Torture test 1: Gaming.
For this test we looped a Farcry benchmark on 1600x1200 4aa 16af and obtained the voltages at 15minute intervals.

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Torture Test 2: Image Work
For this test we loop the DH Photoshop benchmark ( available here ) on a 200mb image and again take the voltages at 15minute intervals. Prime 95 is also running in the background.

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Torture Test 3: Video Conversion
Out third test consists of DivX Converter encoding a MPEG-2 file to DivX format. Additionally ATI MMC is converting an Mpeg4 file to Mpeg2 at the same time. The voltages were taken every 15 minutes, again Prime95 is running in the background.

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Torture Test 4: Synthetic Gaming
Our final test involves looping Futuremarks 3dmark05 continually whilst prime 95 runs in the background. Voltages were again recorded at 15minute intervals.

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