We routinely treat hardware parameters as arbitrary boundaries waiting to be rewritten through modified registers and adjusted pixel clocks. Yet, when forcing a display controller to push custom pixel timings beyond standard bandwidth specs, one eventually collides with the underlying physics of the medium. Beyond a certain megahertz threshold on the dot clock, line rate instability ceases to be a signal transmission issue and becomes an issue of raster convergence and phosphor luminescence delay. Overdriving deflection yokes yields diminishing returns when the electron beam cannot settle before the next sweep. At what point does extreme hardware pushing cease to be an pursuit of fidelity and become mere aesthetic nihilism?