Overclocking your monitor for more FPS
Also searched as: overclock monitor fps · monitor overclock for fps · refresh overclock fps · oc monitor frames
What it does
Pushing a monitor past its rated refresh rate (say 60 to 75 Hz) expecting the game to start producing more frames.
The honest verdict
Refresh rate is the ceiling on frames you can SEE, not the number your GPU MAKES. Raising it lets a fast GPU show more of the frames it is already rendering — a real smoothness and latency win when your FPS was above the old refresh — but it adds zero frames on a GPU that was already the limit. A monitor overclock can also fail quietly: above a certain rate the panel may drop or repeat frames, so a '75 Hz' that is not showing 75 distinct frames is worse than an honest 60. Run a frame-skipping test before you trust it.
How Compy treats it
Compy won't recommend it. If you're curious anyway: change one thing at a time, measure it on your own rig, and revert unless it's clearly better — that loop is exactly what Compy is built around.
The Compy Blackbook holds 174 graded entries like this one, judged against your hardware — and every change it does make is reversible, with the receipt to prove it.
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