best way to test a gpu ??

Toggle sidebar Toggle sidebar
Sort by date Sort by votes
cleanshot911

cleanshot911

Reputable
Oct 28, 2014
765
0
5,360
Try downloading unigine valley or unigine heaven for free and run it at extreme settings. If it runs well, then you probably have a good gpu. If the cpu isn't very good that will affect your results, but if you're testing it with a decent cpu, then you'll get an idea of how good your gpu is.
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
Ok Go

Ok Go

Distinguished
May 23, 2015
276
0
19,060
ask the seller to perform a stress test in front of you, or do the test yourself ih the seller give permission.
on stress test things to watch is temps, fan rpm, and artifact.
it's even better if the seller give you a personal warranty for maybe 3 day of regular use.
MSI Kombustor is a small-sized stress test/artifact monitor tool to carry around. carry the setup file with you incase seller has no stress test program

link to kombustor 3.5.0 - 18mb
ps, you need nvidia physix driver installed to run physx benchmark.
 
Upvote 1 Downvote
mr91

mr91

Distinguished
Jan 25, 2013
3,000
3
21,165
There is no best way lol

What GPU?

I suggest you Run 3dmark 11, Heaven benmark and demanding games such as Crysis 3, Far Cry 4.

Makes sure you don't see artifacts and the game isn't crashing at stock settings...

Good Luck !
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
cleanshot911

cleanshot911

Reputable
Oct 28, 2014
765
0
5,360


Artifacting is where you see odd glitches on the screen, a visual defect in which there is something wrong with the hardware you own that's causing those visual defects to appear on screen. It basically means that there's something wrong with either the monitor, or one of the internal components.
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
Ok Go

Ok Go

Distinguished
May 23, 2015
276
0
19,060
in short, if a gpu developed an artifact it's usually a sign that either the gpu overheats/unstable on high temp or the gpu is failing, either way, if you see a gpu developed an artifact dont buy it.
try googling gpu artifact for complete info and picture examples of artifacts since it's easier to see one for yourself than trying to explain it here.
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
You must log in or register to reply here.

TRENDING THREADS

Latest posts

Moderators online

Share this page

COMPANY
RESOURCES
FOLLOW
Top Bottom