what's up guys this is Pete from HardWirePC so in this video I'll be
showing you how to overclock your monitor and also do a frame skipping
test to make sure that that overclock is working correctly now the benefits of
overclocking your monitor is it's going to make your gaming experience feel much
much smoother as it will reduce screen tearing when playing a game that is
rendering more frames than your standard refresh rate now the downside of
overclocking a monitor is the same as overclocking a CPU which is the ability
now when your monitor is unstable it will be skipping frames which can make
the gaming experience even worse and you'll be experiencing flickering on
your monitor so let's begin by showing you how to overclock your monitor then
we will validate that overclock and finally what we'll do if your frame
skipping test to make sure everything is working correctly the monitor I'll be
overclocking is a samsung Lu 24 8 85 k RS it is a 4k 24 inch 60 Hertz monitor
so in my experience most sixty Hertz monitors can overclock anywhere between
70 and 75 Hertz so we're going to try and achieve that in the video now this
particular guide for overclocking your monitors that I'll be showing you is for
Nvidia graphics cards since that is the graphics card that I use at the time of
making this video so the first set is to right-click on your desktop and open up
the Nvidia control panel and under this place you want to select
change resolution
so in the change resolution screen you cannot only set a custom resolution but
also set your monitors refresh rate so what you want to do now is click on
customize and then click on create custom resolutions followed by accept
once you're in that menu you can make adjustments to your resolution settings
however we are going to focus on the refresh rate so what you want to do next
is increase the value of your refresh rate and then click on test if
successful it will ask you if you want to save your custom resolution so click
on yes and your new custom resolution will be saved and selectable in your
list of custom resolutions now keep repeating this process by
incrementally increasing the refresh rate until you reach to a point where
your monitor won't display your overclock and select the last successful
other clock now in my case I was able to overclock the monitor to 72 votes so the
next step is to validate the overclock and test it or frames giving
so to validate your overclocked and tested for frame skipping you will need
to open up your web browser and type in this web address I will leave a link to
the in the description below once you have the frame skipping test open you'll
have to wait a few seconds for it to sync up once that son it should have
validate your refresh rate to your other clock
if the overclock is valid it should say ready below now the test for frame
skipping you will need to get a digital camera now if you don't have one you can
use the smartphone's camera and set your camera's exposure to one tenth of a
second or longer if your camera supports it maximize the frame skipping test to
full screen and once it's inked just simply take a picture of the screen the
photo should have a sequence of multiple squares with no gaps in between now the
picture I have taken shows a gap in between the squares which is a clear
indication that my monitor is frame skipping so what I have to do now is
dial the overclock down a little so I have set it to 70 Hertz now and I will
repeat the process and take another photo this time the photo shows a
sequence of multiple squares with no gaps in between it's now indicates that
my monitor is running perfectly at 70 Hertz with no frame skipping anyway guys
that's it for me for this video I really hope you learned something now if you
have other quacks your monitor but not on a frame skipping test I highly
recommend you give that a try and see if there is any frame skipping I guarantee
it will make the gaming experience much much more smoother and if there is any
frame skipping on your monitor so give that a try but if you have any questions
on this please leave it down in the comments below
apologies I couldn't do the overclock on an AMD CPU as I don't have
an AMD GPU on me but it's actually not too difficult to figure out there is a
custom resolution setting in AMD's graphics settings too anyway guys if you
like this video please give it a like subscribe to my channel for future
videos and I will see you in the next video