ATItool to artifact test Nvidia cards?

[Northwind]

ATItool vs Nvidia- is my 7950 faulty?

I used ATI Tool to artifact check when overclocking my 7600GT, and all was happy... But I recently got a 7950GT (yep, right before the 7900 GTOs came along ) and ATI Tool shows constant artifacts at its factory (over)clock. I've just done a full system rebuild from a clean disc, new drivers, etc, and it still pings an error under every 2 seconds.

So, 2 possibilities here, it seems to me. Either a) card is faulty, or b) ATI Tool isn't that useful for checking Nvidia cards. Any suggestions, either for what's the most likely explanation, and for better tests for the Nvidia, would be most welcome.

 

[Darkwave]

Not sure how well the artifact scanner works with Nvidia hardware, but I do know it can't be trusted in the slightest with ATI X1800/X1900 Series hardware and even causes crashes sometimes. I would pay no attention to it.

If you're not seeing any artifacts in games then chances are you're golden.

 

[Northwind]

Enocuraging Is there a better way of artifact checking than just keeping your eyes open, that you know of? ATI Tool seemed to work well with the 7600 but the 2 cards are night and day of course.

 

[Darkwave]

Honestly I just run 3D Mark 06 through a few times, if there's any artifacts they will show in that.

 

[melbourne720]

I was using the ATi tool to overclock my 6800 (AGP) last night - the main application is good, but the artifact scan didn't pick them up. Watch the spinning fuzzy cube father than rely on it!

 

[Cyber-Mav]

run the deep freeze test in 3dm06. all i can say is that the 79series is borked big time and the cards end up dead in a matter of days. some lucky sods get cards that work fine but its pot luck with around 40% failure rate.

 

[Darkwave]

some lucky sods get cards that work fine but its pot luck with around 40% failure rate.

Erm, the 7900 failure rate was 5% (or one in twenty.)

Still a huge failure rate, but you down-right pulled that 40% out of thin-air (or somewhere else.)