MSI demos Android app for overclocking and monitoring your PC’s graphics card

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  • June 6, 2011 at 7:41 am

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MSI Afterburner graphics card overclocking and monitoring Android app

Modders rejoice! MSI has demoed, at Computex 2011, an Android version of it’s ‘Afreburner’ graphics card over-clocking utility. The app, which should run on most Android phones and tablets, allows you to connect to your PC running Afterburner via Wi-Fi and over-clock your computer’s graphics card to your heart’s desire.

The app will allow you to over-lock and over-voltage an MSI graphics card from your Android device while giving you some useful up-to-the-minute stats such as GPU temperature and usage using your device’s real estate.
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AMD launches Radeon HD 6990 — fastest dual-GPU single graphics card on the planet

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  • March 8, 2011 at 6:25 am

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Radeon HD 6990 Graphics Card

AMD has just launched its new flagship video card, the dual-GPU Radeon HD 6990. A worthy successor to the Radeon HD 5970, the HD 6990 is made-up of two Cayman GPUs on a single card running at 830Mhz for a total of 3072 stream processors, 192 texture units and two 256-bit memory channels driving 4GB of GDDR5 RAM. The card can provide output to up to six displays simultaneously using AMD’s Eyefinity technology.

As you might have guessed, the Radeon HD 6990 is insanely fast; but the graphics card has also broken another type of record as well, by being the most power hungry (consuming up to 375W at default clock speeds) and most noisy single card ever.
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