Hey guys, I have Gainward 512 8800gts which I've had in a machine at home running fine for ages now, Today I decided I would like to replace the card so decided to take the card out and trade it in.
Took the card into town this morning only to be refused trade in as according to the person that tested it it had a "fried chipset" the guy gave me the card back and said the chipset has been fried because its been overclocked and doesn't work which is a load of crap lol, surely if the chipset was "fried" he wouldn't have got his test setup to post which he did, I even witnessed the test bench he used boot into Windows with the card, however I was given the card back,
I took the card back home expecting it now not to work for some reason and theirs nothing wrong with it, I've popped it straight back into my machine and run many 3dmark tests, ran ati tool scan and played games for a few hours on it and its been fine,
So... to the point of my thread, is their any other benchmarking software I could run on this card so I'm 100% certain their is nothing wrong with it, I wouldn't want to sell this card on if its isn't 100% perfect, I argued with the guy in the shop that the card was out of a working machine not but 1 hr before me taking it in and asked if he would use another test bench, he said he was sorry but they could not accept it because it was faulty.
I noticed whilst I was there his test bench did look a bit shoddy, 430w coolermaster, random foxconn 775 mobo, xp home install which probably has every driver set known to man installed.
sorry for rant 
Took the card into town this morning only to be refused trade in as according to the person that tested it it had a "fried chipset" the guy gave me the card back and said the chipset has been fried because its been overclocked and doesn't work which is a load of crap lol, surely if the chipset was "fried" he wouldn't have got his test setup to post which he did, I even witnessed the test bench he used boot into Windows with the card, however I was given the card back,
I took the card back home expecting it now not to work for some reason and theirs nothing wrong with it, I've popped it straight back into my machine and run many 3dmark tests, ran ati tool scan and played games for a few hours on it and its been fine,
So... to the point of my thread, is their any other benchmarking software I could run on this card so I'm 100% certain their is nothing wrong with it, I wouldn't want to sell this card on if its isn't 100% perfect, I argued with the guy in the shop that the card was out of a working machine not but 1 hr before me taking it in and asked if he would use another test bench, he said he was sorry but they could not accept it because it was faulty.
I noticed whilst I was there his test bench did look a bit shoddy, 430w coolermaster, random foxconn 775 mobo, xp home install which probably has every driver set known to man installed.
sorry for rant 