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.
v4.0 [Sep 4, 2014]
- Added AMD Tonga graphics processors family support.
- Added core voltage control for reference design AMD RADEON R9 285X series graphics cards with NCP81022 voltage regulators.
- Added official overclocking limits extension support for AMD Tonga graphics processors. Please take a note that unofficial
overclocking mode is currently not supported for AMD Tonga graphics processors family.
- Various parts of hardware monitoring module have been pumped up t- improve hardware monitoring usability and flexibility.
- Added layered monitoring graphs rendering mode. Now you may right click source graph in monitoring window, select
“Attach” in the context menu then point t- destination graph t- attach source graph t- it and create a group of layered graphs. This feature allows you t- render as many layered graphs on the same grid as you wish. The colors of graphs in
layered rendering mode can be customized independently of each other s- you can easily identify them.
- Added multi-column monitoring graphs rendering mode. Now you can adjust the number of graph columns in “Active monitoring graphs” section in “Monitoring” tab.
- Added “Override graph name” option t- “Monitoring” tab. Now you can rename the graphs displayed in hardware monitoring window.
- Monitoring history buffer size is n- longer defined by monitoring window width. Now pre-history buffer size is fixed and stores the last 3600 samples (1 hour for 1000ms polling period) for each graph.
- Improved tray icon monitoring module.
- Now you can select either text mode or barchart indicator mode for each value displayed in tray icon. Barchart indicator mode can be extremely useful for visualizing data like GPU / CPU usage.
- Improved Logitech keyboard LCD monitoring module.
- Ported t- new Logitech API t- provide support for newer Logitech LCD displays.
- Added support for color LCD display of Logitech G19/G19s keyboards.
- Added graph mode support for color LCD display of Logitech G19/G19s keyboards. Now in addition to.previously available text mode you can optionally select graph mode and see exact copy of MSI Afterburner’s.monitoring graphs displayed directly inside the keyboard LCD. You can als- press “Menu” soft button on your Logitech G19/G19S keyboard t- toggle between text and graph modes dynamically in realtime.
- Added acceleration support t- LCD scrolling implementation.
- Added larger 8x12, 10x12, 12x12 and 12x16 fonts support for text mode.
- Added “Regional settings” section t- “User Interface” tab.
- Temperature format settings allow you t- switch between Celsius and Fahrenheit format for monitored temperatures. Please take a note that this setting affects temperature readouts only. Hardware related temperature adjustments (e.g. fan speed t- temperature mapping curve for all cards or temperature target adjustment for NVIDIA Kepler series) are always being displayed and adjusted in Celsius for maximum unification, safety and compatibility.
- 12 hours / 24 hours time format settings allow you t- configure time format for On-Screen Display and hardware monitoring window.
- Added “Enable low-level I- driver” option t- the “Compatibility properties” section in “General” tab.
- Added SLI sync performance limit graph for release 340 and newer NVIDIA drivers.
- Display device enumeration implementation has been modified slightly t- allow monitoring Intel iGPUs when low-level I- driver is not enabled.
- Improved handshaking algorithm reduces the risk of seeing multiple running instances of child processes (e.g. RTSS).
- Optimized hardware polling for NVIDIA graphics cards.
- Optimized hardware polling for multi-GPU systems.
- Added SVI2 voltage control support via AMD ADL SDK t- provide compatibility with future graphics cards.
- Added automatic prerecording settings t- “Videocapture” tab. When you enable automatic mode prerecording session is being started automatically on each 3D application startup. Please take a note that in this case you can still use vide- prerecord hotkey to stop then manually restart prerecording session if necessary.
- Drastically improved skin engine.
- Improved skin compiler gives more detailed error messages when skin compilation fail due t- error in some source image file.
- Source image file format is n- longer limited t- 24-bit BMP files only. Now skin compiler supports all possible bit depths for BMP format and fully supports PNG format with alpha channel.
- Added built-in bitmap effect for extracting alpha-channel from PNG image files.
- Skin format has been upgraded t- v1.3. New format supports alpha channel based transparency for skinned window, allowing skin designers t- define semi-transparent skin areas, apply antialiasing t- the skin window edges and s- on.
- Added new skinned window composition modes support and “Skin composition mode” settings t- “User interface tab”.
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