Quote Originally Posted by Nightstar View Post
Bravo Tetedeiench I've grown quite fond of your OCCT. Don't let the fanboys and shills shout you down.



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.



Or a manufacturing problem. Nonetheless /agree wholeheartedly



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
Yes, let's just all start blocking LordEC911's posts. Those people just dont change, so once you see an immature post on a long thread, just block the poster and it should shorten the thread considerably!! It could just be a temporary block, and then unblocked afterwards..

I'm so grateful for such a honorable programmer who has created OCCT. Exploiting such a controversial issue (which is officially made "controversial" by the deleting and banning that is done on AMD forums) is always a good thing. Heck, it could actually explain some of the crashes in older "simple" games, like EVE, as experienced by Shintai, and others..

I'm surprised that Nvidia cards can handle it just fine. Seems that the shaders arent as demanding on NV cards. If it were a problem with NV cards instead of ATI cards, then Charlie over at the INQ would be praising about it for the next 2 months with 10-page drunkely-slurred articles!