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This is great reverse engineering, and awesome the author put up the source code, but I wonder if Nvidia will try to take it down on "copyright claims"? Either way I've saved a copy of the article for later use. The author is right that the existing "approved" overclocking tools are garbage.

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they can try, but you're allowed to reverse engineer. Which is why DMCA was written...

MSI Afterburner runs pretty well. Not sure if it is "approved" or not, but I'd assume so as MSI is an Nvidia partner.

I've found that simply having Afterburner installed would cause bluescreens on my Maxwell card, even if no settings were altered. Although many people are blaming TDR issues in Nvidia's recent drivers, so who knows. Either way, Afterburner is a hog, has terrible UI and plenty of unneeded features (for me :). Other similar apps, like EVGA Precision appear to be re-skins of the exact same codebase.

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