Hi Marek,
I think what you say about Valley and Heaven are true to a certain extent,
but I think the links I posted to the EVGA overclock utility & MSI
Kombuster are very good ways of testing the card. I don't know the details
of memtestG80 and cuda_memtest, but it seems to me that they are testing
one very specific component. i.e. The Memory. As the graphics card consists
of more than this, it is better to have a test that checks the card in a
more holistic manner IMO. :)
I think this argument is supported by the fact that tech support at the
store used a program called FurMark to stress test the GPU. As the GPU I
returned kept failing the benchmark, they realized in less than half a day
it was faulty, whilst I wasted a couple of days mucking about with GPU
memory tests using Gpuburn on linux.
http://www.ozone3d.net/benchmarks/fur/
I think if you are going to test on windows, you are better of getting MSI
Kombuster which I posted earlier. It contains the test contained in Furmark
and many additional tests that test the compute capability of the card.
best regards,
g
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Received on Mon Jun 03 2013 - 02:30:03 PDT
