Your Monitor's Refresh Rate?

[Thierry 0]

A friend of mine had got a new monitor, on his old own his refresh rate was 75 hz, on his new one it was by default 60hz. I told him to set it to 85 (which his old monitor could not handle) but he said that 60 was fine.

After playing for 3 days full he had a splitting headache and was throwing up.

So if you have a monitor with 60 hz, set it higher. The minimum shnould be 70. The higher the better.

I geuss thats what they mean with all those epileptic warnings on each game manual on the first page.

I got 100 hz with 1024X768 on 19'' monitor

[chickendippers 1]

I've got a 15" TFT running at 1024*768 and 75Hz with response time of 15 or 16ms (can't remember which). Don't seem to be able to change the refresh rate.

 

Not sure what my gaming computer is running at - but will be sure to turn the refresh up if it's 60Hz. It's just a bog standard 17" moniter.

[Hans5849 0]

85, it wouldn't stay at 85 untill i used riva Tuner. I want to get a LCD, im tired of CRT's.

[Luk3us 63]

This one can only handle 60hz, its a crappy digital flat panel. What ever that means...

 

But I'm fine. So is everyone else that uses it.

 

But I agree 85+ is best.

[General immeyourenot 0]

85+ at all times, i wouldn't even LOOK at a moniter with a lower refresh rate

[Sonic 295]

i wouldn't even LOOK at a moniter with a lower refresh rate

Same for me to. If its to low I can screen the screen flickering away, its horrible.

 

I have a plain old cheap 17" monitor, I get 1024 X 768 with and 85 hertz refresh.

 

In a couple of months I want to get a Philips 109B65 19" Monitor, the pic below show the white version, I want the black one because my keyboard is black, the speakers are black and my computer case is black and sliver.

 

[Thierry 0]

This is the monitor I have right now, the Iiyama 19'' Vision master 1451:

 

[Hans5849 0]

17" sony Vaio, getting my 21" back soon.

[BWare 0]

Okay... I have a 19" LCD flatscreen made by Xerox (go figure), and at 1280 x 1024 I can only get a refresh rate of 60... and to tell you the truth, I can't tell the difference! What's the deal? I see no flickering, and it seems to behave just fine. I could manually push the refresh rate higher, but don't want to damage my hardware. What would you suggest?

[fox34343 1]

my monitor is 85+

[Sonic 295]

Okay... I have a 19" LCD flatscreen made by Xerox (go figure), and at 1280 x 1024 I can only get a refresh rate of 60... and to tell you the truth, I can't tell the difference! What's the deal? I see no flickering, and it seems to behave just fine. I could manually push the refresh rate higher, but don't want to damage my hardware. What would you suggest?

If your happy with it and your eyes don't get sore and you don't get head aches from staring at it then leave it be. As the old saying goes... "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" :wink:

[Khyber 0]

OMG, I never really play games on my pc, but once I was playing a flash game and got a splitting headache... Could that be related to the refresh rate? And how do you change it?

[BWare 0]

If your happy with it and your eyes don't get sore and you don't get head aches from staring at it then leave it be. As the old saying goes... "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" :wink:

 

hehe, alright thanks

[chickendippers 1]

OMG, I never really play games on my pc, but once I was playing a flash game and got a splitting headache... Could that be related to the refresh rate? And how do you change it?

Is it not: Display Settings -> Advanced. Or you might have to use the menu on your moniter.

[BWare 0]

In Windows XP, just right-click on the desktop, go to properties, select the settings tab, click advanced, select the monitor tab, and there should be a pulldown menu with your options.

 

...has anyone manually pushed an LCD screen further than recommended? What kind of damage could that cause? Mine has a max of 75, so would pushing it to, say, 85 cause any major damage? Just wondering

[Doctor Destiny 41]

85 over here. I can't stand below 75. I get sick when it is.

[chickendippers 1]

...has anyone manually pushed an LCD screen further than recommended? What kind of damage could that cause? Mine has a max of 75, so would pushing it to, say, 85 cause any major damage? Just wondering

There's no option to set it to anything else than 75Hz on my computer.

[J-Fire_Man 0]

I set my monitor refresh rate to 75, I can't set it to more than75 hz, sucks. But, 75 looks ok.

[Thierry 0]

You can't push it, the monitor simply wont display it, else it will burn out

[chickendippers 1]

I set the refresh rate on my gaming computer to 85Hz...think it can go higher, but I don't want to risk it. There is a noticable difference between 60Hz and 85 - I can go much longer looking at the screen before I get a headache.

[Thierry 0]

I set the refresh rate on my gaming computer to 85Hz...think it can go higher, but I don't want to risk it. There is a noticable difference between 60Hz and 85 - I can go much longer looking at the screen before I get a headache.

 

Your welcome

 

If its a standard 17'' monitor then the highest is 85.

 

If you have a 19'' like me, then you can set it to 100, but you will to turn off the ''Hide Modes my monitor can't display'' thingy, because it prevents you from using refresh rates higher then 85, even if your monitor can handle them. Like I found out lol