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To: Street Walker who wrote (215)	2/16/1998 9:14:00 AM
From: Dirk Hente	Respond to of 14778

Streetwalker, the question whether you use a high or low refresh rate is independet of the application. The point here is, the lower the refresh rate (or 'vertical frequency') the more your screen 'flickers'. I guess it is common sense, that refresh rates under 70HZ shouldnt be used (perfect is 80 something when you work the whole day in front of a computer) Though you hardly cant see any flickering when the refresh rate is lower than 70Hz your eyes are getting stressed. But all depends on you. If you think you can work with refresh rates as low as 50 Hz you can do so of course. But usually you want a resfresh rate which is as high as possible (its just more comfortable for your eyes even after hours of staring at the screen ) Of course there is an upper limit of the refresh rate. Basically you can say, the product of resolution and refresh rate is constant: the higher the resolution the lower the refresh rate and vice versa. (btw the 'constant' corresponds to the ramdac bandwith of your graphic chip)