First post, by OM606
Hello everyone,
Long time lurker and first time poster here. I'll introduce myself quickly, i'm 31 and live in France and started PC gaming and tinkering with hardware around 2005 but the interest faded away around 2013... Until i found this forum while fixing some old computer.
Decided to build a dedicated XP machine and went through a few builds with period correct hardware but most of what i had gave me reliability issues. Ended up building something with a Z97 Gigabyte mobo and i5 4460 i had laying around and a GTX 960. My main issue with this is that i want to use my display to its full potential but can't find a way to make the GTX 960 output 1920x1080 75hz.
I've tried forcing 75hz through the Nvidia driver, no problem here but the screen OSD still shows 60hz, enabling v-sync with Fraps running shows the framerate stuck to 60fps. My display only has VGA and HDMI inputs and so far i've tried DVI to VGA, DVI to HDMI and HDMI to no avail. Worth noting that 1920x1080 75hz works in Windows 7. I've also tried 355.98, 368.81 as well as an iCafe driver and it didn't help either. 75Hz is only available for 1280x1024 and below.
At this point i am almost tempted to buy something like a Dell Ultrasharp 19" with a more appropriate aspect ratio and 75hz (or three of them for the nostalgia of the setup i had around 2008-2011).
What do you recommend?