When I thought it was driver issues related to VPU recovery code or bad/under powered
PSU, it was in fact heat/damaged cards on 3 out of 4 3870x2's I went through. I was
consistently able to fail them using 3DMark. Simply ramp all the settings to max and
if you have a hardware issue you'll know.
Doubtful Q3 will stress enough to crash it unless there's major hardware issues. PSU
is a good place to look, assuming it's correctly rated then it's hard to eliminate
without known good PSU to swap in. If you have a DMM which can do hi/lo monitoring
you could see if there's a voltage drop under load.
Jumped though these hoops for months, always came back to bad hardware.
you'll know. On 3/15/2010 10:05 AM, James Boswell wrote:
Quake 3 isn't going to stress a modern card particularly well?
I'd have thought Far Cry 2's benchmark would have been a better stress test.
On 15 Mar 2010, at 17:03, Anthony Q. Martin wrote:
Will Quake 3 run in a continuous loop? I've run both demos several times at
the high res with all features on. No problems. New vidcard installed.
Frankly, I've been using eqiupment for a while with zero problems. The problems
started with the first Radeon. So far, over a short span, this card seems to be
fine.
On 3/15/2010 12:23 PM, Robert Martin Jr. wrote:
If you can't narrow this down to driver issue, my first thought would be power
supply going south. I've seen similar issues when the power supply isn't
providing quite enough power to the system. Video card could be iffy or even
mainboard. As for video stress test I still use a quake3 demo loop although I'm
sure there are much better tests available.
lopaka
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From: Anthony Q. Martin<amar...@charter.net>
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Sent: Mon, March 15, 2010 6:35:17 AM
Subject: [H] Testing Graphic Card Stability
Ok....
I had a HIS ATI Radeon HD 5770 in this system. Tried all drivers available,
using driver cleaner to remove previous drivers, etc, yet the same result
persisted: Crashing.. Yesterday, my PC reboot several times during the day.
On some days, it doesn't do that.
I just loaded in A Sapphire Radeon HD 5770 in thsi system. While these cards
are basically the same, performance wise, they boards are different as this one
has to DVI ports on it while the other other only had one. Thus, the layouts
of the boards are very different (I didn't want to risk getting the exact same
board for fear of some fundamental problem in the board design from HIS or ATI).
So far, and not much time has gone by since I just installed this board a
couple of hours ago, things seem to be working. WEI works as done some program
I got called Performance Test.
My question is what software can I use the drive this video card in a loop to
see if it really works or not? Or, am I going to have to see here and wait for
a crash?
Thanks.
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