Monitor and overclock your graphics card in order to increase its performance, reduce heating or enable/disable specific function when running the system and launching gaming applications. The utility provides a detailed overview of your hardware and features benchmarking and video recording options.
MSI Afterburner is an overclocking utility developed for Windows. With its help, you can push your graphics card harder and faster than the manufacturer designed them to go.
Besides overclocking your graphics card, this program also provides you with hardware information, lets you modify your fan profiles, and brings you benchmarking capabilities.
In addition, you have access to a wide range of useful tips which might compensate the fact that the utility lacks an integrated help manual.
The only thing you need to consider is the fact that it's not suitable for beginner PC users. Altering some of the default settings (for example, changing the fan speed) the wrong way might cause some serious hardware issues. So, make sure you're aware of the things this program can do and how to make use of its features effectively.
Briefly, MSI Afterburner is one of the most popular overclocking tools developed for Windows PCs. It brings you many advantages, works 100%, and comes without a price. So, you should definitely give it a shot, especially if you're familiar with the overclocking and benchmarking terms.
v2.1 [Feb 22, 2011]
- Added AMD Barts and Cayman graphics processors family support
- Added core voltage control for reference design AMD RADEON 6970 graphics cards with CHL8228 voltage regulators
- Added core voltage control for reference design AMD RADEON 6970 graphics cards with VT1556 voltage regulators
- Added core voltage control for reference design AMD RADEON 6870 graphics cards with CHL8214 voltage regulators
- Added core voltage control for reference design NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti series graphics cards
- Added delayed fan speed readback mechanism to improve compatibility with fan control on GeForce GTX 580 series
- Added low-level fan tachometer monitoring for RV7xx and newer AMD graphics cards using on-die GPU tachometer
- Fixed low-level memory clock monitoring for some mid-range AMD RADEON 5xxx series graphics cards using QDR control related power saving technologies
- Added core voltage control for custom design MSI N450GT DDR5 series with uP6262 voltage regulators
- Added core and memory voltage control for custom design MSI N430GT and N420GT series with uP6262 voltage regulators
- Fixed typo in hardware database causing regular MSI N470GTX and MSI N470GTX Twin Frozr II graphics cards to be detected as MSI N470GTX Twin Frozr II Power Edition series and causing voltage control to be locked
- Added power user oriented configuration file switch for adjusting retry counter for external I2C voltage regulators detection. Retry counter is set to 3 by default
- Fixed issue in the context help system causing it to display wrong floating tooltips when hovering cursor over the controls under certain conditions
- Added ability to assign a hotkey for toggling the On-Screen Display Server blocking. This hotkey is aimed to provide a simple way for diagnosing the server related compatibility issues
- Changed default fan speed curve for user defined software automatic fan speed mode
- Fixed issue in hotkey handler causing it to detect false keystrokes under certain conditions
