Aefiel

So the occasional odd stuff is likely the game/driver acting up and the card is fine? other thread has a lot more info and im too tired to retype it all. only 2 threads I've visited.

1.35 - sorry, typo, it's a tad late. it was during Unigine valley - that reading - 68*C on the VRM and core at that moment,

Well. it's just I've heard so many horror stories about furmark - the card is pre OCed - not overvolted - 1.1V max - there was an odd GPU-Z spike reading of 135V but people told me it was likely a software bug - temps were normal. I also found these articles about throttling and idk.

So I was told (by a friend) that furmark and other such software such as Kombustor are regarded as power viruses by the driver and will be throttled to preserve a GPU - ot so it was 3 years ago. I want to know, is that still the case? My little bro did a dumb thing and used furmark for an hour and a half. From what I was told in the other thread - it's fine but this might seal the deal in our minds. Thanks in advance

I guess if we're not seeing any large amount of artifacting - from what I can tell everything seems to run normal - we're both kinda easy to scare so it wasn't long before our midns started playing tricks on us. I read about the 280X in a review where supposedly furmark managed to get the card to teach a maximum of 76*C IIRC and that;s likely in a cooler room - I'd imagine that if their sample didn't overheat for 30 mins, the 7950 - a much cooler chip - likely didn't as well and since the power delivery functions correctly - the furmark test hadn't crashed nor has any game/bench since - I'd imagine that he simply hadn't even know that the VRMs got to 72*C as he likely hasn't pushed it as hard - airflow has also gotten worse since then.

Do you mean I'm right it's okay or that it's damaged? Supposedly the way VSR was coded for older chips makes the driver somewhat finicky - so I was told by a guy on another forum. EDIT 15.7.1 EDIT2: the driver desciption states an issue with firefox causing crashes - after a firefox update 1 week ago nothing has appeared tho.

Is it likley they are explained by Co-op latency and engine issues? Not sure but a lot of people have been describing similar hiccups on the PoE forums from what I read. I also haven;t seen raw artficats like massive flickering and/or pink/green pixels all over the screen or stretched models - All I've noticed are realy the bugged shadows and the bug in hearthstone - Witcher 3's tessellation issue is likely not artifacts - asked a frined with a R9 280 to do the same - he also got broken models and missing stuff - likely the whole of Novigrad is tessellated and when I turn it off from the CCC, the game tries to use it and thus missing and broken models - as for PoE and payday - idk if it's the card but if I were sure I'd seen artifacts I'd not be asking. - all the vids I;ve seen of hard artifacting are nothing like I've noted on my bro's card.

The card did not shut down meaning the thermal sensors haven't been tripped to create a safety shutdown. From what he told me the first 20 mins only got the card to 75*C and the VRMs to 80*C - I'd imagine it stayed relatively close to that.

I really hoped I'd get more replies - more opinions the better.

IIRC some sites use to or continue to use furmark for temp testing by running for 30 minutes or so. Not sure how 100 are tho

Card performs the same as before in witcher and other games as well. Temos are not scary - was just afraid and wanted to ask if the described things were regarded as artifacts or not. It did run for quite some time but I guess it's likely not the horror torture the stories tell - true - it has killed cards but I think it should be okay if it hasn't crashed a single time in 2 months.

So about 2 months ago I walked in on my bro using furmark with his Asus 7950. He had been running it for about an hour and a half cause somebody "told" him that it was a good way of testing a GPU's cooling (somewhat true) - I have no real memory on what temps he got but now he gets 72*C core and 75*C VRM1 max in Valley. I explained to him what Furmark is and what i can do sometimes and how to spot damage - now, much like me, he's been quite wary since then and I would even say paranoid. He thinks he sees artifacts all the time now - asked me whether his GPU was broken since he turned tessellation off from CCC and then tried to run Witcher 3 - "told" by the same friendos who conviced him about furmark. At any rate, I don't recall seeing artifacts on screen when I stopped furmark and I also don't recall it overheating - fortunately his case was open - can't recall temps tho - since then he's gone and set GPU-Z to constantly monitor everything - the other day while playing a very light game - his GPU usage/voltage and clocks were spicking (going up and down more like it) @ 20% load average - he was playing with a friend and told me occasionally - some stuttering appeared but it's an online only indie game, namely - Path of Exile and it also had some latency spikes in the ingame graphs. I'd imagine having V-sync on would cause the GPU alter clocks/volts/load when on. Testing in valley yields perfect results - almost the same as my 7970 actually - and Witcher 3 performs well but he's a bit scared now. I am more or less conviced it's okay since if Furmark didn't crash for an hour , I doubt the card can be labelled as unstable and since no real overheating is being observed now. He told me his temps were 3*C lower before but he use to run Witcher 3 on low and V=synch on, rather than medium-high - live what I've used for testing - IIRC he was also running on an older driver and patch that that time so It's really not conclusve - Shogun 2 hasn't shown signs of issues - he has played it with friends for about what? 5-6 hour sessions, but not sure if Alt-tabbing can prevent artifacts from showing really. on the same siege map in Shogun 2 he will get a shadow bugged on a wall and not displaying properly from time to time. when the camera is averted so the shadow isn't supposed to be there anymore it goes back to normal and some fights it's ther - others not - same map tho. - He's had rendering issues with Firefox on 3 occasions - 2 were teal rectangles appearing - 1 over google and 1 in facebook while scrolling and using the disk @ 100% at the time - I've read around the forum that that's likely a driver issue on Tahiti with 15.7 and 15.7.1 - and IIRC he also had an experience where frame corruption happened in LoL - once of the frames had bars on them but I've also seen people complaing about that with the newer driver - I've even spoken to a friend with a 7970 who told me he had the exact same thing happen to him while browsing and while coding so I am not sure if that's the GPU's error - in games - He once had a bug where hearthstone cards wouldn't display properly and showed a blue background when crafting them - upon restart that was corrected - PC usually is on for about 15 hours a day and it hasn't crashed not once - not the driver - not the card - not nothing - I've done loops of valley for 15-20 mins several times but I haven't noticed artifacts - any lights flickering - any dead pixels - nothing. He did have a slowdown for 5 secs in payday last night but that only lasted 5 seconds before returning to normal - again, not sure if that's GPU-related or old crappy engine - I've had that game run @ 20 fps for seemingly no reason and was fixed after re-installing. PC has never missed a POST and it hasn't had any issues when on the desktop or anything else - I guess it's likely game glitches for the most part - voltages also seem to max out @ 1.1V and for 900/1250 that seems okay(stock clocks). AFAIK if artifacts were appearing it should be happening constantly - not just flash once every few days and would certainly not be able to scroll past them in FF and then go back without them being there. I also doubt it's the memory going bad since the teal rectangle thing has not happened to him in games. I seem to remember him having a bit of artifacting in Crysis 2 but that was way way before furmark thing ever happened - prolly when the card was mint new. I also know that Crysis 2 on AMD is very much good at wrecking stability. I've used this forum several times to solve issues but this is the first time I post. Give me your honest opinions - card is 7 months old, it was bought new from a clearance sale at a tech store in a different town - was there for reasons. saw it, bought it - not a refurbished since I also got my full 3 year warranty upon buying it. Vendor is Asus - supposedly their VRMs are good and their custom board designs as well thus why I believe, well, hope nothing is wrong with it. thanks to anyone who reads this wall of text - hope it's just our combined paranoia