Measure of stability - pls post what 's acceptable to you.

[gogoman]

I know everybody talks about overclocking their video cards to a certain setting but what do they use to determine that the setting is stable, without artifacts or just plain acceptable. What is the ultimate reference point in terms of stability or common point of acceptance?

In my case, I crank my core/memory speed up using NVMAX and then I run Artifact Tester 5.0 (hardcore setting) to see that there is no artifact. When that all ok, I run 3DMark2001 either Demo or Bnechmark mode in "Loop indefinitely" mode overnight to check for stability. I know the best way to really test for stability is to sit in front of the computer and play games all day long but most of us don't have the time to do that.

Let me know what you guys do.

 

[BeauJangles]

stability? bah... I o/c, if it gets into windows. Good. If it crashes when i boot up my favorite game at the time (whatever that happens to be), i clock it back and try again, if it crashes during game, see before, etc. I doubt my system would stand a 24/7 'torture test' but i don't care. It runs seti@home 24/7 and has been on for up to 5 days at a time. I never notice any problems with it.

 

[BFG10K]

I do not expect my 3D games to crash. Ever.

And I will go out of my way to achieve this.

 

[Mem]

None of my 3D games crash in Win98 which was 125 games last count,however some of my old ones don`t work in my WinXP PC , but if you are talking about OC stability then I don`t like to see artifacts on screen when I overclock my video card.

 

[Insidious]

I do the 3DMark2001 loop for a while. If that looks ok (an hour or so) I try UT citydemo (the demo that runs when you first start the program) and let it loop for a while (couple hours). Seems like the UT citydemo finds instability more quickly than anything else I try here.

I'm with BFG10K... I accept NO instabilities which I can possibly find a way to avoid. (you will see I only modestly oc the rigs)

Thought for the day: It makes no difference how fast it crashes........... I care about how fast it runs.
My ego will allow me to concentrate on performance rather than inflated benchmarks.

 

[RgrPark]

not just stability...you can't have artifacts...artifact tester never does anything for me...
I check for artifacts under dragothic...any tearing and you know the memory is overclocked too much

 

[Daovonnaex]

No crashes and no artifacts. Simple.

 

[rogue1979]

If I get one small glitch or hiccup, I turn it down. I expect me video card to hammer out games longer than I can.

 

[gogoman]

My setup ran UT(citydemo) for 12 hours fine but when I switched over to 3DMark2001 benchmark loop, I get the BSOD (KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED) after a few hours. Has anybody had that experience? I am using nvidia 23.11 and VIA 4in14.37 drivers.

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