[geeks] LCD display options

[Phil Stracchino]

Joshua Boyd wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 02:14:59PM -0800, Phil Stracchino wrote:
>>Planar PL2010M, 20" 1600x1200, excellent 600:1 contrast ratio but slow 
>>25ms response time, HD15 and DVI-D, about $680
> 
> If one could get their display to support 40hz output, and they weren't
> gamers, 25ms wouldn't be so bad.  Alas I don't know that any cheap video
> card (meaning not some highly specialized card that originally had a
> over $1k pricetag) will allow that, but I may be wrong.  And the silly
> display might not accept a sync rate that low anyway.
> 
> The LCD will stay rock steady no matter how low the refresh rate is, so
> games aside, how high does it really need to be?

Right.  For text use, that's really not going to matter much, and most 
streaming video doesn't achieve 40fps anyway.


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