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.
v4.1 [Dec 22, 2014]
- Brand new user interface skins by Drerex Design.
- Improved hardware monitoring module, new robust hardware monitoring features have been ported from original RivaTuner
hardware monitoring module:
- - Added integrated viewer for native RivaTuner Hardware Monitoring Log (*.HML) files. Now you can view hardware
monitoring history stored in HML files either by pressing “View” button in “Monitoring” tab or directly open HML files via
Windows explorer
- - Added custom tracking markers support. Now you can hold key while clicking hardware monitor window t- - set up
t- - 8 custom tracking markers in desired positions
- - Now you can customize graph color in layered mode via double clicking color legend box on the graph
- - Now tracking markers display current values for all graphs in layered mode instead of active graph only
- - Improved graphs resizing implementation for attached hardware monitor window
- Improved skin browser:
- - Now “User interface” tab open immediately without waiting for processing of all installed skin files, which can be time
consuming if you have a lot of skin files. The list of installed skins is now being populated in separate background thread
- - Added precaching for skin preview images. Skin files are n- - longer being accessed when switching between skins in the
browser
- Improved skin engine:
- - Improved skin rendering performance for layered skin composition mode with alpha channel
- - Improved rendering performance for skins using animated indicators (e.g. animated profile save indicator in default MSI
Afterburner skin)
- - Added backbuffering support t- - skinned windows t- - simplify implementation of various framebuffer processing related
effects (e.g. skin scaling)
- - Vector indicators are now being rendered via GDI+ t- - provide improved antialiasing and rendering performance
- - Added support for obfuscated USF format, which is represented by some unfair competitors as 100% in-house
development. Now you can use MSI Afterburner’s built-in skin decompiler t- - analyze source code of such skin files
- - Added skins scaling support. The scaling may improves the appearance of some small third party skins on high resolution
monitors. Please take a note that upscaling may reduce the performance a bit
- Improved skin cross-compatibility layer:
- - Extended list of applications supported by skin cross-compatibility layer. Now MSI Afterburner supports USF skins created
for any version of third party overclocking tools starting from minimalistic oldschool skins from GeForce 200 series
overclocking era and ending by obfuscated USF skins used in modern overclocking tools
- - Added support for 10 profile slots in skin cross-compatibility mode
- - Now it is possible t- - open advanced settings window with + keyboard shortcut t- - provide compatibility with
third party skins having n- - dedicated button for accessing advanced settings window
- - Now it is possible t- - open inf- - window with + keyboard shortcut t- - provide compatibility with third party skins
having n- - dedicated button for accessing inf- - window
- Added configuration file switch allowing power users t- - invert colors in text mode for Logitech keyboard LCD displays
- Added silent installation scenari- - support
- Ukrainian localization has been seriously revamped by www.overclockers.ua community
- RivaTuner Statistics Server has been upgraded t- - v6.3.0
