"Overclocking" Monitor - does it hurt?

[Speakerator]

Alright lads, here's what's up. I fooled around in the nvidia control panel and realized that I could set a custom refreshrate, regardless of what the specifications of my screen read. So I started cranking up dem numbers and testing it in Unigine Valley on low to get proper framerates in fullscreen on 1440p, both with VSync on and off. If read up some articles about this online and go figure, it worked - with vertical sync enabled, the framerates dialed in at 60, 75, 80 and 90 Hz respectively. I started to get minor artifacts at 90Hz, so I dialed it back to 80Hz.

I have yet to test whether I feel any difference in faster paced games or notice any kind of misbehavior, but on a more general note: does running a screen at a higher refreshrate than its intended one do any harm to it? Recently, there have been some monitors with "overclocking" features built right into the menu, but I've never tried it on a regular one (screen is an Asus PB278QR 27" QHD screen usually running at 60Hz.

 

Best

Chris

 

[vong]

3 minutes ago, Speakerator said:

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It will reduce the life span a bit. Well those monitors are built to run at high refresh rates, that's why they cost so much.

[icebag]

I have an Acer Predator X34 which is 60Hz by default but allows you to "overclock" to 100Hz.  I definitely notice the difference over 60Hz in fast paced games such as Doom but not so much in other titles like Civ 6.  I've had the monitor running at 100Hz for about a year now and there has been no harm to it that I can tell.

[shadowbyte]

afaik it can shorten lifespan and increase heat output

go for it

[EthanCGamer]

In my own experience, yes. I killed my laptop panel by clocking it to 80 Hz from 60, and had to install a new one. That being said, I have two displays that heartily accept 75 Hz out of the box, a Gateway 1200p monitor from 2008 that will refuse anything over 75 (probably a safety feature) and a cheapo Dell 4:3. Side note: Most Dell displays clock to 75 Hz really well, I got about 50 of them in my computer lab in High School up to 75.

[Speakerator]

1 minute ago, Lacrimas said:

 

 

2 minutes ago, shadowbyte said:

sniop

 

2 minutes ago, icebag said:

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3 minutes ago, vong said:

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Alright, thank y'all. I'll have a look into the link. One year isn't much for a monitor, I have a screen that is around a decade old and works like a charm. I'll have an eye on the heat. On the other hand, breaking it might be a great justification to get a 21:9, which'd require a new GPU, itself needing a new CPU, MoBo and RAm and... brb, checking my balance..

[shadowbyte]

1 minute ago, Speakerator said:

 

 

 

 

Alright, thank y'all. I'll have a look into the link. One year isn't much for a monitor, I have a screen that is around a decade old and works like a charm. I'll have an eye on the heat. On the other hand, breaking it might be a great justification to get a 21:9, which'd require a new GPU, itself needing a new CPU, MoBo and RAm and... brb, checking my balance..

I did not say sniop I clearly said snip

/s

[Bananasplit_00]

2 minutes ago, EthanCGamer said:

In my own experience, yes. I killed my laptop panel by clocking it to 80 Hz from 60, and had to install a new one. That being said, I have two displays that heartily accept 75 Hz out of the box, a Gateway 1200p monitor from 2008 that will refuse anything over 75 (probably a safety feature) and a cheapo Dell 4:3. Side note: Most Dell displays clock to 75 Hz really well, I got about 50 of them in my computer lab in High School up to 75.

im just here wondering how the hell you managed to overclock a lapopt panel, iv tried but nothing has worked  

 

i have all my monitors overclocked, all with a base frequency of 60Hz and i have one running 66Hz, one 75Hz and one 77Hz and i can honestly say i will never play anything on a 60Hz panel ever again if i dont have to. 77Hz is on my main monitor and its amazing how much of a differance it makes, also never encountred artifacting when overclocking monitors so thats a first for me, it either works or dosent from what iv tried. as for the downsides it will increase heat output and will shorten the lifespan by a little bit but i would doubt longer then a few days tbh.

[EthanCGamer]

1 hour ago, Bananasplit_00 said:

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I have a Quadro K2100M, which allows me to use all the Nvidia control panel features with any monitor (I think). It's a mobile Quadro, so that's how I OC'd my panel. I don't recommend doing that unless your manufacturer advertises overclock-ability. Dell didn't for their laptop panels, but their desktop panels are good to OC to 75 Hz, just no higher for the old ones or else the screen will screw up.

[Bananasplit_00]

9 hours ago, EthanCGamer said:

I have a Quadro K2100M, which allows me to use all the Nvidia control panel features with any monitor (I think). It's a mobile Quadro, so that's how I OC'd my panel. I don't recommend doing that unless your manufacturer advertises overclock-ability. Dell didn't for their laptop panels, but their desktop panels are good to OC to 75 Hz, just no higher for the old ones or else the screen will screw up.

yah my laptop has a AMD R7 350M(its not actiually a 350M, but that what the drivers think) and i havent found a way, there was suposed to be a way that worked with CRU but that didnt work at all lol