From: "Brendan Bolles" Received: from spike.lmi.net ([66.117.140.17] verified) by media-motion.tv (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2.10) with ESMTP id 5547993 for AE-List@media-motion.tv; Thu, 14 Aug 2014 03:52:37 +0200 Received: from [10.0.1.10] (c-71-198-249-239.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [71.198.249.239]) by spike.lmi.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF4F0154039 for ; Wed, 13 Aug 2014 18:52:37 -0700 (PDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1085) Subject: Re: [AE] rendering speed oberservations In-Reply-To: Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 18:52:37 -0700 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <632BF1F1-B15D-488D-91DF-54266581FBCE@fnordware.com> References: To: "After Effects Mail List" X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1085) On Aug 13, 2014, at 2:42 PM, email blanca wrote: > If I leave fans in normal mode, render times appear to increase as the = temps inside the Mac Increase. If I use smcFAN to manually program = higher fan speeds, render times remain consistent. Interesting! I think it may have something to do with this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpeedStep So the Mac OS is lowering the speed so that the fans don't make too much = noise and cause Steve Jobs to roll over in his grave. Brendan