My monitor only shows me 60 Hertz?

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My monitor which is a SAMSUNG SMS24650 i had a couple of questions
1. It only shows my a maximum of 60 hertz option no more and I don't think that's right, Is it because I'm using a DVI single link cable and I need something better to let it be able to use a higher refresh rate? or is it that the max is 60hz? (Btw my 2nd monitor which is using a VGA CAN go to 75hz but its very blurry so I I'm confused)
2. Whats the max refresh rate of Dual link and single link? are they the exact same?
 
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Well, obviously you need a monitor that supports higher than 60hz to set it higher than 60hz. But provided your monitor does support higher refresh rates then YES, you will need a dual link cable and dual link output from your graphics card. Single link DVI maxes out at 1920x1200 @ 60. Higher resolutions or frame rates require a DL cable and port.

Incidentally, are you sure you have the right model number for your monitor, because a Google search isn't turning up anything against the "SMS24650" that you've posted.
 
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That model number seems to have some rather interesting sites that come up. None having anything to do with a monitor though... Unless you want to see eyeballs glued to something ... 😛

DVI-I is limited to 60Hz.
If you have a DisplayPort, it is 144Hz ready. Has been since 2009.
Other than that, HDMI 1.4 and higher can do 120Hz at 2560x1080.

VGA is not a digital technology. It has already been discontinued on nearly all of the video cards out there. VGA or DVI-I will not be used on video cards from now on.

In fact, the new AMD Fury X only had 3 DisplayPort and 1 HDMI on it. That is what all future video cards are going to have.
 
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So I can't get it to go more then 60? Because I'm a bit confused when you said its dependent on ahrdware ability
 
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If the hardware does not support say 100Hz, then you cannot do 100Hz.

Most monitors come from the factory rated at 60Hz. They charge premium pricing for 100Hz, 120Hz and 144Hz.

Both the video card and the monitor have to support the same specs in order for something to work. In other words, lets say you have a new super-duper 144Hz monitor. But you have an old video card that only has VGA, DVI-I and HDMI 1.2 port on it. None of those support anything higher than 60 Hz (except for one obscure DVI-I protocol than supports a weird 85Hz). So since none of those ports on the video card support 144Hz, there cannot be a 144Hz connection even though the monitor is capable of it.
 
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The monitor is not capable of more than 60, regardless of the cable.
 
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Have you actually found the monitor OP is talking about? Because I certainly can't and it doesn't seem like anyone else has been able to either.

OP, please post back your actual monitor model number. I don't think you have it right in your first post.
 
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Sorry made a typo in my model number its SMS24A650. for got to add the A last time. Ok so my monitor can not go over 60 hertz but I overclocked it to 75 and it gets blurry over 60 could that be because of bad cable? Also I'm talking about in general if you monitor supports 75 hertz but when you enable the 75 hertz it gets blurry is that from a bad cable?
 
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If you've overclocked your monitor then any poor image quality is almost certainly the result of that, not a bad cable.

In terms of "in general if your monitor supports 75hz...", DVI-D is a digital signal, assuming you're plugging DVI into both video card and monitor, that's a digital signal. Digital signals usually either work, or they don't. Essentially the signal is a series of 0s and 1s and either the receiver can distinguish between the 0s and 1s, or it can't. There's perhaps a tiny in-between zone (potentially caused by a bad cable) where just enough signal is getting through to give the display something to work with, but enough is lost to affect the result... however "blurriness" is not what I'd expect in that situation. Much more likely to be a screen flicking on and off, or getting strange artifacts. I can't possibly imagine how a slightly degraded digital signal could result in a consistently blurred image. I don't know enough about this to be able to state categorically that a blury image could never be the result of a bad DVI cable... but I'd be surprised if that was in fact the cause.

If it's analogue signal on the other hand (such as a DVI to VGA), then a bad cable is certainly possible and worth checking.
 
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Overclocking monitors has become the rage lately. I think the big winners in this fad is the companies that sell monitors. As they are selling replacements to the people that killed their monitors by overclocking it to death.

I had a guy come on here asking for help a few nights ago. He had taken a 60Hz monitor and managed to over clock it to 75Hz. And then he wanted more. And he went to 77Hz. And the monitor just died. Now the on-screen menus won't even come on. All I could tell him was that I have never, ever seen a reset switch on a monitor. They were not intended to be overclocked. Monitors are a what you buy is what you get item.
 
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DVI-D single link is maxed out at 1920x1200 @60. Try 1920x1080 @66 since that is the max you can do on DVI-D single link. Maybe the blurriness will disappear.

The type of cable does play a role in displaying higher resolutions and Hz, but the monitor itself (hardware limitation) also plays a role in it as well. I honestly don't think it's worth overclocking a mere 5-15Hz to risk damaging your monitor.
 
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