Msi Auto Fan Tune
Computer components such as CPUs, GPUs and RAM all have a standard performance rating on paper. However, manufacturers are actually pretty conservative when it comes to deciding how fast their components should run.
They favor stability across the product line, which means particularly capable samples aren’t performing as well as they could. With a bit of fine-tuning you can get a significant amount of free performance from these components.
How though? Many of these adjustments have to be made in the BIOS, the core firmware of the computer’s motherboard. While modern BIOS interfaces are much more user friendly, it can still be intimidating. The following are 5 of the best tuneup utilities that can help.
MSI Afterburner
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Jul 08, 2019 So I noticed in dragon center's performance section there are options for each system fan and next to the fan curve settings there is a button that says 'Fan Tune'. I've used this feature several times and I decided to have a look at my fans while running the 'Fan Tune' optimization.
MSI is one of the premier hardware makers in the world. They make just about every computer component you can think of, as well as entire systems. MSI graphics cards are well-respected too, but even if you don’t own an MSI-made card you’ll still want to take a serious look at MSI Afterburner, their in-house GPU overclocking tuneup utility.
Despite being an MSI-branded product it’s open to anyone with a compatible GPU. Afterburner is widely considered to be the best GPU overclocking utility for Windows. There’s even an Android app that lets you control your GPU from your phone!
Afterburner is very easy to use and supports the very latest technology, including modern auto-overclocking features found in certain cards. The application itself offers a choice of different skins to match almost any custom gaming PC setup.
You can tweak virtually any aspect of your card, from voltages to clock speeds. Afterburner also has robust on-screen display features, so you can monitor your card in-game while testing your new settings. You can also create detailed custom fan profiles, so that you have the perfect balance of noise, heat and performance. Many have tried, but right now Afterburner is still the king of the hill when it comes to GPU overclocking.
Fan Tune Msi Dragon Center
CPU-Z & GPU Z
These two freeware informational tuneup utilities won’t let you actually tweak any of your components, but they are a critical part of any system tweaker’s arsenal all the same.
Each respective application provides you with detailed system information, much of which you need to know before you can strategize how to overclock or otherwise tweak those components.
In the case of CPU-Z (by CPUID) you’ll get precise information on the model of CPU you have as well as it’s actual voltage and clock speeds. On our test system here, for example, Windows reports that the CPU is running at 3.5 Ghz, but CPU-Z correctly shows that it is in fact running at almost 4.3Ghz, which is what we’ve overclocked it to.
You can also get detailed information on your mainboard and what firmware its running. CPU-Z is also a perfect utility for getting information on your memory settings, so that you can check whether BIOS changes have actually taken effect.
CPU-Z (by TechPowerup!) does much the same thing for your GPU. You can get a precise, detailed readout of all your GPU specs, along with real-time output of all the card sensors. It’s a great diagnostic tool and, like CPU-Z, a good first stop before you actually touch anything on the GPU in terms of settings.
AMD Ryzen Master
AMD is very much on top of its game again, with Intel licking its wounds following the release of the latest Ryzen CPUs. At last AMD is rivalling the instructions-per-clock of Intel CPUs, while providing more cores per CPU at very reasonable prices.
That doesn’t mean you have to be happy with the performance you get from your Ryzen chip out of the box. If you’ve lucked out in the CPU lottery and have the thermal headroom for it, you can get some serious gains from AMD’s latest power-efficient 7nm manufacturing process.
It turns out that, unsurprisingly, AMD themselves know more about getting performance out of their hardware than anyone else. The AMD Ryzen Master tuneup utility is the easiest way to get your processor performing at peak levels. Unlike Intel, AMD doesn’t lock the clock multiplier on their Ryzen CPUs. Which means you can freely set the clock speed without affecting anything else.
AMD offer an astounding amount of customizability here. You can have four different performance presets for your CPU, depending on what you’re doing. So you could have a high noise and heat preset that will chew through video encodes quickly, and a quiet mode that won’t blow your ears out while watching a movie. It’s without a doubt the most civilized way to overclock the latest AMD technology.
Intel Extreme Tuneup Utility
Download xpand 2 free for windows. This utility from Intel is their official overclocking utility that allows processor tweaking from within Windows. It’s actually a little strange given how anti-overclocking the company was in the early days. Now the practice is widely accepted and Intel has widely decided to go with the flow.
Unlike AMD, Intel only unlocks the clock multiplier on enthusiast chips. Usually with model numbers ending in “K”. Which means that not as many people are going to find this utility useful from an overclocking perspective. However, you can still tune other aspects of your Intel CPU, such as the voltage. Undervolting a laptop CPU, for example, can improve battery life without necessarily impacting stability.
Speaking of which, the tuneup utility has built-in stress tests and benchmarks, so you can make sure the changes you’ve made are stable. Making changes in the BIOS directly is still the preferred way to overclock for the pros, but utilities like this one make it much more user friendly to get your money’s worth from that expensive silicon.
Ryzen DRAM Calculator
The last tuneup utility on our list is designed specifically to help tune the DRAM modules on Ryzen systems, but it’s actually useful for any modern computer that uses DRAM. Which is basically all of them.
Tuning the performance metrics of your computer’s RAM is pretty complicated, since there are so many factors to adjust. DRAM Calculator works out the optimal mix of settings for your RAM modules, so they perform according to their potential.
If you’re running a Ryzen system, the software will tell you exactly what settings to use. However, it turns out that it’s suggested settings work pretty well for Intel systems as well. Simply use the information that isn’t AMD-specific to adjust your DRAM and you’ll get most of the benefit too.
