- Jul 12, 2001
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I have purchased two of these monitors now. Initially, I had purchased one, and I knew about the low refresh rates at the high resolutions, which is fine because I never run anything at high resolutions anyway. Everything went according to plan. Now, I buy a second one thinking I know what I am going to get. I break it out of the box, plug it in, and I notice they have reversed the refresh rates around. Now it gets a great refresh at high resolutions (1600 x 1200), but if I try to play diablo II at (800 x 600), the screen shakes like an earthquake. Then I went over to Best Buy to look at their version of the monitor, and on the tag it says it has a refresh rate of 85hz at 1600 x 1200. I go and look at the box of the monitor and it says it has a refresh rate of 68hz at 1600 x 1200. I ask the store clerk and he gives me some BS that they mix there tags around sometimes, and that the refresh rate on the box is right, even though I know something is up because my new monitor runs spectacularly at 1600 x 1200, but terrible at anything less than 1280 x 1024. Unfortunately, since I got the monitor for $150 from dell, sending it back would cost me more than its really worth. Any ideas of what the heck Samsung is doing? 