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Hey guys.
You probably all know that the Nvidia Control Panel lets you set custom resolutions with various non-stock settings. I was vaguely aware of this but thought it was more for professional users or guys with nice, expensive monitors.
On a whim last night, I was playing around with boosting the refresh rate of my thougroughly unremarkable 2 year old Asus VE247H which runs 1080P at 60Hz stock. I was surprised to find that even with this cheap old monitor and a smomewhat dated GTX580, I was able to get to 74Hz at 1080P. Just under a 25% improvement.
Some brief ingame tests were pretty good, subjectively. I'd need to do a blind test to see how much of a difference it really makes.
Has anyone else done this? I'm sure most probably have as it sort of passed me by. I trust I'm not ruining my monitor or anything by running at a higher refresh rate. I guess it wouldn't work (as it doesn't with anything higher than 74Hz) at all if something was going really wrong.
TL;DR If your setup allows it, try and boost your monitor refresh rate in the NCP, even if you think your monitor isn't up to much.
You probably all know that the Nvidia Control Panel lets you set custom resolutions with various non-stock settings. I was vaguely aware of this but thought it was more for professional users or guys with nice, expensive monitors.
On a whim last night, I was playing around with boosting the refresh rate of my thougroughly unremarkable 2 year old Asus VE247H which runs 1080P at 60Hz stock. I was surprised to find that even with this cheap old monitor and a smomewhat dated GTX580, I was able to get to 74Hz at 1080P. Just under a 25% improvement.
Some brief ingame tests were pretty good, subjectively. I'd need to do a blind test to see how much of a difference it really makes.
Has anyone else done this? I'm sure most probably have as it sort of passed me by. I trust I'm not ruining my monitor or anything by running at a higher refresh rate. I guess it wouldn't work (as it doesn't with anything higher than 74Hz) at all if something was going really wrong.
TL;DR If your setup allows it, try and boost your monitor refresh rate in the NCP, even if you think your monitor isn't up to much.
