ATI Tool 0.2.23 and new 9800 Pro - artifacts found

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I have a new Sapphire Atlantis 9800 Pro
I have been running an Abit 9600XT fine for a while but decided to upgrade.

Running ATITools artifact scanning on the 9600XT only ever found one
'artifact' (one pixels don't match) when I was trying a bit of core
overclocking.

Running the artifact scanning on my new 9800 Pro though finds the same
'1 pixels don't match' every time the test is run - in less than a
minute! Sometimes if I look hard enough I can see a yellow or white
pixel that is obviously wrong.

Running with the 'old scanning method' in 0.2.23 means that the scan
runs much longer - but after about 15 mins finds 1 pixel that does not
match.

Does this mean the card is likely to be faulty?
 
ofn01 said:
I have a new Sapphire Atlantis 9800 Pro
I have been running an Abit 9600XT fine for a while but decided to
upgrade.

Running ATITools artifact scanning on the 9600XT only ever found one
'artifact' (one pixels don't match) when I was trying a bit of core
overclocking.

Running the artifact scanning on my new 9800 Pro though finds the same '1
pixels don't match' every time the test is run - in less than a minute!
Sometimes if I look hard enough I can see a yellow or white pixel that is
obviously wrong.

Running with the 'old scanning method' in 0.2.23 means that the scan runs
much longer - but after about 15 mins finds 1 pixel that does not match.

Does this mean the card is likely to be faulty?
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Does it play games okay?
 
Derek said:
Does it play games okay?
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I have not tried much game playing - just a bit of doom3 (both game and
timedemo), but it passes 3Dmark01, 03 and 05 fine as well as aquamark
and it also passed about an hour of looping far cry's timedemo at 'very
high' and also 3dmark01 looped for 9 hours overnight at very high settings.

Its only in ATITool that it finds a single pixel artifact - and I can
see this one pixel sometimes when it reports it.
 
ofn01 said:
I have not tried much game playing - just a bit of doom3 (both game and
timedemo), but it passes 3Dmark01, 03 and 05 fine as well as aquamark and
it also passed about an hour of looping far cry's timedemo at 'very high'
and also 3dmark01 looped for 9 hours overnight at very high settings.

Its only in ATITool that it finds a single pixel artifact - and I can see
this one pixel sometimes when it reports it.
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Personally Ive not found ATItool to be a reliable program for testings clock
speeds - Ive run it a couple of times and it takes the core on my 9700 non
pro
from 275 up to 370 before errors show up but in practice running games I
can go up to about 330 max but I stick at 320 for safety so I dont use
ATItool anymore.
Secondly Ive found that some drivers push your card too aggresively and are
less stable as a result.
Most of this years Cats seem to fall into this category so I would go back
to the
4.12s and if they play your games error free at stock speeds then your card
is good.
 
Sleepy said:
Personally Ive not found ATItool to be a reliable program for testings clock
speeds - Ive run it a couple of times and it takes the core on my 9700 non
pro
from 275 up to 370 before errors show up but in practice running games I
can go up to about 330 max but I stick at 320 for safety so I dont use
ATItool anymore.
Secondly Ive found that some drivers push your card too aggresively and are
less stable as a result.
Most of this years Cats seem to fall into this category so I would go back
to the
4.12s and if they play your games error free at stock speeds then your card
is good.
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Hi cheers for that post.
I rolled back to 4.12 and tried ATI Tool and again it did report
artifacts in less than a minute of scanning. This time though I noticed
three times there were little dots but only once did ATI Tool pick them
up. Games and synthetic tests seem to be fine though so I guess for now
I'll assume the card is fine.
 
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