OC Scanner - Overclocking scanner

MSI Afterburner is the most famous and widely used utility for overclocking video cards. In addition, it serves to obtain detailed information about the computer's hardware components and offers additional functions such as fan adjustment, performance testing, and video recording. The MSI Afterburner utility is free and works with video cards of any brand.

“Afterburner is the gold standard in overclocking utilities.”

Overclocking tools

Exploring the capabilities of a video card and going beyond their limits may seem like a dangerous undertaking, but in reality it’s not so scary. The MSI Afterburner utility provides convenient access to all settings of the computer's graphics subsystem.

OC Scanner - Overclocking scanner

By controlling fan speed as you increase GPU frequency and voltage, you can find the perfect balance between performance and temperature.

The latest version of the MSI Afterburner utility for RTX 20 series video cards has a special overclocking scanner OC Scanner, which automatically searches for the highest settings at which the device will work stably. The performance gains resulting from this overclock will help increase the frame rate in the game, and completely free of charge!

Hardware monitoring

The hardware monitoring module provides all critical information in real time: temperature, load level, operating frequency, supply voltage. Moreover, the monitoring data selected by the user can be displayed on the screen even during the game, which allows you to constantly monitor the necessary system parameters.

Fan adjustment

Cooling is a key factor in the performance of a video card. Using MSI Afterburner, you can manually change the fan speed curve to achieve optimal cooling for your device.

Information overlay

To understand the effect overclocking has on computer performance, you need to know the level of that performance. For this purpose, there is an information overlay that can be displayed in the corner of the screen on top of the game itself.

Personalization

Customize the program interface to your liking using visual themes. Several are already built into the MSI Afterburner utility (just select the one you need in the program’s settings menu), and even more can be downloaded from the Internet.

Kombustor is an exclusive stress test based on the popular Furmark app. It is designed specifically to create maximum load on the video card in order to test its stability and temperature conditions. Kombustor is compatible with both the latest DirectX and OpenGL programming interfaces.

Predator video recording module

The best gaming moments should be shared with everyone! This is why MSI Afterburner has a gameplay recording module called Predator. It supports the H.264 codec, works with various file formats (.WMV, .AVI), and allows you to customize the frame size and image quality. Did your well-aimed shot bring your team victory? Have you completed the game on maximum difficulty? An acceleration record set? Show your achievements to the whole world and bask in the glory!

Overclocking Guide

Description:
MSI Afterburner- a utility for overclocking video cards from any manufacturer. Changes GPU/Shader/Memory frequencies, controls cooler rotation speeds, regulates voltage, etc. All operating systems of the Windows family of x86 and x64 architecture are fully supported. There are all the necessary capabilities for monitoring the operation of overclocked cards, there are options for working with profiles, managing “hot keys”, etc.

Possibilities:
-Management of memory and core frequencies, including shader unit (both separately and simultaneously).
- Voltage management.
-Manual or automatic control of fan speed.
-Real-time on-screen display for gaming (frame rate, temperature, frequency monitoring).
-Supports LCD displays of Logitech keyboards.
-Display information about device, driver, BIOS and SLI mode.
-Ability to use different user interface designs.
-Supports up to five profiles with settings.

Additional Information:
The program has an advanced mode, which includes support for cards from AMD Radeon, you can also adjust the GPU supply voltage, of course this also applies to video memory. The utility is capable of fully automatically monitoring switches between 3D and 2D modes, while MSI Afterburner will allow the user to use profiles, that is, you can quickly switch between them without wasting time manually changing parameters each time, which of course can be called a big plus.

If you wish, you can also configure the adjustment of the video card cooling system; this parameter will change depending on the main temperature. MSI Afterburner will help you create profiles for overclocking, to do this you just need to press a special key and all the parameters will take effect, in total you can create 5 such profiles. The utility will monitor not only the frame rate in any 3D applications, but will also display all indicators in the on-screen menu and system tray. Please note that the presented program is capable of interacting with any video cards, however, some functions are tailored for proprietary hardware from MSI.

