
Overall, the benchmark tests of MSI Kombustor aren't fast but lovely to look at. The different tools here are limited but include a CPU burner, GTX LED controller and GPU monitoring, along with the mandatory stress test and benchmark tools. Unstable or crippled builds pop into sharp relief, halving their frame rates over previous versions or other cards with lesser hardware.Ĭompatible operating systems Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP This puts some limits on it as a hardware reference tool, but makes Kombustor quite useful for study of driver code performance. MSI Kombustor is more dependent on drivers than most benchmarks, and different driver versions can swing results wildly in one direction or the other. MSI Kombustor is a good enough utility that this still seems like a feature.



MSI dials back the pain a bit, but augments that product's burn-in features with expanded benchmarking capabilities, support for DirectX, linkages to Afterburner for test-and-tune sessions and a whole lot more objects, scenes and settings to look at while it all gets done. MSI Kombustor is based on Furmark, a stress test famous in the enthusiast community for frying videocards alive in its quest to probe GPUs' outer limits.
