Overclocking a laptop's monitor

[Beertran]

Hi everyone,

 

I recently bought an Acer Predator Helios 300 and realized a few days ago that I could probably overclock the monitor to give me just that extra FPS 

Nvidia control panel only showed me 3D settings, so I tried creating a custom resolution in the "Intel Graphics Control Panel" but as one would expect it "exceeds the bandwidth" as soon as I tried >60fps

 

After running the Nvidia driver patch (https://www.monitortests.com/forum/Thread-NVIDIA-Pixel-Clock-Patcher) I tried running CRU, which allowed me to add custom resolutions to Intel Graphics Control Panel, but any framerate over 60 would show me a glitchy screen (example for 65FPS attached to this post)

I may have tried other stuff but I can't remember what exactly

 

To be exact, my laptop is a Helios 300 with an i5-8300H and a 1060 6GB

Am I missing something? Am I doing something wrong? I've seen people talking about high refresh rates when they OC a Helios 300, but haven't found many people talking about Coffee Lake

 

Any feedback is appreciated,
Papa bless 

[mxk]

7 minutes ago, Beertran said:

overclock the monitor to give me just that extra FPS 

That's not how it works. 

Overclocking monitors usually isn't worth it, in my experience. It, most of the time isn't stable. @Turtle Rig knows a way to make 60hz smoother and give a better experience. If he responds I think he can help you.

 

EDIT: The silicon lottery also happens with display panels, too. So if you heard people talking about hitting higher refresh rates, they probably got more lucky then you because they got a panel that overclocks better.

[Beertran]

Shouldn't have posted this, a minutes after posting, I tried setting a custom resolution with the "timing" option set to "LCD standard" instead of the automatic "manual"

 

It finally seems to work (for 65-66fps at least )