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Testing w/ ATITool

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burningrave101

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I'm using ATITool to test for artifacts on my nVidia 5900XT. Do you change any settings in ATITool before running it or do you just load it and click Scan for Artifacts? And how long should you run it before increasing the RAM speed again?

I guess ATITool for nVidia cards is also only good for testing the RAM right? I will need to use another tool such as 3dmark03 for the core?

Any tips would be greatly appreciated.
 
How does CoolBits know how far to let me overclock the RAM or the Core when i test and it fails? I notice the speeds i can overclock to with CoolBits varys each time i do it. How does CoolBits test?
 
I just started messing with ATI Tool for my X800 card. In the setting for finding max core I think I saw options for how long it needs to test for artifacts before increasing the clock again. I think what I saw was only 30seconds. I'm sure though once you find you max clock, test it longer than that. I'm at work right now so I can't double check it.
 
I dont think ATI tool works at all with Nvidia. From my recollection, it just doesn't detect a card and you can't scan or do anything in it.
 
As I seem to explain on a daily basis, ATItool works fine on Nvidia cards with pixel shaders. It cannot overclock or use the profile manager.

Artifact detector scans for artifacts caused by memory or core.
For best results, run a game for a few minutes before you load the artifact detector to heat up the card.
Bump the clock, test, bump the clock, test... etc.
 
Is ATITool effective enough though that i wont push the core clock too far? Because before when i was using RivaTuner to overclock and 3dmark01 to test i could take the core speed by itself up past 500Mhz and beyond and it didn't lock up or artifact. It didn't start artifacting until i included the RAM in the overclock. I think some of it could have to do with the heatsink that is on the GPU. The heatsink covers the video cards RAM also and between the two of them probably heat each other up alot faster then ither one of them at high speeds by themselves.

I'm just looking for some easy steps to follow when overclocking a video card ;).
 
With ATI tool i set it to increase clock speed at 60 seconds. That way it goes nice and slow so when it reaches its max, it dosen't have to come down alot to be stable. Sometimes its touchy, but its the best yet to find artifacts
 
hooah said:
With ATI tool i set it to increase clock speed at 60 seconds. That way it goes nice and slow so when it reaches its max, it dosen't have to come down alot to be stable. Sometimes its touchy, but its the best yet to find artifacts
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See i dont get that part. What do you mean by it increasing the clock speed at 60 seconds? Isn't the clock speed running at the full speed of whatever i set it at using CoolBits when i check for artifactings using ATITool?
 
hooa apparently doesn't know it only works with ATI cards - you have to use another utility to change the clocks - it can only scan for artedacts nothing more if you're using a Nvidea card.
 
0ldman said:
ATItool works fine on Nvidia cards with pixel shaders. It cannot overclock or use the profile manager.
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I need to put this in my sig so I don't have to keep typing it.
 
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