MSI's Afterburner graphics overclocking app gets its first proper update in years
Everybody's favourite graphics card tweaking app has been fully updated for the first time since 2019. The new build of MSI Afterburner(opens in new tab) brings full support for Nvidia's latest RTX 40-series GPUs(opens in new tab) and AMD's RX 7000-series(opens in new tab) graphics. Intel's new Arc GPUs also receive limited support.
Earlier this year, we reported(opens in new tab) on apparent problems that Afterburner's lone developer, Alexey 'Unwinder' Nicolaychuk, was having securing his compensation from MSI.
As a consequence, Nicolaychuk said that Afterburner was «probably dead,» with the developer citing «war and politics» as impediments to progress and the implication being that his Russian nationality may have been a stumbling block.
However, back then MSI said it was in fact committed to the app, telling us that it fully intended «to continue with MSI Afterburner. MSI has been working on a solution and expects it to be resolved soon.»
Well, it seems that whatever the problems were, they have indeed been resolved. MSI Afterburner 4.6.5 is now available to download and brings with it a long list of upgrades.
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Along with the aforementioned full support for the latest Nvidia and AMD graphics, version 4.6.5 also offers hardware monitoring for Intel Arc GPUs. However, because Intel's hardware control API for Arc requires x64 code, there's no overclocking and tuning support for Arc graphics.
Elsewhere, voltage control support for GA103 and
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