Msi Afterburner

[grimcrash]

Hi all!

So my question is probably very dumb, but I've never owned a decent gpu, so I have never used Msi afterburner. I bought a GTX 1060, and I want to set a custom fan curve for it, and maybe a little overclock. My question is this: after I've set everything in Afterburner, does it save it to the bios of the graphics card, and I can delete the program, or it will only work if the program is running? Hope you understand what I mean, sorry for my bad english.

[tikker]

6 minutes ago, grimcrash said:

Hi all!

So my question is probably very dumb, but I've never owned a decent gpu, so I have never used Msi afterburner. I bought a GTX 1060, and I want to set a custom fan curve for it, and maybe a little overclock. My question is this: after I've set everything in Afterburner, does it save it to the bios of the graphics card, and I can delete the program, or it will only work if the program is running? Hope you understand what I mean, sorry for my bad english.

 

From my experience you need to have Afterburner running. You could try the "Apply overclock at system startup", but I never used that myself.

[tomaatvk]

MSI afterburner (and any other GPU overclock program) has to be started in order to apply the OC after every reboot.

In order to save an overclock to the BIOS you would have to actually edit the BIOS with a program like MaxwellBiosTweaker which doesn't yet exist for Pascal.

So unless you extract your BIOS with GPU-z, convert all the code to something readable, edit it, calculate the error-check-code, implement that too, save it, convert the code back and flash it to your GPU with NVflash, you'll have to use MSI afterburner (or something of the sort).

[maybethisnamewillwork]

22 minutes ago, grimcrash said:

Hi all!

So my question is probably very dumb, but I've never owned a decent gpu, so I have never used Msi afterburner. I bought a GTX 1060, and I want to set a custom fan curve for it, and maybe a little overclock. My question is this: after I've set everything in Afterburner, does it save it to the bios of the graphics card, and I can delete the program, or it will only work if the program is running? Hope you understand what I mean, sorry for my bad english.

It doesn't save any overclock or fan curves to the bios, it's only applied while the program is running.
You can set Afterburner to start with windows: Settings -> 'Start with Windows'.
'Apply overlocking at system startup' sets the last applied overclock when Afterburner starts.