How to use MSI afterburner on Laptop ?

[Vivank]

So my laptop specs are i5 3337u , 4gb ram, gt740m. How can afterburner help in increasing performance and decreasing temperatures. Please suggest only minor changes , i don't wanna risk anything for a short boost in performance .

[Jurrunio]

Increase performance: Pull the core clock and memory clock as far to the right as possible, until it crashes which means you have gone to far and have to use the last stable settings.

 

Decrease temperature: Pull the core clock and memory clock to the left, until the temps look fine to you.

[iRileyx]

Minor changes won't give any noticable difference to your performance.

Even a heavy OC on that gpu won't give a noticeable difference tbh.

[Vivank]

1 minute ago, Jurrunio said:

Increase performance: Pull the core clock and memory clock as far to the right as possible, until it crashes which means you have gone to far and have to use the last stable settings.

 

Decrease temperature: Pull the core clock and memory clock to the left, until the temps look fine to you.

msi afterburner will crash or pc , will my pc shutdown ?

[Jurrunio]

2 minutes ago, Vivank said:

msi afterburner will crash or pc , will my pc shutdown ?

PC will crash. Sometimes just outright turning off, sometimes it will freeze and the audio might scream. In any case, just hold down on the power button and turn it off, then restart it.

[Vivank]

3 minutes ago, RKRiley said:

Minor changes won't give any noticable difference to your performance.

Even a heavy OC on that gpu won't give a noticeable difference tbh.

So can i use it to decrease temps or fan speeds ? Also how can i see live stats like gpu and cpu usage, fps etc using it ?

[Vivank]

1 minute ago, Jurrunio said:

PC will crash. Sometimes just outright turning off, sometimes it will freeze and the audio might scream. In any case, just hold down on the power button and turn it off, then restart it.

How can i see live stats in games using afterburner like cpu and gpu usage,fps etc ?

[Jurrunio]

15 minutes ago, Vivank said:

So can i use it to decrease temps or fan speeds ? Also how can i see live stats like gpu and cpu usage, fps etc using it ?

decrease temps by losing what little performance it has, yes.

 

Fan speed control is another thing. Search for speedfan tutorials for that.

 

Live stat can be shown if you also installed RTSS (rivatunerstatisticserver). Get into 'monitoring' tab inside Afterburner's settings menu, and check 'show in On-screen display' on things you want to display (only works in apps that use directx, vulkan and openGL). might want to get into the 'on-screen display' tab and change the toggle key for 'on-screen display' to a key binding you want for easy control as well.

[Frankenburger]

1 hour ago, Jurrunio said:

decrease temps by losing what little performance it has, yes.

He can also decrease temps by undervolting.

[Jurrunio]

7 hours ago, Frankenburger said:

He can also decrease temps by undervolting.

Wont tell him to flash a modded bios when so little experience.

[Frankenburger]

Just now, Jurrunio said:

Wont tell him to flash a modded bios when so little experience.

You don't need to flash a modded bios to undervolt. The MSI Afterburner clock/voltage curve editor is more than enough to get the job done.

[Jurrunio]

24 minutes ago, Frankenburger said:

You don't need to flash a modded bios to undervolt. The MSI Afterburner clock/voltage curve editor is more than enough to get the job done.

It is only available on Pascal cards. Older ones with modded BIOS only apply an offset like AMD cards dom rather than using the editor anyway.

 

Look at the screenshot from OP. The logo for the editor is missing.

[Frankenburger]

5 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

It is only available on Pascal cards. Older ones with modded BIOS only apply an offset like AMD cards dom rather than using the editor anyway.

 

Look at the screenshot from OP. The logo for the editor is missing.

You're right, m'bad

 

Technically you can undervolt with MSI Afterburner on pre Pascal GPUs by lowering power target and increasing clock speed. But yeah, the fact his voltages are locked and he can't adjust the power target means he'll have to flash a custom BIOS. Definitely not recommended for a laptop since there's no real way to recover from a bad flash.