question regarding refresh rate

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I have a 22 inch crt, and I have desktop resolution set at 1280. My monitors refresh rate is at 100hz. I have an 8800gt and im not exactly sure what my native resolution is (question 1)

Also, I was wondering what the difference is with refresh rate on CRT and LCD. I cannot view my monitor without getting irritated if its not at 100 hz, so what refresh rate are lcds set to? Are they low or adjustable? Just curious because people talk about running huge lcds on their native resolution and i dont know how id like it if i werent set at 100 refresh rate:eek:
 
Your native resolution with an LCD is the resolution of your monitor.
For a CRT it doesnt really matter, whatever resolution suits you (up to the max the monitor can do).

Most LCDs are 60Hz only. You may be able to use higher refresh rates on them but it wont improve anything and you might get stutter.
New LCD panels are appearing that will go up to 120Hz but they are not mainstream.

CRTs refresh the whole screen every cycle, LCDs refresh only the parts of the screen that have changed every cycle.
So with an LCD, you wont have the same flicker problems at 60Hz that a CRT does.
 
LCDs don't have a refresh rate in the same way as CRTs do (and CRTs also don't have a native resolution, just a maximum resolution for a given refresh rate). CRTs have to refresh the entire display many times per second, whereas LCDs display a static picture and only change the display when the input changes. LCDs therefore generally use 60Hz as a link rate, but that just means the computer sends the LCD an updated picture 60 times a second, not that the screen flickers.

The problem with LCDs has generally been whether the pixels change quickly enough so that you don't see "ghosting" from the previous image, which is why you'll find figures such as "6ms" quoted as the speed of an LCD panel. These are often misleading, as they use the best-case scenario rather than the typical case, but lower is generally better.
 
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