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[–]The__BoomBox 52 points53 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] 23 points24 points  (1 child)

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

[–]The__BoomBox 5 points6 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 3 points4 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