Refresh Rate
 

How important is monitor refresh rate to online gaming? And should I just set it to the max??

i dunno, but u should have it on high so it doesnt end up skipping.

60 hurts my eyes... I can't imagine staring at something under say, 70, for a long period of time.

mine is 70.. and i stare @ it for a very long time, it makes my eyes sore.

Well if your in a game that measures frame rates and that determines performance in the game would refresh being higher affect that at all or is that all on the vid card end??

What game are we talking about here?

Yes, push it to the highest your monitor will take :)

Heh.. my lcd apparently has 60, doesn't bother me at all ^_^

LCDs refresh rates cannot be adjusted, even when set at 60 they refresh realistically around 40 Hz. But since the entire screen is updated at least it doesn't really bother the eye.

Doof, I'll do you this solid.. (dumb it up for the old man?)

Yea, It could be the difference between me or you in an online fps game..

My eyes have been so painful and bloodshot for the last week since I raised my resolution, but it's stuck at 60hz so I went back and set it to 70, hopefully I won't pop blood vessels in my eyes to the point where I can't see anymore

How does 1280x960 @85hz sound?

Bad, it's not a proportionate resolution. 1152 x 864 or 1280 x 1024 are safe bets.

I think it looks great on this 21" flat crt.

I don't know, maybe it's different for you than this 17" bubbled piece of shit I have..

Funny thing is, if your penis were that big, you'd be even more miserable...

I mean, really...after about 10 inches, the glamour of having a long penis declines, and it becomes more of a burden. Well, at least if it's long, maybe you can suck yourself, but that's about it.

Way to get off topic lol. My choices are 60, 70, or 80. Guess Ill do 80 and see what happens.

1280 x 960 @ 85hz... :-/

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I just found out my monitor supports 85hz :S... all this time it was stuck on 60hz but it didnt really bother me, although the sore eyes thing purerebel mentioned sounds familiar. I'll just see if the 25hz will make a big difference.

edit: it definatly makes a difference while playing games, hooray!