Will I lose my Warranty ? MSI Afterburner

[Discliper]

Hello,

I have a Acer Predator 17 with the 2tb version, in it there is a i7 6700HQ that goes to max 3.50 Ghz.

I want to use MSI Afterburner ONLY to check temperatures and clocks. As long as I dont touch anything will I keep my warranty ? Only answer if you know.

Thanks

[Revelene]

MSI Afterburner is a mainstream overclocking program, which operates within predefined limitations. It does not overclock the CPU. I've also never heard of it voiding any warranty, as it does not track what programs are used.

In short, you'll be fine. But why specifically MSI Afterburner? Riva Tuner (which is what is used in MSI Afterburner) is great, but if you don't have a dedicated GPU, the rest of the program is useless to you. There are plenty of dedicated monitoring programs that can achieve your goal, like Hwmonitor and Open Hardware Monitor.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

For CPUs, apps like Afterburner (and ones like that, such as Precision-X) are simply for Monitoring when it comes to CPUs. It only has the ability to maybe show CPU Loads and Temps with regards to hardware such as that. As for any OC ability, it only can handle that for GPUs.

If you were to OC a CPU, do that from within your Motherboard BIOS, not via OS software.

[Azza ☠]

Depending on the Warranty - some cover and others do not cover overclocking...

However, if you just monitor and don't overclock, that is fine and still covered for all. Just note some apps such as MSI Afterburner add a minor overclock as default when installed.

[Discliper]

I have an default app from acer called "PredatorSense" it shows me the Temperature of the i7 Cpu and the casing of the laptop, under that it shows the speed of the fans. But it does not show the GPU Temperature at all and this really interests me. So I thought Afterburner might show it to me, and it kinda did. It showed just 1 short line saying 39 C°. After Holiday I noticed the i7 goes from basic 60-70C° on csgo, mafia 3 and fallout 4 High graphics to suddenly 85-90C° even on low settings, and those games dont use that much power. It is probably because something is interrupting the nvidia settings but I dont know how to fix that. So atleast I wanted to see the GPU temperature to get a view on the max temp it gets after holiday... no dust at all, its software cleans the laptop pretty clean.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

For easier Monitoring you can easily go into MSI Afterburner's Options/Settings > click Monitoring tab, find GPU Temprature and set for "Show in Tray Icon" and set a color. This will then provide a small ## icon in taskbar next to the Afterburner jet icon, which will display GPU Temp at all times while MSI-AB is running. For any In-Game Overlay display type monitoring; set options for "OSD" / "On Screen Display" for such options and then once applied, RivaTuner should now have a small blue monitor icon in taskbar as well. RivaTuner will allow enable/disable and confifguration for how OSD will appear via an in-game overlay. Allowing you to then in-game things which you wish to monitor as you see fit. In "User Interface" for MSI-AB I would suggest leaving Temprature on *C; as should you use *F, this would result in the GPU Temprature tray icon changing into three ### for the icon, which doesn't fit properly. In *C it would remain as just two ## up to 99*C which is really all the range you should need. Learn to use *C for PCs as that is idealy what 90% of the world uses. Even for US PCs I tend to always just use *C as when referring to that, the rest of the world easily understands it. You just need to understand what temps in *C are deemed borderline for good/bad really is all.

[Discliper]

Will do, thanks alot to everyone ! :)