Furmark testing your overclocks?

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Jakalwarrior

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Are you guys considering 3dmark06 / general gaming stable? or do you want your overclock to survive an hour of furmark?
Honestly my card never gets over 68 or so in gaming or 3dmark but furmark took it up to 88 and then it crashed the driver lol (fan 100%). Has anyone ever run into a game half that stressful?
 
yea same here, I dont really relie on furmark for stability and I could game for hours with my hd 4870 and temps never exceed 68c and in furmark they hit 80+ or sometimes even 90 and it would crash that is with my card running at 830. I think on my card it just heats the crap out of the VRM.
 
Crysis GPU benchmark is a good stability test. My 4850 overclock was stable in 3DMark06, Vantage, and ATITool but crashed in Crysis benchmark. That was my cue to up the voltage.
 
This thread reminds me of the "Prime/Orthos/etc stable or actual usage/gaming stable" argument for CPU overclocks. Generally it is still recommended to get Prime stable, and it seems like good practice getting stable in ATITool/Furmark/rthdribl for a GPU overclock as well. That way you know beyond any doubt it can handle the clocks/volts you're pulling out of it, and you aren't risking it crashing at an inopportune time during a long and demanding gaming session online or at a LAN party.

 
Furmark just crashes - its not an accurate indicator of overclock stability with the 4870 or GTX 280s. Mine is water cooled and just crashes, then corrupts the driver in Vista and XP. When I asked ATI about this, they are having the same issue... Furmark is causing the cards to heat up more than any other application or game. Loop games, 3dmark, ATI Tool or RTHDRIBL to test stability...
 
Furmark is like ATItool for me.
It doesnt fail with much higher clocks than are stable in games, so is no good for stability testing.
Its good for bedding heatsink paste in, but thats about it.
 
lol_wut said:
Crysis GPU benchmark is a good stability test. My 4850 overclock was stable in 3DMark06, Vantage, and ATITool but crashed in Crysis benchmark. That was my cue to up the voltage.
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I agree, 6 or more runs of the Crysis bench will tell me if I can get stable gaming.
For testing memory overclocks on my gfx card, I found that if Battle of Proxycon in 3DM03 runs stable, everything else will !
 
"Nature" in 3DMark01 is also a great stability/torture test. Yes it's old but it still stresses your card immensely.
 
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