GTX Titan LCD Monitor Overclocking Guide Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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welcome to one of the most exciting videos that I've had to make for you
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guys in quite a while how to overclock
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your monitor using the NVIDIA drivers un
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enabled cards so we have a GeForce GTX
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Titan in our test bench here running on
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a 30-in 2560 x660 HZ monitor now the
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thing about 2560 x600 monitors is that
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they only really exist as 60 HZ panels
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because the manufacturers only R Sim
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like that uh also it's a bit of a DVI dual link limitation we're led to
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believe that allows you to only drive 60 frames per second or 60 hertz it's kind
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of the same thing in this context but it isn't um at 2560 x600 so we'll have a
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seat and I'll show you guys a cool little trick all I have to do is go into
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the advanced settings within the display configuration here go to Monitor and
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boom what are these options not just 60 HZ but 70 HZ 80 HZ now normally in a
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situation like this where you hook a monitor up to your graphics card the
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graphics card reads the codes on the
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monitor that says I am a 60 HZ monitor I run at 60 HZ like a robot that's how
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they would talk that's how a monitor talks um so what it does is it reads
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that information and then it locks everything down so it would only say 60
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HZ so why do I have additional options what I've done is I've gone into the
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NVIDIA control panel on an enabled card I've gone to change resolution and I
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have created myself customize some
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custom resolutions here now like all overclocking this may adversely affect
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the reliability of your monitor you are overclocking the electronics inside the
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panel to speed it up to get more frames
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per second more well no not fra well you are getting more effective images per
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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
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can adversely affect reliability it could adversely affect your warranty if
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the manufacturer found out that you did that or if you know you're honest with
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them about it so all you really do is you try things so you go okay I'm going
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to create a custom resolution now I tried creating one at 90 HZ like any
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overclocking there's no guarantees that things are going to work so you can put
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in your horizontal and vertical pixels your refresh rate your color depth your
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scan type Progressive is what you guys are going to want to use and all of the
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timing stuff I would just probably leave to uh automatic now you can see here 90
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htz isn't going to work while it's this is waiting I'll explain to you guys why
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you want to do this so if you buy a high-end graphics card maybe you buy a
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GeForce GTX Titan it's probably going to run all
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your games at higher than 60 HZ and unless you buy a 3D monitor you can't
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get one that runs higher than 60 HZ unless it's a CRT these days so why am I
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running games at 100 frames per second if my monitor can only show me 60 of
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them that's why you might want to overclock your monitor because that way
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the monitor can actually show you in the case of this monitor it doesn't run 90
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so it went black so we go okay cancel we're not going to create that resolution and instead we are going to
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stick with the ones we have I've gone as high as 82 so that's what this one does
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rather than push it right to the limit I would go ahead and I'd go back into my
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advanced settings and I would apply that 80 HZ profile it makes a tangible real
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world difference in the fluidity of the motion and unlike 3D monitors which are
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TN panels This is a VA panel you could do with an IPS panel potentially again
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no guarantees how far your monitor will go some will go further some will go
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less far and you don't see any image quality degradation so with a TN panel
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you're going to have uh very sh no it's not hooked up to anything but you don't
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have very deep colors you don't have very accurate Colors by overclocking an
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IPS or a VA or some other kind of PLS panel something along those lines you
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can end up with a monitor that still looks good and delivers more fluid
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movement than a 60 HZ monitor can so
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that 100 FPS or 80 FPS that your video card is capable of outputting isn't
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going to be as bottlenecked by the monitor because of this overclocking
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option so I say kudos to NVIDIA for allowing the Enthusiast to do this by
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unlocking it at the driver level and I think that pretty much concludes this
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video thank you for checking out this I was about to say unboxing but it's
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