Over clocking refresh rate

[Hassan170]

I have seen monitors with refresh rates up to 240 Hz but I have at one point or another come across the word "over locking the display" but how is it possible to over clock the display say from 144hz to 175hz if the monitor is only physically capable of showing you 144 frames per second?

 

P.S I apologize if I sound dumb I'm kinda new to this so I really have no idea what I'm talking about but at the same time the sciency side of me is really itching over this.

[Bananasplit_00]

You can with software force a higher refresh rate, but like with any overclocking results vary from nothing to amazing

[MadAnt250]

@Hassan170You can use the Nvidia control panel if you have an Nvidia gpu. My monitor overclocked to 179Hz, I may be able to go higher at a lower resolution.

[Glenwing]

13 hours ago, Hassan170 said:

I have seen monitors with refresh rates up to 240 Hz but I have at one point or another come across the word "over locking the display" but how is it possible to over clock the display say from 144hz to 175hz if the monitor is only physically capable of showing you 144 frames per second?

Same way it's possible to overclock CPUs. Even if a CPU operates at 4.0 GHz by default that doesn't necessarily mean it's "only physically capable" of operating at up to 4.0 GHz. It may be, or it may be able to go higher if you tell it to.

[Hassan170]

On 9/4/2019 at 8:25 AM, Glenwing said:

Same way it's possible to overclock CPUs. Even if a CPU operates at 4.0 GHz by default that doesn't necessarily mean it's "only physically capable" of operating at up to 4.0 GHz. It may be, or it may be able to go higher if you tell it to.

Thanks I understand now