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 So I was told (by a friend) that furmark and other such software such as Kombustor are regarded as power viruses by the driver and will be throttled to preserve a GPU - ot so it was 3 years ago. I want to know, is that still the case? My little bro did a dumb thing and used furmark for an hour and a half. From what I was told in the other thread - it's fine but this might seal the deal in our minds. Thanks in advance :)

 

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It'll just make it really hot, I wouldn't recommend it, but it shouldn't kill it.

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No... that's just dumb...

 

They're programs created to stress gpu's and test their performance. If the card gets too hot, then hard-coded mechanics kick in and it will either downvolt to keep temperatures in a safe range, or kick the fans to full AND downvolt to preserve the card. You can run a burn in test like furmark or unigine for hours if you want. Show cases will run stuff like unigine heaven/valley for upwards of 12 hours.

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Pretty sure it's fine. It wouldn't be a benchmark program if it was just being throttled.

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It'll just make it really hot, I wouldn't recommend it, but it shouldn't kill it.

 

Pretty sure it's fine. It wouldn't be a benchmark program if it was just being throttled.

 

Pretty sure it's fine. It wouldn't be a benchmark program if it was just being throttled.

Well. it's just I've heard so many horror stories about furmark - the card is pre OCed - not overvolted - 1.1V max - there was an odd GPU-Z spike reading of 135V but people told me it was likely a software bug - temps were normal.

I also found these articles about throttling and idk.

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No... that's just dumb...

 

They're programs created to stress gpu's and test their performance. If the card gets too hot, then hard-coded mechanics kick in and it will either downvolt to keep temperatures in a safe range, or kick the fans to full AND downvolt to preserve the card. You can run a burn in test like furmark or unigine for hours if you want. Show cases will run stuff like unigine heaven/valley for upwards of 12 hours.

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Video cards have a power limit now, it won't let it more power than it was designed to use, it will downclock and undervolt.

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Pretty sure if 135 Volts when through that card it would be dead and prob a fire

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Pretty sure if 135 Volts when through that card it would be dead and prob a fire

1.35 - sorry, typo, it's a tad late.

it was during Unigine valley - that reading - 68*C on the VRM and core at that moment,

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It's just thermal throttling. Same goes for anything GPU-related.

Linus did a video about thermal throttling on his HTPC before... lemme find it...

That's what all GPUs do. They don't wanna melt. :P

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It's just thermal throttling. Same goes for anything GPU-related.

Linus did a video about thermal throttling on his HTPC before... lemme find it...

That's what all GPUs do. They don't wanna melt. :P

So the occasional odd stuff is likely the game/driver acting up and the card is fine? other thread has a lot more info and im too tired to retype it all. only 2 threads I've visited.

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@Aefiel You can use furmark as a GPU thermal stress test... but tbh? It's safer to just leave 3DMark on a loop or Unigine Valley. 3DMark pushes your pc beyond what any game would so it'll definitely get your PC hot beyond what any game could. Just go into the custom tab and check the loop box, set it to run in windowed mode and you're set.

http://www.futuremark.com/support/3dmark

 

I'm having stability issues when running loop testing and get error about display resolution changing

While the loop tickbox in Custom tab does disable most of the anti-tampering checks, when loop testing for hours in full screen mode, the run can be interrupted if some background application draws a popup or task bar notification as it causes a switch back to the desktop view. 3DMark cannot recover from such display mode change.

For very long stability stress tests we recommend testing using the windowed mode. Windowed mode is not interrupted by task bar popups or other interrupts from background applications, only actual driver crashes or general system instability will stop the test. When looping all parts of a test, there are loading screens with light load between each part. For maximum load set the stress test loop to loop a single part of a test - Fire Strike Game Test 1, for example - and the loop will be continuous without loading screens. Note that when looping, the run will never produce a score.

Also we recommend disabling Scan Systeminfo from the help tab for loop testing - you are not going to get a result file anyway, so there is little point in gathering hardware data and in very long loops the hardware monitoring dataset (temperatures, clock frequencies etc.) can be so large that it could in theory cause stability problems.

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 So I was told (by a friend) that furmark and other such software such as Kombustor are regarded as power viruses by the driver and will be throttled to preserve a GPU - ot so it was 3 years ago. I want to know, is that still the case? My little bro did a dumb thing and used furmark for an hour and a half. From what I was told in the other thread - it's fine but this might seal the deal in our minds. Thanks in advance :)

 

Well. it's just I've heard so many horror stories about furmark - the card is pre OCed - not overvolted - 1.1V max - there was an odd GPU-Z spike reading of 135V but people told me it was likely a software bug - temps were normal.

I also found these articles about throttling and idk.

 

 

No... that's just dumb...

 

They're programs created to stress gpu's and test their performance. If the card gets too hot, then hard-coded mechanics kick in and it will either downvolt to keep temperatures in a safe range, or kick the fans to full AND downvolt to preserve the card. You can run a burn in test like furmark or unigine for hours if you want. Show cases will run stuff like unigine heaven/valley for upwards of 12 hours.

 

 

1.35 - sorry, typo, it's a tad late.

it was during Unigine valley - that reading - 68*C on the VRM and core at that moment,

 

So the occasional odd stuff is likely the game/driver acting up and the card is fine? other thread has a lot more info and im too tired to retype it all. only 2 threads I've visited.

 

is not a virus  :o

 

but "Furmark" likes "damage" the memory of the card in some cases  <_<

 

i will say... play safe friend  ^_^

 

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