Setting up MSI Afterburner

When it comes to gaming, knowing how your computer perform is a must. I always like to keep an eye on my framerates and hardware temperatures. “MSI Afterburner” is a software which lets you monitor your hardware in real-time and also tweak your GPU(Graphics Processing Unit)settings.

Let me guide you on how to setup MSI Afterburner on your PC.

Step 1:

Download “MSI Afterburner”

Afterburner

After downloading the software proceed to install it using the recommended settings. Make sure “RivaTuner Statistics Server” is enabled.

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After installation

Step 2:

Click on the cog wheel which represents “settings” and next click the “Monitoring” tab . Now click on the small square with 3 dots on it next to “Active hardware monitoring graphs”. Now make sure that there are 3 ticks ✓ on “AIDA64.dll”, “CPU.dll” and “GPU.dll”. If not click on the tick ✓ next to it and click “OK”.

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Step 3:

Now you should be able to see multiple graphs on the “Graph” section under the “Monitoring” tab. Click on the tick✓ of the graph that you need, and again click on the checkbox next to “Show in On-Screen Display”(do this for every graph), doing so will result in a statement saying “in OSD” under “Properties” next to that specific graph. Next click on “Apply”.(Refer the image below)

These are the graphs that I recommend you to tick ✓:

• GPU1 temperature
• GPU1 usage
• GPU1 memory usage
• GPU1 core clock
• GPU1 temp limit , power limit, voltage limit
• CPU temperature
• CPU usage
• CPU clock
• Framerate
• RAM usage

You can tick ✓ on any graph that you like to be monitored.

Step 4

It’s Done!

Now you can monitor the graphs in real-time. You can click on “DETACH” to get a better view of the graphs.

Detached version

You will also be able to see the On-Screen Display when playing games.

On-Screen Display on the top left

Happy Gaming!