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ATI Tool for Nvidia?

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is there a program like ATI for Nvidia...with the artifact tester..overclock all that in one? lmk thanks


ps i know about coolbits riva and powerstrip

(my card 6800nu)
 
Wow, you named pretty much all the utilities there. I've never heard of an artifact tester, if that's an ATi thing then it explains it, my last ATi card was a Radeon 7K. Basically, use rivatuner to unlock, before that, use coolbits to OC, then just run some new 3dmark and look for artifacts. Discolored things, textures only half showing or not showing at all, snow, shimmers. My card is kind of wierd, if its locked, everything looks fine, but if its unlocked, everything expect some certain textures in the game which usually turn out to be the ground have a slight rip through them that shimmers off and on. I guess I have one damaged pipe, I probably made it sound worse than it is because I hadn't noticed until about a week after I unlocked the card. Just look for artifacts yourself.
 
Looking for artifacts by eye is not a very reliable way to do it. You're gonna miss small artifacts. Artifact testing programs are a great thing. They will detect even the most tiny single artifacts. Hard to believe nobody has created one for Nvidia cards.
 
Looking for artifacts by eye is not a very reliable way to do it. You're gonna miss small artifacts. Artifact testing programs are a great thing. They will detect even the most tiny single artifacts. Hard to believe nobody has created one for Nvidia cards.
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If an artifact is so small that you can't see it, why bother at all? I can understand if you are rendering something in 3dmax or maya, even CAD if it even makes a diff there, but if you get the extra speed and can't see the artifact without a tester telling you it's there, it's still worth the OC in my mind.
 
Originally posted by: reallyscrued
Looking for artifacts by eye is not a very reliable way to do it. You're gonna miss small artifacts. Artifact testing programs are a great thing. They will detect even the most tiny single artifacts. Hard to believe nobody has created one for Nvidia cards.
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If an artifact is so small that you can't see it, why bother at all? I can understand if you are rendering something in 3dmax or maya, even CAD if it even makes a diff there, but if you get the extra speed and can't see the artifact without a tester telling you it's there, it's still worth the OC in my mind.
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You actually want your video card at speeds where it corrupts textures no matter how small??? I think doing that increases your chance of frying ur card by just a touch.
 
Originally posted by: JBT
Originally posted by: reallyscrued
Looking for artifacts by eye is not a very reliable way to do it. You're gonna miss small artifacts. Artifact testing programs are a great thing. They will detect even the most tiny single artifacts. Hard to believe nobody has created one for Nvidia cards.
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If an artifact is so small that you can't see it, why bother at all? I can understand if you are rendering something in 3dmax or maya, even CAD if it even makes a diff there, but if you get the extra speed and can't see the artifact without a tester telling you it's there, it's still worth the OC in my mind.
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You actually want your video card at speeds where it corrupts textures no matter how small??? I think doing that increases your chance of frying ur card by just a touch.
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Yes indeed! OCing a video card to speeds where even small unnoticeable corruption occus is an EXTREME overclockers NO-NO!!!!!! The risks are very real. Overclocking too far can actually damage your video cards pretty bad. I have witnessed this myself. Even small artifacting can lead to your video card not being able to run even at lower speeds anymore without getting texture corruption.

As for the poster's queston... I believe ATI Tool now supports Nvidia cards for testing artifacts! Check the site to verify this.
 
Cool Bits + ATI Tool == oc'ing bliss...

Really, I do think that a tool for nvidia that does what ATI Tool does shouldn't be too hard to develop if done with the existing ATI Tool code...
 
What? Coolbits has always had more headroom than I have needed, especially with a 6800nu... and if it fails the tests, well, that usually means you shouldn't go much farther. Does it matter if you give the coolbits value 3 instead of 1?
 
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