Stress a 6600GT video card?

mg1394 · Post by **mg1394** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 9:45 am

I just installed a 6600GT card in a machine. Can someone suggest a really simple (hopefully) download that I can use to put stress on the card to see how much it heats up. Thanks.

Qwertyiopisme · Post by **Qwertyiopisme** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 9:52 am

Ho ho ho, time for stressing!

http://www.daionet.gr.jp/~masa/rthdribl/

The completely inpronounceable RTHDRIBL

_xhp_ · Post by **_xhp_** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 11:47 am

ATITool (works with nVidia too)

timmytimmytimmy · Post by **timmytimmytimmy** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 6:01 pm

rthdribl is good. I pronounce it "rt-dribble"

As for games, Age of Empires III heats up my card even hotter than rthdribl for some reason - and it started artifacting - whereas rthdribl, ATI tool and looped 3dmark05 never artifacted. Surprising huh?

PS. Age of Empires III settings were all set to the highest quality, 1280 x 1024

mg1394 · Post by **mg1394** » Sat Oct 08, 2005 6:21 am

Thank you all very much. The "rt-dribble" did the job very nicely. Put the temp on an XFX 6600GT to 62 C in a few minutes and it didn't climb from there. That's with the Zalman 700 cooler at 5v.

I couldn't fine ATI Tool on the ATI site. Did I do a poor search?

Thanks again for the help.

Live · Post by **Live** » Sat Oct 08, 2005 7:11 am

mg1394 wrote:I couldn't fine ATI Tool on the ATI site. Did I do a poor search?

Its not an official ATI tool:
http://www.techpowerup.com/atitool/

Ackelind · Post by **Ackelind** » Sat Oct 08, 2005 5:50 pm

My card temperature shot up extremly high when running both rthdribl along with prime95 and 3dmark03. My computer was extremly slowed down by this, it took several minuts to even get all the programs running simultaniously. But when I did, my load temperature shot from 62C to 85C! 62 is the max I have when only running one program.. try to run something CPU-intensive in the background.

mg1394 · Post by **mg1394** » Sun Oct 09, 2005 5:55 pm

Maybe I should try 3dmark03 also. With "rt-dribble" and prime95, I got the 62C, but prime95 wasn't getting many CPU cycles at all. It appeared that "rt-dribble" took all CPU (100%) as well as the load on the GPU.

timmytimmytimmy · Post by **timmytimmytimmy** » Mon Oct 10, 2005 5:36 am

Ackelind wrote:My card temperature shot up extremly high when running both rthdribl along with prime95 and 3dmark03. My computer was extremly slowed down by this, it took several minuts to even get all the programs running simultaniously. But when I did, my load temperature shot from 62C to 85C! 62 is the max I have when only running one program.. try to run something CPU-intensive in the background.

Interesting. I must try that, although my CPU is folding hard all the time, benchmark or not