MSI Afterburner has a fairly convenient interface, we can say that everything is at your fingertips. It is worth noting that after installation it will be recommended to restart the computer, so to speak, to display more accurate indicators. Don’t forget about Russian support and a large number of settings; you can configure the parameters of your video card as accurately as possible, and the built-in help will help you figure everything out, and since everything is in your native language, I think there will be no problems. MSI Afterburner is a completely free product, I recommend trying it if you are interested in overclocking a card, of course, but you shouldn’t indulge too much, the consequences may be different.

What's new:
Minimum, average, maximum, 1% low and 0.1% low framerates are now displayed in On-Screen Display with special text formatting tags introduced by new RivaTuner Statistics Server. The tags are allowing On-Screen Display clients to display independent benchmark statistics simultaneously for multiple running 3D applications instead of displaying foreground 3D application statistics only
Improved default MSI Cyborg White skin. Monochrome on/off states of fan speed auto button were hardly identifiable before, they are more contrast now
Added power user oriented restore points system. Experienced users may use new /backup and /restore command line switches to create multiple named restore points containing full backups of MSI Afterburner’s settings (including hardware profiles and custom hardware monitoring plugin configurations) and restore settings from any previously created restore point if necessary
Improved hardware monitoring module:
Improved built-in performance profiler. Now you may enable “Show profiler panel” option is the context menu of hardware monitoring window to see an additional panel with detailed per-sensor polling statistics in hardware monitoring window status area. Polling statistics visualizes information about the slowest polled sensors with maximum polling time, so power users can easily identify problematic sensors eating most of CPU time on each polling period (e.g. abnormally slow GPU power sensor in some versions of NVIDIA drivers)
Improved correction formulas support. Now in addition to “x” variable representing current data source the formulas may also use sibling data sources. For example, you may use “x – “RAM Usage”” correction formula for “Pagefile usage” (commit charge) data source to subtract RAM usage from displayed value
Fixed incorrect tracking markers rendering on the graphs dynamically added to hardware monitoring module
Fixed incorrect tracking markers rendering when monitoring ring data buffer is full
Added experimental support for Intel i7 and i9 7XXXX LGA2066 CPUs
Added CPU package power monitoring for Intel CPUs
Minimum sampling interval for CPU usage calculation has been reduced from 1000ms to 100ms
Original RivaTuner’s monitoring history fragment selection and selected fragment processing functionality is back! Now you may hold and press left mouse button on initial desired position in hardware monitoring window to begin fragment selection, then drag mouse cursor to desired final position and release left mouse button to select a fragment. The following functionality is available for selected fragments:
When the fragment is selected, minimum and maximum displayed values are estimated within selected fragment only. This feature can be used if you don’t need the global minimum and maximum values, estimated during whole monitoring session, and wish to see local minimum and maximum values estimated within some shorter period of time (e.g. during benchmark application runtime only).
When the fragment is selected you may use the context menu of any graph to set tracking marker into the local minimum or maximum position within the selection. This feature can be used to automate the process of identifying and visualizing the moments of reaching peak values (e.g. peak GPU temperature) on desired fragments
Improved monitoring plugins architecture:
Added plugin descriptions to plugins selection window
Added new SetupSource API function allowing you to configure the plugins. This function is allowing you to customize the plugins either globally from plugin selection window (e.g. configure whole list of data sources exported by each plugin) or customize desired data source only directly from corresponding graph properties window (e.g. change network download rate units from MB/ s to KB/s). SetupSource function usage is demonstrated in SDK in updated AIDA64 and PerfCounter plugins
Added new GetHostAppProperty API function allowing the plugins to retrieve various properties from the host application (i.e. MSI Afterburner), e.g. retrieve GUI color scheme specific to the currently selected skin. GetHostAppProperty guru function usage is demonstrated in SDK in updated AIDA64 and PerfCounter plugins
Improved monitoring plugins:
Now the plugins store user customized and built-in default configurations in separate files, so your custom plugin settings won’t be lost on new version install
Added configuration GUI for AIDA64, HwInfo and PerfCounter plugins. Each plugin’s user interface is allowing you to edit the list of sensors exported by each plugin, export full list of available sensors to a text file, customize each sensor’s properties or reset plugin settings to defaults
Improved PerfCounter plugin:
Added support for performance counters with non-localized names (e.g. “GPU Engine” under Windows Fall Creators Update)
Added support for dynamic data sources. Dynamic data sources are not validated during creation, such sources are allowed to export no data until some condition is met (e.g. “CPU usage” performance counters specific to some target process export data only when the process is running)

