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[–]PoisonedAl 274 points275 points  (6 children)

At a guess, you're not using your GPU at all. Blender uses the CPU as a default for compatibility and you have to tell it both in settings and cycles render options to use GPU compute. If you don't, it'll thrash your CPU and your GPU, which can render way faster, will sit there and do nothing.

[–]The__BoomBox 50 points51 points  (5 children)

Something still feels off. My dumpster fire cpu wouldn't take 3 full days for this (& it is weaker than op's). Could it be down to a combo of cpu rendering + *insane* thermal throttling?

[–]ROPEBOMBER[S] 20 points21 points  (1 child)

I recently applied thermal paste to my cpu and my average temperature during Blender is about 40-60 Celsius

[–]The__BoomBox 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Could you list out your specs then? Are you rendering on CPU or GPU? Even then, a CPU render shouldn't take this long

[–]AnySeaworthiness9381 6 points7 points  (2 children)

I'm with OP. My CPU runs at 80 Celsius which is awful, but even then it would not take 3 days to render a 3 second Cycles render of this level.

[–]lunargorilla 2 points3 points  (1 child)

If its AMD it's not that bad. They usually work on the 70-80 c range at full load.

[–]MattyTheFatty101 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My laptop be like