Is It Worth It to Overclock My Monitor?
The default refresh rate of 60 Hz means your monitor is refreshing the image on the screen at a rate of 60 times every second. If the image on your screen isn’t changing rapidly, you won’t notice a more rapid refresh rate. However, when it comes to video games with lots of animated graphics moving across the screen quickly, even a 25% increase in refresh rate will be very noticeable. Your display’s refresh rate is controlled by the driver software controlling your graphics card. Most modern graphics cards can refresh faster than 60 Hz, but 60 Hz is the default setting. That means overclocking your monitor only requires a small change to its settings. How you change it depends on the brand of your graphics card.
How Do I Enable Overclocking My Monitor?
You’ll need to check your graphics card model first. Once you have this in hand, use the appropriate steps below to increase the refresh rate for your display.
Increase Refresh Rate With Graphics Card Software
Nvidia, AMD, and other graphics cards often come with software to customize the graphics card settings. From here, you’ll be able to overclock your monitor if you want to.
Increase Refresh Rate With Custom Resolution Utility
Another easy way to overclock your monitor and increase its refresh rate is using free software called Custom Resolution Utility (CRU). This utility will add your preferred higher refresh rate to Window’s Advanced Display Settings so you can adjust the monitor to that higher setting.
