MSI Afterburner vs EVGA PrecisionX vs GPU tweak ii (ASUS GTX 1070)

[crazytlingit]

I have recently ran these overclocking utilities and got widely varying results. EVGA PrecisionX gave me very low fps results 35-50fps on ultra settings for Crysis 3 and Metro, where MSI afterburner gave me 45-120 fps results. So initially I was worried my system wasn't running correctly when I used the EVGA precisionX. Any suggestions why this might be happening?

I'm very impressed with MSI afterburner, just had a more intuitive feel and felt more comfortable.

Note: Only used GPU tweak for a few minutes and wasn't that impressed and I didn't get around to showing the fps on my games.

 

[ingtar33]

EVGA Precision is a shameless rip of MSI afterburner (they even used the same graphic designer, and in its first versions featured the exact same code as MSI afterburner, just a different look) and is widely considered a lesser product; especially now that it no longer rips off 90% of it's code from MSI afterburner. That said i'm sure there will be people who achieved great overclocking results from EVGA precision.

The reason your results varied so widely is because the overclock with EVGA precision was not stable.

 

[dexxterlab97]

Use MSI afterburner.

 

[crazytlingit]

EVGA Precision is a shameless rip of MSI afterburner (they even used the same graphic designer, and in its first versions featured the exact same code as MSI afterburner, just a different look) and is widely considered a lesser product; especially now that it no longer rips off 90% of it's code from MSI afterburner. That said i'm sure there will be people who achieved great overclocking results from EVGA precision.

The reason your results varied so widely is because the overclock with EVGA precision was not stable.

Thanks for the response. Question, will the EVGA utility cause the game to not be stable, or is the utility software not stable. I'm very new to the MSI afterburner and it took only a few minutes before I was convinced it was better for myself.

 

[ingtar33]

Thanks for the response. Question, will the EVGA utility cause the game to not be stable, or is the utility software not stable. I'm very new to the MSI afterburner and it took only a few minutes before I was convinced it was better for myself.

no, the utility, unless it's critically flawed (which I haven't heard) shouldn't cause any instability in and of itself. however when overclocking the card you can cause instability if the overclock is not stable.