Bravo Tetedeiench I've grown quite fond of your OCCT. Don't let the fanboys and shills shout you down.

Quote Originally Posted by SparkyJJO View Post
The Asus non-reference 4870 1GB has no issues.
My Visiontek reference design v1 (there's a later reference design as well IIRC) 4870 512MB has no issues. Which strikes me as odd that any others based off the reference design would, what makes mine different?
I've been told that GDDR5 stuff is power hungry, could be your 512MB card draws less than a 1024MB reference design card and doesn't trigger OCP.

Quote Originally Posted by Particle View Post
If the card can be made to draw current in excess of either its supply capability or its current protection threshold using nothing other than normal API commands, there's a design problem.


Or a manufacturing problem. Nonetheless /agree wholeheartedly

Quote Originally Posted by AKM View Post
It would be even funnier and sad if this will result in deterring people from buying Radeons.
Nah, here is the sort of thing that would deter me from buying Radeons:

"Your limited testing is flawed. If the VDDC's overheat they will shut down the card to protect it. If you dont want to have a crash when testing artificial means such as this stability benchmark then increase the fan speed to cool the VDDC's. Obviously underclocking acomplishes a similar goal as they dont get as hot. No games are affected just artificial stability tests."

I was considering a 4890 however I won't abide this kind of BS and censorship. I certainly won't encourage such with my hard earned $.

This has been a very revealing thread. I've learned a lot about individuals that compose the XS community