Increase MSI Afterburner overclock range?

RejZoR · May 4, 2011

I'm having a problem here. I just sticked good old GeForce 8400GS into my box and want to overclock the hell out of it just for fun. However the problem is that MSI Afterburner doesn't allow me to go any higher than 740MHz for GPU and 455MHz for memory. Which is strange because i remember running it at over 800MHz months ago. Is there any way to get rid of the artificial limit? I can't seem to find any such setting in MSI Afterburner settings. Need more powah...

D007 · May 4, 2011

RejZoR said:
I'm having a problem here. I just sticked good old GeForce 8400GS into my box and want to overclock the hell out of it just for fun. However the problem is that MSI Afterburner doesn't allow me to go any higher than 740MHz for GPU and 455MHz for memory. Which is strange because i remember running it at over 800MHz months ago. Is there any way to get rid of the artificial limit? I can't seem to find any such setting in MSI Afterburner settings. Need more powah...

To enable the unofficial overclocking in this version it is necessary to edit the MSIAfterburner.cfg file located in the installation directory of AfterBurner (typically Program Files (x86) MSI Afterburner):

You need to alter the following:

Find UnofficialOverclockingEULA field and add this:
I confirm that I am aware of unofficial overclocking limitations and fully understand that MSI will not provide me any support on it
Then set UnofficialOverclockingMode to 1 to keep PowerPlay active (may not work on old ASICs), 2 to traditionally disable PowerPlay or to 0 to temporary disable unofficial overclocking path.

Yes you have to paste that entire line in there: I confirm that I am aware of unofficial overclocking limitations and fully understand that MSI will not provide me any support on it

It should look EXACTLY like this:

[ATIADLHAL]
UnofficialOverclockingEULA = I confirm that I am aware of unofficial overclocking limitations and fully understand that MSI will not provide me any support on it

RejZoR · May 4, 2011

GeForce 8400GS, not Radeon...

D007 · May 4, 2011

Ok so that line isn't in your cfg? same principal doesn't apply?
If not I don't know.. May have to google for that one.. Riva tuner no good anymore? lol..

RejZoR · May 4, 2011

It didn't do anything for me.

drmurda · Jun 9, 2011

Thank you

D007, Its worked flawlessly... i got a new MSI 6950 afew days ago and it was almost maxing out the afterburner program STOCK! Thank again :toast:

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System Name	Dark Monolith
Processor	AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D
Motherboard	ASUS Strix X570-E
Cooling	Arctic Cooling Freezer II 240mm + 2x SilentWings 3 120mm
Memory	64 GB G.Skill Ripjaws V Black 3600 MHz
Video Card(s)	XFX Radeon RX 9070 XT Mercury OC Magnetic Air
Storage	Seagate Firecuda 530 4 TB SSD + Samsung 850 Pro 2 TB SSD + Seagate Barracuda 8 TB HDD
Display(s)	ASUS ROG Swift PG27AQDM 240Hz OLED
Case	Silverstone Kublai KL-07
Audio Device(s)	Sound Blaster AE-9 MUSES Edition + Altec Lansing MX5021 2.1 Nichicon Gold
Power Supply	BeQuiet DarkPower 11 Pro 750W
Mouse	Logitech G502 Proteus Spectrum
Keyboard	UVI Pride MechaOptical
Software	Windows 11 Pro

System Name	HAL
Processor	Core i9 14900ks @5.9-6.3
Motherboard	Z790 Dark Hero
Cooling	Bitspower Summit SE & (2) 360 Corsair XR7 Rads push/pull
Memory	2x 32GB (64GB) Gskill trident 6000 CL30
Video Card(s)	RTX 4090 Gigagbyte gaming OC @ +200/1300
Storage	(M2's) 2x Samsung 980 pro 2TB, 1xWD Black 2TB, 1x SK Hynix Platinum P41 2TB
Display(s)	65" LG OLED 120HZ
Case	Lian Li dyanmic Evo11 with distro plate
Audio Device(s)	Klipsh 7.1 through Sony DH790 EARC.
Power Supply	Thermaltake 1350
Software	Microsoft Windows 11 x64

System Name	Dark Monolith
Processor	AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D
Motherboard	ASUS Strix X570-E
Cooling	Arctic Cooling Freezer II 240mm + 2x SilentWings 3 120mm
Memory	64 GB G.Skill Ripjaws V Black 3600 MHz
Video Card(s)	XFX Radeon RX 9070 XT Mercury OC Magnetic Air
Storage	Seagate Firecuda 530 4 TB SSD + Samsung 850 Pro 2 TB SSD + Seagate Barracuda 8 TB HDD
Display(s)	ASUS ROG Swift PG27AQDM 240Hz OLED
Case	Silverstone Kublai KL-07
Audio Device(s)	Sound Blaster AE-9 MUSES Edition + Altec Lansing MX5021 2.1 Nichicon Gold
Power Supply	BeQuiet DarkPower 11 Pro 750W
Mouse	Logitech G502 Proteus Spectrum
Keyboard	UVI Pride MechaOptical
Software	Windows 11 Pro

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