Tuesday, May 31st 2011

MSI Afterburner Goes Mobile

MSI's popular and intuitive VGA overclocking software Afterburner has gone mobile, don't worry, it's not going to let you overclock or fry anything up inside your smartphone, but let you overclock graphics cards in your bench setup wirelessly. Designed for popular smartphone platforms such as Android, the Afterburner mobile application connects to the system using direct IP access via wireless. We assume that the desktop Afterburner process needs to be running in the background. The application takes advantage of touchscreens on smartphones, giving you slider-based control. Apart from controlling clock speeds, voltages, and fan speeds, the application also lets you monitor everything the desktop end of Afterburner is able to monitor.
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31 Comments on MSI Afterburner Goes Mobile

#26
EarthDog
Thats what he(we) are saying, its useless TO YOU. But for people that benchmark, this is quite helpful...Im guessing thats who it was market towards... Kind of like ROG on Asus boards.

And the dude who said your system still rages on in the backround is muddying up the waters a bit here as most times a freeze is a freeze in my experience, and who the hell would care if my GPU temps went up went it froze (sounds ill logical that would happen though).

Anyway, as noted this is not for everyone, but has great value for some. ;)
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#27
[H]@RD5TUFF
EarthDogThats what he(we) are saying, its useless TO YOU. But for people that benchmark, this is quite helpful...Im guessing thats who it was market towards... Kind of like ROG on Asus boards.

And the dude who said your system still rages on in the backround is muddying up the waters a bit here as most times a freeze is a freeze in my experience, and who the hell would care if my GPU temps went up went it froze (sounds ill logical that would happen though).

Anyway, as noted this is not for everyone, but has great value for some. ;)
I benchmark as well, not seriously to the point of using cascade or LN2 (don't have the kind of money for that hobby), and unless this is collecting real time data about things like vdroop, temps of vrm, and such. . . how is having it display on your phone any more useful than having it on your monitor, as the computer itself still needs to be running the program to feed the data to your phone.
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#28
EarthDog
Maybe you want to read a couple of my prior posts again to see how it can be helpful. :)

Posts #8 and #15 to be specific.

Cliff's notes - adjustments on the fly.
Additonal note - monitor temps...
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#29
[H]@RD5TUFF
EarthDogMaybe you want to read a couple of my prior posts again to see how it can be helpful. :)

Posts #8 and #15 to be specific.

Cliff's notes - adjustments on the fly.
Additonal note - monitor temps...
I read that, I just don't see how that is of any substantially greater use or ease than doing it via mouse and keyboard. Unless you are caught with a bout of serious food poisining, and still want to spend your weekend overclocking by proxy while on the toilet .. . .
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#30
EarthDog
Maybe I didnt explain myself well...

You cant do it via mouse or keyboard in the middle of a bench (except for HOTKEYS I suppose). So one would be able to see the interface to make sure the clocks accept and retreat back depending on the section in the benchmark. You also cant monitor temps in the middle of a bench as well.
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#31
Pjokerxp_
so cool... i can manage my fan speeds from my phone without ALT tabbing the game or exiting the game..
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