It sure is nice to be able to have the best of both worlds though! Yes, using software that's visually appealing to the eye is definitely a PLUS, but it's not an absolute mandatory requirement in my opinion. Features, flexibility, customization, user-friendliness, and robustness(in no particular order), are probably my main determining factors when choosing nearly ANY software to use on my own personal computers, whether it's a gpu tweaking utility, anti-virus suite, text editor(I prefer Notepad++.), etc. I, for instance, most definitely wouldn't prefer X software to Y software, basing my preference primarily on 'prettiness' and appearance alone. I agree, one shouldn't necessarily recommend which software is 'better' simply because they feel that it's the prettier/est of the gpu tweaking software alternatives out there, but that could be the primary determining factor to that particular person.

Personally I have no idea and want to find out which is better if you own a ASUS VGA card. Not oh, the ASUS one has prettier colours so I vote for that. Please mention some pros and cons of each before you say why you think one is better then the other.

At time of writing - GPUTweak V2.7.1.8 vs Afterburner 4.10

Afterburner pc