'Downgrading' to 75Hz

[yolosnail]

A few months back I purchased a 27" MSI 1080P 144Hz monitor, and pretty much instantly regretted it. While the 144Hz is nice, 1080P on a 27" monitor is pretty much unusable!

 

Fortunately, the monitor developed a flickering issue, so I sent it back to Amazon.

 

Since I 'needed' a second monitor, I picked up a cheap Lenovo 1440p 75Hz monitor in the Black Friday 'sales', and despite it being half the refresh rate, it's infinitely nicer to use!

I actually ended up picking up a second one so I could finally have matching monitors.

 

In the limited amount of gaming I've done (I've been using my Steamdeck instead), I really don't miss the extra refresh rate. The extra resolution more than makes up for it IMO.

[Somerandomtechyboi]

You may be able to squeeze out a few more fps by just overclocking the monitors via making a custom resolution in your drivers, basically everything stays the same but higher refresh rate, absolutely no risk as you are only changing refresh rate

[yolosnail]

5 minutes ago, Somerandomtechyboi said:

You may be able to squeeze out a few more fps by just overclocking the monitors via making a custom resolution in your drivers, basically everything stays the same but higher refresh rate, absolutely no risk as you are only changing refresh rate

I actually tried, and I just get 'input not supported'

[Somerandomtechyboi]

1 minute ago, yolosnail said:

I actually tried, and I just get 'input not supported'

Welp looks like the monitors are maxed out already, cant really expect much from newer monitors oc wise anyways

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6 minutes ago, Somerandomtechyboi said:

Welp looks like the monitors are maxed out already, cant really expect much from newer monitors oc wise anyways

Yeah, I'm guessing it's a 60Hz panel that's already 'OC'd to 75Hz

 

Just tried my other monitor, a Viewsonic VA2719, and while it's happy to accept an overclock of 80Hz, anything over 60Hz results in frame skipping