welcome to one of the most exciting videos that I've had to make for you
guys in quite a while how to overclock
your monitor using the NVIDIA drivers un
enabled cards so we have a GeForce GTX
Titan in our test bench here running on
a 30-in 2560 x660 HZ monitor now the
thing about 2560 x600 monitors is that
they only really exist as 60 HZ panels
because the manufacturers only R Sim
like that uh also it's a bit of a DVI dual link limitation we're led to
believe that allows you to only drive 60 frames per second or 60 hertz it's kind
of the same thing in this context but it isn't um at 2560 x600 so we'll have a
seat and I'll show you guys a cool little trick all I have to do is go into
the advanced settings within the display configuration here go to Monitor and
boom what are these options not just 60 HZ but 70 HZ 80 HZ now normally in a
situation like this where you hook a monitor up to your graphics card the
graphics card reads the codes on the
monitor that says I am a 60 HZ monitor I run at 60 HZ like a robot that's how
they would talk that's how a monitor talks um so what it does is it reads
that information and then it locks everything down so it would only say 60
HZ so why do I have additional options what I've done is I've gone into the
NVIDIA control panel on an enabled card I've gone to change resolution and I
have created myself customize some
custom resolutions here now like all overclocking this may adversely affect
the reliability of your monitor you are overclocking the electronics inside the
panel to speed it up to get more frames
per second more well no not fra well you are getting more effective images per
second why don't I say that images per second because then it's kind of the same thing you are speeding it up so it
can adversely affect reliability it could adversely affect your warranty if
the manufacturer found out that you did that or if you know you're honest with
them about it so all you really do is you try things so you go okay I'm going
to create a custom resolution now I tried creating one at 90 HZ like any
overclocking there's no guarantees that things are going to work so you can put
in your horizontal and vertical pixels your refresh rate your color depth your
scan type Progressive is what you guys are going to want to use and all of the
timing stuff I would just probably leave to uh automatic now you can see here 90
htz isn't going to work while it's this is waiting I'll explain to you guys why
you want to do this so if you buy a high-end graphics card maybe you buy a
GeForce GTX Titan it's probably going to run all
your games at higher than 60 HZ and unless you buy a 3D monitor you can't
get one that runs higher than 60 HZ unless it's a CRT these days so why am I
running games at 100 frames per second if my monitor can only show me 60 of
them that's why you might want to overclock your monitor because that way
the monitor can actually show you in the case of this monitor it doesn't run 90
so it went black so we go okay cancel we're not going to create that resolution and instead we are going to
stick with the ones we have I've gone as high as 82 so that's what this one does
rather than push it right to the limit I would go ahead and I'd go back into my
advanced settings and I would apply that 80 HZ profile it makes a tangible real
world difference in the fluidity of the motion and unlike 3D monitors which are
TN panels This is a VA panel you could do with an IPS panel potentially again
no guarantees how far your monitor will go some will go further some will go
less far and you don't see any image quality degradation so with a TN panel
you're going to have uh very sh no it's not hooked up to anything but you don't
have very deep colors you don't have very accurate Colors by overclocking an
IPS or a VA or some other kind of PLS panel something along those lines you
can end up with a monitor that still looks good and delivers more fluid
movement than a 60 HZ monitor can so
that 100 FPS or 80 FPS that your video card is capable of outputting isn't
going to be as bottlenecked by the monitor because of this overclocking
option so I say kudos to NVIDIA for allowing the Enthusiast to do this by
unlocking it at the driver level and I think that pretty much concludes this
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