the top of the graph the whole time.

 

[KenGrinsven]

What are your temps?
Are you sure you correctly applied thermal paste?

I am fairly sure the thermal paste is applied well, and my temps are around 70-80% during this render

70-80%? Do you mean Degrees celcius?

Yes sorry

No problem.

Was the 18% CPU throttling just a peak, or was it staying at 18%?
Do you happen to have a picture of the graph?

The graph mainly showed CPU usage at 80% the whole time, the max CPU throttling was 18%, but was mainly around 15% the whole time, I don't have a picture of the graph, but all the other parts in my system weren't being used that much, the CPU was on the top of the graph the whole time.

Hmm.

Seems like it's getting too hot somehow.. Otherwise it wouldn't throttle.
Did you tweak some of the cpu settings in bios?
What's your voltage while rendering/benchmarking?

 

[spentshells]

That seems to warm, but that is quite the workload. Maybe look at a half rate cooler.

I'm pretty sure you are hitting the sata 3 limitations. How full is the ssd? For optimal performance you want to have 20% free and that is after your project is on the ssd.

Speeds will be slower when reading and writing to the ssd as well, but writing to the hdd is not going to help. a larger ssd and more ram may be a better option.

 

[rosenaaron]

That seems to warm, but that is quite the workload. Maybe look at a half rate cooler.

I'm pretty sure you are hitting the sata 3 limitations. How full is the ssd? For optimal performance you want to have 20% free and that is after your project is on the ssd.

Speeds will be slower when reading and writing to the ssd as well, but writing to the hdd is not going to help. a larger ssd and more ram may be a better option.

I may have fixed it, I completely took the heatsink off, and re installed it. My max throttling is 1% now, but the temps are still around 80-90 degrees C. The render time went wayyyy down, from an hour and a half to only 16 minutes.

 

[KenGrinsven]

That seems to warm, but that is quite the workload. Maybe look at a half rate cooler.

I'm pretty sure you are hitting the sata 3 limitations. How full is the ssd? For optimal performance you want to have 20% free and that is after your project is on the ssd.

Speeds will be slower when reading and writing to the ssd as well, but writing to the hdd is not going to help. a larger ssd and more ram may be a better option.

I may have fixed it, I completely took the heatsink off, and re installed it. My max throttling is 1% now, but the temps are still around 80-90 degrees C. The render time went wayyyy down, from an hour and a half to only 16 minutes.

Well there you go. 😉 As I thought, your thermal paste probably wasn't applied so well.
80-90 are OK temps.