I wanted to stress test my gpu to check for stability and thought that ofcourse people who deal with overclocking also must know a bit about testing for stability.

My computer crashes (black screens, but rgb and fans stay on) after playing games for around 30m and this has happend for all the games I have tested so far.

Of course, I am running everything at stock and temps are okay, so I wanted to stress test my system to see if I could replicate the issue, and OCCT seems to be the recommended software to use, however it passes all the 1 hour tests, and I don't really want to pay to run it for longer. So, are there any good alternatives that I can let run overnight?

Hey,looking for some guidance on what softwares i should download so i can test a used rx 9060xt 16gb sapphire pulse i just bought. The only stress testing i have done is with my current rx 6600 on the amd software's built in stress testing tool. I have 2 days to test the gpu and see if it has any problems or not

Hello. I recently purchased a "NEW" PNY 4070 ti from Amazon. When it arrived, it was missing the power cable and support bracket, and the GPU had signs of ware/use, so it is obviously used.

I contacted Amazon, and they offered me $150 back to compensate if I wanted to buy my own power cable and try the GPU as it is. They said I could get the rest of my money back if I decided I didn't want it, or if it didn't work, so I am going to test it out and see how it goes.

I plan on using Furmark to stress test the GPU, as well as HWMonitor & GPU-Z for monitoring the stats. My issue is, I'm not really sure what to look for when stress testing. Can someone please point out some important stats to keep an eye on when stress testing/benchmarking?

I'm very comfortable with building PC's, however, I've never really delved into keeping an eye on sensors and such so this is all new to me.

Any help is greatly appreciated!

Hey all,

I've been into AMD GPUs since getting back into pc building over the lockdown. I have decided to try an NVIDIA 4080 OC out (gigabyte eagle). I have some ideas on how to test a used gpu but just wanted to get your feedback.

I was planning on combing the internet and figuring out the proper temps (hot spot, junction, memory (is that the junction?) etc... I'll learn the NVIDIA versions of these). I plan on just running Kombustor for a good long while as well as run some games and such. Is there anything I should throw at it to make sure it's holding up? Seems like a trustworthy seller and I have it.

The seller included an "upgraded," power supply cable extender and not the original so I'll be inspecting the power socket for any signs of cooking the first one. This GPU has a light that lights up when you are connected correctly. Any advice on how NOT to burn my house down with this thing? I bought the cable mod power connector that they sell that uses two 8 pin CPU power cables instead of 3 x PCIE. I'll try them both but am going to use the traditional method first.

Thanks for the advice!

I know the best method is to just game and it will show you quick whether you are stable or not, and that running stuff like 3dmark overnight even if it passes could still mean its unstable

But I am not talking about whether or not my GPU is 100% stable, I can just play games to see that.

I am talking about if I am using a fresh 40 series GPU and just starting to overclock it and lets say I punched in +150 core and +1000 memory, what is a quick stress test to see if its stable or not? I would think probably occt but really i just did occt standard on +175 core for 4070 ti and it showed no errors or crashes yet when i booted up a game it instantly crashed so i dont think occt is reliable, haven't tried adaptive occt maybe i might get different results

But I am a complete noob here so for the vets on here please feel free to jump in thanks

I'm getting my Asus Prime 5070 Ti in a couple days, gonna flash vbios then try to OC to 3200mhz hopefully.

What Bench/Game do you recommend to test stability?

I used to use SuperPosition and Heaven for my 3070

I own 3Dmark btw.

I tested an RX 580 2048SP using Furmark and the OCCT VRAM test. It passes both fine with no errors. Temps and usage looked normal. But when I play actual games, the PC suddenly loses signal, and the RGB on my keyboard turns off. It happens randomly, sometimes after a couple of minutes, sometimes after a couple of hours. Nothing works until I restart the PC. I tried reseating the GPU, and different cables and drivers, nothing fixed it. GPU is clearly faulty and I'll return it, but somehow Furmark and OCCT tests couldn't detect it.

So I’m trying to figure out:

• Is there a GPU stress test that stresses the card in the same way real games do, to detect issues like this?

