Voltage Adjustment thanks to MSI has become such an “in” thing. Overclockers all over the world love it; and with so many companies moving away from reference coolers the ability to adjust voltages is pretty safe these days. Within reason that is.

Anyway if you’ve got yourself a GTX 480 you’ll probably want to grab the latest Afterburner software, 1.6.1 Beta4. It can be had from the MSI website HERE.

Once installed you’ll have to pull out your mad hacking skillz; and by that I mean edit the MSIAfterburner.cfg file in notepad.

1. Edit MSIAfterburner.cfg
2. Change AllowCaptureVoltageDefaults from 0 to 1

You should find this under Program Files/Afterburner.

Once that’s done fire up Afterburner, go to settings and down the bottom under safety *yawn boring* tick the first two boxes. You don’t need to tick the third; I’ve been told that this option will actually be gone soon as something changed on NVIDIAs end when making the card and it’s no longer needed.

On stock cooler we’ve been told that it’s safe to go to 1100 from 937. We’ve been told that it’s .937v to 1.1v but we’re not 100% on it so don’t hold me to that.

I’ve only tested this on the GTX 480 at the moment and all is good; keep an eye on TweakTown for an article. It’s going to be a late night!