Overclocking HP 27es

[JasonBecker]

Does anyone know if there is a work around or custom firmware for the HP 27es? When you attempt to overclock the monitor it says something like "the current settings are outside the monitors limits. shutting off in 30 seconds". Yet for those 30 seconds I can get my 60hz monitor up to 85hz and its still functional. 

[Turtle Rig]

13 minutes ago, JasonBecker said:

Does anyone know if there is a work around or custom firmware for the HP 27es? When you attempt to overclock the monitor it says something like "the current settings are outside the monitors limits. shutting off in 30 seconds". Yet for those 30 seconds I can get my 60hz monitor up to 85hz and its still functional. 

Im confused by what your asking.....  So you have a HP monitor that can overclock to 85hz ?  What are you asking ?

[JasonBecker]

Just now, Turtle Rig said:

Im confused by what your asking.....  So you have a HP monitor that can overclock to 85hz ?  What are you asking ?

Im asking if there is a way to prevent the monitor from shutting down after 30 seconds since 85 hz is past the 60 hz 'limit' on the monitor. I can clearly see that it will run at 85 but it shuts itself down since im trying to run it above 1920x1080 60hz.

[Turtle Rig]

Ive never heard of a problem where you change to custom refresh rate ….  In your case to 85hz and it works and windows is fine and you click on yes to save it.  But then 30 seconds later the monitor gives out of range no signal ?

 

If what I said is what you mean then its a hardware limitation with HP.  If it can hang on a 85hz overclock but then out of range after 30 seconds,, is weird.. Never heard of that.

 

Also I hope you know when you overclock you take away from the monitors color depth and bit depth and your monitor gets downclocked in a way to not look as good.. I would stick with 60hz, because A.  You will damage your hardware going from 60hz to 85hz or it will give you anomalies and what not. B.  Your monitor will not look as good and be at 8bit depth or possibly it goes from 8 to 6 ,,,, but ya.... Don't OC, just buy a 144Hz monitor.  60 to 85hz is very noticeable but going from 60hz to 144hz will blow you away.

[JasonBecker]

2 minutes ago, Turtle Rig said:

Ive never heard of a problem where you change to custom refresh rate ….  In your case to 85hz and it works and windows is fine and you click on yes to save it.  But then 30 seconds later the monitor gives out of range no signal ?

 

If what I said is what you mean then its a hardware limitation with HP.  If it can hang on a 85hz overclock but then out of range after 30 seconds,, is weird.. Never heard of that.

 

Also I hope you know when you overclock you take away from the monitors color depth and bit depth and your monitor gets downclocked in a way to not look as good.. I would stick with 60hz, because A.  You will damage your hardware going from 60hz to 85hz or it will give you anomalies and what not.

Yes what you said is correct. And I do understand, I am just looking for the higher refresh rate. That is why I mentioned a custom firmware as that could possibly disable this limitation.

 

[Turtle Rig]

42 minutes ago, JasonBecker said:

Yes what you said is correct. And I do understand, I am just looking for the higher refresh rate. That is why I mentioned a custom firmware as that could possibly disable this limitation.

 

The firmware would have to come from a third party like a modder or something.  Because there is no way HP is releasing firmware to OC your refresh rate.  Also OCing like this from 60 to 85hz can actually make things worse for you.  Like jittery mouse in FPS games and not smooth.  I can OC to 75hz @ 1080p and games run really bad and choppy and jerky alto the framerate shows high...…. so ya if your looking for problems you can force a overclock on the monitor Im sure with Display Fusion or another display app.