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Article: The scan game: monitor frequencies explained. (Tech Section) (Tutorial)
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- Computer Shopper
- Article date:
- March 1, 1993
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There are few subjects in computing that cause more confusion than monitor specifications. People care deeply about their monitors, but when someone starts to talk about scan rates and bandwidths, dots clocks, and "megahertz this" and "kilohertz that," the eyeballs of the average user roll back in their sockets, soon followed by the sound of gentle snoring.
At Computer Shopper, we're not above taking a few soporific risks now and then, so we are going to try to give you the technical skinny on what makes your pixels pop. As it turns out, there are some essential concepts at work here that have significant implications for the computer systems that you purchase ...