Quote Originally Posted by deeperblue View Post
You guys should do your homework better.

the 5870/5850 are constantly monitoring the voltages regulators and downclock if they are close to their limits. Also the memory controller has error correction and with too high clocks and too many errors the bandwidth will just decrease due to retransmissions.

Due to the voltage monitoring there will be no software anymore that can put to much load on the regulators!


Initial OCCT & Furmark crashes were due to overheating VRMS in 4xxx series. It's been circumvented on the hardware level now for the 5xxx.