is increasing my framerate via nvidia panel safe?

[Dylan Smit]

there is an option to increase framerate in the nvidia controll panel. is this safe or can this damage my monitor badly?
this looks software, not sure if it is via the acual monitor.

 

[Tumeden]

I don't see anything in the nvidia control panel to increase frame rates, Just limit them.
Even if there was an option I highly doubt it would do any harm (unless it has to do with overclocking).

 

[Dylan Smit]

I don't see anything in the nvidia control panel to increase frame rates, Just limit them.
Even if there was an option I highly doubt it would do any harm (unless it has to do with overclocking).

It's on resolution, costume resolution and here you can use a higher frame rate!

 

[Tumeden]

It wont hurt anything.

 

[Matthew Mendez]

You'd basically be overclocking your monitor, and it's not really safe. You'll get maybe 5 fps before you risk damaging your monitor. Take a look at this post: http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-3289374/screen-frozen-showing-artifacts-monitor-overclock.html

 

[Tumeden]

You'd basically be overclocking your monitor, and it's not really safe. You'll get maybe 5 fps before you risk damaging your monitor. Take a look at this post: http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-3289374/screen-frozen-showing-artifacts-monitor-overclock.html

Not true, you actually can't select unsupported frequencies for your monitor, it's blocked out so you can't screw it up.

 

[Matthew Mendez]

You'd basically be overclocking your monitor, and it's not really safe. You'll get maybe 5 fps before you risk damaging your monitor. Take a look at this post: http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-3289374/screen-frozen-showing-artifacts-monitor-overclock.html

Not true, you actually can't select unsupported frequencies for your monitor, it's blocked out so you can't screw it up.

"there is an option to increase framerate in the nvidia controll panel. is this safe or can this damage my monitor badly?"

OP says he has an option to do so. Whether he does or not, my statement remains true: if you overclock your monitor, it risks damage (just like overclocking any other component).

EDIT: OP, are you trying to increase your framerate beyond what your monitor supports? If not (say you're going from 30Hz->60Hz on a 60Hz monitor), you'll be fine.

EDIT2: Also, you CAN OC your monitor through NVIDIA control panel by creating a custom resolution.

 

[Dr Girlfriend]

Most OCers consider a 10-15mhz OC to be very safe/low risk. As someone else mentioned if the frequency is out of range, the monitor will just reject it and revert back to working settings. With the NVIDIA control panel it'll revert to prior settings after ~15s if you don't click accept.

I've been OCing my monitors from 60 to 75 for a long time with zero issues. But as always, OCing is at your own risk, there's always a chance of breaking something no matter how low it might be.

If you're okay with that, OC away. If not, don't bother. But that goes for literally any overclocking, CPU/GPU etc.