MSI Afterburner

MSI Afterburner is one of the most widely used utilities for overclocking video cards. It is free and works with graphics cards from NVIDIA, AMD and Intel, not only with MSI models. Experienced users change the core and memory frequencies to increase the performance of their GPUs or, by lowering clocks and voltage, to reduce heat and power draw. The second case may be relevant for laptops.

The program consists of several components: the main utility to change the important parameters of the graphics card, hardware monitoring tools and a benchmark plug-in for synthetic testing. Auxiliary functions include: monitoring of the current state of the video card, recording of video from the screen and capture of screenshots. To run the test module, you will need to install MSI Kombustor separately.

On the graphics card control screen itself you can see 6 characteristics: core frequency, video memory frequency, cooler speed, temperature limit, core voltage and power limit. On some graphics cards part of these settings is locked, depending on the card model and its firmware limits, and voltage control has to be unlocked in the settings first. The settings window opens from the gear button of the main interface. If you need to manually adjust the cooler speed, use the Fan tab there to enable user-defined fan control and draw your own fan speed curve.

MSI Afterburner allows users to enhance their gaming experience by providing detailed control over their GPU's performance and temperature parameters.

The MSI Afterburner installer contains one more utility - RivaTuner Statistics Server. After it is installed, you can watch various parameters of your video card, including FPS, directly in the game or in the test full-screen application.

If desired, you can change the program skin via the settings menu (the "User Interface" tab). You can also save overclocking settings to five profile slots and apply a profile automatically when Windows starts.