Anybody Used "Artifact Tester 5"??

[Blooz1]

Does anybody have experience with Artifact Tester 5?

I saw this program recommended in another forum as available at MajorGeeks. I did a d/l, loaded it, and ran it some last night testing my 8500 at 300/300. It took about 25 minutes, and found 0 artifacts at that speed. (this was the "hardcore" setting..)

How does this work? Is it generating fractals which aren't shown on screen? CPU usage is 100% when this test is running, and there's a setting which claims to be a system stress test. Temps will climb using this program! My CPU went up 10C during the duration of the test, which is unusual..

 

[bgeh]

i use it when i overclock my video card..........it detects artifacts long before my eyes can see them

 

[Blooz1]

So what tests, etc. do you use, Bgeh?

I was just "shootin' in the dark" last night when I tried it, and I'd like to understand how it works. Apparently I can OC higher than 300/300 on my 8500, according to the results.

 

[merlocka]

Originally posted by: Blooz1
So what tests, etc. do you use, Bgeh?

I was just "shootin' in the dark" last night when I tried it, and I'd like to understand how it works. Apparently I can OC higher than 300/300 on my 8500, according to the results.

Well, AT is just another tool. It's not a perfect stability indicator for a cards overclockability.

For example, my GF3 passes AT at 255MHz core, but crashes with 3dMark2003.