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I just overclocked my monitor to 120hz

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Anilusion

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And god damn what a difference it is. After finding a good color profile and adjusting the brightness, I have the same colors as before, but I couldn't imagine the difference between 60 and 120hz being this huge. Just moving the mouse cursor in windows is a whole new experience, and playing games feels amazing.

I have a QNIX monitor from korea and I used this guide to do it: http://www.overclock.net/t/1493929/qnix-and-x-star-monitors-new-timings-and-overclocking-guide-club if any of you want to try it out. I can't believe I didn't try this earlier, and I can't see myself going back to 60hz ever.
 
well according to certain Game Dev's, Frame Rates don't matter.

I have a Asus VG248QE, and using this thing without lightboost is criminal. It's amazing at 120ghz
 
120hz is the way to go, I agree, I'll never go back.

I visit testufo like twice a day to watch that smooth little ufo float across my screen like a silk eagle.

If you've never seen it, you don't know what you're missing. Once you go with 120, you never go back.

EDIT: And if you do it's terrible apparently. Sorry TouchMyBox.
TouchMyBox said:
As someone who went back to 60 Hz, it is truly a terrible existence. Have fun with it. :)
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Is this...as incredibly dangerous as it sounds? I've never heard of overclocking anything to double without the use of liquid nitrogen. I've been kinda thinking of 120hz but monitors just have too many features these days so I really can't decide. Until they make IPS 120hz <10ms input lag ultrawide 1440p rotatable displayport 1.2 monitors or something.

Is thing something I could sanely try on a random ASUS 60hz monitor or do you need special equipment and/or is this likely to break things? Qnix and X-Star monitors only?
 
Dictator93 said:
Should I create a 120fps Metro LL gif? :D

It is supremely smooth looking. Coupled with motionblur it looks even more awesome.
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My laptop would die crying trying to run it.
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Sir TapTap said:
Is this...as incredibly dangerous as it sounds? I've never heard of overclocking anything to double without the use of liquid nitrogen. I've been kinda thinking of 120hz but monitors just have too many features these days so I really can't decide. Until they make IPS 120hz <10ms input lag ultrawide 1440p rotatable displayport 1.2 monitors or something.

Is thing something I could sanely try on a random ASUS 60hz monitor or do you need special equipment and/or is this likely to break things? Qnix and X-Star monitors only?
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Western made monitors tend to use cheap components, the Korean ones for some reason dont and allow said overclocking.

Something along those lines. And no, for the korean monitors... it is not dangerous. People ahve been doing this for years.

Sakura said:
If you're monitor isn't 120 you wouldn't be able to see it right?
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Yeah, but the feel of 120fps.
 
Sir TapTap said:
Is this...as incredibly dangerous as it sounds?
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Not at all. It's just that it only works for very (very) few monitors.

Dictator93 said:
Western made monitors tend to use cheap components, the Korean ones for some reason dont and allow said overclocking.
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It's not really like that. These monitors don't have any image processing / scaling / OSD / whatever hardware, they just take the signal and put it on the screen. That's why some of them can support higher resolutions -- there isn't much in the way.
 
TheDanger said:
So I need hardware to play games at 120 fps for this to have the desired effect?
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Big part of the advantage is that displayed frame can be changed every ~8ms instead on ~16.6ms.
so.
If image tears, the tear moves faster and it's less visible.
If single frame is dropped from going constant 60fps the problem is visible only ~8ms.

It also adds additional possible stable framerate between every stable framerate in 60hz monitor, so you can actually enjoy a game at steady 40fps if your GPU is not strong enough for 60.. etc.

60hz
60, 30, 20, 15 ..

120hz
120, 60, 40, 30, 24, 20, 17, 15 ..

Also 120hz does feel better than 60hz in many ways.. (eye/mind creates better parallax/3D from 2D image at around 75hz.. and so on.)

In future Freesync and G-sync will bring most of the advantages to all and feel even better. (no tear/judder at any fps..)
 
Are there any 120hz monitors that have the amazing picture quality / color / viewing angles of IPS panels yet?

I have a 60hz TN monitor and don't want to upgrade until I can improve on both halves of that equation.
 
Anilusion I'm curious to know if you are getting any image retention at 120hz? I was with my Qnix so I basically have it engaged for games only.

I thought I didn't need 120hz til I experienced it O_O
 
The QNIX is a PLS panel.

I have the same monitor. I was able to get mine to 96hz. The monitor would buzz when I'm looking at a white screen and I would get image retention, so I set it back to 60.
 
Yeah, I "upgraded" from a Samsung 24" 1080P 120hz monitor to and Acer 27" 1440P 60hz monitor and as beautiful as the new monitor is I wish I could get my 120hz back ;_;

Playing DMC4 and DmC @ 120fps used to be bliss.
 
Dictator93 said:
Western made monitors tend to use cheap components, the Korean ones for some reason dont and allow said overclocking.

Something along those lines. And no, for the korean monitors... it is not dangerous. People ahve been doing this for years.
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I assume ASUS isn't one of the safe ones? Hardly "western" but mainstream enough I assume they don't over-build
 
I bought the ASUS VG248QE earlier this year. With the lightboost hack that others have mentioned, the fluidity of some games is just insane. I was actually most impressed with how smooth it made 2D games look and feel.
 
Kind of regretted buying a 60hz monitor last year :( I didn't have a capable computer back then and only wanted to use the monitor to hook up my consoles, so I just randomly chose one that looked cool, lol
 
Is overclocking complicated? I have an Asus PB278Q I would like to try overclocking, but I've never done it before.
 
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