When to tweak when not to Tweak?

oiver55

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I am a video producer. I work with 3d and 2d applications. Just finished building my first computer. It has the GTX Asus 760 OC II. My computer has an app that tweaks the gpu settings. I have heard it's not safe to mess with these settings as they can cause the computer to become unstable. I'd like to know what I need to know to adjust these settings. Whenever I do my renders my cpu usage jumps to 100% from the windows task manage, so does that mean if I up the gpu memory clock and gpu boost clock from the Asus utility program, would my render times and video editing speed increase?
 
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Sounds like your software is using the CPU pretty exclusively for its renders, hence the massive jump in utilisation, so no, tweaking the GPU won't help.
Some software can use the GPU to accelerate rendering, though, check the configuration options and make sure it's using the GPU, it may say 'open CL' or 'CUDA' or just 'GPU acceleration', CUDA is favourite for Nvidia cards.
Also make sure the software is configured to use all the CPU cores/threads.
Don't mess with the hardware settings like clockspeeds, not for a working machine, it will introduce possible instability for a fairly small performance increase and I'd hate to think of you loosing a commission for that reason.
If the build is using the stock CPU cooler, think about...
Sounds like your software is using the CPU pretty exclusively for its renders, hence the massive jump in utilisation, so no, tweaking the GPU won't help.
Some software can use the GPU to accelerate rendering, though, check the configuration options and make sure it's using the GPU, it may say 'open CL' or 'CUDA' or just 'GPU acceleration', CUDA is favourite for Nvidia cards.
Also make sure the software is configured to use all the CPU cores/threads.
Don't mess with the hardware settings like clockspeeds, not for a working machine, it will introduce possible instability for a fairly small performance increase and I'd hate to think of you loosing a commission for that reason.
If the build is using the stock CPU cooler, think about swapping it for something a little better, the little Coolermaster 212 Evo is much quieter under load than any stock part, and keeps the CPU a good deal cooler as well.
 
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