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XD_dued   09-27-2009 at 11:16:05 PM

As the title states, what do you guys use for graphics card stress testing? I have a 9800gtx, and i've tried stress testing with furmark, 3dmark vantage, and rthdribl. Yet, i've had the same problem with all three: What is considered stable (without any artifacting i could see) with those programs, crashes Farcry2...whats up with that?

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mactronix   09-27-2009 at 11:31:46 PM
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The crash dosent have to be down to the card now does it ? unless you have tested of course by lowering back to stock settings and it dosent crash that is.
When i OC a card i personally like to drop down between 5 and 10 Mhz just for piece of mind. Its usually 5 or 6 in fact but you get the idea, just gives you a margin for error.
Furmark is what i use.
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XD_dued   09-28-2009 at 12:18:19 AM
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Yea when i lower clocks it doesn't crash anymore...but its a substantial difference. The stress testing allowed me to go all the way up to around 820 core 2050 shader and 1220 mem. Farcry 2 only seems to work at about 780 core 1940 shader and 1150 mem...

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apache_lives   09-28-2009 at 02:44:39 PM
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ATI tool can test video cards and overclock them, and OCCT i believe can test video cards too

From experience overclocking video cards can easily kill them - no where near as solid and tough as a cpu and no where near the gains either

------------------------------ Q6600@3510/1560 + TT BigTyphoon+Mod
8gb Kingston 800mhz
Gigabyte EP35-DS3P
XFX 8800GT/512
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