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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. All the adjustments can be saved as 5 profiles, users can quickly switch to different settings with hotkeys.
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The new version of Afterburner not only supports the latest NVIDIA GeForce 500 and AMD Radeon HD 6000 series of graphics cards, but also adds the Predator in-game video capture function. Gamers can now capture all of their most intense moments in their favorite games and share them with the world on sites like YouTube.
MSI Afterburner for Android
You can use the MSI Afterburner for Android to monitor and overclock your machine from your Android device. To use the MSI Afterburner App you must have installed the MSI Afterburner Remote Server on your computer.
Install Instructions for MSI Afterburner Remote Server:
To access your machine from your Android device you must first download and install the Remote Server for the download links found here. Once you download the MSIAfterburnerRemoteServer.zip file from TechSpot, extract the file to your computer and run MSIAfterburnerRemoteServer.exe. Once installed it should appear in system tray. Click on it and copy the bottom IP address shown (you will need it for the MSI Afterburner App).
Configuring the MSI Afterburner App:
After downloading the MSI Afterburner App for Android on your Android device and installing MSI Afterburner Remote Server on your computer, open the app and click on settings. In settings select 'Host IP Address' and enter the IP address you got from the MSI Afterburner Remote Server (it should be something like 192.168.101.22:82). Once you enter the IP Address your Android device will automatically connect to your personal computer.
What's New:
- Added voltage control for reference design NVIDIA GeForce RTX 20x0 SUPER series graphic cards
- Added voltage control for AMD RADEON RX 5700 series graphics cards
- Added new MSI Steampunked, MSI Lightning Anniversary and MSI Mystic skins by Drerex design
- Improved hardware monitoring module:
- Added CPU temperature monitoring support for AMD Ryzen 3X00 processors family
- Added thermal offset for CPU temperature monitoring on AMD Ryzen Threadripper 29X0 processors family
- Added package CPU power and per-core CPU power monitoring for AMD Ryzen processors family
- Improved monitoring plugins architecture
- Added API function for reading host application’s hardware monitoring timestamp from the plugins. The timestamp is updated by host on each hardware polling iteration, so it allows the plugin to precache and reuse some sensor data if the same physical sensor value is being used in multiple data sources exported by plugin. Such approach is demonstrated in updated CPU.dll plugin for duplicating the same temperature sensor value for all cores on AMD CPU
- Added optional plugin unititialization callback function, which is called by the host before unloading the plugins. New multithreaded Ping.dll plugin is demonstrating new function usage to shut down ping monitoring thread properly
- Improved monitoring plugins:
- Updated CPU.dll plugin is demonstating AMD Ryzen CPU temperature monitoring implementation and optimal duplication of the same temperature sensor readback for all CPU cores
- Added new Ping.dll plugin for monitoring ping to desired server via ICMP echo requests. Please take a note that the plugin is configured to monitor ping to www.guru3d.com by default, it is up to you to specify target server name or IP address in the plugin properties
- Improved skin engine:
- Optimized skin rendering performance for skins using multiple overlapped animated indicators
- Added position smoothing support to skinned indicators
- Now skinned applications can forcibly disable indicator animation if necessary
- Skin format reference guide has been updated to v1.8 to document these changes
- RivaTuner Statistics Server has been upgraded to v7.2.3
What's New:
- Added new MSI Touch of Modern skin by Drerex design
- Added asynchronous dual fan control support for reference design NVIDIA GeForce RTX 20x0 series graphics cards. Please take a note that only 100% NVIDIA reference design dual fan control implementations are supported, third party proprietary asynchronous fan control solutions (e.g. EVGA iCX series asynchronous fans) are not supported and will not be supported in future versions. The following asynchronous fan control functionality is available:
- Added new “Synchronize fan speeds” button, which is allowing you to switch between synchronous and asynchronours fan control modes. Please take a note that new fan speed controls are available in v4 skins only, v3 and v2 skins are deprecated and no longer receive new functionality
- When fan speeds synchronization is enabled, MSI Afterburner’s fan control functionality behaves exactly like in the previous version, i.e. both fans are running asynchronically in default hardware automatic fan speed control mode but become linked synchronically if you enable manual or software automatic fan speed control mode
- When fan speeds synchronization is disabled, you may select and adjust each fan speed independently. For software automatic fan speed control mode independent temperature curves are also adjustable for each fan
- Improved hardware monitoring module:
- Inverted hotkeys handling approach for multiple selected hardware monitoring graphs. Previously single graph settings mode was active by default, but you could apply some settings (e.g. “Show in On-Screen Display”) to multiple selected graphs with
hotkey modifier. Now such settings are applied to multiple selected graphs by default and hotkey modifier is used to apply settings to single focused graph - Group operation notifier has been moved to hardware monitoring graph properties header
- Improved backward compatibility with monitoring profiles created in the previous versions of application. It is no longer necessary to recreate the profiles having monitoring settings without On-Screen Display layout
- It is no longer necessary to click button inside the On-Screen Display layout editor after changing current layout, now the changes are applied properly on closing the editor
- The progress of saving multiple graphs’ settings is now displayed in the caption of the application’s property sheet
- Optimized handling of “dirty” flag for settings decreases saving time for multiple graph’s settings when using multiple subsequent group operations
- Added new “Hide attached monitoring panel” command to the context menu of hardware monitoring window. You may use it to toggle visibility of monitoring window when it is attached to the main application window
- Now you may press