Improved SMART plugin:
Added airflow temperature SMART attribute support for Intel/Samsung SSDs.
Added new CPU plugin:
The plugin fully duplicates MSI Afterburner's built-in CPU temperature monitoring implementation (with the only exception of AMD Ryzen codepath, which cannot be open sourced due to NDA) and shows third party plugin developers how to implement low-level CPU specific sensors in plugins using CPU MSR registers and PCI configuration space access API
Added new GPU plugin:
The plugin shows third party developers how to extend MSI Afterburner’s GPU monitoring functionality and implement own GPU specific sensors in plugins using GPU enumeration and identification API. The plugin is demonstrating implementation of D3DKMT GPU performance counters providing unified vendor agnostic per-engine GPU usage, dedicated and shared memory usage monitoring
Fixed issue in context help system, which could cause the tooltip to flicker when it was displayed below mouse cursor
RivaTuner Statistics Server has been upgraded to v7.1.0
RivaTuner Statistics Server has been upgraded to v7.0.0

MSI Afterburner is the most famous utility for overclocking video cards. Most often, power users change the core frequency and memory frequency to increase or decrease the performance of their GPU. The second case may be relevant for weak laptops.

The program consists of several components: the main utility for changing important parameters of the video card, auxiliary tools and a plug-in module for synthetic testing. Supporting functions include: monitoring the current state of the video card, recording video from the screen and capturing screenshots. To run the testing module, you will need to install it separately.

On the video card management screen itself, you can see 6 characteristics: core frequency, video memory frequency, cooler speed, temperature limit, core voltage and power consumption limit. For some users, most of these options may simply be blocked. This is due to the type of video card. Many manufacturers simply don't want customers to overclock themselves. Also at the bottom of the interface there is a menu of additional settings. If you need to manually adjust the cooler speed, then you need to use the corresponding tab from this menu.

The MSI Afterburner installer contains another utility - RivaTuner Statistics Server. After installing it, you can monitor various parameters of our video card, including FPS, directly in the game or in a test full-screen application.

If desired, you can change the program shell through the settings menu (the “Interface” tab). You can also save overclocking settings to different slots to load them when Windows starts.

Key Features and Functions

a complete set of tools for overclocking a video card is presented;
allows you to monitor the status and most important parameters of the video card through the EED (monitoring) option;
You can independently change the rotation speed of the cooler;
full support of all utility functions for 64-bit systems;
There is a convenient means of displaying all the important characteristics of the video card directly in the game or any full-screen application.

What's new in this version?

4.3.0 (27.10.2016)

added support for AMD Ellesmere and Baffin family of graphics processors;
added support for Overdrive N technology (Overdrive 7) for AMD cards with Polaris architecture;
added the ability to control voltages for “reference” models AMD Radeon RX 480, AMD Radeon RX 470, AMD Radeon RX 460 with an SMC controller;
added memory usage graph for AMD graphics cards;
added power usage graph for AMD graphics cards;
Added option "delete automatically saved startup settings".

Program version: 4.4.2 Final
Official site: MSI & Rivatuner
Interface language: Russian, English and others
Treatment: not required

System requirements :

Description:MSI Afterburner- a utility for overclocking video cards from any manufacturer. Changes GPU/Shader/Memory frequencies, controls cooler rotation speeds, regulates voltage, etc. All operating systems of the Windows XP/Vista/7/8 family of x86 and x64 architecture are fully supported. There are all the necessary capabilities for monitoring the operation of overclocked cards, there are options for working with profiles, managing “hot keys”, etc. The distribution includes the MSI Kombustor stress test installer, which uses the engine of the famous FurMark benchmark.

Control of memory and core frequencies, including the shader unit (both separately and simultaneously).
Voltage management.
Manual or automatic control of fan speed.
Real-time on-screen display for gaming (frame rate, temperature, frequency monitoring).
Support for LCD displays of Logitech keyboards.
Display information about device, driver, BIOS and SLI mode.
Ability to use different user interface designs.
Supports up to five profiles with settings.

