Overclocking Samsung OLED 500hz

High Hz on OLED produce excellent strobeless motion blur reduction with fast GtG pixel response. It is easier to tell apart 60Hz vs 120Hz vs 240Hz on OLED than LCD, and more visible to mainstream. Includes WOLED and QD-OLED displays.
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Overclocking Samsung OLED 500hz

Post by F1zus » 26 Jan 2026, 04:00

So, I recently purchased a Samsung LS27FG602SIXCI 500Hz OLED monitor. It has DP 1.4 ports with a throughput of 25 Gbps and HDMI 2.1 ports with a throughput of 48 Gbps. I connected my PC via HDMI to reduce the DSC compression.
Now I've created a custom resolution of 1920x1440 @ 500Hz. Everything works fine.
But I'd like to overclock the monitor above this refresh rate.
Unfortunately, when I set it to 510Hz, the monitor reports a suboptimal refresh rate and there's no image.
Is there a way to bypass this limitation and overclock the display?

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Re: Overclocking Samsung OLED 500hz

Post by kyube » 27 Jan 2026, 10:10

F1zus wrote:
26 Jan 2026, 04:00
But I'd like to overclock the monitor above this refresh rate.
Unfortunately, when I set it to 510Hz, the monitor reports a suboptimal refresh rate and there's no image.
Is there a way to bypass this limitation and overclock the display?
Generally, you can only play around with 'limits' (mishaps in FW writing) emposed by the TCON.
I would suggest trying a lower resolution (e.g.: 720p @ 1000Hz through the HDMI 2.1) to see if there's a refresh rate lock or a pixel clock lock in the firmware.
• Try using CRU (extension block→detailed resolution with DisplayID2.0; Rely on different timing presets first) or NvCpl.
• Try using binary search as much as possible.
• Once you exhaust the default presets mentioned above, resort to manual tuning in CRU (has the ability to change back porch, which Nvidia's Control Panel doesn't allow you to)
• Horizontal/vertical Back/front porches are your main targets to play around with, take a look at the BenQ 144hz thread to see some tips which Chief has given and which solutions users have come up with to find a higher clock for their models.

Display 'overclocking ' (custom EDIDs) is a very uncommon talked about topic online, let alone OLED 'overclocking'.
Samsung used to have a decent 'overclocker' with the Odyssey G7 (27" QHD +240Hz VA), so they might allow such endeavours on some other models in their lineup.

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Re: Overclocking Samsung OLED 500hz

Post by F1zus » 29 Jan 2026, 02:35

kyube wrote:
27 Jan 2026, 10:10
F1zus wrote:
26 Jan 2026, 04:00
But I'd like to overclock the monitor above this refresh rate.
Unfortunately, when I set it to 510Hz, the monitor reports a suboptimal refresh rate and there's no image.
Is there a way to bypass this limitation and overclock the display?
So, I tested various resolutions and frequencies. It turns out, regardless of the resolution, whether 2560x1440 or 1290x720, the monitor refuses to work at anything above 504Hz. At 505Hz, I get a dark screen and the message "Out of range, set optimal 2560x1440@500Hz."
It looks like there's a frequency limit somewhere in the monitor's firmware.
I opened the firmware update .bin file with a HEX editor and didn't find any mention of 504Hz.
Yes, I tried reducing the timings in CRU, but that didn't help.
These were the default settings in CRU. I just added a Display 2.0 block with my custom resolution.
Initially, I didn't even see the 2560x1440@500Hz resolution in these blocks, and I don't understand where the monitor gets it from.
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Re: Overclocking Samsung OLED 500hz

Post by F1zus » 02 Jun 2026, 06:57

Hey, can someone help me overclock my OLED beyond 500Hz? I'd like to try it.

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Re: Overclocking Samsung OLED 500hz

Post by Flex » Yesterday, 11:38

F1zus wrote:
26 Jan 2026, 04:00
So, I recently purchased a Samsung LS27FG602SIXCI 500Hz OLED monitor. It has DP 1.4 ports with a throughput of 25 Gbps and HDMI 2.1 ports with a throughput of 48 Gbps. I connected my PC via HDMI to reduce the DSC compression.
Now I've created a custom resolution of 1920x1440 @ 500Hz. Everything works fine.
But I'd like to overclock the monitor above this refresh rate.
Unfortunately, when I set it to 510Hz, the monitor reports a suboptimal refresh rate and there's no image.
Is there a way to bypass this limitation and overclock the display?
Hi! Tell me, please, what exactly did you do to force the monitor to apply custom settings? I have the same monitor, but it does not respond to changes in the CRU.

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