OCCT 3.1.0 shows HD4870/4890 design flaw - they can't handle the new GPU test !

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There have been a lot of posts in the last few pages which have made the assumption that 82 amps current draw cannot be achieved during gameplay (only by this kind of stress test).

I just wanted to state for the record that, as I game at 2560x1600, virtually all recent games I have played suck this kind of power through my graphics card vrm's when playing at this resolution.

I only have Nvidia hardware around right now so I cannot test with any 4870 / 4890's and I am sure that the different design architectures will cause a different current draw in the same situation between ATI & Nvidia cards but I can assure you my Nvidia card draws over 82 amps in several games I tested, and some of those tests were just a quick test at the loading / option screen....

Point is its a VRM design flaw/corner-cut in ATi reference cards ONLY thats been said.

So any talk about 'Games don't crash/ My Nvidia card pulls 10000Amps and don't crash WTF' is irrelevant at this point in the thread. Maybe not irrelevant when he started it, but if you read the thread, its irrelevant now.

If the card is incapable of limiting itself without a crash based on high load, or simple dealing with high load, A STOCK CLOCKS AND VOLTAGES, its a design flaw. And the reason I'm saying its a design flaw is that OTHER manus who used NON-REFERENCE cards spent the money for their customers to make the power circuitry that DOES work in all situations.