• How can a GPU pass tests like Furmark and OCCT, but still crash during gaming, like what's actually causing these crashes?

Because i used occt and furmark, and even put 300+mhz on memory and 75 on core and for 4 hours each no errors at all, but every game crashes after few minutes (when i underclock -75 mem no crashes for hour+), clean reinstalled windows on new drive with new ram and psu, replaced the thermal paste on gpu and it doesnt exceed 70C

Rtx 2070 8+6pin 700w psu newest windows 11 drivers: every in last 3 years (studio drivers made the crashes after half an hour not few minutes

I tested an RX 580 2048SP using Furmark and the OCCT VRAM test. It passes both fine with no errors. Temps and usage looked normal. But when I play actual games, the PC suddenly loses signal, and the RGB on my keyboard turns off. It happens randomly, sometimes after a couple of minutes, sometimes after a couple of hours. Nothing works until I restart the PC. I tried reseating the GPU, and different cables and drivers, nothing fixed it. GPU is clearly faulty and I'll return it, but somehow Furmark and OCCT tests couldn't detect it.

So I’m trying to figure out:

• Is there a GPU stress test that stresses the card in the same way real games do, to detect issues like this?

• How can a GPU pass tests like Furmark and OCCT, but still crash during gaming, like what's actually causing these crashes?

From what I've heard it's better to test OC stability in games rather than benchmarks (and I guess it makes sense, in the end it's the real world performance that matters). What I'm wondering is if there exists a game / tool where if the OC is stable, it's going to be stable in everything else. I'm not interested in tuning my system on a per-game basis, I just want an OC that's stable across the board (or at least as close to that as possible) and what would be the best way to find that spot?

I tested an RX 580 2048SP using Furmark and the OCCT VRAM test. It passes both fine with no errors. Temps and usage looked normal. But when I play actual games, the PC suddenly loses signal, and the RGB on my keyboard turns off. It happens randomly, sometimes after a couple of minutes, sometimes after a couple of hours. Nothing works until I restart the PC. I tried reseating the GPU, and different cables and drivers, nothing fixed it. GPU is clearly faulty and I'll return it, but somehow Furmark and OCCT tests couldn't detect it.

So I’m trying to figure out:

• Is there a GPU stress test that stresses the card in the same way real games do, to detect issues like this?

• How can a GPU pass tests like Furmark and OCCT, but still crash during gaming, like what's actually causing these crashes?

The title says it all.

Im looking for a stress test that i can do for more than an hour, maybe up to 24 hours that stresses my CPU and GPU and preferably the temperature readings of this test can be outputted somewhere, excel for example, for set intervals, maybe every 1 second it would output a reading.

I know FurMark does a GPU stress test for infinity but i dont know how to output the data into a seperate excel sheet.

I do not know any CPU stress test that you can run like this also

As in the title. I replaced the RAM in my Legion 5 16IRX9 from 16GB (2x8) to 32GB (2x16). The day after I swapped them I started having issues playing games at high settings for long periods of time (2+ hours). I initially thought it was my RAM overheating or something, but it's passed windows memory diagnostics and memtest86 with no errors. Now I'm looking for a way to test my GPU in a way that might let me diagnose/solve the issue whether that's a program that will run while I play the game or something similar to memtest86. The only info I have on the crashes is critical kernel power errors.

I would love suggestions for things to help solve this. Not really sure what to do now that I know it's not faulty RAM.

Hello,

I'm looking for recommendations on the best stress test software available for high end PC's.

CPU, GPU, RAM, etc.. everything.

I don't mind DL'ing multiple programs, a suite is also nice but not necessary. Currently looking at OCCT.

Anyone have any recommendations?

Thank you.

Doesn't have to be an all in one I just need to know that one (Or combination of) software's that guarantee that I will 100% not crash in games.

