Quote Originally Posted by Manicdan View Post
such a horrible article. they completely forgot that ATI added a feature to prevent the card from killing itself in synthetics like furmark. and somehow never tested to see the total power draw of using such a benchmark. its not hard to plug in a kill-a-watt meter and look at the numbers before and after. (who wants to be it was near or over 400W)
Not horrible IMO. Sure, using FurMark is unrealistic but the majority of HD 5970 cards ARE very poor overclockers at their stock voltage and above.