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I just did my first 'monitor' overclock yesterday. Now today I wanted to do more so I took an old viewsonic and plugged it in my pc and went wild. It started off with like a 102 Mz clock and I took it up to 142 Mz. I practically made a whole new monitor upgrade. Rounding off I took it from 720 to about 1080 and from 60 Hz to 80 Hz. Also I did it through a VGA cable I kind of custom made with a trash one (it had garbage pins) and some paper clips. :P  Anybody have anything better? I am just curious because this really interests me. :D

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I just did my first 'monitor' overclock yesterday. Now today I wanted to do more so I took an old viewsonic and plugged it in my pc and went wild. It started off with like a 102 Mz clock and I took it up to 142 Mz. I practically made a whole new monitor upgrade. Rounding off I took it from 720 to about 1080 and from 60 Hz to 80 Hz. Also I did it through a VGA cable I kind of custom made with a trash one (it had garbage pins) and some paper clips. :P  Anybody have anything better? I am just curious because this really interests me. :D

whats a pixel overclock?

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142MHz?

MEGAHERTZ???

monitors don't even run at kilohertz yet...

they are 60, 120 or 144Hz not MHz.....

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I just did my first 'monitor' overclock yesterday. Now today I wanted to do more so I took an old viewsonic and plugged it in my pc and went wild. It started off with like a 102 Mz clock and I took it up to 142 Mz. I practically made a whole new monitor upgrade. Rounding off I took it from 720 to about 1080 and from 60 Hz to 80 Hz. Also I did it through a VGA cable I kind of custom made with a trash one (it had garbage pins) and some paper clips. :P  Anybody have anything better? I am just curious because this really interests me. :D

 

How the heck do you "overclock" a monitor to go from 720p to 1080p. That is physically not possible. The screen is 720p, you can't change it to 1080p by overclocking it.

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I am not talking frames, I am talking about the monitor 'processor.'

that makes no difference if the monitor is just running at a constant refresh rate...

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To be honest. I really don't know how to explain it. Its basically just normal overclocking but for a monitor. So the higher the clock the better it gets. Higher clock = Higher Resolution/FPS.

you cannot increase a monitors resolution by overclocking

who the hell told you that

 

did they also tell you to download more ram and a GPU?

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How the heck do you "overclock" a monitor to go from 720p to 1080p. That is physically not possible. The screen is 720p, you can't change it to 1080p by overclocking it.

I know what your saying. I don't think its a physical change, its more of a theoretical change. Its kind of like the Nvidia thing were it takes 4k and scales it to 1080 (I think... I could be totally wrong.)

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you cannot increase a monitors resolution by overclocking

who the hell told you that

 

did they also tell you to download more ram and a GPU?

You obviously can't do that. Again, I don't think its a physical change, its more of a theoretical change.

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I know what your saying. I don't think its a physical change, its more of a theoretical change. Its kind of like the Nvidia thing were it takes 4k and scales it to 1080 (I think... I could be totally wrong.

 

So you set windows to output a 1080p display while it's supposed to be 720p.

 

No point in that really... but okay..

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You obviously can't do that. Again, I don't think its a physical change, its more of a theoretical change.

so sending a higher resolution to your monitor and having your monitor downscale it in order to make your GPU work harder and increase latency?

like DSR but more complicated and worse?

why do you even want to do that?

 

any kind of improvement you might see is placebo...

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so sending a higher resolution to your monitor and having your monitor downscale it in order to make your GPU work harder and increase latency?

like DSR but more complicated and worse?

why do you even want to do that?

 

any kind of improvement you might see is placebo...

Basically, but its not just the 'resolution' it actually does increase the frame rate. Plus I have one of the worst cards you can still possibly buy from Nvidia so, at this point I don't think it really matters. My computer is around 9 years old. It gets the job done though. It maxes out every game "I" play, and usually is pretty fast (for what it is) with starts up times at around 20-30 seconds. Plus it does 3D Modeling/Rendering and stuff. Not saying it does it super quickly or really slow but it still does it.

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Basically, but its not just the 'resolution' it actually does increase the frame rate. Plus I have one of the worst cards you can still possibly buy from Nvidia so, at this point I don't think it really matters. My computer is around 9 years old. It gets the job done though. It maxes out every game "I" play, and usually is pretty fast (for what it is) with starts up times at around 20-30 seconds. Plus it does 3D Modeling/Rendering and stuff. Not saying it does it super quickly or really slow but it still does it.

 

Changing a monitor can't increase your frame rate.

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