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Questions pertaining to software performance or computational speed of Blender should use this tag. (Do not ask hardware specific questions. They are considered off-topic)

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How to configure blender so that it uses only 50% of total CPU when rendering?

I need to render a very computer-intensive scene using cycles and for some reasons, I decided to use my home computer (i5 3.30 Ghz, 10 GB RAM, 2TB Hard Drive) to render it. However, the problem is tha …
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Will running Blender on RAM Drives increase Blender's "Speed"?

What I am referring as a RAM Drive is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAM_drive. If I Install Blender on a RAM Drive, would it increase Blender's "speed"? Additionally, since "speed" is a very loose word …
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