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How Do I Stress Test Graphics?

Shayne

Shayne

Shayne

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I've just got Prime 95 which has tested my CPU under stress, but it doesn't have an option to stress test my graphics.

I'm running a Palit GTX 460 and I've had a few crashes on Starcraft 2, I want to check it's not a temp problem.

many thanks,

Shayne.
 
Vantage
Heaven
Furmark ( use with caution )

If you what to keep an eye on temp, use afterburner and setup osd for gpu temp
 
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I never found Furmark to be a particularly great stability test. It is good for seeing what kind of max temp/power draw you can get from a card, but i have had overclocks that were completely Furmark stable fail the original Crysis benchmark.

YMMV but that's been my experience.
 
heaven can show artifacts, I should know, small rectangles of black flickering rapidly

however it's not the most confidence inspiring benchmark as it seems to texture flicker randomly at default.

I use furmark for 20s, if there are no artifacts I then test out the new overclock in vantage and crysis bench loops.

normally after passing all that its a good OC
 
because it can heat your card up in no time, and if you dont have a fan profile set up and your fan is set to auto you may come into problems
 
Thanks,

but I was hoping to monitor the temp in speedfan, whilst using another program to stress the GPU like I did with Prime95 to test the CPU.

I can't really monitor the temps in game cos it takes up the whole screen.

Is their anything that can do this, or does one of the above programs do everything I want in one package?

Many thanks.

Shayne.
 
GJ02 said:
because it can heat your card up in no time, and if you dont have a fan profile set up and your fan is set to auto you may come into problems
Click to expand...

Ah right.
I've got my 4870x2 water-cooled and wanted to see what sort of temps it would hit when pushed (So far I've tried 3DMark06 and BF:BC2 but they don't seem to put it over 50C).
 
yeah, msi afterburner is what you need
you can monitor the temp via that, it will appear top left or right of your screen in a small but readable size
 
Many thanks all,

I've got MSI Afterburner running as an ingame monitoring tool, very helpful.

And I've run Furmark and temp didn't go above 80%, it stayed at 79/80 throughout once it got up there.

Thanks again, graphics seem to be fine.

Shayne
 
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