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| 261998 | 2004-08-15 09:38:00 | Hi I've just changed my refresh display on the monitor settings to 100Hertz (from 75) What does this ac tually do, is higher better? Cheers |
taxboy4 (579) | ||
| 261999 | 2004-08-15 09:42:00 | It changes the number of times your screen "flickers" per second. The higher the refresh rate, the more times is flickers per second. Higher is nicer for your eyes (set it to 60 or so and you should notice a difference... stare at it all day and it'll hurt your eyes). Mike. |
Mike (15) | ||
| 262000 | 2004-08-15 09:43:00 | In my opinion - no. 75 is high enough - but then I don't play games. Don't know if these need a higher refresh rate. Bye |
Peter H (220) | ||
| 262001 | 2004-08-15 09:45:00 | Refresh rate = Draw rate. It is how many times a second the monitor 'draws' the image on the screen. As stated above, the higher the number, the better. 100Hertz makes for good gaming on your pc :) | static (4108) | ||
| 262002 | 2004-08-15 09:47:00 | > In my opinion - no. 75 is high enough - but then I > don't play games. Don't know if these need a higher > refresh rate. It'll probably come down to how sensitive your eyes are. I struggle with a refresh rate of 75 - it hurts my eyes quite quickly. I have mine set to 85, which suits me much better. Mike. |
Mike (15) | ||
| 262003 | 2004-08-15 10:01:00 | I found this site, www.displaymate.com which seems quite good at generally explaining about refresh rate and flicker. | Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 262004 | 2004-08-15 10:05:00 | That's interesting, my monitor is advertised at a max of 85Hz, Windows hides all of the ones above it, but I just changed it to 100Hz and it ran fine! | Growly (6) | ||
| 262005 | 2004-08-15 10:08:00 | Setting the refresh rate higher than the monitor is designed to go might seem to work fine, but could also damage your screen, so it isn't recommended. Mike. |
Mike (15) | ||
| 262006 | 2004-08-15 10:22:00 | I believe that if you change it to a higher rate than the monitor can cope with you can stuff your monitor up. In Windows you generally can't do that. The highest rate your monitor can cope with at the resolution you are using the better. | mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 262007 | 2004-08-15 10:46:00 | The greater the refresh rate the greater the "stress" on the driver amplifiers, they will tend to run hotter, but that may all be just hot air :) Billy T can tell us whether that is true or not, but what I do know is that in the days when there were separate/discrete driver transistors mounted on heat sinks, they tended to be the components having a fairly high failure rate, and/or dry joint failure due to heating, causing loss of a colour. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
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