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Crash on crysis bench but not 3D 06?

bloodline76

bloodline76

bloodline76

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I got my card running at Now pushed to 650 core/1700 shader /1050 mem

And got a mark of just over 12k in 3D 06 and all ok.

But when I ran the crysis benchmark it crashed on the second loop.

Does that mean that I have to drop it back?

Currently dropped it back to 645/1500/1010
 
I think with that the card, running crysis, the 320mb will hold you back more than the clockspeed. especially on that 22" monitor.
 
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I have found Crysis to be extremely sensitive to unstable video memory clocks, especially if you apply any AA
 
bloodline76 said:
Or is it? Just joking lol

But doesnt that make 3D 06 an unreliable source for checking against if it doesnt crash in that?
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Crysis just seems to be more graphically stressing right now. We could use 3D08.

It's the same as when your CPU overclock seems stable, even Orthos for 8 hours, but that crashes in some CPU demanding games.
 
ots3go said:
It's unstable at that clock.

Crysis is as good a graphical test as you're going to find.
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Aye but c'mon. I've had an overclock that was fine in every single title bar one before. Maybe it's pushing the card harder than ever before and creating stability issues but if 19 games out of 20 work at that overclock then it's stable for 95% of titles and that's that. It's only unstable in the game that crashes/shows corruption/artifacts so it's unstable for that title at that clock and not unstable overall.

Personally I just clock when I need it and if one game wanted a lower clock then it would get it. I'd then overclock back to a higher level for other titles if the need arises (not had to yet except for the Crysis benchmark).
 
crysis is FAR better at detecting instabilities than 3D mark and gurusan is right, i have noticed the same thing, the second your try playing crysis with unstable clock it crashes (for me at least), unstable memory causes artifacts and you can't miss artifacts with crysis in the backdrop, just goes to show how much it uses the GPU, 3D mark is intentionally intensive and turns out to test your GPU less than crysis :eek:
 
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