The program has an advanced mode, which includes support for cards from AMD Radeon, you can also adjust the GPU supply voltage, of course this also applies to video memory. The utility is capable of fully automatically monitoring switches between 3D and 2D modes, while MSI Afterburner will allow the user to use profiles, that is, you can quickly switch between them without wasting time manually changing parameters each time, which of course can be called a big plus.

Added core voltage control for reference design NVIDIA TITAN V series graphics cards
Fixed one polling period delay for values displayed in On-Screen Display graph labels
Fixed incorrect group names displayed for “Framerate Min”, “Framerate Avg”, “Framerate Max”, “Framerate 1% Low” and
“Framerate 0.1% Low” graphs in Logitech keyboard LCD in text mode
Improved detection of active 3D application, which is supplying data to “Framerate” and “Frametime” graphs, in cases when running
multiple 3D applications simultaneously
RivaTuner Statistics Server has been upgraded to v7.0.2

MSI presents a utility that allows you to configure, monitor and overclock AMD and NVIDIA video cards. Many people try to download MSI Afterburner for free on their computer in order to be able to regulate the supply voltage of the video memory and graphics processor, and the frequency of the GPU core.

You can also control the fan rotation speed using the software. Thanks to this, you can manually monitor the status of the graphics card, its temperature, voltage, and also be aware of the clock speed of the video memory and core.

If you value your video card and want it to serve you as efficiently and as long as possible, then you should use this utility. Moreover, many note its convenience.

Despite the fact that you can only control GPU voltage in branded MSI cards, all other functions can also be used when working with video cards from other manufacturers. And this uniqueness is already appreciated by users.

Functional

MSI Afterburner can:

change the supply voltage of video memory and video cards,
monitor temperature, video memory and core frequencies,
adjust the operation of the cooling system depending on the current temperature,
create and activate up to five overclocking profiles using hotkeys,
monitor frame rate even in applications that are made in 3D format,
check switching between 3D and 2D modes.

In addition, if you wish, you can change the design of the utility, since the database contains several themes. If they do not suit you, then you can download new ones on the official website of the developer.

The advantage of the utility is that you can download MSI Afterburner for free. It is not surprising that it is popular among overlockers.

Modern games place special demands on hardware. For example, without a powerful graphics chipset, a strong processor and large RAM, many games simply will not run. After all, a small deviation from the specified parameters can cause the game to freeze or not load at all.

Therefore, gamers require tools that would allow them to monitor the state of the system and configure it depending on their needs. For example, useful features include monitoring the temperature of the graphics core, controlling the cooler to cool the temperature, changing PC performance, and adjusting voltage.

Taking into account the fact that the program was created by a Russian-speaking developer, the peculiarities of the Russian mentality are taken into account. Therefore, the interface is simple and clear so that even an inexperienced user can figure it out without any problems.

Meanwhile, this program is flexible. Thanks to the automation of some algorithms, it can be used on any video adapter.

For example, the program not only “counts” all the indicators, but can also display them on the screen so that you can familiarize yourself with them. This way, you won’t have to be distracted from the game, but you can quickly find out how effective the parameters you set are for overclocking.

The utility supports 64 and 32-bit systems. What’s captivating is that you can download MSI Afterburner in Russian for free.

If you want to show off your gameplay with friends, you can use the Predator Video Capture feature. With it, you can record your gameplay, saving the recording in AVI or WMV format. Before recording, you can adjust the size and quality of the video.

MSI Afterburner Android version

The utility running on your smartphone will allow you to monitor the status of your video cards. These functions are relevant for gamers who prefer games with high requirements for resources and hardware. This utility has a number of significant additions. For example, there is automatic fan adjustment, as well as support for limiting the power of the device.

MSI Afterburner iOS version

Now you can install this utility on your iPhone to be able to access the MSI Afterburner PC settings. Moreover, the connection is established via a Wi-Fi connection.

The program monitors fan speed, temperature, and voltage. It will also be possible to configure these parameters depending on the requirements of the game that is loaded on the device.

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