Msi Auto Fan Tuned
The DRAM calculator really takes the pain and complexity out of RAM tuning. You don’t need to know what “RAS’ or “CAS” is, just put the suggested numbers in and reap the benefits.
Pedal To The Metal
The art of PC performance tuning can be both incredibly frustrating and rewarding. What began as a black art for only the geekiest of geeks, is not as user-friendly as anyone could want.
These six tuneup utilities are a large part of the reason just about anyone can crank their computers up to 11 and if you’ve been feeling the need for speed, there’s no longer any excuse to hold back.
Literally 1-click overclocking!
Always wanted to get more performance out of your graphics card, but don't know how overclocking works or simply don’t want to risk it? The new OC Scanner feature in MSI Afterburner will do the overclocking for you at the click of a button. It's free, it works great and the best part is: it’s completely safe too! This blog article will explain in some detail how OC Scanner works and guide you on how to use it.Overclocking: Not as scary as it sounds
Overclocking has long been a hobby for a relatively small group of hardware enthusiasts. Mostly because of the time it takes to understand the process and do it right. I can remember the first time I ever attempted overclocking, it was quite overwhelming and even scary at some point. Scary because I was afraid of causing any kind of damage to the expensive equipment inside my PC.It seems the major chip manufacturers caught on to the worries of their customers about damaging their products. Over the course of recent years, we’ve seen those manufacturers engineer ways to minimize any chance of accidentally damaging their products. These days, most Graphics Processors have built-in safety measures that restrict the changes you can make with overclocking software like Afterburner to values they consider to be safe. The processors and drivers themselves also continually monitor things like temperature and power usage so that action can be taken to ensure the safety of the product. A great example of this is a thing we know as Thermal Throttling. If a GPU gets too hot, it will automatically reduce its effective clockspeeds to reduce the workload and output of heat until it reaches a level deemed safe.
This is good to know when you’re just getting into overclocking and you’re scared of damaging your precious hardware by simply changing some values. If you want to learn more about manual overclocking you can check out this blog article: https://www.msi.com/blog/need-more-fps-try-overclocking
Here's how OC Scanner works
The OC Scanner is essentially a tool that uses an algorithm developed by NVIDIA for the RTX 20 series graphics cards. Within just a few minutes it will run a process that will determine the highest stable overclock settings for your graphics card. The process consists out of the same basic steps as manual overclocking, being: increasing clockspeed by one step, then stressing the GPU to see if this clockspeed is stable. If the clockspeed is stable under load, the clockspeed will be upped by another step and the GPU will be stressed once more. This process repeats itself until the GPU fails to maintain stability under load. At that point, the last known stable clockspeed will be set as the maximum value. This process will repeat itself 4 times to cover 4 different Voltage levels. It does this because the OC Scanner algorithm uses the so-called Voltage/Frequency Curve. This curve works by matching the values of clockspeeds to corresponding values of voltage that can sustain those clockspeeds. By doing this you will get a curve where higher voltages are required to run at higher clockspeeds. Out of the box the last few generations of graphics cards have used this curve. What OC Scanner does is to see how far the curve can be safely adjusted to provide higher clockspeeds.How to get started with OC Scanner
Before you start the process of OC Scanner, we recommend that you enable detailed control of your graphics card in the Afterburner settings. You can do that by checking the boxes below.After this, you should set the sliders for Core Voltage, Power Limit and Temp Limit all the way to the right. After this, you can click apply at the bottom and nothing will happen yet. All this does is to allow your graphics card a bit more room to stretch its legs when you run OC Scanner.
As mentioned above, setting these sliders to their max values is completely safe as the values are defined by the manufacturer of the graphics chip to be considered safe.
When all of this is done, it's time to start the OC Scanner!
Click on the button left of the “Core Clock (MHz)” text as highlighted below to open the Voltage/Frequency Curve window.
At the top right of the Voltage/Frequency Curve window you will see the OC Scanner button. When you click that, the OC Scanner window will open showing two options: Scan and Test.
Scanning is the actual process described above where the algorithm will determine the highest stable frequency on 4 different voltage levels. This process should take around 15 minutes before presenting you with its conclusions. The value of the Core Clock in Afterburner should now show “Curve” instead of a number.
After running the Scanner, it's recommended to run the Test option. The Test script will verify the stability of the profile generated by the OC Scanner and provide the results in a ‘confidence level’. Personally I haven't see any other number than 90%, even after running the test script on stock settings. But anything above 60% should be fine to use.
You can now apply the OC Scanner values by clicking the Apply button in Afterburner. Usually I would recommend to save the values in a profile as well, in case you want to switch between default values and your OC profile. You can do this by clicking on the Save Icon on the bottom right of Afterburner. The numbers on the left of the icon will start to flash to indicate that you can choose which number you would like to save this profile under. Once you choose a number by clicking on it, that button will become an active profile. This means you can easily switch back to default values by clicking the reset button, but also load up your OC profile by clicking on the profile number and then Apply.
Congratulations, you have just overclocked your graphics card!
That will most likely give you a nice boost in performance in games, however OC Scanner currently only overclocks your GPU. Your memory can also be overclocked for additional performance.
This has to be done manually by either adjusting the slider or typing in values by yourself.
I have found that on the RTX 20 Series graphics cards, the memory can be overclocked quite a bit, all the way up to +1000MHz in some cases. However you will have to find out how much for your card by yourself. It's relatively safe to do this though, so if you’ve come this far already we recommend giving it a go. A good place to start is +500MHz, which most cards should run just fine. If you want to find out how high you can take it, just keep adding +50MHz after that and run a benchmark until you start seeing visual artifacts or the benchmark crashes. Then go back to the last setting that would run without any issues.
Enjoy the additional performance!