Stress Tests

I'm recieving my notebook , back from Sager in a couple of days. It was sent in for repair, after only eight days of ownership, because of a bad GPU.
I realize that these things happen from time to time, though it seem to happen to the wrong person (me), because of the fact that I bought this notebook to replace an HP DV9000 series notebook that quit on me....................because of an nVidia defective gpu, 7600go. Always been an nVidia advocate, but lately they're making it hard to stay one !

I'm wanting to run some type of stress tests, other than Crysis, after getting the notebook back in my hands, if anything but for peice of mind !

I'm not looking to destroy the notebook, as so far I've been really impressed with it, just from the minamal amount of time I've had it.
Sager did tell me they've had minimal problems with this model !

BTW, I know some said it was a waste of money to have them upgrade the gpu from the 9800 GTS 512MB, to the 1GB version , but I figured wth, as long as they had the notebook , why not.

Anyways..............Stress Tests anybody ?

 

There are a number of good GPU stress tests that I use.

One of the most simplest, yet powerful are:
- oZone3D's great GPU tests (Fur Benchmark always gets my GPU to max limit and over 90C temp)
.... their GPU Caps Viewer has all the oZone tests included with a GPU-Z info window
- nZone's GeoForms Demo

Then you have the typical tests:
- Guru3D list of benchmarks and tests
- ATITool (great for testing for artifacts) ... a bit outdated though
- 3DMark series (Vantage will push the GPU the best)
- gaming benchmarks (I recommend Unreal Engine 3 games since they will utilize 100% of your entire system... GPU and multi-core CPU)
..... latest UE3 benchmark.... Square-Enix's The Last Remnant Benchmark

 

Nice site, thanks

It looks like the GPU Caps viewer doesn't support Vista 64 though.

 

FurMark 1.6.5 is Vista 64-bit compatible.... I tested it already.

As for GPU Caps Viewer, I think it might work if you set it to a 32-bit OS compatibility mode.

 

I run ATITool along with Prime95, for around 30-60 minutes to test my overclocks.

 

This is my minimum new lappy validation plan:

Memtest86+ - Tests memory - 4-6 full passes (2 hrs?)

OCCT - CPU stress (Prime95 based) - 2-4hrs

3DMark - GPU stress test (using appropriate "year" to match your GPU capability) - Loop several hours.

 

Haha -

I thought your use of the word "FurMark" was slang for "Future Mark", 'till I checked out your link!

 

yup..

literally rendering fur follicles.

... very GPU intensive.