GPU stress/stablity test

[GeorgeZoo]

Hello friends, i am new to the forum and i would like to ask your opinions...
Does anyone know what method of stress/stability they use on techpowerup for their reviews??
Because i have an gtx 970 G1 and i would like to overclock it to the maximum possible edge...
What is your opinion? and which is the best to find my gpu's limit? gaming or benchmarking??

 

[64K]

Welcome to TPU.

Well, for testing a card to see what the maximum watts used W1zzard uses

"Maximum: Furmark Stability Test at 1280x1024, 0xAA. This results in a very high no-game power-consumption that can typically be reached only with stress-testing applications. We report the highest single reading after a short startup period. Initial bursts during startup are not included, as they are too short to be relevant."

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/MSI/GTX_970_Gaming/25.html

Furmark is really just a torture test. You won't run into real world gaming that stresses your GPU like that.

 

[GeorgeZoo]

Its nice to be here..
First of all thank you for your reply...
I am asking for the best solution to find my oc stable limit!

 

[Frick]

I just play some games. You'll know if it's stable or not.

 

[GeorgeZoo]

For how long?? and which do you recommend?
Is it reliable to leave hitman absolution, with everything maxed out, in one place (with gpu usage 98%-99%) for 7 hours??

 

[peche]

For how long?? and which do you recommend?
Is it reliable to leave hitman absolution, with everything maxed out, in one place (with gpu usage 98%-99%) for 7 hours??

"not leave it " ... play, sit down , enjoy your game, check out FPS drops, temps and all the performance possible for minimum 3 hours,
then run a stress test for like 40 minutes, shut down ... leave it free like 1 hour, start again, thats what i've done to GPUs for testing Stable overclocks,
Regards,

 

[GeorgeZoo]

"not leave it " ... play, sit down , enjoy your game, check out FPS drops, temps and all the performance possible for minimum 3 hours,
then run a stress test for like 40 minutes, shut down ... leave it free like 1 hour, start again, thats what i've done to GPUs for testing Stable overclocks,
Regards,

Hmm okk, thank you for your reply!
And which games do you recommend?? because some games are not oc friendly (like cod:aw)
and also which stress test are you using??

 

[Frick]

What you're normally playing, if it's a game that actually taxes the GPU. In my case it was WoW because everything maxes out my GPU. Any of the newer titles (Shadows of Mordor etc) should do the trick.

 

[peche]

Hmm okk, thank you for your reply!
And which games do you recommend?? because some games are not oc friendly (like cod:aw)
and also which stress test are you using??

Crysis, Bioshock Infinte, Battlefield, also starcraft 2 are the ones i use,
For light test i like to play CS:GO ... for the last hour of tests!

Regards,

 

[GeorgeZoo]

Thank you both for your answers, i think i will test it on Dying Light and Dragon Age Inqusition, because i have finished the other games!

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Furmark is pointless with these newer generations of GPUs as they throttle if they get too hot.

What i do is put it through a few 3Dmark benchmarks, I hear Firestrike is quite a painful one. then maybe a 10-20 rounds of Metro2033 and Metro:LL benchmark with everything cranked, finally settling on playing some of the games you played.

I OC'd my 970s a little and even though they were solid in all the benchmarks. when it came to BF4 I started having DirectX and Nvidia driver has stopped working etc etc issues.

Would definitely not recommend furmark anymore.

 

[peche]

Furmark is pointless with these newer generations of GPUs as they throttle if they get too hot.

What i do is put it through a few 3Dmark benchmarks, I hear Firestrike is quite a painful one. then maybe a 10-20 rounds of Metro2033 and Metro:LL benchmark with everything cranked, finally settling on playing some of the games you played.

I OC'd my 970s a little and even though they were solid in all the benchmarks. when it came to BF4 I started having DirectX and Nvidia driver has stopped working etc etc issues.

Would definitely not recommend furmark anymore.

+1 on furmark

Playing hard its better than syntethic tests....

 

[GeorgeZoo]

I used to use firestrike as well but i dont know if it is reliable because of the loading screens which drop the gpu usage...
I am stable ( with games and 3dmark) at 1270 core ( 1509 boost) and 1900 memory with +25mV, but i dont think that voltage helps a lot with the oc..

 

[peche]

i just dont care about "scores" Benching its for bitches.... i dont care how much points my rig can bring... i care about performance and smooth gaming experience...
just use stress tests for testing OCs....

 

[GeorgeZoo]

tests for testin

+1
i dont care about scores, its a general direction of my system's performance compared to others.. i would like to know my own maximum performance limit which i hope that leads to smooth gameplay (if they actually manage to deliver a non-issue game, which is rather difficult nowdays for some mysterious reasons)

 

[FreedomEclipse]

i just dont care about "scores" Benching its for bitches....

its all a bit of harmless fun.... Unless LN2 was deployed.

 

[peche]

its all a bit of harmless fun.... Unless LN2 was deployed.

Dude that thing its insane …
Nitrogen and shit … no way I'm out …

 

[AsRock]

Furmark is pointless with these newer generations of GPUs as they throttle if they get too hot.

What i do is put it through a few 3Dmark benchmarks, I hear Firestrike is quite a painful one. then maybe a 10-20 rounds of Metro2033 and Metro:LL benchmark with everything cranked, finally settling on playing some of the games you played.

I OC'd my 970s a little and even though they were solid in all the benchmarks. when it came to BF4 I started having DirectX and Nvidia driver has stopped working etc etc issues.

Would definitely not recommend furmark anymore.

I find 3Dmark the way to go one for actually finding DX and such is installed and to push the system a little but not over the top which now OCCT does sadly if your not careful.

3DMark will push my system about 370w were as OCCT will push it close to 450w, no game i have pushes my system to 400w+ although Watch Dogs was close at 400w but not since they patched it up and that's dropped to under 300w.

 

[L1amrob]

I remember Furmark was pretty damn hard on hardware. Once I had a issue with my VGA card on that test and the guys at RMA said that this test was beyond normal for any normal real life gaming or even benchmarks. They advised me if I never had any issue with normal games or benchmarks, not to RMA.

 

[FireFox]

If you stress you GPU with Furmark and it passed it doesnt mean that while playing games it will be stable,
Whith that said, best way to test stability is playing Games.

 

[GeorgeZoo]

Does the same apply to 3dmark, that if you are not stable at 3dmark you can be on games??