Quote Originally Posted by MsB View Post
I have a sapphire 4870 1 gig with the nicer than reference design heatsink design shown here , sorry its easier to just use newegg linky, http://www.newegg.com/Product/ShowIm...d%20-%20Retail although your test makes it hot as holy H it doesnt make it black screen. btw I used the settings you described. Test says gpu is at around 115 c but when I click it off ati sensor shows 85c btw, I am running my fan at full speed cause I dont want to damage card.
Interesting. You did run the test in FullScreen mode, did you ?

I wonder if Sapphire did use the reference design VRM for its card... would be an interesting thing to look for.

I'm going to sleep (it's more than time for me to do so), i'll keep looking at this thread tomorrow. Please don't start a flame war, i'm just trying to get this thing sorted out, and to know what's going on...