XFX 280 dd furmark.

[Wodgy]

Im a complete noob basically and have just built my first pc so running some tests.
I only ran a burn test on Furmark for about 7 minutes before i stopped it as not sure if im doing things right etc. My gpu max got to 68-70c on 1080p with 4x mssa.
Is this ok?
Im a massive noob with this. Are there any better programs to test full system performace. Ive checked around this forum a lot but dont know where to start. There seems to be tons of programs.
Regards.

 

[kefan77]

70 is not bad for furmark on those settings.

prime95 for CPU.

 

[Wodgy]

Ive heard amd fx processors (I have an 8320) dont run well on prime95. Is that just a myth?
I know im in the graphics part of the forun but i downloaded coretemp and my cpu voltages/freq constantly jump. Again, i heard this may be dowb to amds "power saving features" in the bios. Is this correct?
Sorry for the bombardment of questions. Hopefully one day ill be giving positive inputs to people instead of asking questions haha.
Regards.

 

[humbug]

Use Unigine and 3DMark for GPU stability testing

http://unigine.com/products/benchmarks/

http://www.3dmark.com/

It is true that FX CPU don't like prime95, use AOD http://www.techspot.com/downloads/4645-amd-overdrive.html

 

[Wodgy]

Ah thanks. Will do.

 

[Jonnygrunge]

Ive heard amd fx processors (I have an 8320) dont run well on prime95. Is that just a myth?
I know im in the graphics part of the forun but i downloaded coretemp and my cpu voltages/freq constantly jump. Again, i heard this may be dowb to amds "power saving features" in the bios. Is this correct?
Sorry for the bombardment of questions. Hopefully one day ill be giving positive inputs to people instead of asking questions haha.
Regards.

Yeah this is probably down to the fact they too support Intel's AVX instruction set! Prime95 or AIDA64 can cook a Haswell or new Devil's Canyon CPU because of this!
Use Real Bench for stability testing system!

 

[Kaapstad]

Never ever use Furmark on a GPU as the results are meaningless and the program if the drivers allow it to run flat out can damage your card.

 

[Wodgy]

Never ever use Furmark on a GPU as the results are meaningless and the program if the drivers allow it to run flat out can damage your card.

Ah yes. I did read into this that amd/nvidia made cards to even throttle themselves on purpose using furmark.

 

[David Bisset]

Yep. Furmark never meant anything in the first place, now the cards throttle to furmark-specific levels so it means even less, and you're still risking damage to your card. There is no reason at all to run it.

I believe car analogies are fashionable around here - I don't test a car by putting it in neutral and hitting the throttle (accelerator) so the engine hits the rev limit & keep it there.

 

[Wodgy]

Thanks for the Feedback Guys.
Regards.

 

[JonSmith]

I find Unigine Heaven is a good GPU test, it's great for testing RAM overclock stability as the score is precise and consistent, so you can see if ECC is kicking in and tanking the score (or if it outright crashes).

Also if you decide to overclock your card, the best memory performance is gained at either 1250, 1375, 1500, etc MHz. This is due to automatic adjustment of the RAM timings by the vBIOS. If you go 1 MHz higher than these figures the timings loosen, so rather counter intuitively 1501MHz gives far less memory performance than 1500.

 

[TrojanWhore]

Furmark......Are there any better programs to test full system performace.

as others have said, furmark gives almost zero indication of performance, or even stability for that matter.

best things to run for both stability or performance metrics, would be an intense, loop-able tech demo/benchmark, such as unigine heaven, 3d mark or similar.
for a few years I just used BF3 for stability testing, as it never really used to crash, and with the combined load on my CPU, used to find faults where other tests woudn't.

the only reason it served any real use was that it used to get your card hotter than anything else, and draw more power, so was good for PSU and cooling testing, but there's now plenty of games that will push things further than furmark can. if someone came up with a 'next gen' furmark, using the nV hair demo physics, now that would be pretty cool! (and probably enough to push things more)