Is it ok to run your monitor at 100 HZ refresh rate?

[rigmah]

Is it ok to run your monitor at 100 HZ refresh rate?

 

[John]

If it can handle it, sure. Otherwise it will shorten the life of the monitor, or will fail to function.

 

[fitzhue]

It depends on what monitor you have and at what resolution you want to run it at. What is your monitor make and model?

 

[Adul]

Has long has it can handle it. I can run mine at 120hz at lower resolutions. Has the resolutions goes up, the refresh capability goes down. It also depends on the quality of the monitor. But has long has you have the monitor correctly specificied in the display properties, it should only show you those features that it can handle. (unless you turned it off some how)

 

[Zucchini]

Ugh, if your monitor can doit, its fine and within spec.. 120hz is fine.. hell i'm sure there's higher. Higher the better.. if you try a refresh thats more then it can handle, you won't see jack on your screen.

 

[Mule]

I'm running @ 100hz right now 1024x768x32

But for me it really doesn't make a difference after 90+hz, and I can barely tell the difference from 85 to 90.

Anything below 85 is unacceptable.

 

[KameLeon]

Mine can go up to 100Hz. But i'm at running at 1024x 85Hz right now. I don't notice a difference between 85Hz and 100Hz. What's the difference anyway?

 

[cheetoden]

If you have your refresh rate set to "optimal", how can you tell what it is set at?

 

[rigmah]

i have a kds v195 and im runnin 100hz at 1152x864. Im hearing mixed reports. Will this shorten my monitors life?

rigmah

Thanks for the input guys

 

[EvilDonnyboy]

If it's within spec, than i wouldn't worry.

 

[Rand]

If your monitor can handle it it's fine.

 

[Zucchini]

120hz? whats the difference? Maybe a little less eyestrain over time, some ppl are more sensitive then others to small changes. Possibly more headroom for a powerful 3d card.. which is always good. 120hz sounds good, i run games at that level...not sure what the fastest refresh available on the market is though.

 

[NuovoTech]

This comes up every few years...many feel 85mhz is quite adequate, more is possibly overkill & could put extra strain on your monitor, no matter how good it is. Some feel this would shorten it's life...

 

[jamarno]

The faster the refresh rate, the faster the horizontal sweep rate, which causes the horizontal output transistor to run hotter, and the amount of extra heat increases slightly more than the increase in horizontal rate because it takes time for the transistor to turn on and off, and that's when most of the power is dissipated.

I think it's a lot better to run a monitor at no faster than the 2nd highest horizontal rate or slower, especially if it wasn't made by a Japanese company.

 

[andrey]

higher refresh rates are easier for your eyes and I always set my monitor to the highest refresh rate it can support. Hell, if monitor burns out, you can always buy the new one, but you never can buy new vision.

 

[Sir Fredrick]

higher refresh & resolution = shorter monitor life. If you never keep your hardware for long then don't worry about it, but if you can't see a difference between 85hz and 120hz, run it at the lower value. It should be impossible to tell the difference between the two unless you're running a huge monitor anyway, 85hz is considered to be flicker free.

 

[LuNoTiCK]

I run mine at 1152x864 @ 100 hz. I dont care about my monitor it should last at least a couple years anyway, and if it dies I will buy a new one, but yours is still under warranty also i bet, so dont worry about it. Better the monitor than your eyes

 

[dadx2mj]

Rigmah I have the same monitor and checked the manual it gives the max refresh rates as

1024x768 116Hz
1280x1024 88Hz

 

[PliotronX]

You can certainly tell the difference in FPS games while getting 100+ frames per second and using a >100hz refresh rate. Less tearing, more smooooooveness

But in Windows, the drop off point is around 90hz AFAIK.

 

[MichaelD]

I just got a new monitor (Micron 900MX) it has the Sony FD Trinitron tube. Max res on this monitor is 1600 x 1200 @ 65Hz. Right now I run 1024 x 768 @100. It can do 1024 @ 120Hz, but I couldn't see a diff between 100 and 120.

On a side note, I've tried 1152 x 864 @85Hz and desktop/applications look good, but when gaming, my FPS drops considerably. (specifically UT and DeusEx) I have a 32mb DDR Geforce, so it couldn't be the card, could it? The main reason I got a bigger monitor was to run at higher resolutions...oh well.