It's initially only available in the latest version of MSI's Afterburner but expect it to arrive in other overclocking tools soon enough. Now, OC Scanner is available to owners of Pascal-based (GTX 10-series) cards. The feature stress-tests the GPU and can recover from hangs and crashes if things go wrong.

OC Scanner, which is found in overclocking utilities such as MSI's Afterburner and EVGA's Precision X1, runs clock speed tests at a range of voltages to find the exact voltage-frequency curve for your RTX graphics card. With the release of its RTX 20-series cards in September, Nvidia introduced a one-click overclocking solution that the company said is better tuned for their GPUs, thereby making it more accurate and more reliable.

But Nvidia and MSI are making things easier by expanding the auto-overclocking OC Scanner feature from the latest Turing cards to Pascal. In brief: While most of us manually overclock our graphics cards to squeeze the most performance out of them, the process can be confusing and potentially disastrous for newbies.

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