The new system comes tomorrow

 At last! Nearly six weeks after putting in my order, the new system arrives. This will allow my current system to be sent to the "shop" to be fixed. They're not enthusiastic about putting in a new CPU, so we'll start with the fact that when I shut the thing down, it won't restart without much faff.

Once it returns, I can use it as a backup/rendering machine, so I hope to get a lot more animation done as I can leave it popping out frames while I work on the new machine.

Current benchmarks

I should be able to post the new machine's GPU benchmark results tomorrow. They should see a nice jump, although nothing like the one I saw when switching from the 2080Ti to the 4090.

Benchmarky Synthetica

A synthetic benchmark gives you the equivalent of a stopwatch with a readout in microseconds. Big numbers that give you an inflated sense of the difference between two time gaps that, in reality, you wouldn't be able to identify without a stopwatch. That said, rendering is so iterative that a 10-15% performance difference can significantly gain productivity in the long run. We should be getting a double that performance boost.