MSI afterburner and overclocking

I am apologizing in advance. I am noob regarding overclocking and stuff like that.
I installed MSI afterburner now and before that i only have had MSI gaming app. I don't want to harm my PC with noobish overclocking cos i am noob. Is it enough just to turn on that afterburner and msi gaming app just to boost my gaming performance or i need to to a bit more in that afterburner?

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I just want smoother gameplay and lower temperature ig possible
Smoother gameplay requires more performance, more performance generates more heat, more heat needs more cooling, meaning the fans will spin up and make more noise.
To be honest, with that GPU, you should have good gameplay all round. What temperatures do you see as being problematic? Perhaps you could give an example of what FPS in what game and at what screen resolution and game detail.
Is your CPU bottlenecking?
Run HWInfo64 in the background. It logs the highest utilization values of all monitored paramaters. Then after gaming you will be able to see if your CPU is actually being saturated, something I doubt, but its not impossible.

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Thank you MSI for MSI Afterburner, Overclocking and Voltage Control!!!

There is a new version available: Afterburner v.1.2.0 (2009-10-12)
Changelog:
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- Add voltage adjustment of ATI Radeon HD 5870 and 5850
- Added NVIDIA G 210 and GT 240 series graphics cards support
- Added voltage control for custom design MSI N220GT and N240GT series graphics cards with uP6262 voltage regulators
- Added intitial AMD RADEON HD 5750 and AMD RADEON HD 5770 series graphics cards support
- Added Logitech keyboards LCD displays support. Now it is possible to display hardware monitor data in Logitech keyboards LCD
- Extended I2C address scanning range for uP6208 voltage regulators to allow supporting voltage control on non-MSI custom design graphics cards equipped with uP6208
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- Fixed database entry for AMD RADEON HD 4890 series graphics cards. Afterburner no longer adjusts 2D voltage instead of 3D voltage on AMD RADEON HD 4890
- Fixed database entry for AMD RADEON HD 5850 series graphics cards. Afterburner no longer adjusts UVD voltage instead of 3D voltage on AMD RADEON HD 5850
- Automatic profiles manager is now restarted after resuming from suspended mode
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- Added setting to the context menu of detached hardware monitor window. When this option is disabled, hardware monitor window can be minimized to the taskbar while staying in detached mode
- Now it is possible to pause hardware monitor activity via option in the context menu of hardware monitor window
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Problem with far cry 4 msi afterburner and sli

just wondering if anyone else could verify this for me when ever I try and launch far cry 4 with msi afterburner running and sli the game will crash everytime. disable sli leave msi afterburner running game will launch. enable sli turn off afterburner game will launch.
just trying to figure out if its my system or if this is a common problem thanks in advance

Game crashing could be caused by few problems, could be software or hardware. Assuming we're looking into hardware, I suggest you run MEMTEST for your RAM and see if your RAM is defected. Other than that, I can't think of any reason than power supply. But you stated you have a 480 W which should be sufficient. It could be a known problem with ATI on Far Cry? But if this's the case, ATI should be able to deal with it via Driver Update.
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So I recently purchased a gtx570 and see that I cannot even see what voltage I am at with afterburner , no matter what I try I cant change or see voltage , I find it amusing that MSI is advertised on the box for an MSI card yet it doesnt work with my Twin Frozr 3 .
Does anybody have a tweak for afterburner so I can see what voltage I am at , I wish to attempt to lower my voltage and keep stock OC settings .
I do not wish to use 2 programs when afterburner is already the best and from msi .
Also , can lowering voltage slightly @ stock settings cause any harm whatsoever ?

Quote from: Svet on 09-July-11, 07:13:19
what exactly?
Probably my suggestion to unlock voltage control and voltage monitoring, like if I know he already try it. Will have helped to give us more information as witch driver he installs with his new card.
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Seems Afterbuner is not working with the Radeon HD 5850 Twin Frozr II.
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perhaps this vga doesn't support voltage adjustment.
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Quote from: Mark on 11-January-11, 05:54:26
Could be heat related. Do you know what temperature your CPU and GPU are running?
Just to be sure on the driver front, uninstall your current graphics card drivers, run >>Driver Sweeper<< to clear any driver traces, reboot and then install the ones from the MSI website: http://eu.msi.com/index.php?func=nbdriver&maincat_no=135&prod_no=1702

MSI Afterburner When OC my gpu it is touching 95c.Is it normal

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<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< I ONLY USED MSI AFTERBURNER FOR OVERCLOCKING THE GPU >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>..
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Quote from: J_C_9 on 14-March-10, 07:05:52
Personally, I don't like running a GPU over 80C. Someone implied that their (one year old card?) card hasn't died yet running hotter, but that is definitely no proof at all it won't die prematurely...
Trust me, they are designed for it, check the whitepages on ATi or NVidia.
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Must add thats its a pre oc-ed one and I never got it higher, tried, but didnt work.
So to say it will die prematurely, is a bit shortsighted in my opion.
Read the net and reviews and youll see it common nowadayds that gpu's run that hot, since gpu computing and gaming are getting more and more gpu intensive.
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Crash after going idle - MSI Afterburner / GTX 970 SLI

Greetings,
I love my new MSI GTX 970 Gaming Cards -- they work awesomely
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Hello,
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