Quote from: Pfff! Furmark Again! on May 30, 2014, 10:03:36
Come on guys, not the Furmark test again! You know it's not even close to a real world gaming test, therefore why even include it? As you can see it throttled like mad in that scenario, it would be far more enlightening if you monitored clock frequencies and temperatures when gaming or running Unigine Heaven Benchmark, which would provide more useful information about the capabilities & temperatures that this laptop will provide. (Apologies if you mentioned that the laptop didn't throttle during gaming as might have missed that, but the inclusion of Furmark results just grabs attention for the wrong reasons, and is a distraction at best).
Why keep on ranting about that? Very often (too often me thinks sometimes) the authors mention the Furmark/Prime stress test is very unlikely to occur in everyday usage. However two things are obvious:
1. Applications will be more demanding in the future.
2. There are properly configured machines out there that pass the Furmark/Prime stress test.
By now my old machine is throttling like hell, because of demanding software. That wouldn't be so, if the cooling/Bios design was better from the start. Throttling is a sign for insufficient cooling, always. Not fair to blame something else, imho.
Thumbs up for your stress test guys. Glad you do it. Helps a lot.