How do i check my 5870 is running as it should be?

[adamknox]

Im about to sell my 5870 (i bought a 580 today ) and i want to give it a good testing to make sure its okay so i can sell it on in full confidence that the buyer will be 100% happy with it. Any ideas? The only thing i can think of is to run it on OCCT over night and make sure no errors show up.

 

[Exsurgo]

I would run 2 hours of Heaven and 2 hours of looped Crysis. An overnight run of OCCT seems overkill, I don't think OCCT/Furmark are healthy for Graphcs cards anyway considering the abnormal VRM loads.
For me Crysis finds any problems much much faster than any other stress tests.

 

[adamknox]

OOh okay thanks. So if i run them two do i run them together? Also If there is something wrong with the card will i get a warning or somehting pop up? Ive sold a GPU before and they sent it back saying it was DOA -_- Really dont fancy that happening again. Thanks for the advice

 

[Exsurgo]

Just run them seperatly. Crysis will push the temps up a fair bit higher.
If anything turns out wrong then the benchmarks will crash and the display driver will reset, probably will not do that though. Keep an eye for a couple of loops to check that there are no weird glitches or artifacts.

TBH 4hours of tests is maybe overkill, two would probably be plenty.

Also make sure you use anti-static packaging when sending off the card, that combined with ample padding means that there is no way it can be a DOA.
Photograph it too with the packaging.

 

[Bizarre]

OCCT GPU is the best stress tester in my opinion.

I've wasted many hours with Furmark and Heaven to only find out later that my GPU was unstable.

1 hour of OCCT at default settings should be more than enough to deem your card stable.

Horses for courses though, I guess...

 

[spleenharvester]

ATiTool for me.