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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 on enabled cards so we have a GeForce GTX Titan in our test bench here running on a 30-inch 2560 by 1600 60 Hertz monitor now the thing about 2560 by 1600 monitors is that they only really exist as sixty Hertz panels because the manufacturers own Z reduces them like that 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 at 2560 by 1600 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 Hertz but 70 Hertz 80 Hertz 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 Hertz monitor I run at 60 Hertz like a robot that's how they would talk that's how I monitor talks so what it does is it reads that information and then it locks everything down so it would only say 60 Hertz 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 customized 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 very 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 Hertz like any overclocking there's no guarantees that things are going to work so you can put in your heart on pulling vertical pixels your refresh rate your color depth your skin type progressive is what you guys are going to want to use and all of the timing stuff I would just probably leave to automatic now you can see here 90 Hertz isn't going to work wallets 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 hertz and unless you buy a 3d monitor you can't get one that runs higher than 60 hertz 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 event settings and I would apply that 80 Hertz 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 it 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 very shot now that 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 then a 60 Hertz 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 video thank you for checking out this I was about to say unboxing but it's unboxing all monitor overclocking don't forget to subscribe to Alanis tech tips from our unboxings reviews and other computer videos