Furmark "limits" translation

[Adam Bice]

Running FurMark 1.11.0, I immediately get a message in the "limits" field. The text changes from:

"limits:[power:0, temp:0, volt:0, OV:0]" to

"limits:[power:1, temp:0, volt:0, OV:0]"

Screenshot: http://imgur.com/BLNbz5l

My question is whether this is because the GPU is at 100% of its power consumption, or if I've reached the limits of my PSU. I'm using a GTX670, not overclocked, with a 5-year-old 750W PSU with 18A on the 12V rails.

Ran the test after FFXIV crashed to a white/black screen with audio buzzing/skipping. Temps seem fine, so lack of power or inconsistent power supply are the only issues that I can think of.

Thanks

 

[17seconds]

Furmark was made obsolete with the GTX 500 series of graphics cards. Nvidia made it so that their cards detect when Furmark and OCCT were being run for stress-testing. When Furmark is run, the cards now throttle down their clock speeds, and so you will never get a true stress test out of that software. You might be able to use Kombustor, which comes with Afterburner and which is based on Furmark. Although I'm not sure if the throttling has been included for that.

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/NVIDIA/GeForce_GTX_580/3.html

Apparently you can disable Furmark throttling with GPU-Z:
http://www.techpowerup.com/134460/disable-geforce-gtx-580-power-throttling-using-gpu-z.html