Quote Originally Posted by Demo View Post
I still dont understand why people use furmark or any of those static image tests, Furmark stresses your VRM's more than the GPU it self. Your better of looping Crysis warhead ambush at all maxed settings for 30 loops compared to 1hr in Furmark.
FurMark draws the most power, therefore you can see if you are really putting enough power into your card or your clocks are too high for the current voltage output.

Crysis will stress your card, but won't suck the card for power as much as FurMark will. Personally I have found it is best to use FurMark as a starting ground. Determine your most stable clocks under extreme power output. The second stage is then to test various games and image stressing to see if there are any image quality problems.

I also found FurMark was much more sensitive to Memory clocks than most games were, and it was fairly easy to diagnose (the fur cube contracts sporadically).