Here's the context that's made me prompt this question. So I recently got Elden Ring, and like many other people I've been having a blast playing it despite some technical issues that most people are talking about like the 60fps cap and stuttering issues. However, I've been getting frequent game freezes into crashes and I eventually I found an area of the game that caused my game to freeze and then crash almost instantly 100% of the time. If not instantly the crashes are always within less than a minute. I simply couldn't play those areas and had to go elsewhere. I tried extensive troubleshooting which didn't resolve the issue and I submitted a detailed bug report to bandai namco. I looked around online, but only found a single reddit post about the issue, which I commented on here, and it seemed like at least a couple other people with GTX 1080s were getting the issue so I figured it was just a rocky launch and they didn't test much with Pascal GPUs. I then ran a 10.5 hour loop of the Gears 5 benchmark at stock GPU settings and I had no crashes so I thought my GPU was stable at stock. I've been using Gears 5 to test for GPU stability for about a year. I've found it's extremely quick at discovering instability when I first started applying an undervolt, when no other software I tested could. As a result, I was reasonably sure it was not my card, it was just an issue with Elden Ring.

Just recently I got an opportunity to test with my friend's GTX 1080 in my system and lo and behold the game didn't crash after playing for over an hour in the area that was previously producing instant crashes. I was astonished, but afraid that this would be the case since when my game freezes I can still make my character move and attack, so the game simulation is still running. I know it's working because I can still hear my actions and in multiplayer my friend could still see my character moving normally. It'll work for a few seconds until the game crashes completely. So, I had a suspicion it was a graphics card issue. I then put my graphics card back in my pc and tried various combinations of core clock and memory clock adjustments until I've found stock core clock and -300Mhz memory clock seems to work fine. I played Elden Ring for 6 hours straight with not a single crash. So now I know Gears 5 isn't as reliable as I thought it was.

So, for now I have a slightly better system for testing stability, but that'll work only as long as I find a new game that will stress my card in a way that produces instability. And I'm just left wondering why I can use a widely recommended test like Unigine Superposition for 12 hours with no issues, and play a game and have it crash immediately. I've tried just about every graphics card benchmark/test out there. The past 3 Unigines, Furmark, MSI Kombustor, OCCT, numerous games, etc and all of them either only produce instability with insanely unrealistic overclocks or just run with no issues at all. The only ones I haven't used extensively is the various Aida64 and 3DMark versions tests, although in my limited testing I never found them that useful, although maybe I just haven't used them enough.

However, for the rest of the PC, especially for CPU and RAM testing, there are numerous testing programs that work quickly and reliably and are often free. Prime95 is excellent for testing CPUs and pushing them to the limit and I've also found that it is a good RAM stability test too. I know there are others like linpack and x264 stress test however I've always found Prime95 to be the most reliable even if it can be a bit slow in certain circumstances. For ram specifically there's many good programs and there seems to be a surge in development for for them. I've used Memtest86 with good results and more recently testmem, but there's many others I haven't used, but seem to have good results as I've seen reported here.

What's key to these programs is that they actually report if any errors are detected so even if your component isn't unstable enough to cause an issue like a crash or freeze in most circumstances, you still assured that if there are errors that something is wrong with your hardware and will cause instability down the line or under certain loads.

There's just no software like that for GPUs, at least none that work reliably. Just before making this post I tried running OCCT's VRAM test which does show errors, however it was always running at -500Mhz memory clock relative to what I put. I even tried raising my memory clock to +1000Mhz and it was only running at 5500Mhz instead of the 6000Mhz it should have, and even that wasn't producing any errors in the program after running it for a few minutes, meanwhile Elden Ring is instantly crashing certain areas with 100% reliability at stock speeds.

It's just frustrating and I can't see why this is the case, given the graphics card is the most important part of a gaming PC and given the enthusist community surrounding it I just don't get why there isn't something like Prime95, but for graphics cards. Does anyone have any insight as to why this is the case? Is there a degree of complexity and/or software access that's difficult due to licensing/API issues, etc. Am I just missing something obvious, that no one's talking about? I'd be very curious to learn more.

TL;DR: The state of graphics card stability testing is bad and there are no good stability tests for PCs other than running demanding games which is highly unpredictable and not to mention costly, while CPU and RAM testing is in a much better state with a wide variety of fast, reliable, and free options to choose from.