I overclocked my monitor, is it safe?

[adychannel01]

So I was able to overclock my monitor to 120 Hz, from 60 Hz, but I only need 75 because when I select 60 Hz on 1920x1080 the screen gets blurry, so I overclocked it to 75 Hz. Is it safe?

 

[CRO5513Y]

If you're not getting any visual artefacts, blurriness or other monitor related visual issues then yes it should be fine. Overclocking a monitor from 60Hz to 120Hz was unlikely to ever succeed, but 75Hz should be a fairly stable chance. Hope this helps!

 

[adychannel01]

But can it die faster in time? I could overclock it to 125 Hz I think but I only needed 75 Hz because on 1920x1080 with only 60 Hz it looks blurry, but with 75 it's fine and I'm ok with it. And also how can I set some games to run at 75 Hz too? Thanks.

 

[CRO5513Y]

If you're using an Nvidia Graphics Card, go to Nvidia Control Panel > Display > Change Resolution and change refresh rate to 75Hz ( You will likely need to do a custom resolution for this). Both Radeon and Intel also has this option though i can't say the exact path to it at the top of my head. Once you have the resolution set in here it should be set like this by default in games, if not check the resolution settings for the game, most tend to had refresh rate included as an option, otherwise just use an FPS counter to see if you're hitting up to your refresh rate with some sort of frame sync enabled so it's locked at your Monitor's refresh rate. Overclocking your Monitor can bring on various issues but without getting to in-depth i can pretty safely say you're not going to get a 60Hz Monitor to 120Hz stable. Most 60Hz panels will get to 70, 80 maybe 90Hz tops. If getting high refresh rates was easy everyone would just buy 60Hz and overclock them. As for the death question, i've never personally seen or heard of a monitor dying, even from overclocking but you will definitely start getting artefacts, weird lines, frame skipping, etc. If the overclock isn't stable. If you need to know more about the specifics i suggest watching/reading reviews online as opposed to me writing an essay about it though.