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Video Tutorial on how to enable On-Screen Display using MSI Afterburner

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Simple how-to for enabling On-Screen Display (OSD) for use while gaming.  This helps keep an eye on temps, clocks, usage, framerate, really anything that you want to be able to monitor while you play.  It is a very simple and quick process.  Below are the steps and a link to the free overclocking software MSI Afterburner.  Note: You do not need to overclock (OC) to use the OSD, but if you're somewhat new to this like I recently was, using Afterburner to OC is very easy.  I'll make another walkthrough video showing a beginner-friendly way to OC using MSI Afterburner.

Without further Ado, here are the steps.

Step 1: Download MSI Afterburner http://www.guru3d.com/files_get/msi_afterburner_beta_download,21.html

Step 2: Open MSI Afterburner and in the very bottom right hand corner of the left-sided box, click "Settings"

Step 3: Open the "Monitoring" tab.  From there, you'll see "Active hardware monitoring graphs", just below that will be a list of "Graph[s]" you can enable.  There is all kinds of things you can enable such as GPU power, temp, usage to CPU usage, fan speed, and of course frame rate.  If you enable too many things, it'll cluster up too much and be hard to identify what exactly you're looking at, especially at a glance.

Step 4: Once you've decided what you want to enable, simply highlight that area and pull down the window bar at the right to reveal an unchecked box next to "Show in On-Screen Display".  Check that box and you're golden.  Do this for each thing you want to display.  There is also a way to have the OSD show in (or not) in screen shots or videos.  That is on the next step.

Step 5: If you want to display the clock and choose to display the OSD in screen shots and videos, open the "On-Screen Display" tab.  From there you can check the box "Show system time" and check the box "Show On-Screen Display on captured screenshots and videos".  You can also set some hotkeys to turn on/off the OSD.

That's it.  If you follow these long-winded steps, you'll be in monitoring heaven.  I personally like to see how my computer performs in different games as well as keep an eye on my CPU/GPU temps (and what time it is!).

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