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i found a lot of different software to monitor temperatures... any in particular you might recommend?

Yes, the one from your motherboard manufacturer ! Might be part of an utilities pack, possibly found on the OEM discs.

HWMonitor ftw

No installation needed and you have a quick overview over all Temp sensors in your PC!

Zom-B wrote:HWMonitor ftw

No installation needed and you have a quick overview over all Temp sensors in your PC!

Thanks... i don't think my manufacturer sent a software with the pc... (it's a Dell..) so... I'll give hwmonitor a try... also... what's a normal temperature?.. or does that depend on the model of the processor?... cause i also googled that and there wasn't a straight answer

lycium wrote:2. Nope, I mean the glass of the bulb: all glass in Indigo must have thickness (except for architectural glass, which is currently in development). With the lampshade you use a single-surface diffuse transmitter material.

Do you know more about this architectural glass development? If it's the same thing I've discussed with Nick a few weeks ago, it should not be "zero thickness". It's a finite thickness glass material, using a special BRDF on the side where it's coated.

Etienne

Nick has derived a nice model for "thin" (but non-zero thickness) glass panes, though it's still in-development. Dunno when it'll be done, though the man is amazingly quick...

Oh this is bad!... CPUID tells my my processor's temperature is 125° F!... and it seems the highest should be 95° F!

It seems the ventilation isn't the best... yet i can hear the fan and it's not working at its fullest! :S cause when i play games it's very much louder...

Well, I'd rather not give you advices on how to manage heat because you now have the tools to do it yourself Compare the temperatures after a gaming session; Indigo doesn't use the graphical board yet, that should be a relief regarding heat.

Recently I caught my motherboard at 180°F and that's an extreme case I'd rather not experiment again, others rigs might not stand that (my pc is an assembled machine, Dell is something different as far as integration/heat management goes, use caution); desktop systems are usually running safely at 140°F (60°C), 160°F (70+°C) starting to be quite hot (eventually harmfull ?). Defaults settings of your HW monitor seems quite low, easy.

How's MLT doing ?

Désolé... C'est koi MLT?

The thing is that... my pc has never shut down or had any kind of temperature associated issues... I caught that temperature i said before using Vray for Rhino (for a stupid college assignment lol)... and i was rendering a set of glasses... so a lot of transparencies and stuff

I don't know what are the temperatures using Indigo but i don't have anything to render yet, so I haven't tried...

MLT = Metropolis Light Transport, the other rendering mode wich is more efficient for complex light paths (glass) like in your scene.

CTZn wrote:MLT = Metropolis Light Transport, the other rendering mode wich is more efficient for complex light paths (glass) like in your scene.

Oh... well... I haven't rendered anything since the last test... if i use glass next time or materials as such i'll give it a try...