Burn in/Diagnostics for NVida

[HumbleCoder]

Hi chaps,

I've recently been given a Geforce GTX 280 that came out of a water cooled system. It was crashing the machine and causing pixellation. I have put he OEM heat sink and fan back on with a good helping of thermal paste.

I was wondering if anyone knows of a tool I can use to burn it in and have it self test or something to see if it's knackered. Has anyone else had similar problems although I do think this is heat related and nothing else.

 

[Rroff]

Pixellation is usually due to failing memory on the card. You can try the "oven" trick tho which might fix the card.

People usually use furmark to test a card - but don't leave it going forever - 20-30minutes tops will do.

 

[HumbleCoder]

Cheers for that, is there any tool to check the memory like you can with normal RAM?

 

[Rroff]

OCCT used to have a GPU stress test that included graphics memory checking but I haven't updated the program in awhile - but when I last used it the test was badly implemented and quite often caused the whole PC to crash even on a fully stable setup.

 

[HumbleCoder]

Thanks for your help.

I've never been a big fan of the oven method but OCCT after a 100 memory tests is reporting no problems and I'm to run furmark but I suppose only time will tell.