overheating cpu while rendering

George P wrote on 12/15/2015, 3:31 PM
I am wondering if anyone has any advice about rendering HD quality videos for youtube. Rendering seems to be working my gpu too hard and causing it to overheat, even shut off on occasion. I am hoping there is a way to slow down the rendering process or take some of the pressure off my gpu. Any advice would be appreciated.


I am using Movie studio platinum 13, 64 bit with a fairly decent computer that has a lot of fans.

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musicvid10 wrote on 12/15/2015, 6:55 PM
you can turn off gpu assist in Vegas.
cpu overheating is a more common issue, however.
emmettfitz wrote on 12/16/2015, 12:04 PM
I had the same issue rendering video with my Dell insperion laptop. I thought I had enough power but when I started converting VHS tapes that were over 20 min long..it would run hot and then shut down. I never heard of slowing down the rendering process. I ended up burning up the motherboard. Since I'm doing more and more editing I had to bite the bullet and spring for a more powerful machine with a higher CPU. I just got a dell XPS and rendering takes 1/4 of the time.
NOKNOT wrote on 12/16/2015, 12:59 PM
Could be something as simple as needing to reapply thermal paste, that helped mine. Just a suggestion.
Warper wrote on 12/17/2015, 6:55 AM
Set number of rendering threads in preferences to 1. It might reduce performance and overheat.

Nevertheless, normal processor should be able to run with 100% utilisation without overheating. If you experience overheating on non-overclocked machine, something is seriously wrong with CPU fan, termointerface etc.
UKharrie wrote on 12/17/2015, 8:40 AM
FWIW I though all expensive power-chips ( Like GPU, CPU, ) have internal temperature monitors ( some even report to the BIOS to switch fans on, etc. ). So having a PC which overheats should never happen . . . it should get hot and then seamlessly switch to a slower mode, so the number of flips/flops is reduced and hence the power consumption.
Are you sure the PSU voltage is correct? ( Dunno, but it's probably something like 3.2v near the Chip, where I'd expect there is a tiny physical Test-point. ).

However, if you've bought a "Better PC" then that should fix it . . . .
+ I'm not aware that YT-video is particularly demanding, so any overheating during Rendering is an unwelcome surprise.

++Good Luck.