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Why Choose Precision over Afterburner

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Im interested in what you guys use.

I recently tried Precision X due to my 1080 to see if it was any better than Afterburner,

Precision (latest beta)
after 3 hours usage (just using Fan profiles/OSD/Graphs/not OC)
- it crashed 6 times & had to relaunch the app.
- anytime you open the Graph in fullscreen, give it 10 minutes then FPS takes a nose dive or Precision Crashes
- Option menu is very annoying to view & cannot find any OSD control



Afterburner (latest beta)
9 hours usage
- 0 Crashes
- GPU graphs do not impact performance
- options are easier to use


So just wondering Who uses Precision & your reason behind it?
Only reason i think Nividia use it (Tom Petersen) is because EVGA dont make AMD Cards & MSI do?
 
Did use Precision OCX but found it to be flaky to be honest. When I reset to default settings it would always elect to crank up the overvolt to 100%, sliders always seemed slow to respond, going back and forward. I really do love the EVGA in game overlay which is why until now its been my go to tool, but for now moved to AB, works lovely and no issues with it.
 
Shame as precision x is meant to learn from your card and write an overclocking profile specific to your individual chip as no two chips are the same.

In theory you should get a higher and more stable overclock from the precision x. Perhaps it just needs to mature? It is still beta isn't it?
 
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I use both - but only AB for overlay stuff - Precision for voltage control and changing some clock stuff then I close it (or it closes itself depending on how I've got it setup).
 
Tried PrecisionX a few times, but always end up going back to Afterburner. It's just not as good and has far fewer options.
 
Switched from Precision X to CAM, had 0 issues with it even using the OSD. Benefit of CAM is it gives you your system temps also.
 
I can't be dealing with the UI of evga precision. Give me simple lines and graphs. None of this dial crap - I'm not driving a car.
 
Glanza said:
You can control it via Nvidia Experience if you already use that.
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I believe you will need to use Precision OCX to specifically control the RGB lights and what not on some of the upcoming EVGA models, you can see the features already baked in the latest version of OCX. Looks like the other manufactures taking a similar approach with ASUS's Aura software needed for there cards lighting and so on.

Geforce Exeprience only has the basic features, mainly in mind with those with single colour RGB's.
 
I started being unable to open GTA, I even reinstalled the 65GB of it in an attempt to fix the issue. It turned out that it was because I had started to use Precision. I changed back to Afterburner and it worked again.
 
Radox-0 said:
I believe you will need to use Precision OCX to specifically control the RGB lights and what not on some of the upcoming EVGA models, you can see the features already baked in the latest version of OCX. Looks like the other manufactures taking a similar approach with ASUS's Aura software needed for there cards lighting and so on.

Geforce Exeprience only has the basic features, mainly in mind with those with single colour RGB's.
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Do you know if you can disable the LEDs on 3rd party cards with Geforce Experience? Not bothered about controlling them as such.
 
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