how do you test a graphics card? see mine bellow and discuss please .thanks?

Question

this question is just to have my tools and procedures juged by
all of you nice Y!A qna 'ers to find it's misadvantages and learn
more from you,then please do not hesitate to declare any of your valuable suggestions .thanks

to test a graphics card:
1-i install the last version of directx and run it
2-then,run 3D Mark version 6 as my benchmark software
3-install and play 1 or 2 games like
America's Army, Call of Duty, Doom 3, Half-Life, Neverwinter Nights, Quake series, Unreal series and World of Warcraft.
-far cry

please tell what are advantages and dis advantages of such test.
what more tools or specifications should i consider from now on?

Answer 1

There are some disadvantages depending on your cpu and ram and your graphics card. If you have like a 2.4 Ghz CPU and like 1GB of ram it would be a great advantage with your graphics card.


Call of Duty, Quake, and World of Warcraft would be the best advantage I would think to test out your graphics card. If you want better performace you should use DVI (Digital Visual Interface) instead of analog because that is the true test of a graphics card not analog which is like blue with like 15 pins while DVI has more.

Answer 2

Matters also the Graphics card. Doing those test will stress the card and the system in a gaming environment. This will let you know if you are going to have issues at some point and what the issue is. With NVidia they have Ntuning with will do the test and let you overclock the card for better gaming, also if you are running an Nvidia chipset will overclock your board for you. ATI has some catal program to clock and move things around on stats. Then run the stress test to make sure the card will be stable. Some test can go for hours. Just make sure you have good cooling. I hope this helps. Disadvantage is it might stress the card too much, advantage to know your system will not crash when the game is starting to get great.

Answer 3

Its a good system, you probably dont need to test so many games, just take Doom3, Half-Life, and America's Army, possibly Quake as well, they are the most graphically demanding games and would test the card much more then the others.
You can also download Video Card Stability Test, it will give you a good rating as well.

You may also want to test other cards and onboard video at the same time, so you can have a good comparison.

Answer 4

You are doing it right, man. Except that my favorite for testing is COH. And I am always tempted to benchmark also at overclocked settings.