'It Looks Like I Just Got a PlayStation 7' Streamer Northernlion Just Discovered His High Refresh Rate Monitor Was Still Set to 60Hz

Picture this: You conscionable got a caller high-refresh-rate monitor, you've upgraded your graphics paper oregon snagged a top-end gaming PC, you plug everything successful and occurrence up your favourite crippled and think: "is this it?"

We've each been there. As has, apparently, fashionable streamer Northernlion, who conscionable discovered his 165Hz show has been acceptable to 60Hz for who knows however long, possibly adjacent a decade.

"It looks similar your show has a 165Hz mode, but is presently moving astatine 60Hz. Using the highest refresh complaint your show supports is mostly recommended for an optimal gameplay experience," Northernlion said, speechmaking a notification that popped up erstwhile loading into a crippled of Counter-Strike. "Is this good?"

"It's gonna alteration your life, successful a bully way," 1 of his teammates responded.

The clip appears successful Northernlion's watercourse from today, starting astatine astir the 1:44:25 mark. Upon updating his refresh complaint some connected the Windows level and in-game, NL was blown distant by the upgraded ocular acquisition – which his hardware had been susceptible of each along.

"This looks incredible!" helium said, a fewer seconds into his archetypal lucifer with the settings fixed, "It looks similar I conscionable got a PlayStation 7."

While it's amusive to bask immoderate schadenfreud that adjacent idiosyncratic similar Northernlion, who evidently has a batch of acquisition with the platform, tin autumn prey to 1 of the pitfalls of PC gaming, fto this service arsenic a PSA of things to look retired for:

Besides making definite your monitor's refresh complaint is decently set, different communal mistake is not enabling XMP, without which keeps your RAM shackled to its basal speeds alternatively of the overclocked speeds advertised connected the box. And possibly worst of all, marque definite your show cablegram is plugged into your graphics card, not the motherboard's video port. After all, if you've shelled retired the currency for a discrete GPU, you privation to marque definite you're not bypassing the paper entirely.

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