Best app for testing v.card o-clock

[FragMagnet]

Short and sweet, what is currently the best app to test your v.card overclocks with for artifacts ? I want a general idea, and will down clock if any games have issues, but just need an app like Kumbustor or Furmark, etc. What is everyone using ?

 

[XFXSupport]

Not sure there is necessarily simple answer as to "the best", but around the office here we usually test cards in Heaven and 3dMark, then move to Furmark.

 

[FragMagnet]

Thanks for the reply. I've heard some saying that Furmark is excessive, so I was unsure whether to use it.

 

[Yoda4561]

Furmark is an excellent test of the video card's cooling and throttling abilities in a worst case scenario. There have been a few problematic big publisher titles that had some bugs that caused similar high load conditions until they were patched. Of course now some drivers auto-detect it and throttle based on the application, which defeats the purpose.