Quote Originally Posted by Reznik Akime View Post
What drivers were you using? Possible driver hiccup? If this is the case I would imagine that someone would have experienced this before outside of OCCT.
We tried about 4 driver versions. As underclocking make the test work, the driver version problem is ruled out. Especially since the asus design, with the very same driver version, works.

My test pulls about 30/40% more power on the VRM than Crysis. That's why you don't see that outside OCCT.