Monitor Overclocking - Dell U2414H

DJ_Bucho · 5 Jun 2014 at 15:04

I'm looking at buying a Dell U2414H 24" monitor in the near future. And then in a couple of months time another two to create my ideal eyefinity setup.

I've been reading reviews of this monitor and a few people have overclocked it to 80Hz (up from the standard 60Hz). However almost everyone seems to have been using an Nvidia GPU. This is where my questions start, I own a 7970 Matrix Platinum (AMD obviously) and to be perfectly honest I've no idea where to start with Monitor overclocking. Can I still overclock the monitor with my Graphics card and if so, how on earth do I go about doing it?

Any help on this would be very much appreciated

DJ_Bucho · 29 Apr 2015 at 11:20

Sort of gave up on this, as I was happy with the default screen. But recently I've been looking at higher refresh monitors and then remembered about Monitor Overclocking.

Does anyone have any information on this that could help me get a higher refresh rate on my Dell U2414H monitor using a 7970?
Some people have also mentioned they have managed to get a higher resolution on this panel, but I can't understand how that'd even be possible...

HACO · 29 Apr 2015 at 11:26

AMD cards can overclock monitors too, although I haven't had the experience. You need a driver patch to enable higher clock rates:

http://www.monitortests.com/forum/Thread-AMD-ATI-Pixel-Clock-Patcher

And then use CRU to cheat games/OS into thinking that you have a native 80Hz or whatever monitor. Remember that significantly changing refresh rates requires a recalibration of the monitor, so you can't rely on the factory calibration anymore.

Test here to make sure you're not frame skipping:

http://www.testufo.com/#test=frameskipping

DJ_Bucho · 29 Apr 2015 at 11:44

Absolutely spot on mate, I think I've give this a go over the next few days. If anyone with a Dell U2414H 24" monitor has tried this could they please post their results etc below, so I can see what sort of area I should be aiming for. I'm a total beginner at this so any information at all would be extremely helpful.