Overclocking refresh rate good or bad?

[ShinyCloud]

Hello. I have the ASUS ROG G751JY gaming laptop and I recently found out the "Create custom resolution" option in the NVIDIA control panel. When I clicked it, it gave me a warning and what it said in a nutshell was: "If you use this setting, since you go above what the manufacturer had planned for this monitor you may cause your monitor to have increased voltage, failure in sync, corrupt the BIOS, have high temperatures etc". I'm not interested in using 2K or 4K resolutions as that would destroy my frames ( and this monitor is a 1080p native so I don't think it can go more than that ) but I am interested in using a 120-140Hz ( whatever>60 Hz at least ) refresh rate. How safe is this? Which setting is safe ( if it's any safe at all )? It also wrote that this voids my warranty thus I would not like my monitor to be destroyed or malfunction. I'd like to mention that I play intense games such as Rainbow Six: Siege, GTA V, ( the upcoming ) Battlefield 1 etc. and I put the settings as high as my PC can have more than at least 40 FPS ( please note that this model doesn't have G-SYNC installed ). The monitor is named in the device manager as "Generic PnP" in case you're wondering. Thank you for your time.

 

[cCheeseCake]

1080p = 2k
do you really need more than 60fps? a decent experiment from linustechtips showed that the average gamer could not tell the difference between 60 and 144.

 

[ShinyCloud]

1080p = 2k
do you really need more than 60fps? a decent experiment from linustechtips showed that the average gamer could not tell the difference between 60 and 144.

Isn't 2K 1444p?
Anyway, I'd like to know if it's safe or not and which amount of Hz is safe. My 980m most of the times hovers between 40-60 FPS and one time I turned off V-Sync in order to see how higher the frames are going to go. I don't know if I had to restart the game or not for that change in V-Sync to apply but it didn't go higher than 60. Either way, not to be rude in any way, I'll be the judge if I need more FPS or not and about the higher refresh rate I could definitely use it.

 

[cCheeseCake]

1080p = 2k
do you really need more than 60fps? a decent experiment from linustechtips showed that the average gamer could not tell the difference between 60 and 144.

Isn't 2K 1444p?
Anyway, I'd like to know if it's safe or not and which amount of Hz is safe. My 980m most of the times hovers between 40-60 FPS and one time I turned off V-Sync in order to see how higher the frames are going to go. I don't know if I had to restart the game or not for that change in V-Sync to apply but it didn't go higher than 60. Either way, not to be rude in any way, I'll be the judge if I need more FPS or not and about the higher refresh rate I could definitely use it.

2k refers to the amount of pixels horizontally, 1080p has ~2000 pixels sideways.
i don't know how safe it is. i've seen linustechtips increasing the refresh rate on a monitor without any worries, but that was a desktop monitor.

 

[ShinyCloud]

People here https://rog.asus.com/forum/showthread.php?54283-ASUS-G751-overclock-screen-refresh-rate-to-75hz-quick-and-easy! have even went to 100Hz and have been there for 7+ months without a single problem. However, I still feel reluctant about Overclocking. If I do it, do I have to do small steps at a time like going to 75hz stay there for some time and go to 100Hz? Also, people say that when doing the test in the NVIDIA control panel after you've set a custom setting if the PC can't handle it either reverts back to the previous setting or it gives you a black screen and to get rid of it you have to reboot the PC ( by holding the power button I assume ). If I do it, should I go to 75Hz, stay for a while, then go to 100Hz, stay for a while and then try 120Hz and see if I get a black screen or do IPS 60Hz native monitors have a ( relatively ) "safe" limit that shouldn't be overcame? The monitor is named in the device manager as "Generic PnP" in case you're wondering.

 

[ShinyCloud]

bump

 

[ShinyCloud]

Ok so, I first raised it to 75Hz and it was fine. Then I went 80 and then 100Hz. When I clicked to test the 100Hz, the screen flickered ( as it should ) but I saw quite a lot pink vertical lines and then when the screen turned on again it said that the test was successful. Then I clicked save, the screen flickered once more but no pink lines this time, just the normal blackness. I thought that was the limit so I went to 80Hz but the same thing happened, then I went to 75Hz again. Pink lines still there as before so I though since it does it everywhere it should be ok maybe? And now I'm at 100Hz. I'm not going to try to go more than that ( I'm even lucky to be here so let's not be greedy ) but what do these pink lines mean? Are they normal, are they bad, should I lower my Hz? How do I know when to stop adding and start removing? I also ran the test ( UFOTest.com ) and I had no frame skipping at 100Hz.

 

[ShinyCloud]

Update: I played GTA V, Insurgency, AC Unity and Rainbow Six: Siege for almost an hour each and it was working like a charm. The only thing that worried me is that when launching or exiting a game my screen would either flick for a second or while flicking instead of being black it got swarmed by pink vertical lines that filled up almost the entire screen and then worked properly. Should I be worried about this or is it normal?