Latest Ati Tools ?

[MarcVenice]

Erm yeah, could anyone give me a link to the latest ATI tools or similar application? I got a Gainward HD4850 Golden Sample ( 700mhz/1100mhz ) and I want to see how good the cooler actually is. Right now it's idling at 30c, which is impressive, but I want to know exactly how it does under HEAVY load.

At 45% it idles at 30c btw, and it's inaudible. Can't wait for my second card to arrive

 

[AmberClad]

Are you looking for apps to give your card a workout?

Furmark (or as I like to call it, "hairy-moldy-molted-donut-mark"...)
rthdribl

 

[SSChevy2001]

Here's ATI Tools
http://www.techpowerup.com/dow.../436g/ATITool_0.26.exe

I prefer ATI Tray Tools though.
http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=733

Stay away from Furmarks on ATi cards.

 

[MarcVenice]

Exactly what I'm looking for, Amber. Thanks. I ran 'hairy-moldy-molted-donut-mark' for some time, and it hovered around 58/59c for 10 minutes, so I figured it wouldn't go any higher. Awesome cooler on this card. And that at 45%.

 

[Concillian]

IF you really want to stress the 4800 series cards with Furmark, you need to rename it. It was overheating the VRMs, so ATi added a routine in their driver that basically says "if application = Furmark.exe, then throttle speed".

If you rename it Durmark.exe you'll get close to double the benchmark score than if it's named Furmark.exe. I found "Durmark" the most stressing video application I could find for testing core and VRM. However memory overclocks would pass hours of Furmark testing, but cause repeatable reboots in 3DMark.

 

[vj8usa]

Originally posted by: Concillian
IF you really want to stress the 4800 series cards with Furmark, you need to rename it. It was overheating the VRMs, so ATi added a routine in their driver that basically says "if application = Furmark.exe, then throttle speed".

If you rename it Durmark.exe you'll get close to double the benchmark score than if it's named Furmark.exe. I found "Durmark" the most stressing video application I could find for testing core and VRM. However memory overclocks would pass hours of Furmark testing, but cause repeatable reboots in 3DMark.

That's odd. I never noticed throttling with Furmark. I just tried changing the filename, and I'm getting the same framerates I was getting earlier.

 

[MarcVenice]

I don't want to overheat my vrm's I can't find anyone reporting trouble about the VRM's on the Gainward HD4850 GS though.

 

[Concillian]

Which drivers? They started doing it with the 8.8 I think.

I get very different benchmark scores (2xxx vs. 4xxx) depending on the name of the executable.

Here is a link to an article showing the differences:
http://www.geeks3d.com/?p=1228

My experiences are very similar.

 

[vj8usa]

Originally posted by: Concillian
Which drivers? They started doing it with the 8.8 I think.

I get very different benchmark scores (2xxx vs. 4xxx) depending on the name of the executable.

Here is a link to an article showing the differences:
http://www.geeks3d.com/?p=1228

My experiences are very similar.

Oh, looks like I just had so much AA on that there was almost no difference. With AA off, the difference is huge when renaming.

edit: holy crap, that put a lot more stress on my card than any game. I hadn't seen the card break ~56C before, but this took it right up to 72C (core). Memory temp went to nearly 80C.

edit2: turned my fan back up. Now it doesn't break 60C on the core, and around 65 on the memory. I'm glad I don't have a stock cooler.