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My school's admin is a fucker

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voidmain:
Well it's actually the video card that determines the refresh rate. Video cards have a certain number of "clock rates" built in to them. You select the clock rate in the operating system driver which tells the video card which clock rate to drive the monitor at. Your monitor is just along for the ride so if you select a clock rate that your monitor is not capable of, you just may get a poof of smoke.

Most video cards and monitors today are smart though and the driver will check the maximum limits of the monitor and not let the video card go to a higher clock rate than the monitor is capable of. I'm not sure if the clock rate that the video card is running effects the performance of it. I don't believe it does because I think a separate chip (probably the DAC) is responsible for the clock rate (refresh rate).

[ November 13, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]

pkd_lives:
Altering the refresh rate can destroy a monitor easily. It will not necessarily go haywire if you raise it too high. The monitor can keep on working as if normal (particularly on the better quality monitors).

If you raise the refresh rate listen very carefully at the top vent. A high pitch buzz may be heard. If this happens your systems refresh rate is too high for the monitor. It may switch on after a few days, or it may start straight away. Lower your rate to a default level instantly. It will almost certainly occur before the monitor fails, but it may not give you enough warning to prevent damage (months or only seconds).

[ November 13, 2002: Message edited by: pkd ]

The Auditor:
Monitors are still tempermental to those things..
however... we have an admin who as far as anyone knows, only has a MCSE and dropped out of TAFE.

other than that..
He spends most of his time downloading pr0n, and on the fone to tech support, to make all the things he doesnt know work again.

We, the competant users, are at this time breaking everything in sight and offering him security manuals to fix them.

We are so nice ...

The Auditor

lazygamer:
The funny thing is, this article says that few people notice flicker at or above 72hz. Unless there is a difference between "flicker" and "ease of viewing", I must be very gifted. I swear 72hz is not enough for me! 85 does pretty good, but I feel that 100 is even better. Maybe I'll have to see if I can see any difference between 100 and 120.

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