video card stability test?Post Date: 2008-02-02 |
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pgs8113 
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 Topic: video card stability test?Posted: 02 Feb 2008 at 12:47am |
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Anyone know of a program to test the stability of a video card? Im trying to figure out why my UT3 is freezing, it's never done this before and I haven't installed anything new... so it's either the vid card or something else... Thanks, |
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Duke
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Posted: 02 Feb 2008 at 2:35am |
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Run 3DMark 06 benchmarks. I believe a demo copy should be included in your disaster recovery cd, if not you can download a demo copy here *big download.
Another application you can also try running is this demo: Real-time High Dynamic Range Image-Based Lighting with the FSAA setting up on high, it should put some heat on your GPU. Also download Ntune to monitor your GPU's temps |
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EdH63
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Posted: 02 Feb 2008 at 9:15am |
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DON'T DOWNLOAD NTUNE!!!!! DON'T DOWNLOAD NTUNE!! BY THE WAY, DON'T DOWNLOAD NTUNE!!
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Mythius101
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Posted: 03 Feb 2008 at 2:48am |
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nTune is, granted, a piece of crap. However, if you run SLI in Vista, nTune is the only way to modify fan speed on the 2nd card. I hope to high heaven that RivaTuner will support SLI soon, but until then, nTune is the only option for some stuff.
Looking at your sig, it doesn't look like you run SLI, so yeah... don't download nTune. Edited by Mythius101 - 03 Feb 2008 at 2:53am |
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Solo
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Posted: 03 Feb 2008 at 4:53am |
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hi i read somewhere you should not download ntune.
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EdH63
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Posted: 03 Feb 2008 at 8:46am |
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NTune is the reason I bought a new rig here. That was the last program I downloaded and it locked my system up with a firm grip of death. Couldn't undo what NTune did.
I understand NTune works for some, but there have been many that have found NTune's lack of compatibility the hard way. It may be fine and you may not have any issues with it, but I personally would never recommend it. |
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brian
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Posted: 04 Feb 2008 at 7:42am |
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lol solo
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Solo
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Posted: 04 Feb 2008 at 11:16pm |
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pgs any luck finding the problem?
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Dog Lover
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Posted: 28 Feb 2008 at 6:02pm |
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Is Ntune safe to use if you just want to monitor GPU temps without making any ajustments? |
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pgs8113
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Posted: 28 Feb 2008 at 7:19pm |
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The problem seems to come and go... i'll play for hours, for a week with nothing... then one day every game will decide to freeze, cod4, gears of war, ut3, bioshock, etc.. all will freeze.
I've pretty much tried everything I can, i've reseated ram, run 3dmark with no problems, memtest86 no problems... I tried running windows with one stick of ram, one stick ran fine and the other results in a IRQL_not_less_or_equal error and the pc bombed so I called DSO.
They made me reset the CPU settings to default without the overclock, so far I haven't have any problems so maybe it was just the stability at that clock speed (3.33 Ghz). We'll see! |
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Mythius101
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Posted: 28 Feb 2008 at 8:12pm |
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Dog:
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Dog Lover
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Posted: 01 Mar 2008 at 4:33pm |
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Thanks, Mythius, I will look into that!
I have no problem at all with my machine and it screams for hours of COD4 with out even a hick up (less Punk Buster deciding now and them to kick you for some random unknow reason) but I would just interest me to see just how hot these puppies are running.
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