No, there is a limit to wher eyou can bring the refresh rate higher. All sony's say 85hz. They also use PLUG n Play drivers(at least for me they are) but if you drop the "do not show higher ranges" box then you can jack it up to 100hz. If I lower my resz to 1024 I can hit 120hz. I believe it is just a give and take method, example if, 1600 is max resz and runs 60hz , then 1280 is recommended and runs at 85hz then 1024 would have no problem at 85hz and headroom to go to 100hz. I believe the recommended levels are the limits for the 85hz but if you go one step lower you should have some room to play with the hz without overstain , Just my 2 cents.