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Overclocking a monitor

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is there a way to overclock/hack a LCD screen to display a res. higher then its native res.?
 
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nope. only way is to buy new guts(same as buying a new monitor) and putting that in it.
 
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And honestly, displaying anything outside of the native resolution on an LCD is a bad idea. The LCD is designed and built with a certain number of lcd lights so it works perfectly at the resolution it was designed to show. That's why other resolutions look horrible on an LCD vs a CRT.
 
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ok thanks i think ill stick with my CRT for a wile [i have a 15 inch samsung that looks like crap on mac due to not being able to display a high enough res.
 

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