And a heavy-duty render can close that gap real fast;-),;-)

P.S....get things rendered Ray? or is it still locking?

thats what i was saying Ray, i just didnt type it in the way i meant to say it:).......How is 40 NOT close to 50?

40C is about 104F......imagine the heat ur pumping at a full load...i.e.- games,renders,etc.

40 celsius....that means ur getting close to the 50 celsius max of intel :(

check out my gallery....all bryce:)

Ya, that Palomino will produce some more heat than the Thoroughbreds

i have a MSI K7N2Delta motherboard and an Athlon 2700+, Just got the Athlon(up from a 1700+...wanted the 333FSB of the 2700), so im taking it up a few notches a day. Default is 166FSB, im at 170 now = 2.2ghz, i want 2.5, Temp at 98f while idle, 104f at full load. Still a little high. 3 80mm in the front bottom and top case, 1 80mm intake on left side bottom case, 1 80mm outtake on left side top case, 2 80mm back top case, 2 60mm on the cpu and 1 60mm on the chip set...then my graphics card has heatsinks and a fan and the 80mm power supply fan. All is stable and acceptable for the moment. Good thermal grease helps too. I use arctic silver and an aluminum HS with good results. Id like to go to water, but i havent the need at the moment, so air will do for me.......open a case side and put a big box fan right next to it if u cant get some casefans at the moment, if need be, mod the case, i took tin snips and made fan ports on the side, the top of the case is next....2 80mm ports on top will draw out alot of heat:) hope u figure some thing out.... Az

p.s.. those premade systems you buy at the store only come with 1 fan...on the cpu. if your lucky youll get 1 in the back aswell. but in a hot room, those 1-2 60mm fans wont do anything for you but move that hot air around. but i dont know if u have store bought or you put it together urself. i, personally have 10 fans in mine, but my room is cool(not A/C) If it was hot...those 10 wouldnt do much.

go water cooling, if ur room is always hot, nothing you do short of A/C or water cooling is gonna lower ur cpu temp. Itll only get as cool as the ambient temp is with air cooling. if its 95F in your room, then thats the lowest your cpu will cool. Add the heat it creates and your system creates and your talking a roasty, toasty cpu:(. Athlons can take up to 60 celsius... Pentiums are lower at 50 celsius. It sounds like heat to me, being the OCer i am, i have XPpro and have no probs with bryce. watchout though on what you use to "cool" it tho, some "home methods" can create condensation on parts that dont need to get wet;)

heh, pretty uncontrollable:)

Great render! :)

goto 3Dcommune....i have a lightning pack i put up in freestuff over there, i get it up here too...

hi ppl. never posted in osity forums bfore, but since im in part way with bonbon on this, due to our recent flood of flower shots ;), so id thought id put in a couple words. i just recently started into photography, went and got a nice digital camera packed with features( primarly all the manual exposure, manual focus, manual WB, manual everything u can imagine, i am not an auto-type guy and there is no macro-mode)so its a whole new hobby that i must explore and it surely isnt a worn-out, tired genre for me....it goes like the age old saying "if you dont like it, dont look at it". just as i create whole new worlds in bryce, im creating a view to a whole different world that most of us dont give a second thought, the finer details of life if you will. my latest macro shotis the final for the moment. i recently made a infrared-pass filter which blocks all visable light but not ir light... my sony DC is highly sensitive to ir light... im going to open yet a another view to a world not detectable to human eyes,but fully visable to my camera....for anyone that does ir photos, i made the filter somewhere around 850nm. this concludes our public broadcast. :) :P