LCD Monitor Qs

[kris™]

I recently bought a LCD monitor and I am having problems with it because of slight blurs at lower resolutions (800x600,1024x768 and 1152x864) even if I use the maximum allowable refresh rate.

Qs.

1. What is the cause of this? If I upgrade my graphics card, will it help?

2. Someone told me to use the maximum resolution the monitor can support, and I did. The problem is, the maximum allowable refresh rate at 1280x1024 is only 72hz. It should run at 75hz. The crystals also move from side to side when I use 72hz forcing me to use 60hz instead. Is it possible that my old (GeForce 2 Ti) graphics card is causing this?

3. Is there a way to make the texts larger at 1280x1024?

Thanks! :D

[RedHorse]

am using compaq FP5315 connected to a radeon 9200 128mb, max res at 1024x768, 72 hz with no problem at all

[jkyamog]

1. It is caused by nature of the LCD. LCD has fixed set of pixels, which called the natural resolution unlike CRT which does not. Since yours is likely a 17" which has 1280x1024 pixels, to display lower res it will interpolate the pixels. So changing video cards will not help. I just hope you did some research about LCD before you got one.

2. In LCD refresh rate is useless. The pixels are always on, there is no need to refresh unlike a CRT where the gun has to constantly refresh the phosphors. So 60hz is just enough, in fact I doubt your LCD will go higher than 60hz.

3. Yes there is. Look into your diplay settings.

[kris™]

1. I did make some research before I bought the LCD. I was just surprised w/ the increased amount of blur when reading black over white documents.

2. It was stated that a maximum of 75hz*1280x1024 could be achieved. I was simply wondering why it maxed out at 72hz and crystal movement was evident.

3. My question was incomplete. I would like to know if there is a way of increasing font size w/o garbling (using 110-120dpi) the images.