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Poll: Monitor Refresh Rate

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What is the refresh rate of your primary monitor?

  • Less than 60 Hz

    Votes: 5 0.7%
  • 60 - 69 Hz

    Votes: 105 13.8%
  • 70 - 74 Hz

    Votes: 50 6.6%
  • 75 - 79 Hz

    Votes: 177 23.3%
  • 80 - 84 Hz

    Votes: 22 2.9%
  • 85 - 89 Hz

    Votes: 274 36.1%
  • 90 - 94 Hz

    Votes: 11 1.4%
  • 95 - 99 Hz

    Votes: 4 0.5%
  • 100 Hz or higher

    Votes: 111 14.6%

  • Total voters
    759
19" diamondtron Iiyama Vision Master pro 454, currently using 1152x864 @ 120Hz

edit: trinitron -> diamondtron :)
 
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85hz@1280x768 is the max i can go with out the havin to goto 60hz @ a higher res, and im not havin that.
On a 17" Samsung sycnmaster 763mb. Gettin a 19" that can go to 1600x1200 200 refresh rate max(dunno if thats @ that refresh rate) this friday.

Peeps posting just your hz doesnt really say much unless you put down your screen resolution.
Very informative to see how good your monitor is if you put the resolution with the refresh rate and even monitor size.
 
TechnoNRGKid said:
85hz@1280x768 is the max i can go with out the havin to goto 60hz @ a higher res, and im not havin that.
On a 17" Samsung sycnmaster 763mb. Gettin a 19" that can go to 1600x1200 200 refresh rate max(dunno if thats @ that refresh rate) this friday.

Peeps posting just your hz doesnt really say much unless you put down your screen resolution.
Very informative to see how good your monitor is if you put the resolution with the refresh rate and even monitor size.

Besides screen resoloution and hz , subjective info is good too .For example my CTX monitor can handle higher hz than my LG monitor but at my preferred resoloution of 1280 x 960 text in some places on the CTX looks blurry . So 1152 x 864 is what i chose on the CTX . The LG looks good at 1600 x 1200 as well but icons etc are just too small .
 
Also higher refresh rates can cause blurriness. I've changed to 1280×960 about a month ago and the picture is perfect @ 100Hz. At 120Hz, it's blurry.
 
Little late to the post, but mine is as follows

Dell P1110 21 Inch monitor
1280x1024@100HZ

Anything less then 85Hertz looks horrible to me. Of course anything under 60Hertz will in fact make your eye sight worse if you spend any lenghty time in front of your computer. Number one sign is headaches
 
I always try to use 85Hz and above ..
Anything above that doesn't really seem to make a difference with my eyes :attn:
 
I'm not sure. My GFX card says it's putting out 85, but my monitor says it's only displaying 75. My monitor used to say 85, but now it doens't. I'm not sure anymore.
 
CharlesHF said:
100Hz, 1024*768 here. Gateway EV900. :) 85Hz is ok, but sometimes I can still see it flicker. 60Hz is pain for my eyes.

Same monitor that I use on my back-up rig, but I run at 1024x768 @ 110hz and i can STILL see flicker on white!!!! But it's not too bad for since it was free. I use a Gateway FPD1500 (15in LCD) that I got free on my main system.
 
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