How reliable is OCCT?
How reliable is OCCT?
Yesterday I received an Asus RTX 5080 card. I played games for hours; the only one that failed was Forza Horizon 5, which I suspect has a bug and crashes with any card. It crashed when I had a 4060 Ti 16 GB, then it crashed with a 5070 Ti, and it still crashes randomly with the 5080. No other games were affected.
I also spent time in Blender working on a model that was very resource-intensive, which worked fine. After leaving it to render overnight, everything went smoothly.
However, like any new part, I decided to stress test it. This morning I ran the VRAM module in OCCT and left it running for about five minutes. It reported around 45,000 errors. That didn’t sit well because I bought it directly from Asus—it wouldn’t be easy to exchange through Amazon, especially with Asus using FedEx.
But I recalled that in GPU Tweak (the Asus app for configuring and monitoring the card), I had set it to the OC profile. This profile is not very reliable for OC, as it only changes the clock from 2700 to 2730 MHz and the power target from 100 to 112%. I switched to the default profile and restarted the computer.
I ran the VRAM module again after 20 minutes and saw no errors. I then tried running the test once more using the OC profile. This time, I let it run for the full hour it was set to. No errors appeared.
From this, it seems the card is functioning perfectly. If the VRAM were faulty, it would cause errors in every test. Since there were none, it might suggest something corrupted the VRAM during the session. After rebooting and clearing the VRAM, the corruption disappeared. Is that a reasonable conclusion? Or could OCCT not be very dependable and produce these errors even when they shouldn’t occur?
If OCCT isn’t completely trustworthy, what other tools should I use to properly test the card? So far, I’ve tried Furmark (latest version), Superposition, and several Blender demo projects.
What does an "OCB gamer" refer to?
I was curious about a small app that can identify hardware parts and list the essential components. I think there are several options available, but I didn't remember their names.
In any case, I'm just checking if OCCT is dependable, no matter the specific hardware.
Speccy -
https://www.ccleaner.com/speccy
HWInfo64 -
https://www.hwinfo.com/download/