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Higher refresh = less strain on eyes?

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Skiguy411

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I have a NEC MutliSync FE991SB and run it at a resolution of 1152x864. It can do this resolution at a refresh rate of lower than 85, 85, or 100. My question is what should I run it at that has the least eye strain? I also heard that running it at 100 will shorten the life of the monitor. Is this true?
 
I would run it as high as the monitor allows at safe operations. There is definitately less strain on the eyes at higher rates to a certian extent
 
it only takes about 30 min for me to get a headache and sore eyes when looking at a monitor at the default 60hz

check the specs on your monitor (they will say what kind of refresh rate it supports at any given resolution) then run it as high as it supports 🙂 (or at least 85hz)
 
I find for CRTs, I personally need 85Hz or above to prevent eye strain.
60Hz and 70Hz are unusable, 75Hz is only tolerable. 85Hz on up and I'm OK.
I've become so acustomed to LCDs, however, that I don't like looking at CRTs anymore.
 
It seems to me that I read somewhere, a long time ago, that "most" people can't detect the difference after 75hz.

I always thought that it was hard on the video card to run it really high, like 100hz.
 
I run my CRT @ 85 a res of 1280 x 960 looks great. anything over this is over kill I think but anything below I think is unacceptable and becomes painful very quickly.
 
Up until a few months ago all my moniters have been at 60Hz (mine is currently at 85hz b/c I was told here to change it) and I've never experienced anything that you guys have mentioned and mind you I have gone through long nights of gaming too on them.
 
I run my 19" CRT at 60hz and I've never had problems with my eyes, despite using it for very long periods of time.
 
Originally posted by: randumb
I run my 19" CRT at 60hz and I've never had problems with my eyes, despite using it for very long periods of time.
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You are kidding me! I couldn't stand 60Hz for more than a few minutes and I would notice it the moment I look at anything below 75Hz. Sure you couldn't tell the difference? The flickering at 60Hz is rather obvious I'd say.
 
People who are used to it tend to not notice 60 Hz.

A friend of mine had his monitor at work set to 60 Hz and used to complain about getting headaches and such, I asked him about his monitor and told him how to up the ref rate, no more complaining after that 🙂

Same with my mom.
 
I can barely look at 60Hz. It's like looking into the sun. I'm really waiting for high resolutions (1600x1200 and higher) at high refresh rates (160, 180, 200, etc).

I like 120, but I use 100 because my monitor can only do like 118 at the resolution I run it at. Don't want to blow it up prematurely. 🙂

 
I did read on a reliable source once that experiments have shown very high refresh rates to be *more* tiring again for the eyes. That it's not simply a matter of higher=better for the eyes, but that there's a "sweet-spot" somewhere between 85 and 100 Hz. Not sure whether this referred to the fact that the higher strain on the electronics might make the screen slightly blurrier, or whether it is the effect of the higher refresh itself on human eyes.

JoHel
 
i believe 72hz is the minimum safety requiremewnt in the workplace, 85hz or above your eyes cannot detect a flicker. higher than that might place unnecessary strain on the monitor components. i run 85hz/19"/1152x864 (or whatever is it)

cheers.
 
I run mine at 100, but I never noticed anything blurry at that rate, maybe I'll switch to 85 to see how that goes. I cant 60 for more than a few minutes, it totally kills me.
 
Originally posted by: magomago
Up until a few months ago all my moniters have been at 60Hz (mine is currently at 85hz b/c I was told here to change it) and I've never experienced anything that you guys have mentioned and mind you I have gone through long nights of gaming too on them.
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Gaming is tolerable on a 60Hz monitor especially if it's high frame rate stuff. After all, nearly all TV sets are fixed at 60Hz.
 
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