Yeah ok. As if burning up your computer is fun.

I won't be trying it, but its kinda neat seeing it.

I've heated up my CPU to 120 C 'till system crash. It continues to live even today happily .

My pc make strange noises

Didn't work for me. Dunno why and i'm not messing with it. I can live without knowing

Why would you do this? There are tons of other benchmarks out there that don't potentially damage your hardware.

HAHA the furry/fleshy/veiny donut! = )

Your machine should shut down automatically before it does damage (should).

I ran it all night and all day, and my temp maxed out at a certain temperature and just kept going, never crashed. (i think the temp leveled out at 95 C, but i really don't remember)

Rim, your missing the point, it IS fun to burn your computer!

It's not that you're damaging it right then and there, it's that you're reducing the lifespan of your hardware. Whether it shuts itself off automatically doesn't matter-- you're still putting an unnecessarily heavy, and potentially dangerous, load on your GPU for an extended period of time before the motherboard decides its time to shut off.

yeah true. I wasn't running for fun, but to test my GPU for stability issues with a beta driver.

Correct World Crafter is correct.

Overheating your PC rarely has any immediate effect, (unless your doing something real stupid, see above benchmarking program) but it definitely makes everything break sooner.

Thinks back to all those power supplies, all those graphics cards

shiver

Oh and captain, With a max temp of 95 C, I'm gonna come over and cook my breakfast egg on your PC if you don't mind.

yeah, my gpu gets super hot when i do any gaming, even L4D. I can put my coffee cup next to the vent and it keeps it warm for a long time, i'm not joking.... I just read something that said furmark only tests OpenGL? If that's true, it's fairly useless to run for any reason nowadays i guess... right? (still is see a lot of people mention using it to test there new video drivers)

I just ran it again for 20 minutes with new drivers, and my temp maxed out at 81 C.. Striker, i notice you get much higher average and peak fps than me: with the same settings, my average fps hovered only at about 23, and my peak was as shitty 29 fps... (nvidia 9800m gts 512)

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I don't care. In 5 years I will get a new pc anyway ( I slowly upgrade in the same case , removing parts, until eventually a new pc is born )

With the exception of video card,case, ram & power supply everyting will be renewed . My ati radeon hd 4850 usually works at 65-75 degrees in idle.
This components are made for high temperature, otherwise they wouldn't sell them to people.
As I told you in the beginning of this journal , I had heated up my CPU to 120 degrees 2 years ago. I'm typing from the same rig, right now.

Striker and Terror, are both of you running on stock coolers?
Buy a Zalman cooler if you are. They're cheap and incredibly effective. Whisper quiet, too.
I went from 50 idle and 70 under load to 30 idle and 45 under load.

"I just read something that said furmark only tests OpenGL?"

What difference does that make?

I'm currently running on stock coolers, and 3 additional case-installed coolers put by me to make some airflow.'
I don't think I'll ever need a Zalman, I heard E8400 (which I'm going to buy next year) runs perfectly on its own coolerd,overclocked at 3,8 ghz !

Idling at 65-75 for a year instead of spending $30 on a Zalman sounds pretty stupid, dude. Hell, even install it on the new one after you're done.

Futuremark is so much more pretty <3

Kaboom?

Billy Mays has it.

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Don't most if not all new games use directx? Doesn't make for a very accurate benchmark imo...

That's not how it works CT, hehe.. Both DirectX and OpenGL put stress on your computer, which is the point of the exercise in the first place. Also.. the OGL to DX ratio in games is just about 50/50 with a little more weight at OGL for the moment. DirectX is gaining more popularity as of lately though.

If you still wish to argue, define what you mean by "accuracy", hehe.

Guys, stop trying to make your computers melt from the inside. There's already a virus that does it for you by deactivating your cooling systems.
8\

At first I thought this would have something to do with furries. Then I clicked on it, and I was disappointed.

Also Jeff, that's a clever idea but it must not be a very successful virus. I'd immediately notice if my fans went off all of a sudden, it'd be blissful.

ok grim, you win! = )
(i also read that openGL is a couple generations behind in terms of utilizing your system resources fully, so in that respect doing a furmark will not be an accurate tool to gauge your system under stress? in other workds, would a directx test give you higher temps?)

DirectX would probably give you a lower temperature, but not more than a few degrees. Its not different enough to make an exceedingly huge difference. Either way.. your comp is going to heat up when you use fur-mark up there. Dynamic hair rendering is messy

You can also assume that if your computer handles fur-mark in OGL, the computer will be mildly more awesome than its letting off.

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I'm not falling for that one

Potato, I tried journal 9101112 but it's not there!

Dammit, Potato. How could you do this?

Sorry! I'll try harder next time!