How to use MSI Afterburner while gaming?

By using this  software  you can see important information such as hardware temperature, clock rate, etc., about your system. One of the best abilities of this software is that it provides tools for you to overclock your system and increase your system speed.

Introduction to MSI Afterburner software:

To play powerful games using your system, your system must have a powerful CPU and ram, and you need a strong graphics card. Graphics cards are one of the most expensive components in computers. On the other hand, your system may be strong in hardware, but not all of its capabilities are used during the game. Using  MSI Afterburner software, you can monitor the performance of your system during  the game  and find out if your device is working at its peak performance or settings are blocking it?

MSI Afterburner program is one of the very good programs for monitoring the performance and overclocking of the system graphics card. Although  this software  is a product of MSI Company, it also supports NVIDIA, AMD graphics cards, and all their models. This program is a program that monitors the performance of the graphics card and also allows you to control it.

This software has excellent monitoring and control capabilities. It is very easy to use and is free. These reasons caused this software to quickly become  a favorite software of many users  to overclock the system.

In the next sections, there is a description of what users can do using this software.

System Overclocking:

MSI Afterburner software  is primarily overclocking software. Overclocking a piece of hardware means increasing its clock speed, which causes an increase in the number of operations to be processed in the system per unit time. As a result, the operating speed increases.

Using this software, you can increase the performance of your system graphics card. In fact, by overclocking the graphics card, your system can use this card more, but this increase in productivity will increase the temperature of the graphics card and may even damage your hardware.

Some notes for overclocking:

You need to go through overclocking your system slowly and step by step. This means that you can slowly increase the core clock and memory clock values ​​each time, and if the system does not have a problem and the graphics card does not see a large increase in temperature, you can continue to increase the clock.

Of course, this software allows you to view the temperature of the graphics card during the game and, if necessary, control the system fans, and when the temperature is high, increase the speed of the fans to cool the parts.

It is also important to note that not all hardware can be overclocked. If you want to change the system clock, it is better to provide parts that can change the clock when buying the system.

Also, note that your device's cooling system is designed to cool parts before overclocking, and you may need to upgrade the cooling system after overclocking and buy a stronger fan or heatsink.

Monitor system performance using MSI Afterburner:

You can see information about temperature, voltage, and system clock speed on the main page of this software. This software also provides  general information about the software  and hardware of its graphics card and GPUs. By clicking on the gear icon or settings, you can see the advanced settings page with several tabs. You can view system information in real-time with system performance while playing using this software. After viewing this information, you can overclock your system if needed. By looking at the information displayed by the software, you can see the effect of overclocking on your system.

You can even use this software to control the rotation speed of system fans.

There is a list of available hardware in the monitoring section that can be monitored. This section is better not to enable unnecessary graphs because the CPU spends more time preparing the desired information. Also, using this software, you can see different graphs on the screen, but displaying information related to selected graphs requires CPU and GPU resources. Therefore, it is better to do this only when necessary.

Other abilities of this software:

This software has screen capture capability. With this tool, you can accurately record your favorite moments in your favorite game. Using this feature, you can record how to go through the difficult stages of the game and record the overclocking settings under your system specifications.

The possibility of preparing a benchmark is  another good feature of this software. A benchmark reports how a system works in a particular situation. Different users can benchmark how their system works in a particular game and share it so that other users can compare the performance of their system with the system of others. When sharing a benchmark, users should also share the exact details of their system and the name and version of the game so that a correct comparison can be made.

How to prepare a benchmark:

On the software's main page, click on the gear icon to show the MSI Afterburner properties page.

- Go to the benchmark tab.

- In the "Global benchmark hotkeys section," specify the keys to start and end the benchmark operation, and in the "Benchmark results file," specify the path and file name to save the results. The results are stored in a text file.

After these steps, click apply and ok buttons to apply the settings.

Now run the game and after  starting the game, press the benchmark recording start button. After playing for a few minutes, press the benchmark end key.

You can now open your benchmark file and view the average, minimum, and maximum frame rate values.

Related software:

- For this software to show the graphs well, you must install the "Direct X" program on your system.

- To monitor information such as the temperature of various parts of the system during the operation, frame rate, and other related information, Simultaneously with the  installation of this software, let the software "Riva Tuner statistics server" be installed on your system.

- There is also an Android version of this software, and it can be installed on a mobile phone.