Something really really weird....

[Oogami-Ichirou]

This is odd, What do you guys think about it?

Here is the story:
We all have heard about the notorious 61mhz problem. It causes all kinds of issues with certain games. I felt it with WOW. This was supposedly only with the 9750, and its screen having the weird "native" refresh rate of 61mhz. However, you can simply override it through the nvidia refresh rate override, or tell your games to override it by putting a refresh rate of 60mhz in the game config file.
Well out of sheer curiousity k1tty and I swapped gpus (don't reccomend unless very good with computers etc).

Well, the 61mhz refresh rate problem jumped ship from the 9750 to the 5720. Suddenly kat was playing wow and got the random freeze and all jumbled up screen with weird lines and breaks on the screen.
Again this problem didn't occur with 3dmark (she proceeded to run it non-stop for like 20 minutes repeating the tests). It just happened in wow.
So sure enough we looked at the refresh rate, and it was set at 61mhz.
We overrode it to 60mhz and wow is seemingly fine now.

Now, as for the 9750 it is now at a permanent 60mhz refresh rate. Not even an option for 61mhz unless I went in and added it with the nvidia control.

Isn't this odd?! The refresh rate problem has seemingly nothing to do with the screen but something to do with the vga card itself (maybe its bios).

Just something odd I thought I would share that probably no one else would have ever even thought of doing lol.

Maybe someone with the 61mhz bugged 9750 can flash their vga bios to the same ones that are in the 5720... if they are different even? Who knows.


Again, its just really odd.

--Oogami

[BombBuster]

That is odd.

I have the Go 6800 Ultra and the only two choices for refresh rates are 59 and 60. It defaults to 59 and I've never had any problems with it but now I wonder. I never messed with it ecause I didn't figure it matters since LCD screens don't 'refresh' and I rarely hook mine up to an external CRT monitor. I've set it to 60 and I'll leave it there for a while to see if there's any change.

But does it somehow improve performance of the GPU if the refresh rate is set lower, even if the only monitor connected is an LCD screen?