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I think I must have the worst clocking 8800GT in the world. I have the vanilla version, and the best stable clocks I could get that were stable in atiTool and (most) gaming are 661 core, 1645 shader, 943 memory. Anything higher will cause eventual artifacting in atiTool. I've tested said clocks in Crysis at Very High settings (two playthroughs!), and it seemed fine.
Rest of my rig is a Q6600@ 3.6ghz on a Tuniq Tower, along with a GA-P35-DS3l mobo and 2GB of Corsair PC6400 ram.
Anyways, so I was playing a game of Supreme Commander, when all of the sudden, it crashes out on me. I assume that it's the CPU because Supcom is ridiculously CPU intensive, and I haven't been able to test my CPU for extensive periods of time in Prime95 (it hits mid 70's after a while, but it seems stable enough). I've never seen it get past 60c in a game, and it seemed pretty solid.
Lo and behold, I tried clocking my graphics card down to stock, and Supcom played fine. Turning down the CPU and leaving the graphics card overclocked would lead to more crashes, and although I suppose I could always just revert down to stock clocks for supcom, this card seems borderline defective to me. I can test it for hours on atiTool at stock though, and it doesn't find any artifacts (I'll try it for 24 hrs starting tonight). My question is: are there any other programs that could stress this card harder than atiTool? I'd love to RMA this thing and get a card that doesn't clock so unbelievably poorly, but 'poor overclocking ability' is hardly a qualification for an RMA, so I suppose I need to find if this thing is rock stable at stock or not.
Thanks in advance for any help.
Rest of my rig is a Q6600@ 3.6ghz on a Tuniq Tower, along with a GA-P35-DS3l mobo and 2GB of Corsair PC6400 ram.
Anyways, so I was playing a game of Supreme Commander, when all of the sudden, it crashes out on me. I assume that it's the CPU because Supcom is ridiculously CPU intensive, and I haven't been able to test my CPU for extensive periods of time in Prime95 (it hits mid 70's after a while, but it seems stable enough). I've never seen it get past 60c in a game, and it seemed pretty solid.
Lo and behold, I tried clocking my graphics card down to stock, and Supcom played fine. Turning down the CPU and leaving the graphics card overclocked would lead to more crashes, and although I suppose I could always just revert down to stock clocks for supcom, this card seems borderline defective to me. I can test it for hours on atiTool at stock though, and it doesn't find any artifacts (I'll try it for 24 hrs starting tonight). My question is: are there any other programs that could stress this card harder than atiTool? I'd love to RMA this thing and get a card that doesn't clock so unbelievably poorly, but 'poor overclocking ability' is hardly a qualification for an RMA, so I suppose I need to find if this thing is rock stable at stock or not.
Thanks in advance for any help.
