Afterburner or EVGA Precision X for my GTX 770

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Both EVGA Precision X and MSI Afterburner should work with your GTX 770. However, for NVIDIA cards, Precision X would be better ( in the main window you can enable Frame Rate Target, Power Target, Temperature Target. These are very useful options ). For the OSD which shows FPS, when you launch EVGA Precision X and MSI Afterburner two icons should appear in the tray one for program itself(Precision X or Afterburner) and one for the RivaTuner Statistics Server. Double-click on the one for RivaTuner Statistics Server. There is a slider called "On-Screen Display zoom" that is responsible for changing the letter size.
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I haven't used EVGA Precision, though I hear it's good. I just use Afterburner to overclock and I didn't have any issues overclocking a 560 Ti to over 1GHz and my 670 to over 1300MHz on the core. Either one should be fine, though, I'd only overclock if you really need the performance gain, don't void the warranty for no reason.

I'm not sure about the second part to the question, I would guess it's either in the settings or you can't change it.
 
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EVGA Precision is good. I found that Afterburner would only work on my laptop (GT 210m) and not my desktop (GTX 670), but the EVGA tool did both. They are very similar, basically the same features and should come down to person preference. (Unless you have the same issue I did with Afterburner not working.) Making the FPS counter smaller? I don't know if you can do that, but some games that have debuggers have smaller FPS counters. You might be able to find program for that anyway.
 
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Both EVGA Precision X and MSI Afterburner should work with your GTX 770. However, for NVIDIA cards, Precision X would be better ( in the main window you can enable Frame Rate Target, Power Target, Temperature Target. These are very useful options ). For the OSD which shows FPS, when you launch EVGA Precision X and MSI Afterburner two icons should appear in the tray one for program itself(Precision X or Afterburner) and one for the RivaTuner Statistics Server. Double-click on the one for RivaTuner Statistics Server. There is a slider called "On-Screen Display zoom" that is responsible for changing the letter size.
 
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I agree with RJ 100%
I would always use Evga PrecisonX over Msi Afterburner. Afterburner does not have a K-boost voltage lock function, and that's very important to me for overclocking/over-volting. I recently got 2x 770 Superclocked ACX free of charge from EVGA because one of my 670 FTWs went bad after 2 years of use, they sent me a 770 SC AX replacement in turn breaking up my 670 Sli, so Evga Rma'ed the second working 670 FTW and sent me a matching 770 SC ACX!!
Getting back to tuners, the only good thing Afterburner has now over PrecisonX is 64 bit compatibility, this is very important as well, as many game developers are moving to the 64 bit clients. Evga PrecisonX pulled their current PrecisionX15 model, which was 64 bit compatible, because too many people thought it was a exact duplicate of Rivatuner's model......good for Evga!! in the meantime we are stuck waiting and using the 32 bit version 4.2.1. I only play one game that is a 64 bit client so no biggie, my OSD is in my keyboard display anyway:D
 
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They are exactly the same with zero differences beyond visual layout. Both are based on the same Rivatuner base developed by Unwinder. Now, if EVGA moves forward with development in-house of Precision, then that will change, but that hasn't happened yet.

For me, Afterburner is the original and has an easier to read layout, so I stick with that.
 
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^^ As above .... MSI AB allows selection of Power or temp targets and nVidia has pretty much locked out voltage modding by more than miniscule amounts (some cards like Lightning and Classified do special things). However there are minor adjustments that can be made for specific cards and **if** this applies to you, then you should use the card manufacturer's utility **if** those features hold any interest to you. The Asus 7970 is a card for example that has features specific to that card.
 
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They are not the same, they are much different. Soon their going to be a lot different. AB does not have the k-boost function which lock's voltage or clocks? Why would you want to use a tuner without that?? PrecisionX has all that AB has and more...that has always been what has separated the two for years......
 
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AB has specific stuff for MSI cards, Asus has specific stuff for Asus cards and EVGA has specific stuff for EVGA cards. If you are using EVGA Classified cards, you'll be better off with Precision, if you are using Lightning cards you will be better off with AB ..... but if you using a reference PCB as is used on the EVGA SC series I don't see where it matters..... and I can't imagine why I would want to "lock in" a voltage or clock because that's exactly what I want to avoid. That's like locking my CPU at 4.6 Ghz and 1.385 volts when it's sitting isle and all it would otherwise do is sit at 800 Mhz and 1.2 volts ..... why would anyone want to do that ?

According to EVGA

http://www.overclock.net/t/1317231/new-evga-precision-x-3-0-4/10#post_18442922

Some older games/applications will throttle at or below boost, K-Boost helps in these situations.

Also it helps with extreme benchmarking.

Definitely K-Boost is an advanced feature however, most users will not see any benefit to using it in most applications.
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http://www.overclock.net/t/1333475/evga-precision-x-k-boost

It is not harmful, but it will run the GPU a bit hotter and use more power.
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It's not free performance, it just forces the card to run all the time at the speed it is going to run at load anyway.
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Who wouldn't want to get the most of out of their gpus.... all of the time??
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All the same people who don't like their CPUs running at max overclock, max voltage, max power and max heat while the monitor is sleeping and systems are running backups at 4 am or sitting idle most of the day. Does your CPU run at max turbo speed and max voltage 24/7 or does it throttle down when idle ? Why prematurely degrade your hardware ?

The goal is to minimize heat, noise, power and voltage when it is not needed, not to maximize heat, noise, power and voltage and keep them at max at all times...... That would be like having your car engine run constantly at 7500 rpm even when stopped at a traffic light or stuck in bumper to bumper traffic. Instead, it runs at the rpm it needs to run at ..... gives you more rpm when accelerating and you need power and running efficiently, quieter and cooler so as to minimize energy use, wear and tear and noise.

K-boost is a tool that EVGA incorporated to get better benchmark scores..... if that's what you are into, by all means go for it. But of you are going to say it does something more when EVGA staff are contradicting you and saying "most users will not see any benefit to using it in most applications." I gotta go with EVGA staff.

And yes, each of the tools has had specific tools incorporated that for example change voltage caps, download card specific BIOSs and the like. Look up the 7970 and Asus RoG Forums for example.

 
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JackNaylorPE is right!! What is the point of permanently pushing a load on your GPU or CPU all of the time? You only want to draw what load is needed when needed. like he said, why would would anybody in there right mind want there GPU or CPU, it don't matter, to be working on a full load while at idle??
Now back to the MSI afterburner thing! Personally I'm fixing to dump my MSI Afterburner, tired of it crashing on me after a half hour or so everytime, but it does seem to have more options for in game monitoring, but it crashes all time lol

 
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