How to test videocard/system stability?

[provoko]

How to test videocard/system stability?

To test an overclocked videocard/system stability, should I loop 3dmark2001 20 times or any of the other 3dmark programs 20 to 50 times?

Does overclocking a video card cause crashes in video games or just artifacts? If overclocking a videocard doesn't result in game crashes, then running 3dmark2001 20-50 times really only checks for system stability, am I correct?

Thanks.

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AMD Athlon XP 2400+ Mobile 1.8ghz overclocked to 2.2ghz 200fsb stable at 1.675 volts
PDP 2x512mb dual channel PC3200 2-3-2-5 2.7 volts
Leadtek 6800nu 325/700 (defualt)
Albatron KX18D Pro 1.06 bios
Antec PSU SL350
Windows XP SP2

 

[Bugalaman]

prime 95 and maybe 3d mark after to test video

 

[CastleBravo]

To test video stability run this in a window:

http://www.daionet.gr.jp/~masa/rthdribl/

Turn up your desktop resolution to, say, 1280x1024 (if it isn't already), then stretch the rthdribl window and turn up the Multisamples until you get only 20-30 FPS.

Then just sit back and let it run. It is much simpler than running lots of benchmarks in a row, and you can scale how heavily it stresses your video card just by changing the window size and the multisample level. Because it runs in a window, you can monitor your temperatures as it runs.

Overclocking your video CAN cause artifacts, total video corruption (display whacks out completely), or crashes.

 

[provoko]

To test video stability run this [rthdribl] in a window

So thats it, just rthdribl? If theres something wrong with my video overclock I'll get a crash or an artifact in rthdribl? Does it matter if its in a window or fullscreen?