how to benchmark vid card

[tharionos]

jus recieved my GTX 680 and eager to benchmark it

but never done it before

anyone care to help me out ^^

 

[SieB]

Run some benchmarks like 3Dmark 11 and Heaven.

Heaven

http://unigine.com/products/heaven/

3Dmark 11

http://www.3dmark.co...ark11/download/

Crysis Warhead Benchmark

http://downloads.gur...nload-2086.html

Aliens vs. Predator DirectX 11 Benchmark Tool

http://downloads.gur...nload-2553.html

FurMark 1.8.2

http://downloads.gur...nload-2523.html

Also performance results in BF3, Metro 2033 and Crysis 2.

 

[fraghappy245]

yep same as above really. warning tho it can get very addictive especially when you start to overclock your card to see how many fps and points you can squeeze out of your rig and then use them for bragging rights with your mates lol

 

[hmmblah]

3DMark 11 scores in my sig.

 

[tharionos]

thank u all for ur replies !!!!!!

its running smooth atmo and so far so no jamming (crosses his heart )

 

[tharionos]

ill try to post a score soon

is this a good way to test if ur vid card is ok ?

 

[fraghappy245]

yeah pretty much gives you a idea how your card will play current games but i can assure you with your card you wont have any problems it will max out any game on a single monitor no problem at all

 

[tharionos]

just had a complete freeze on BF3 is my card faulty ?

 

[SieB]

Could be just a random crash or unstable overclock, try running other games benches.

 

[fraghappy245]

have you installed the newest drivers from the nvidia website or did you use the ones from the disk that came with the card if so download the latest and install them also what temps did you card go up to when battlefield was running

 

[tharionos]

ill check

its 30 degrees when idling

ill check temps when its running

also installed latest drivers and did clean install

can't get furmark 3d to work

 

[fraghappy245]

i never bother with furmark because your card will never be pushed that hard i normally just loop heaven benchmark if i want to get it up to temp or just have a long session on bf3

 

[tharionos]

ok ill try heaven benchmark

 

[Damien c]

It is more likely to be BF3 that crashed and not a fault with your card.

It did it to me the other day when the card wasn't overclocked, I was on Teamspeak at the time and a few members of the clan I am in said it happened to them aswell at random times and none of them are on the same card as me, they all varie from GTX 260's up to a GTX 580, Crossfire and SLI etc.

I then put the OC on my card of +175 and +300 and the game ran for 4 hours without fault, and the next day it ran for 6 hours solid with no crashes.

I just think Dice have broken the game abit with the last patch.

 

[tharionos]

thanks for the reassurance bro

 

[alicarve]

I've been helping a friend with his gtx 680 and his always crashes with bf3 but all he had to do was turned down AA and all good now no crashing

 

[tharionos]

just benchmarked the card

no jams no hotness

max temp is around 62 degree's when bencmarking

i had a minimal fps of 41 and a max of 230 fps

average fps was 113

 

[tharionos]

just stability tested my card with extreme burning in enabled

reached 75 degrees max over 12 minuts

then a benchmark Max GPU Temp: 70°C

with fan speed at 44 percent

is this ok ?

average fps was 114

 

[fraghappy245]

yeah looks fine to me mate

 

[Ru5ty_t00l]

if the fan noise isn't much noticable I would set the speed higher for those temps with msi afterburner