How to stability test an AMD 7950?

[craptakular]

After my rage thread at my 7950, I have calmed down. I cannot afford to buy a new card so am stuck with this for at least 6 months.

I will try not to get annoyed and post only messages of peace and tranquility about this fabulous AMD product, doh...

Anyway, lets start at the beginning. I have a 24hour stable overclock on my i5 2500k running at 4.7Ghz. It is prime 95 stable during summer temperatures. My previous 5870 didn't cause any issues with flickering.

I purchased a 7950 in March and it flickered a lot on Arma 2 and tomb Raider. After some new drivers, 13.4 seems stable or Tomb Raider was patched. Anyway I have completed Tomb Raider, so that game doesn't matter anymore.

What I need to stop is the white speccles on trees in Arma 2... DCS World runs perfectly fine.

I have tried overclocking it and it causes huge texture flickering, so I need to take a step back and confirm my card is stable on its default volt, core and mem settings.

What software tests this?

Then if it is stable, I use MSI Afterburner to overclock? What settings should an average clocking card be able to achieve for a MSI Twin Forzar 960Mhz edition?

 

[shankly1985]

The white speckles on trees in Arma 2 is not a gpu error, its down to the AA setting you using.
This is from a dev Dwarden
try disable ingame AA and use instead some PPAA e.g. SMAA or FXAA

So more read about it here
https://dev-heaven.net/issues/15668

Plus I wouldn't worry to much about Arma2 anyway as Arma3 is coming along and so is Dayz standalone.

 

[craptakular]

I don't play Dayz and Arma 3 with decent content is many months away.

I will try disabling in game AA and using CCC AA.

Im still need to stability test the card before I start overclocking.

 

[shankly1985]

I don't play Dayz and Arma 3 with decent content is many months away.

I will try disabling in game AA and using CCC AA.

Im still need to stability test the card before I start overclocking.

Don't use CCC if you going to use AA use the games post processing AA like FXAA etc

 

[Gregster]

Run something like Heaven or Valley for a few passes and if it clears those without issue/corruption, then move onto gaming.

 

[Twirlywoos]

Run something like Heaven or Valley for a few passes and if it clears those without issue/corruption, then move onto gaming.

Whilst this is true, some games can still cause some artefacts and crashing. Valley is a good way to test stability and is 95% good at determining it but some games can show worms in the woodworks.

 

[shankly1985]

Whilst this is true, some games can still cause some artefacts and crashing. Valley is a good way to test stability and is 95% good at determining it but some games can show worms in the woodworks.

This is True
Battlefield 3 is a very good game at showing bad overclock.

My games for testing
BF3
Sleeping dogs
Alan Wake
Crysis 1

 

[craptakular]

Don't use CCC if you going to use AA use the games post processing AA like FXAA etc

I think thats the problem, its bugged for ATi users.

 

[BluD]

I used Crysis benchmarks for testing stability, its the game which requires the lowest overclock of mine to become stable. I have to drop 20mhz on the core below my top Heaven stable OC. I would still run heaven though as it starts showing artifacts when ya pushing ya vmem too high.

 

[nutsnut]

I've alwys found BF3 to be easy on overclocks, played for hours on my new card then played Bioshock 2, crashtastic.

Downclocked by 10mhz and then runs fine.

 

[LtMatt]

Farcry 3 for the core and Sleeping Dogs for the core/memory. Those two games really heat up tahiti cards if you use HDAO in farcry 3 and SSAA in sleeping dogs.