Video benchmark app?

**Blacksmith1** · 03-24-2012, 04:54 PM

I need something that will cook the card and do it steady. with little to no fluctuation on load/power draw. Furmark is all over the map from 65+ to 98% load. F@H doesn't use the whole card, Just the cuda cores, Kombustor is a modified Furmark.... Any suggestions? Oh yeah, it has to be able to do SLI or run on several different cards at once.

**PP Mguire** · 03-24-2012, 05:51 PM

Furmark is basically the benchmark of stress. Just enable all the options and click xtreme burn in. It always does 100% on my card.

**Blacksmith1** · 03-24-2012, 07:35 PM

on mine at extreme with all settings up it fluctuates. wildy and rapidly. and as it fulctuataes so does the amount of amperage it is drawing, which changes too fast for me to get an accurate reading.

**PP Mguire** · 03-24-2012, 07:40 PM

Is this across 2 cards at once, or a single one?

Edit: It could be OCP causing your card to throttle for a second. The 500 series has this and can give off abnormal readings. It likes to do that on things like Furmark or OCCT.

**Blacksmith1** · 03-24-2012, 09:18 PM

Dual 480's disabling postfx makes it more stable and OCCT is alot more stable. However i it doesn't draw as amny amps. so I'd need a way to fire the 560 up at the same time. (wish I had a third 480) any benchmarks that run hard and let you specify which card to use? I've been looking but can't find one.

**PP Mguire** · 03-24-2012, 09:49 PM

Why not run both furmark and OCCT at the same time? Or a combination of stress programs. One that runs on the 480s and supports SLI and then the other that runs on just the 560?