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Testing a HD6850 for Artifacting

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RubenMcNoobin

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I have an XFX Radeon HD 6850 Black Edition that I want to sell since I'll be buying a Double D HD 7870 GHz Edition soon.

I remember a few months ago while playing Borderlands, I had an odd "artifacting" problem. Or at least I think I did. Whenever I had Bloom on, it would give me odd black panes/panels, long and levitating over areas. It definitely wasn't normal and it went away when Bloom was turned off.

I did have it overclocked a bit and maybe that may have contributed. I never played too heavily though, but back to my initial question: Is there a program that I can/should use to gauge the card and possible see if it really does have a problem? I want to be honest when I sell this and if there's something wrong with it, I'd like to tell people before they buy it.

Edit: I'll get off work in a bit and see if I can try and emulate the artifacting again and take a screenshot!
 
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So I played through Borderlands for a couple of hours to try and emulate what I mentioned before, but nothing came up. I ran it at max setting and the framerate was fine.

Should I just leave it be and sell it as it is, or is there a program or benchmarker I can do before hand to test the condition of it?
 
You can run furmark and see if you get artifacts.

I would not recommend running it for more than 15 minutes, puts to much stress on the VRM's.
 
I ran a 1280x720 NoAA test, the 1080 preset, and a 1080 with 8xMSAA for 6 minutes and saw no artifacting in any. I guess it must have been just a small bug that time I saw it.
 
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