Asus ROG PG279 - Clocking

[Miguel Ehm]

HI LTT Community,

Usually I play my games around 144fps, but I use this computer for other tasks since I am a college student, like viewing pdf's, etc. I was thinking, if I downlclocked the monitor to 60fps it could increase its lifespan.

It would be a pain in the ass to switch every time that I wanted to play a game, but for a monitor at this price, I wouldn't mind.

It was my first post here, thanks everyone  

[Glenwing]

1 hour ago, Miguel Ehm said:

HI LTT Community,

Usually I play my games around 144fps, but I use this computer for other tasks since I am a college student, like viewing pdf's, etc. I was thinking, if I downlclocked the monitor to 60fps it could increase its lifespan.

It would be a pain in the ass to switch every time that I wanted to play a game, but for a monitor at this price, I wouldn't mind.

It was my first post here, thanks everyone  

The refresh rate doesn't really affect the lifspan.

[Miguel Ehm]

1 hour ago, Glenwing said:

The refresh rate doesn't really affect the lifspan.

thanks

[tohico]

Theoretically, it may affect the lifespan the same way like overclocking. But I'm purely theorizing here. I believe 144 Hz should be still fairly okay, only the 165 Hz is something that would worry me at night.

 

Anyway, you can set the changing process to do all this automatically. Set the refresh rate to the desired default refresh rate through Nvidia Control Panel (not the monitor - it wouldn't be switching itself back). Then go to the Nvidia Control Panel > Manage 3D Settings > Program Settings -> Select desired game(s) -> set Monitor Technology to Fixed Refresh Rate and if the game doesn't allow you to set the refresh rate by yourself or you want the 144 Hz anyway, then also set Preferred Refresh Rate to Highest Available. This way, you can you use the monitor at 60 Hz in desktop and when you start the game, it switches itself to 144 Hz and when you exit it, then it goes back to 60 Hz.

 

Either way, I don't think it's worth it. Too much hassle and I find the monitor very addicting at 144 Hz even in Windows. So let's hope they don't die on us after 3 years when the warranty ends

[Miguel Ehm]

On 11/25/2016 at 11:07 PM, tohico said:

Theoretically, it may affect the lifespan the same way like overclocking. But I'm purely theorizing here. I believe 144 Hz should be still fairly okay, only the 165 Hz is something that would worry me at night.

 

Anyway, you can set the changing process to do all this automatically. Set the refresh rate to the desired default refresh rate through Nvidia Control Panel (not the monitor - it wouldn't be switching itself back). Then go to the Nvidia Control Panel > Manage 3D Settings > Program Settings -> Select desired game(s) -> set Monitor Technology to Fixed Refresh Rate and if the game doesn't allow you to set the refresh rate by yourself or you want the 144 Hz anyway, then also set Preferred Refresh Rate to Highest Available. This way, you can you use the monitor at 60 Hz in desktop and when you start the game, it switches itself to 144 Hz and when you exit it, then it goes back to 60 Hz.

 

Either way, I don't think it's worth it. Too much hassle and I find the monitor very addicting at 144 Hz even in Windows. So let's hope they don't die on us after 3 years when the warranty ends

thanks man, i didn't know that you could program that. But honestly am leaving the monitor all the way to 165 everyday. Even the mouse is soooo smooth on windows.