Stress test software

[Cheetah Designs]

What software is there to stress test the GPU?

Something that I can run at the same time as Prime95 which I will be using to test my CPU and Mem.

 

[kiel367]

heaven benchmark tool

 

[Cheetah Designs]

Is that something I can just set and go or do I have to fiddle with it?

Looks very arty farty

 

[[timko]]

You can just run the default settings, just make sure it's at the native resolution of your monitor.

 

[shadow_boxer]

No fiddly at all. Even the default settings will stress your GPU out but could make a few alteration such as tessellation and AA to give it a proper workout. Run a few loops of it. As for setting it up and going, I'd want to watch it for a couple of loops, monitor temperature of gpu and observe for artefacts etc.

 

[Cheetah Designs]

observe for artefacts etc.

So it won't automatically tell me if there is an error? Assuming that is what an artefact is?

 

[shadow_boxer]

So it won't automatically tell me if there is an error? Assuming that is what an artefact is?

No it won't. If your overclock is too high it will crash the driver or blue screen but more commonly you will see artefacts, which are either lines or blobs appearing on the screen. If you don't get any for the first couple of runs then it's pretty unlikely they'll appear later on.

 

[OptimaLnrg]

^ In my experience:

Core set too high/voltage too low: crash.
memory set too high: artifacts/crash.