ATItool Artifact size

i scan my Card with atitools and says "error found 2 pixel do not match" every 2 Seconds or more. somtimes it says 3 pixel. will this cause a big issue? or should i lower my clock speed? is 2 or 3 pixel gona affect my stability?

 

Is it OC card???If it's yes you need to lower your GPU/Mem frequency

 

yes its OC. 2 pixel is a serious issue later?

 

yes if you are getting artifacts, that is a serious issue.

its not going to fry your card if you are pulling a few artifacts in atitool, but that is an indication that you need to reduce the clocks on your card.

once you start seeing artifacts, back off from that clock/memory frequency by a fair amount. give yourself like 30mhz of space between your clock and where it starts to artifact.

 

i dont see the artifacts but ati tools is seeing it. it says 2 pixel dont match.

 

2 pixel error will not kill your card but it mean you reach OC max with your card

When I reach GPU 600Mhz with my 8600M GT ATI Tool show small pixel errors or artifacts...
But 3Dmark06 Run without any problem.... ATITool is v-good at searching artifacts on any OC card...Simply trust It

 

if you would like to fry your card, you can run it with artifacts all the time.

otherwise, back off a good bit from the point where atitool starts showing errors.

or, start modifying the voltage / getting better cooling.

 

Use Atitools find max clocks. It'll fin your max core and memory clocks.

 

i did that and my computer froze. i think i found the right clock without getting artifacts. but how long are you suppose to run the Artifacts test to ensure 0 artifacts. i did it for 10 mins with no artifacts. thats good enough?

 

You should run it for at least an hour, but i'm lazy, so I ran it for 10 min as well. I did however have a few MHz safety marginal.

What card/laptop do you have and what are thes stock/OC clocks?

 

wow 1 hour? that test brings up your temperature so fast. i dont think my card will last 1 hour. i got the 8600 gts. stock=675/1008 with 1450 shader, oc=710/1008 with 1500 shader.

 

If your laptop card can't last 1 hour, than it's clocked too high. The cutoff temperature is 110 C and the warning is 100C. I think. So as long as you're under that, it's cool.

 

after 10 mins its at 69. but i think its gona go higher after 1 hour

 

As long as it's under 100 you should be fine. 69 Isn't that high under load, mines hotter than that after 10 min.

 

UPDATE*** some one told me that i should ignore the ATItool artifact test. he said if i can complete a 3dmark06 test(which i did) and if i played BF2 or BF2412 for a couple of hours with out crash, my overclock is fine. is he right?

 

...Isn't better just to use the Atitool find max and then run an artifact scan for an hour? It's safer for one, and you might not see it, but it could still be artifacting. If the games is sensitive to OC, it will show. It will also shorten the life of you GPU more than normal. Besides it's faster.

 

this guy im talking to is a Staff from Techpowerup forum. which made ATItool. he said "ATItool was meant foe use with ATIcards and not Nvidia. They just changed it a bit to support Nvidia too but it is not that reliable."

 

Oh. Listen to him then.

 

no i think you are right too but my computer cant do the find max clock. i tried it once and the whole computer froze and stop responing

 

AAAh, sou desu ka. SInce your gonna have to go at it manually, go like 10Mhz (or more) at a time till you get artifacting within the first 10 min of scanning. Then drop down a level and go up a few MHz at a time, til you get artifacting. Then lower the clocks abit for marginal, and run a longer test if you want. Unless you've already found the highest clocks and want to test, in which case you do both artifact scanning and BF2/2142 testing.

 

i also do bios flashing OC. which is pretty easy and do not require to use software to load up profile

 

You've got a desktop?