Whats the real world point of furmark

ok so i have a sappire ati hd 4830 1 gb stock clocks are 575/900 i oc to 800/1150 and i can run crysis for hours with out touching 70c but furmark locks up my drivers after 95% of the test and over 78c also the game mirrors edge artifacts at those clock speeds?

You are proving the point of your question. One thing Furmark tests for is system stability in high temps.

yea ^^

Its just a benchmark and stability tool, should use real world benchmarks though, are more accurate and reflect the actual capabilities better

For stability testing I always prefer Prime95 or OCCT for the CPU and ATiTool for the GPU. Memtest86+ for the RAM, etc.

its for brag factor its too CPU bound that, OC your CPU and you will see what I mean

oh and it loves quads and I7 s

Furmark is specifically designed to work the GPU as hard as possable to find any stability issues that would occour when a card gets to higher temps that are usually the result of Overclocking.
You have seen for yourself that games can and do work your card as hard as Furmark, generally games wont though. The point is that its over the top of whats expected of the card and so if you can pass Furmark you should be ok with games.
Just back the GPU Overclock down by 5 or so and see how you go, either that of adjust your Fan to run at a higher ratio.

Mactronix

Never ever ever played a game that stresses the video card nearly as much as furmark. As such, I never use it. If a video card is stable in all games, that's stable enough.

I only use Furmark when im looking for the absolute limit. Usually if an OC runs through 3dm then im happy. Never had one run 3dm and then lock up in games ....Yet

Mactronix

Furmark stresses a card far more than Crysis. Especially ATI cards. They (4k series mostly) get particularly hot when running furmark.

You can also see that the FPS, in furmark, of mid-range ATI cards is often more than that of Nvidia's high end offerings. Something about all those SPs or something, I assume.