Testing a 7950GX2 for stability?

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slavearm

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Hey guys,

My current rig is in my sig. Here is the delio... I am having random lockups in oblivion... sometimes I get a couple hours in, other times just 15 minutes. It hard locks the box. As in, I have to hold the power button down until it powers off.

So... I have been running SP2004 for over 24 hours now, I am concurrently running memtest for windows at full blast. No issues in either. What is the best way to stress my video card to see if there is an issue with that. I am thinking I will also plug in the eazyplug on my mobo to see if that helps.

I had zero problems with this when using my 7800GT before.

Thanks,

Slavearm
 
Yah... I haven't needed it in the past, since I am using the 4 pin power to the mobo already, and the purpose of the EZplug is to support PS that dont have the 4 pin connector. But I figure it is worth a shot.

Because I KNOW there is not an issue of power with my PS, unless it is a particularly cold day in hell.
 
Is there something I can loop that will keep both video card cores busy? I am trying to discern if the issue is with the video card/driver or my oblivion install.

Thanks,

Slavearm
 
The EZ-Plug is meant for a dual card SLI setup, but this design came about way before the 7950 series and they are pretty power hungry. I would try plugging in a 4-pin molex off your PSU into the EZ-Plug and see if that helps.

Oblivion in itself (shitty coded as it is) is still one of the best stress tests for your GPU available today. Other things you can try:

  • 3DMark 06 (especially the Deep Freeze test)
  • F.E.A.R. at max quality settings
  • Need for Speed: Most Wanted at highest quality settings
  • RTHDRBL at highest quality settings

And you have to realize that it MIGHT just be Oblivion itself. Yes, it's an awesome game... but it's also one of the most unstable finicky pain in the ass games ever. :p
 
slavearm said:
Is there something I can loop that will keep both video card cores busy? I am trying to discern if the issue is with the video card/driver or my oblivion install.

Thanks,

Slavearm
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Anything that will run without problems when an SLI rendering mode is selected in the nvidia control panel. Enable the SLI indicator (the green line) if you want to be double sure both cores are being used).
 
Oblivion wont stress it as much as FEAR wil..Oblivion is a huge cpu bottleneck..the only thing oblivion is good for is to stress the cpu mostly..if you want a gpu test run FEAR
 
Sorry man I gotta waive the BS flag right there. CPU never or rarely exceeds 50% while playing Oblivion. And Oblivion is one of the few games that darn near doubles in performance between Dual and Quad SLi
 
1. I can't seem to find the SLi indicator checkbox in the 91.45 drivers.
2. I updated to the 91.45 drivers to see if that helped
3. Plugged in the EZPlug on the motherboard.
4. Still locks up.

Meh... hopefully the card is not bad, but if it is, I am sure BFG will replace it for me.

Thanks,

Slavearm
 
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