[MS]

Can Maxwell be forced in this way and would it actually speed performance if this is an option?

You can speed up the part of rendering before voxelization - when MW engine reads data from disk (objects and textures).

[kami]

I doubt that it will speed up things dramatically. mxcl doesn't render faster and you can only save time when it's writing to the disc (the mxi inbetween sl changes) and reading from the disc (before voxelization, as mentionned)

[numerobis]

core i7 with D0 Stepping...
http://www.ocxtreme.org/forumenus/showthread.php?t=4580

[polynurb]

4.6 is intense.. if he'd run it with prime95 though, it would be grilled in a day, imho. <1.5 vcore is , let's say, not future proof