Afterburner 2.0.0 Beta 6 - Now with Triple Over Volt support !

Guru3D and MSI have been working hard on AfterBurner, today we release the 2.0.0 Beta 6 revision of Afterburner, this application is almost one year old, during these year we successfully secured the leading position on graphics card utilities, and start to find out our competitors try to keep up with us on over-voltage function.

We're happy to see MSI Afterburner is leading the overclock applications, but where satisfied with what we have now, we plan to go one step beyond everybody!

In Afterburner 2.0, we completely re-design the voltage control module, and implement world's first exclusive "Triple over-Voltage" function on selected cards. On MSI hi-end graphics card like N460GTX Hawk, N480GTX Lightning, you can pull down the voltage control menu and over-voltage GPU, Memory and Aux.

By over-voltage GPU and Memory, you can reach even higher clock and performance than before. Aux over-voltage is also unique function of Afterburner 2.0, it can over-voltage PLL (PCI-Express, Crystal, Memory Bus) of GPU and help to push the clock limit to the highest under intensive overclocking.

Changelog

Voltage control layer has been seriously revamped to give additional freedom to extreme overclockers with new custom design MSI graphics cards. Now MSI Afterburner is able to control up to 3 voltages on custom design MSI Fermi and other future custom design MSI graphics cards. New adjustable voltages include memory voltage and special multi-purpose auxiliary voltage feeding either memory bus (also known as VDDCI on AMD graphics cards) or PCIE bus and crystal (PEXVDD on NVIDIA graphics cards)
Added core, memory and auxiliary PEXVDD voltage control for custom design MSI N480GTX Lighning series graphics cards with uP6225+uP6262 voltage regulators
Added core, memory and auxiliary PEXVDD voltage control for custom design MSI N470GTX Twin Frozr II OV3 series graphics cards with uP6218+uP6262 voltage regulators
Added core, memory and auxiliary PEXVDD voltage control for custom design MSI MSI N460GTX Hawk series graphics cards with uP6262 voltage regulators
Added core voltage control for custom design MSI N460GTX Cyclone series graphics cards
Added auxiliary VDDCI voltage control for reference design AMD RADEON HD 5870 series graphics cards
Added fan tachometer monitoring for NVIDIA graphics cards. Please take a note that not all graphics cards are tachometer reading capable. So depending on graphics card and cooling system fan tachometer monitoring can be unavailable
Optimized NVIDIA driver-level clock frequency monitoring codepath
Minimum clock limits for all graphics cards have been reduced from 75% to 50%
Dynamic overclocking, voltage and fan speed limits. MSI Afterburner no longer uses static slider limits calibration and adjusts the limits dynamically when some external factors affect it (e.g. Overdrive clock limits on AMD cards or VGA BIOS fan speed and voltage limits on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 400 cards)
New temperature hysteresis settings for software automatic fan control mode gives you additional way to improve cooling system thermal and acoustic parameters
Now fan speed limits (i.e. minimum and maximum fan speeds accepted by VGA BIOS and display driver) are displayed in custom fan speed curve editor window
Built-in skin sizes have been reduced due to optimized internal skin panels representation and optimized compiled bitmap cache
Optional skin compression ability in the built-in skin compiler. Skin format reference documentation has been updated to document new compression options
Minor built-in skins appearance tweaks
Now MSI Afterburner uses previously undocumented power user oriented startup mode via the task scheduler under Windows Vista / Windows 7. MSI Afterburner launch no longer requires UAC confirmation at Windows startup. Please take a note that Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 runtime libraries must be installed to get new startup mode working
Now MSI Afterburner automatically fixes startup link if or is enabled but the registry or task scheduler startup entry is missing
Startup profile is now displayed in option floating tooltip instead of the main window
Now power users can enable optional DirectInput based hotkeys handler via the configuration file. DirectInput based hotkeys processing can seriously reduce hotkey response time in the applications heavily loading CPU (mostly 3D games) and leaving not enough time for processing standard keyboard input message queues. Please take a note that enabling such sophisticated hotkeys handling mode can cause some system security applications (e.g. pro-active application behavior analysis module of KIS) to warn you about possible keylogging threat
Improved skin engine, now skinned controls support horizontal and/or vertical centering. Skin format reference guide has been updated to document these new alignment modes
MSI On-Screen Display server has been upgraded to version 3.7.2. New version gives you the following improvements:
- Now screen capture events are identified visually by text message flashing in On-Screen Display during 0.25s
- Built-in skin sizes have been reduced due to optimized compiled bitmap cache
- Added On-Screen Display profile for Startcraft II : Wings of Liberty
- Added configuration file switch allowing sending MSI Afterburner to system tray instead of closing on button click
option is no longer set in the startup task settings to allow automatically starting application via the task scheduler on laptops or on some UPS models
Added Korean localization

DOWNLOAD: http://downloads.guru3d.com/Afterburner-2.0.0-Beta-6-download-2604.html

Cheers, no triple volting my 480 even if I could...

