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Originally posted by PornoDoggy
I'm using XP Home edition, and the lowest res setting available through the control panel is 800x600. I also use a freeware program called Multi-Res that makes changing back and forth between resolutions pretty easy, and it will switch XP into 640x480.
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You know, one of the the reasons I haven't moved to WinXP, is because, in any resolution, it defaults to 60 or 70 Hz. Normally, the lower the resolution you go, the higher the refresh rate. I get 160 Hz on mine in 800x600, and 120 Hz in 1024x768, and 100 Hz in most of the others. I even get 85 Hz in 1600x1200. That's with a Dell P1110 21"er, and those refresh rates rock. If you want to invest in some good equipment, forget CPU speed, but a good monitor - what a difference, and it will last you for years. Get the faster CPU some other time; it's only going to be obsolete in a year, anyway.
Anyway, 60Hz in winXP blows. You guys don't know what you are missing. I can't believe MS took out the refresh setting in advance settings under display properties. There's some util. I think that's out that allows you to fix this flaw... but I can't remember it.