"Test" button in overclocking settings question.

[Ingonuts13]

I was wondering if the self test in Rivatuner actuall can determine if your setting will fail?

When you click on "test" what does it do to determine if your setting is stable or not?

I was told in another thread that you can disable this and I was wondering what exactly the reason for doing this would be?

 

[Majin]

From my experince tests like this, will OC until the safety kicks in and restarts.

 

[Ingonuts13]

From my experince tests like this, will OC until the safety kicks in and restarts.

Hmm..yeah but what is it doing as you wait the 5seconds as it runs through a "Test" on your clock setting?

 

[Kasher_Khan]

I am not sure what it does but whatever it does, it doesn't seem to be too smart. Cause if I try to overclock too much it would fail at first, but after a few tries suddenly passes and allows me to save settings atleast using coolbits.

I have been able to to overclock my 7800GT CO from 470/1100 to 500/1200 with little or no side affects! I think the test is just checking some basic math (just a guess! )

 

[Nobi125]

The test runs some quick operations through the GPU to heat it up a little and if it gets any errors, it fails the test.

 

[Ingonuts13]

The test runs some quick operations through the GPU to heat it up a little and if it gets any errors, it fails the test.

Ahh I see...so sort of like Prime95 for the GPU.

I would presume in that case then, that if it fails, you should probably back down the overclock.