Just got it, thanks.

Still can't overvolt the Asus 5870 V2..

Martini1991 said:

Still can't overvolt the Asus 5870 V2..

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Have you ever taken the card apart or know what voltage regulator it uses as you can add support into afterburner for them if you know the regulator thats what i did with my 5850 direct cu.

Are you having problems with asus smartdoctor?

try this it appears the 5870 v2 uses the same voltage regulator as my 5850 direct cu this it what i did myself and it now works in afterburner


step
1. go into your program folder and locate msi afterburner
2.open MSIAfterburner.CFG
3.Look for enable unnoficial overclocking and replace the 0 with a 1
4.click file,save as,then click save as type and select all files,click save and confirm it will overwrite the old data so click yes
5.now goto the profiles folder in the main msiafterburner folder open it
6.open this CFG file VEN_1002&DEV_6899&SUBSYS_034E1043&REV_00&BUS_1&DEV _0&FN_0
7.At the very bottom of all the text type

[Settings]
uP6208_Detection = 1

Don't forget the spaces between the = sign

8.Do the file save as thing, you just did it a few moments ago save as all files.
9.open afterburner you should now see voltage control LIT up you can adjust from


it should look like this



it will give you an extra .1 volt to play with above your stock level so you can go from say 1.18 volts to 1.28 volts which was enough for me to get 950core on my 5850

I'm happy at 950/1250 on stock volts at the moment.
Smart Doctor sucks imo lol.
Although, thank you, I've bookmarked incase I feel the need to try.

Martini1991 said:

I'm happy at 950/1250 on stock volts at the moment.
Smart Doctor sucks imo lol.
Although, thank you, I've bookmarked incase I feel the need to try.

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Yeah i know i had to uninstall it cause fallout 3 won't even start with it installed

try it if you get time it works well and won't affect any of your other settings it's worth a shot IMO

bigjimmyauk said:

try this it appears the 5870 v2 uses the same voltage regulator as my 5850 direct cu this it what i did myself and it now works in afterburner


step
1. go into your program folder and locate msi afterburner
2.open MSIAfterburner.CFG
3.Look for enable unnoficial overclocking and replace the 0 with a 1
4.click file,save as,then click save as type and select all files,click save and confirm it will overwrite the old data so click yes
5.now goto the profiles folder in the main msiafterburner folder open it
6.open this CFG file VEN_1002&DEV_6899&SUBSYS_034E1043&REV_00&BUS_1&DEV _0&FN_0
7.At the very bottom of all the text type

[Settings]
uP6208_Detection = 1

Don't forget the spaces between the = sign

8.Do the file save as thing, you just did it a few moments ago save as all files.
9.open afterburner you should now see voltage control LIT up you can adjust from


it should look like this

it will give you an extra .1 volt to play with above your stock level so you can go from say 1.18 volts to 1.28 volts which was enough for me to get 950core on my 5850

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Still grayed out on my 5850 direct CU

Don't seem any different to the last version to me?

KillBoY_UK said:

Still grayed out on my 5850 direct CU

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You sure you did it to the letter it's worked for everyone i've seen online who has a 5850 direct cu they all use the same power regulator and afterburner works fine with it i'm using afterburner version 1.6.0 from 21/5/10

maybe try with that version as i know unwinder(the guy who makes afterburner)said some companies don't like him messing with their cards and sometimes has to pull things from different versions to keep them happy

Works a treat in 1.6, thanks a lot mate, is it possible to add more?

Martini1991 said:

Works a treat in 1.6, thanks a lot mate, is it possible to add more?

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the only way i can think of doing it is to change the file where it says core voltage boost and change it to something higher than 100 not sure if it works never tried it as i am happy at my current overclock and voltage. Give it a whirl and see what happens but glad i could help get at least some voltage adjustment, better than smartdoctor anyway.

i'd try it myself now but i'm doing a big prime 95 run and don't want to go messing too much.

let me know if it works

It doesn't work, if it were to, it'd be another setting I think.
Much appreciated however.

used to get to 819MHz max on my air cooled 470 with 1.6, now get 850 with 2.0, haven't tried higher yet but don't really want to cos of temps

Martini1991 said:

It doesn't work, if it were to, it'd be another setting I think.
Much appreciated however.

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unwinder might have made it hardlocked into the programming to cap it at 100Mv he's always going on about RMA's and return rates