gtx 680m temps - stress test program?

I have been enjoying my 680m for a little while now and just decided to start playing Dead Island the other day. I maxed out the settings and started playing. I usually keep hardware monitor open when gaming and soon noticed that my temps were quite high (around 83c and went up to 86c sometimes). I am not too worried about that, but it was somewhat of a surprise having temps that high after running furmark for 30 minutes and barely breaking 79c.

I ran furmark again for a while last night and used MSI Afterburner to look at the usage and clock frequency and noticed that it would go up and down and not stay at 100% load. I know this is because of the new chip architecture, but I don't have any way of stress testing my card until I actually get in a demanding game.

When I am running a game like Dead Island my gpu usage is almost always 99%, so that is one way I can stress test.

Is there any program out now that will force 100% load on my card for an extended period of time for testing purposes?

 

Same thing happened to me. Had to change vbios to actually remove that clock fluctuation in furmark.

There should be some vbios available for you to try, or if you don't want to mess with it, I'd say stress test by leaving the game on, without vsync and the GPU running 99%. After a while you should see your max. Mine is around 85C, so it's similar (albeit with my GPU slightly overclocked).

 

The Kelper cards are designed not to be at full usage during stress tests like Furmark. It's a fail safe to prevent the cards from frying. It may show 100% usage but it is not.

 

I usually use Crysis 2's ultra mode plus the 16Qx CSAA + AF 16x or Witcher 2 to stress the GTX680M.

 

Yeah, My card is a little overclocked as well. I get around 83-84c stock. Thanks for the info everyone, I just wanted to make sure nothing was wrong with my card.

 

Don't post anything that isn't related to OP's question thanks.

 

The 680M wil throttle at 90C....

 

Not always... I was running it at 900mhz and was going up to 93c and still was around 99 - 100% usage.

 

I use heaven to stress my 660m... its not as hard on the gpu as others but... it feels more "real"...

 

Mine throttles at 93 C. Each and every time. Found out after I flashed.

Regularly, I don't get to such temps, but furmark does push it that far for me.