Best stress software for GPU besides F@H ??

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Hi guys,
as titel, i am glad i won't have to go away so i can find why my rig locksup (mentioned this in the maintain thread) so i already did a fresh OS instal to rule that out, as my main rig started locking up in the new year and i have no idea why yet ..

just hoping it isn't one of my GPU's (or at least not my GTX680)

So i was wondering what software (benchmark) is nowedays the best to stress the GPU ?

Thanks in advance , Ray......
 
Well, can you describe these lockups? when they are happening, are your GPU's overclocked, atr you on power setting "high performance" ?
 
Good one (sorry) ,
i now have everything at default CPU/GPU's a GTX680/GTX460,

cpu i7 2600K on a Asus Sabertooth P67 16gig memory (corsair),
128gig crucial M4 ssd 1.5tb seagate Hdd...

but just a minuut ago it locked up when i started gpuZ,
and i also just removed my GTX460 that wasn't connected correctly, as it was lose in it slot :mellow:

and now i started up gpuZ without a problem,
i am going to test F@H again and to see if it isn't my GTX680...

But my question remains,
what is the best stress software besides Folding At Home ?? :)

Thanks for the fast reply mate !

EDIT thank you YbrFinX :cool:

Greetings, Ray...
 
Best stress test software... I wouldn't use Furmark... that's not a propper stress test, what it does is heat the hell out of VRM and not use all the other important components of the card. I would run 3dmark vantage over and over or start battlefield 3 and play, see how it goes. Never fails for me.
 
Battlefield 3.

I can run every other game and bench on lower volts and be stable, except for BF3. For some reason that game seems to stress a GPU more than anything else, anything that I have tried anyway.
 
Well so far (/knocks n wood) its reacting better (faster) and it doesn't lockUp...
not weird when a GPU hangs in its PCI-E slot..

Thanks guys much appreciated !
will EDIT (report) back when its 100% solved !

Greetings, Ray...
 
Sorry, I have no idea what happened to my answer after I edited and saved it... It just disappeared so here's the whole edited text again :lol:
If you want to have maximum stress on your GPU, try using OCCT's GPU test or get something like FurMark :)
To help you solve those lock-ups, could you describe them better? Do you still have picture on your screen but nothing's happening, does your sounds loop or what happens?
As a general rule, I'd check that there's latest BIOS installed for your motherboard and GPU as well in case the manufacturer of your card has released any. Also make sure to use latest graphics driver provided by your GPU manufacturer, NOT the ones that you get from nvidia's sites as they are primarily meant for reference design cards.
There can be many reasons for lock-ups of computers. I built a computer for my mother and discovered that the RAM modules were pretty much dead when I took them from their packaging. Of course I got new ones which seemed to solve my issue. Few months later problems came back and I found out that the RAM had died again... I asked to get another manufacturer's modules and I said that I prefer Kingston over anything else (the first two kits were Corsair), so they sent me Kingston's RAM modules. About one week ago the computer didn't do anything when we pressed the power button and this time I figured out that the motherboard had died. Tomorrow I'll be sending that mobo back to the store and get a new one.
Back then when the computer had memory issues, it just randomly locked up or shut itself down without BSOD or anything. If you want to make sure your RAM is okay, please download memtest86+ -tool that you can install on you USB and boot it from there. Link to download: http://www.memtest.org/download/4.20/memtest86+-4.20.usb.installer.zip
 
dragoonk said:
Yup, agreed.
Why was the 460 not propperly seated in the slot? Why was it hanging?
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Now that's a good question,
i think one of my cats did it (as i have one cat that always screws up with my F@H :lol: )
or i have not installed it right, in the beginning :wub:

Greetings, Ray......
 
LOL, how did your cat get into your case?
Well to make sure all's well start running BF3 just to make sure, Ray. :)
Good Luck!
 
My own fault as my main rig doesn't have its side panel on,
i am now F@H on my GTX680 and it doesn't lock up.

LOL as i type cats walks by :lol:
or one of my cats, i can't give them a smack as when i sleep they do it as well..

this will change ones i moved to another home,
will get a deticated F@H room..

Again thanks mate (guys) ! , Ray.......
 
dugdiamond said:
newcomers posting links to external sites must be vetted by a member of the team before the post is made visible to the entire forum (it stops spambots)
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Oh, my bad... At least I know that now and I don't have to wonder what happened if it's not immediately visible.:) Thanks!:lol:
 
i usualy run Heaven All maxed ( Extreme tess, 8xaa, 16af ) for 2 hours to heat up everything, Furmark for about 1 hour to see if the core is fine , and vantage and 3d 11 around 5 times , so i can be Absolutly sure that the OC is max stable.

Aditionaly i play Crysis Maxed or BF3 for about 2-3 hours and monitor with HWmonitor Vram temps, Core tems, Volts, Mhz throthles and so on .

That should do the safety trick m8 :)
 
kirebrat said:
i usualy run Heaven All maxed ( Extreme tess, 8xaa, 16af ) for 2 hours to heat up everything, Furmark for about 1 hour to see if the core is fine , and vantage and 3d 11 around 5 times , so i can be Absolutly sure that the OC is max stable.

Aditionaly i play Crysis Maxed or BF3 for about 2-3 hours and monitor with HWmonitor Vram temps, Core tems, Volts, Mhz throthles and so on .

That should do the safety trick m8 :)
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For me Battlefield 3 never failed when everything else did, Crysis, all the benchmarks (including 3dmark vantage) etc.
 
I'm sorry, I didn't express myself propperly. What I meant was, failed in being stable while playing... it was the only one that crashed imediately. That's why I recommended it in earlier posts. In my experience it is the best "stress test" I've used.
 
Isn't it Fun when you think you found it, its not it ^_^
it seems to be or my SSD or my HDD :mellow:

but i think the one with the OS on it aka the SSD.
as i had no proper boot device after a lockup and reboot ,

I am going to try F@H again.. if it locks up, it will go off for the night !

Ray....
 
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