Monitor recommendations? Eyes are hurting

[Face2Face]

Or turn the brightness up, depending on what the issue is.

Most monitors have PWM flickering if the brightness is not at 100%. To verify this, just use a cell phone camera and see if you can see lines scrolling across the screen. If you do, then your monitor is flickering in a way that can cause eye strain and headaches.

Nice. I'll give this a try.

 

[itakey]

I did some tests with the brightness, and also switching between VGA and DVI cables, but I still feel like my eyes hurt. Its one of those things where you can't make a change and notice right away if it helped, since I literally need to get away from the computer for a bit, or close my eyes to reset the bad feeling it gives me.

I've concluded that its either the integrated graphics on the computer motherboard/CPU, or some odd setting in Windows 7. My Windows XP machine doesn't do it, and my Windows 8 machine has the same exact 2 monitors and doesn't do it either.

I swear it is the integrated graphics.

A brand new U2415 is on its way. If that doesn't fix it, I will be upgrading my video card as the next step. Anyone have any video card recommendations? Keep in mind I do ZERO gaming, and I mean zero. And the only video I watch is YouTube so it can be plain jane quality. Any cards in the $30-$100 you all recommend?

 

[Stuka87]

You can get super cheap cards, but if you want dual displays like you want, I would suggest one of these:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814487116

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814202097

They are both pretty similar. Just depends if you prefer AMD or nVidia. Neither one requires external power.

 

[Fox5]

I did some tests with the brightness, and also switching between VGA and DVI cables, but I still feel like my eyes hurt. Its one of those things where you can't make a change and notice right away if it helped, since I literally need to get away from the computer for a bit, or close my eyes to reset the bad feeling it gives me.

I've concluded that its either the integrated graphics on the computer motherboard/CPU, or some odd setting in Windows 7. My Windows XP machine doesn't do it, and my Windows 8 machine has the same exact 2 monitors and doesn't do it either.

I swear it is the integrated graphics.

A brand new U2415 is on its way. If that doesn't fix it, I will be upgrading my video card as the next step. Anyone have any video card recommendations? Keep in mind I do ZERO gaming, and I mean zero. And the only video I watch is YouTube so it can be plain jane quality. Any cards in the $30-$100 you all recommend?

If the issue does turn out to be flicking, the LED backlight in the U2415 could make it worse.

Your integrated graphics are digital if you're using DVI or HDMI, and should have no impact on the 2d image quality.