FurMark 1.8.0 Released

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Time to make your graphics card scream like a little girl again, as a new version of the popular stress testing and benchmarking utility, FurMark, has just been released. Coming to push the latest GPUs to their limits, FurMark 1.8.0 features:

- New: now all options are available in benchmarking mode: Xtrem Burning, postfx (FX) and displacement mapping (DM).
- New: added new effect (displacement mapping) on the fur rendering.
- New: GUI translation is done with XML files in the localization folder.
- New: added hotkeys: P to enable/disable post fx rendering, T to enable/disable temperature graphs rendering.
- New: GPU temperature is now exported in xml and csv formats.
- New: twitter submission displays a login dialog box to tweet your score.
- Change: the fur rendering workload has been increased to produce more heat.
- Change: improved temperature graphs readability.
- Change: updated with the latest version of ZoomGPU for graphics hardware detection.
- Change: A cool new background image.

To download FurMark 1.8.0 see this page. And remember, use with care.





PS: Using Air Conditioners always helps keep temps in check while stress testing and benchmarking.

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