Factory overclocking....good or bad?

[Sleepwalker]

I recently purchased a Dell2417DG monitor (first G-Sync Monitor i have owned).

The monitor is advertised on all the websites as having 165hz refresh rate. After hooking it up i noticed it is set to a max of 144hz. After messing around with the OSD i noticed that there are some options to overclock the monitor and it would bring the refresh rate to 165hz.

One of the selling points for me was 165hz refresh rate. So my question to everyone is, will enabling the factory overclocking hurt the monitor? I usually tend to lean on the side of caution and i do not overclock any of my items unless they are at the end of their respective life cycle.

[Tiberius]

No

[Sleepwalker]

Originally posted by Tiberius:

No

No, it wont hurt/effect the monitor?

[Cheezus Crisp]

Originally posted by Ithereal:

Originally posted by Tiberius:

No

No, it wont hurt/effect the monitor?

I've been running my 144hz monitors at 160Hz for the past year and the monitor's image and colour reproduction looks identical to as it was brand new. You should be fine.

[Sleepwalker]

Originally posted by Ceezus Crisp:

Originally posted by Ithereal:

No, it wont hurt/effect the monitor?

I've been running my 144hz monitors at 160Hz for the past year and the monitor's image and colour reproduction looks identical to as it was brand new. You should be fine.

So if the monitor can be factory overclocked to 165 it should be okay? Or should I dial it back to 160? 165 is the max factory overclock setting. And as I stated the monitor is advertised for 165...

[r.linder]

Originally posted by Ithereal:

Originally posted by Ceezus Crisp:

I've been running my 144hz monitors at 160Hz for the past year and the monitor's image and colour reproduction looks identical to as it was brand new. You should be fine.

So if the monitor can be factory overclocked to 165 it should be okay? Or should I dial it back to 160? 165 is the max factory overclock setting. And as I stated the monitor is advertised for 165...

It's advertised for 165 Hz, isn't it? So it's fine. The manufacturer and vendors would not advertise it as such if doing so would damage the product because it would be misleading and would cost all of them money if someone decides to seek legal action over it. So it's fine.

[Sleepwalker]

Originally posted by Escorve:

Originally posted by Ithereal:

So if the monitor can be factory overclocked to 165 it should be okay? Or should I dial it back to 160? 165 is the max factory overclock setting. And as I stated the monitor is advertised for 165...

It's advertised for 165 Hz, isn't it? So it's fine. The manufacturer and vendors would not advertise it as such if doing so would damage the product because it would be misleading and would cost all of them money if someone decides to seek legal action over it. So it's fine.

I thought the same as well. It is advertised at 165hz. It just felt uncomfortable to have to "overclock" it to achieve a feature that is advertised.

[_I_]

the monitor may have a tcon or video chip inside designed for 144hz, but can handle 165hz

only way to see if it works is to test it
windows/nvidia/amd res settings should test to ask and timeout before applying the res change

[nullable]

Originally posted by Ithereal:

I thought the same as well. It is advertised at 165hz. It just felt uncomfortable to have to "overclock" it to achieve a feature that is advertised.

Well overclock has become a marketing term, a selling point. It's there to make you feel like you're getting something extra and powerful, "it's so good you can throw an extra 21hz at it!!!" BS like that. It's not a trick, well no, it is a marketing trick. But it's not a trick to sabotage your monitor or some such. Using the feature won't void your warranty or anything.

[Sleepwalker]

Originally posted by Brockenstein:

Originally posted by Ithereal:

I thought the same as well. It is advertised at 165hz. It just felt uncomfortable to have to "overclock" it to achieve a feature that is advertised.

Well overclock has become a marketing term, a selling point. It's there to make you feel like you're getting something extra and powerful, "it's so good you can throw an extra 21mhz at it!!!" BS like that. It's not a trick, well no, it is a marketing trick. But it's not a trick to sabotage your monitor or some such. Using the feature won't void your warranty or anything.

I'm not as concerned with the warranty that much as I purchased the extended warranty from Best Buy. My point is I don't understand why you have to Overclock the monitor to achieve a feature that is advertised. And will overclocking it cut the life expectancy of the monitor down? I only purchased if for the extra HZ and the Gsync features. And when I got home and put it together I found I needed to factory overclock the monitor to achieve an advertised feature.

[r.linder]

Originally posted by Ithereal:

Originally posted by Brockenstein:

Well overclock has become a marketing term, a selling point. It's there to make you feel like you're getting something extra and powerful, "it's so good you can throw an extra 21mhz at it!!!" BS like that. It's not a trick, well no, it is a marketing trick. But it's not a trick to sabotage your monitor or some such. Using the feature won't void your warranty or anything.

I'm not as concerned with the warranty that much as I purchased the extended warranty from Best Buy. My point is I don't understand why you have to Overclock the monitor to achieve a feature that is advertised. And will overclocking it cut the life expectancy of the monitor down? I only purchased if for the extra HZ and the Gsync features. And when I got home and put it together I found I needed to factory overclock the monitor to achieve an advertised feature.

We've told you a few times already that it's fine. There is no point in worrying about it.

[SeriousCCIE]

I agree with Brokenstein.

It's just marketing for the most part. If they sell it with the ability to do so and advertise it as a feature, then they expect you to use it.

If they put a bunch of "*up to!" signs all over the place and then flash a warranty voiding agreement if you dare to try to go up to that speed, then... that is the time to worry before agreeing to waive all of your warranty rights.

Your monitor, though, should handle things just fine if that's what they sold it to do.

To ensure it works for everyone, it may be they meet a common lower standard hz rate to ensure the thing works the first few times, then make the user press the final buttons to enable true performance after the OS had a time to install drivers and whatnot.

[Sleepwalker]

Okay thank you all the feedback. It helped alot.

[nullable]

Originally posted by Ithereal:

I'm not as concerned with the warranty that much as I purchased the extended warranty from Best Buy. My point is I don't understand why you have to Overclock the monitor to achieve a feature that is advertised.

Because your expectation is that the panel is built specifically to run at 165hz. But what they've done is taken some 144hz panels, gone through a binning process and the better panels get sold at a premium because you can run them a bit faster.

This is done with CPU's and GPU's as well. After all, there's about fifty models of 2080 ti all with different max boost levels and factory overclocks. No one one worries about that anymore though because it's normal. But for you, with monitors it seems weird and strange, that's all.

Originally posted by Ithereal:

And will overclocking it cut the life expectancy of the monitor down?

No. Are you also wondering if you run the monitor at 120hz that would help it last even longer still? Sometimes things don't work quite like that or the effect is so small it's not worth worrying over.

Not to mention with Gsync, your Hz is going to adjust to your FPS. So the only time you're going to see 165hz is probably on the desktop or games where you can legit render 165fps.