+ hotkeys to toggle monitoring window attachment
- Inverted hotkeys handling approach for multiple selected hardware monitoring graphs. Previously single graph settings mode was active by default, but you could apply some settings (e.g. “Show in On-Screen Display”) to multiple selected graphs with
- Improved voltage/frequency curve editor for both AMD and NVIDIA GPUs:
- Now you may hold
and press left mouse button on initial desired horizontal position in the editor window to begin fragment selection, then drag mouse cursor to desired final horizontal position and release left mouse button to select a fragment. The following functionality is available for selected fragments: - You may double click the editor window to reset fragment selection
- You may adjust the offset for any point inside the selection with mouse cursor to apply the same offset simultaneously to all selected points
- You may adjust the offset for any point inside the selection with keyboard cursor keys,
or + keys to apply the same offset or specify the same target frequency or voltage for all selected points
- Now you may hold
- Improved skin engine:
- Added alpha path threshold support for skinned slider controls
- Added thumbless skinned slider controls support
- Skin engine no longer crashes when switching between the skins having the same site with and without alpha channel
- Improved skin cross-compatibility layer:
- Extended list of applications supported by skin cross-compatibility layer
- Various compatibility fixes for third party skins supported by cross-compatibility layer
- Fixed issue with GUI stopping responding during adjusting skin scaling ratio on the fly in high DPI mode when skin composition mode was set to layered mode with alpha
- Updated third party hardware database:
- Added new third party voltage control capable graphics cards to the database
- Added new third party graphics cards with multichannel GPU, memory and VRM temperature sensors to the database
- RivaTuner Statistics Server has been upgraded to v7.2.2
Previous versions:
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by Martin Brinkmann on June 07, 2010 in Software - Last Update: June 12, 2018 - 8 comments
MSI Afterburner, despite its name, is a graphics card configuration tool that is compatible with a wide range of graphic cards and not exclusive to MSI cards. It is for instance fully compatible with a Sapphire Ati Radeon 4870 card of a Ghacks test PC.
A rule of thumb is that MSI Afterburner supports most Geforce and Radeon cards provided that the drivers installed are not too old. Try updating the drivers if the video card is not recognized by the software immediately.
The program does not work with cards from other manufacturers, e.g. from Intel.
MSI Afterburner
MSI Afterburner is based on Rivatuner, another popular video card configuration software. The installer is straightforward; note that you will install MSI Afterburner and Riva Tuner Statistics Server by default. You can disable the Statistics Server so that it won't get installed. It provides frame rate monitoring, on-screen display and video capture services. If you need those, keep the server enabled.
The program displays a hardware monitor and core information about the graphic card on startup. It may use different skins to display the data; the default skin that you see on the screenshot above was displayed on one machine, and a more futuristic looking cyborg skin was displayed on another.
A click on settings > user interface displays options to switch to a different skin if you don't want to use the selected one. The guide is based on the default MSI Afterburner 2 skin.
The core information includes the graphics card name and driver version as well as the core voltage, core clock, shader clock, memory clock and fan speed. The availability of these values depends largely on the graphics card itself: if it is supported it should be shown. While you can run MSI Afterburner on unsupported video cards, you won't get much out of the program as most options are unavailable.
Sliders are available to change the core parameters directly. The hardware monitor on the right side displays max and min values. These depend largely on the capabilities of the video card. It is for instance possible to see the graphics card maximum and minimum temperature, fan speed and core clock changes.
Profiles
Settings can directly be saved as profiles. This is handy for overclocking or underclocking the graphics card in specific situations. It is for example possible to create one standard profile, one overclocked profile for gaming and other gpu intensive tasks and one underclocked profile for situations where the graphics card is not needed at all to save power or tune down the fan to limit noise generation.
The settings button leads to an extensive configuration menu. Here it is possible to change the behavior of the card's fan(s), the hardware monitoring, on-screen display and profiles among other options.
Fan Speed
The fan speed controls can be changed from automatic to user defined. This opens a graph where the fan speed can be adjusted to the temperature of the graphics card.
The fan speed could for instance be lowered if the gpu temperature is low and increased if the temperature rises.
You can link different temperature levels to different fan speed levels to customize the fan speed of the video card based on that. Note that MSI Afterburner needs to run in the background for this to work.
Hardware Monitoring
Hardware monitoring graphs can be enabled or disabled in this tab. It is furthermore possible to activate hardware monitoring history logging which can be helpful when you are troubleshooting video card problems.
Hotkeys can be assigned to the profiles that have been created to switch easily between them. There is also an option to set automatic 2D and 3D profiles which will then be automatically enabled whenever the system uses 2D and 3D applications (meaning gpu-less and gpu intensive processes).
An onscreen display can be configured in the MSI Afterburner software to display relevant information directly. This - and some other settings - require a server process that needs to be running in the background.
Computer users with multiple gpus can configure the clock, voltage and fan speed individually or in sync.
Check out our video capture guide using MSI Afterburner for information on how to do that.
Closing Words and Verdict
MSI Afterburner is an interesting tool for users who want to tweak their graphics card. The program is compatible with 32-bit and 64-bit editions of Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7. Downloads are available directly at the MSI website.
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