Monitor GPU Settings With MSI Afterburner

Lately I have been using an application named “MSI Afterburner” for my video card temperature monitoring and fan speed settings. It’s a nifty little program based on Rivatuner code, but in my opinion it has a cleaner interface that is easier to use and cuts out a lot of the confusing stuff that Rivatuner seems to present in every tab.

My favorite feature is the ability to set your graphics card fan speed to increase incrementally along with each 1 degree celsius that your GPU takes on (Rivatuner can probably do this too but it’s probably more complicated). This way you won’t have your fan kicking back and forth between 25 and 50% when it hits a certain threshold and have to deal with the auditory assault of it swinging between two extremes constantly. You can also overclock your video card and monitor temperatures, fan speed, GPU usage, and clock speeds. Overall, it’s a pretty useful program and seems more intuitive than Rivatuner while using the same tech. Check it out at http://event.msi.com/vga/afterburner/.