Afterburner or Evga precision with 680?

[JJThomp]

Afterburner is generally the recommended program on these forums.

[sswilson]

The new precisionX looks to be based off the exact same base (riva tuner) with a different skin. Compare both the options/settings and the OSD settings to see if you agree with me. :)

The biggest benefit I see to afterburner over precisionX is the real time graph which if it's there in precisionX I can't for the life of me find it.

[SlickEnuf4U]

I love Afterburner. PrecisionX has such a cramped display in comparison. Logging in Afterburner is awesome.

[powerbench]

I have to agree...

[tdubl07]

Well fired up afterburner again last night and all is well. I just like the interface a little better and the monitoring side of it. Just as easy to overclock in afterburner, and saving profiles seems less finicky. So happy camper here. Thanks again guys. EVGA does look nicer for sure though They seem almost identical besides the GUI on them. Just could never seem to get my profiles to stick or not reset in EVGA.

[tdubl07]

Originally Posted by sswilson

The new precisionX looks to be based off the exact same base (riva tuner) with a different skin. Compare both the options/settings and the OSD settings to see if you agree with me. :)

The biggest benefit I see to afterburner over precisionX is the real time graph which if it's there in precisionX I can't for the life of me find it.

HA, yep this is exactly the question I was asking. And yep you're exactly right, different GUI and the exact same utility in the settings FYI I also finally figured out how to monitor with precision, you just have to double click on the performance monitoring graphs on the bottom and it opens up. Only thing is it's huge on screen, and is a real time graph with no max values shown. So I'm stickin with afterburner. Thanks again guys.

[pentiumvi]

Do none of you get the red screen of death when using EVGA precision monitoring? I got 2 red screens using Precision X.

Afterburner does not seem to cause the red screens.

[Galcobar]

Originally Posted by sswilson

The new precisionX looks to be based off the exact same base (riva tuner) with a different skin. Compare both the options/settings and the OSD settings to see if you agree with me. :)

The biggest benefit I see to afterburner over precisionX is the real time graph which if it's there in precisionX I can't for the life of me find it.

They are both based off RivaTuner -- Unwinder, RivaTuner's author, has been entirely clear about that. For that matter, if you look at the on-screen display server application both are actually labelled (on the UI) as RivaTuner Statistics Server technology. Though, EVGA's new skin might have altered that, I haven't used Precision since I got my GTX 480 because Precision didn't offer voltage adjustments at the time.