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MSI announces graphics card tweak utility Afterburner |
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Written by CB Team
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Tuesday, 06 October 2009 |
 Co-development by MSI and Rivatuner, MSI has released a graphics card utility called "Afterburner". This utility enables all MSI graphics card users to boost performance and monitor all kinds of critical information in real-time. Afterburner is a completely free utility and compatible with almost all MSI graphics cards.
Afterburner fully supports the GPU/Shader/Memory clock adjustment of NVIDIA and ATI graphics cards. Beside general overclocking features, Afterburner has the exclusive over-voltage technology, which supports NVIDIA and ATI high-end product-line and MSI Lightning series.
With these graphics cards, the extra over-voltage function will be activated, and can highly boost the graphics card overclocking capability and make the games runs more smoothly. According to the internal test result, MSI N275GTX Lightning core clock can be overclocked to 1175MHz and reach the unprecedented 85% overclocking capability.
In addition, Afterburner has exclusive advanced fan speed control feature. Generally speaking, fan speed of a normal graphics card is fixed by BIOS, but now you can customize different fan speed under different temperature trigger points with this Afterburner exclusive feature.
To show the graphics card operating status more accurately, Afterburner provides a complete monitoring function: all important information including the GPU core clock, memory clock, temperature, voltage, and fan speed have a real-time on-screen-display monitor in games and real-time information in Windows Tray Icon.
Any adjustments can be saved as 5 profiles in Afterburner, you can quickly switch to different settings with hotkeys. Afterburner can even automatically switch to different profiles between 2D and 3D mode so that you will have a quiet and cool environment in Windows and high performance in 3D games. It can always provide the best experience under both two conditions.
Key features of MSI Afterburner:
- Up to 85% overclocking capability
- Over voltage function to significantly increase overclocking potential
- Core/Shader/Memory clock adjustment
- Core/Shader clock Link/Unlink capability
- Clock/Voltage/Temperature/Fan Speed/Frame rate real-time monitor
- Maximum/Minimum value for easy record of system condition
- Real-time On-Screen-Display information in games
- Real-time information in Windows Tray Icon
- Detach mode for hardcore monitor styleDetach mode for hardcore monitor style
- 5 Profile to easy save/load user customized setting
- Profile hot-key for easy and quick switch in games
- 2D/3D automatic profile switching for difference scenario
- Advanced fan speed control for different speed under different temperature trigger points
- Mutil-GPU independent or synchronous control for clock/voltage/fan speed
- Information button for graphics card driver version, BIOS version, identification, OSD status and update link
- Apply overclocking setting at system startup
You can download the latest version of Afterburner here and discuss with worldwide Afterburner users in the forum. In the future, MSI will frequently update Afterburner to newer version to enhance its feature and stability.
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 06 October 2009 )
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