Stress testing 7990

[Dangerous_Dave]

Hi all,

What's the best thing to stress test a 7990 (both GPUs) without killing it? Preferably something that isn't a big hassle to get/install.

Cheers

 

[Dangerous_Dave]

Heaven is a bit glitchy anyway though. It's doing occasional glitches in heaven (tiny pauses) so I was wanting something else, that's more definitive, to confirm if it's working properly or not. 3dmark won't even load with it, and it was crashing previously albeit with a marginal PSU (HX620)

 

[Dangerous_Dave]

People run 7970s on the Silverstone 450W SFF PSU in ITX setups, so I don't reckon it's that far out. 1000W seems like way overkill.

Rest of system is an i7 870 and SSD, optical drive and an H50.

 

[Dangerous_Dave]

OK sitrep (now hooked up to 1000W Silverstone PSU):

1) 3dMark11 crashes were being caused by old version of 3dmark11.
2) Machine still crashes random e.g. when starting Rome II often.
3) Rome II looks like ****e even with all the settings turned up (idk - maybe it just does. This is my first time running the game)
4) The card has quite a lot of coil whine.
5) The machine scores ~13200 P marks on 3Dmark11