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    Conflicting 60 Hertz and 59 Hertz refresh rate

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by griffin_230, Aug 12, 2008.

  1. griffin_230

    griffin_230 Newbie

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    This might be a better place to ask:

    I've got a Dell Inspiron 1720 and just got an engineer to replace the original 59 Hertz screen with a 60 Hertz one, as I read in some forums that some games may rely on a 60 Hertz reading to run properly. Afterwards, I noticed that in the 'Display Settings' and 'dxdiag', the refresh rate is shown as 60 Hertz.

    However, Dell's own QuickSet application gives a refresh rate reading of 59 Hertz under System Information. I asked dell about this, but they don't know why QuickSet says 59 Hertz. So can I safely ignore QuickSet's reading and just rely on the 'dxdiag' readings as more accurate ?
     
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    Apollo13 100% 16:10 Screens

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    It really isn't a big deal whether it runs at 59 Hz or 60 Hz - it's one frame per second difference, not something you'll notice. My Inspiron 1520 monitor has been running at 59 Hz, 60 Hz, and 63 Hz depending on my operating system and graphics card drivers. It's functioned perfectly on all three. Unless you already have a game that insists on a certain refresh rate, I wouldn't worry about it - games should do just fine with whatever refresh rate you throw at them. If a game didn't, it would likely have significant support troubles with all the CRTs that default to 72 or 75 Hertz.

    I usually right-click on the Windows desktop, choose Properties from the context menu, go to Settings, Advanced, and then Monitor to get the refresh rate. Testing it out, when I set it to 63 Hz there, dxdiag also reports 63 Hz, so I'd say dxdiag is probably the more accurate one of two.
     
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    Thanks for the reply. Yeah, I read that there were some games like BF2 that needed a refresh rate of exactly 60 Hertz before it would run, so I wanted to make sure I wouldn't have similar problems in the future, as the original screen was locked at 59 Hertz.
     
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