Quote Originally Posted by LedHed View Post
It's great all you ATI boys say you don't play FurMark, but if this card is already giving problems you can only imagine what is going to happen down the road as more and more stressful games are released. It's a formula for heat problems and AnAndTech is using stress tests to bring this problem to the surface now with our current applications. People turning their noses up at the test are overlooking the bigger picture.

I mean think about how stressful Doom 3 is compared to Crysis, you are talking about 10-20C difference in GPU temps between those two games. Eventually there are going to be games that push the cards just as hard as FurMark does. Also since most people buying these cards think they are future proofing, they might like to know about this VRM temperature problem early on (maybe to give time to save up for a water block).
games cannot stress like a synthetic program. ati uses a different style for their shaders where 1 can have the power of up to 5, yet most games will never be simple enough that the logic can be divided to all 5 perfectly. this is why i find it very important to post the FPS of things like furmark. if a 4870 is doing 2x the work of a 280, then guess what, drop the speed in half, and match the competition without stressing the cards at all. thats whats missing in the whole debate, how WELL does the ati card work with these power viruses.