Comments on: FurMark Slowdown by Catalyst Graphics Drivers is INtentional!

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Geeks3D – 2009 Retrospective | The Geeks Of 3D - 3D Tech News — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 20:03:20 +0000

[...] FurMark Slowdown by Catalyst Graphics Drivers is INtentional! [...]

By: Sven Bent

Sven Bent — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:30:25 +0000

I’m running cat 9.9 on winXP76 and furmark is still harder then quake (special stress testing config) and RTHDRIBL regarding to both in temp and current draw.

Well furmark ever make some automatic artifact detection ?

By: Aerpoweron

Aerpoweron — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 14:43:51 +0000

Hi there,
the slow down only seems to appear on 48xx cards. I have no problem to stress my 4770.
I’ve done some reasearch on the slowing down. The problem is the voltage regulation part. When you run furmark on the 48xx card, this part gets very hot. I got some over temperature shutdowns (the 3 leds on the back of the 4870 card) with my card, when i used a Thermalright cooler. Ram was ok, gpu was great (60 to 70°C) but the voltage regulator part was pretty hot. I burnt my fingers on the small VRM cooler!
A better cooling solution, one heatpipe from the vrm part would have done the job.
When AMD wants to slow it down, then they could bring up a warning message, with timeout to acknoledge. Then you can say: Yes,slow it down, or no just burn it at own risk.
It’s sad that it looks like AMD wants to hide something.
By the way, I never had problems with my HIS 4850s. Let them run for hours in 3way crossfire under furmark.

By: Korvin77

Korvin77 — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 22:35:30 +0000

I have faulty card My factory overclocked XpertVision 4850 (685/2000) is always do analog distort on screen when T reach 80C. Only some games can burn it up to this temp (e.g. STALKER in some places – e.g inside BAR). And FurMark never passed therefore

By: JeGX

JeGX — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 06:44:42 +0000

Thanks guys, that’s cool to hear such feedbacks

By: Cheap engineering

Cheap engineering — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 05:31:21 +0000

You are right man always right, i hate this type of silliness, i mean when u run games which have high quality graphics effects that put load on GPU especially shadows with antialising on and the game will crash and who is to blame then game or the GPU. Tell me ATI answer this question dont be stupid , this guy over here is helping the community to save our ass from faulty cards that cant take heavy stress while gaming. I think ATI faulty card partners have paid them to increase protection in software drivers against FURMARK so that it wont dtect our faulty cards what shame ATI.

I am with you furmark guy, keep up your work never give up to this morons.

By: Matumbo

Matumbo — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 08:17:34 +0000

Keep on, we’re all counting on you to reveal the ugly hidden truth that AMD tries desperately to cover !