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Testing GDDR on a new card

FrankJH

FrankJH

FrankJH

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I am wondering if there is a program for testing graphics card ram at a low level like the many system ram programs available.

I have been having random reboots on my new conroe system and I just have a feeling its graphics ram related rather than system ram but want to make sure before returning the card
 
Anything to do with the gfx card will show up on screen.

Cores will tear in games.
Memory will show up as spots on the screen or corrupt textures.

If you dont have either of these then its not ** gfx card.

Reboots can be caused by PSU failure and/or cant support this system

Or its just unstable.

CR.

And no, there isn't. As they are called games ;)
 
rthdribl is good for memory testing. use a high enough resolution and make it fill the screen and enable multisampling and it will easily use up to 200mb of vga ram. testing beyond that is hard.
 
Concorde Rules said:
Anything to do with the gfx card will show up on screen.

Cores will tear in games.
Memory will show up as spots on the screen or corrupt textures.

If you dont have either of these then its not ** gfx card.

Reboots can be caused by PSU failure and/or cant support this system

Or its just unstable.

CR.

And no, there isn't. As they are called games ;)
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You may be right but follow my logic and try and see where it falls down (if it does)

Withouth using games - just in normal windows (after testing system ram fully with no failure)

This has happened in different applications like IE, MP10 and 11, Itunes, can be after ten minutes or three hours (so unlikely an overheating cpu issue) and nothing pushing the psu (700w FSP) - it hasnt happened in games as yet - system just restarts with error code mentioning a memory address.

If its this random it can only be either RAM, G RAM or some file system/ hdd bad sector problem - why couldnt a faulty memory address on the graphics card just as easily cause a crash as a system ram faulty module?

I would completely concure that is isnt gpu related though - this is just more out of wanting to further my knowledge than causing an arguemtn so please dont take offence :D
 
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