| Screen refresh rate? [message #241207] |
Thu, 25 January 2007 13:58  |
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Ok in the task bar there is a Nvidia icon and when I right click it and go to "Screen Refresh Rate" it says I can choose 60Herts 70Herts 72Herts or 75Herts? It is on 60 but is there any advantages to put it on 75? Whats it do? 
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| Crimson wrote on Thu, 17 May 2007 05:22 |
| Memphis wrote on Tue, 15 May 2007 03:54 |
...fatally die to death...
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I don't know if you meant to do that, but triple redundancy for teh win. I LOL'ed.
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| Re: Screen refresh rate? [message #241213 is a reply to message #241207] |
Thu, 25 January 2007 14:13  |
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Ok than I got LCD.
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| Crimson wrote on Thu, 17 May 2007 05:22 |
| Memphis wrote on Tue, 15 May 2007 03:54 |
...fatally die to death...
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I don't know if you meant to do that, but triple redundancy for teh win. I LOL'ed.
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| Re: Screen refresh rate? [message #241219 is a reply to message #241207] |
Thu, 25 January 2007 14:28 |
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If you have an LCD then don't even bother, leave it at the default. LCDs refresh a totally different way than CRTs and it's best to use the default rate it's normally at.
Now if you had a CRT, then you'd want the highest refresh rate your monitor can handle, unless the flickering of 60hz doesn't bother you. It bothers the hell out of me, so I put mine at 85hz.
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| Re: Screen refresh rate? [message #241233 is a reply to message #241223] |
Thu, 25 January 2007 15:02 |
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| j_ball430 wrote on Thu, 25 January 2007 13:45 |
Yeah, but the odd thing about mine is that scrolling lags and so does the minimizing of windows. You see trails. That changes when I go from 60MHz to 70MHz.
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That's probably because your monitor is supposed to be set at that. Sometimes the default for LCD monitors is not 60hz, but 70hz or higher.
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| Re: Screen refresh rate? [message #241253 is a reply to message #241242] |
Thu, 25 January 2007 16:07 |
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| Caveman wrote on Thu, 25 January 2007 14:04 |
And can you explain to us why you need to have it @ 100Hz and not 85. Your eyes cannot tell the difference between 85 and 100Hz.
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Yes you can. I can actually see 85hz, but not enough to where it bothers me. I can only notice it at night and mostly if I look at it in my peripheral vision, like Jeep Rubi said.
| Merovingian wrote on Thu, 25 January 2007 14:32 |
You guys do know that raising the refresh rate over it's factory defaults (or more than it's supposed to handle) can permanently damage your hardware?
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There are no defaults for CRTs. Usually a store states the refresh rates it can handle, and as long as you install your video card drivers it shouldn't let you go higher than it can handle.
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| Re: Screen refresh rate? [message #241261 is a reply to message #241207] |
Thu, 25 January 2007 16:48 |
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That is just a setting that the manufacturer put their so you could revert back to the default settings the monitor was at when it was manufactured.
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| Re: Screen refresh rate? [message #241286 is a reply to message #241207] |
Thu, 25 January 2007 19:29 |
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The setting is on the computer not the monitor.
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| Crimson wrote on Thu, 17 May 2007 05:22 |
| Memphis wrote on Tue, 15 May 2007 03:54 |
...fatally die to death...
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I don't know if you meant to do that, but triple redundancy for teh win. I LOL'ed.
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| Re: Screen refresh rate? [message #241403 is a reply to message #241207] |
Fri, 26 January 2007 14:42 |
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If you are running windows xp then go to your controll panel, then go to the display settings, click on the settings tab, click on the advanced button. click on the monitor tab. select the box so that it doesnt show modes that the monitor can't display. Then select the drop down box to see what you monitor can go up to.
Failing that, look at the back of you monitor, there will most likely be a silver sticker on it telling you the max refresh rate, or it might be branded into the plastic case on the back.
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| Re: Screen refresh rate? [message #241409 is a reply to message #241207] |
Fri, 26 January 2007 15:13 |
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No, your FPS will not increase from increasing your refresh rate.
Your increased refresh rate will increase the average amount of times each frame per second is illuminated, not the FPS itself.
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| Re: Screen refresh rate? [message #241526 is a reply to message #241207] |
Sat, 27 January 2007 08:58 |
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Your FPS is limited to your refresh rate, so if you have a refresh rate of say 50hz then you will never experiance a FPS higher then 50, because the monitor wouldn't be able to display the frames that quickly.
The card will still be running a FPS higher then 50, but the monitor just wouldnt be able to keep up.
If your nvidia card was capable of 60 FPS but your monitor was so shit it couldn't go above 50hz, then yes, you would notice an FPS increase by increasing the refresh rate. But technically you would of already be running at a higher FPS, just not able to view it.
But it doesn't actually increase the FPS, it stays the exact same, just the monitor then displays them properly.
It is unlikely that you have a card capable of a higher FPS then your monitors refresh rate.
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