On Fri, 11 Oct 2002, Daniel Sheltraw wrote:

> I realize this is not really a XF86 question but do you 
> of any graphics cards with vertical refresh frequencies
> greater than 100/sec.

What resolution are you thinking of ?

For a graphics card the limit isn't really the vertical refresh rate,
but the clock speed. Thus the max vertical refresh rate is the max clock 
speed divided by the number of timing units (think pixels, but include
the off-screen delays when no pixel is being drawn) in the modeline.

Consider the modelines:
# 640x480 @ 60Hz (Industry standard) hsync: 31.5kHz
ModeLine "640x480"    25.2  640  656  752  800    480  490  492  525 -hsync -vsync

# 1920x1440 @ 60Hz (VESA) hsync: 90.0kHz
ModeLine "1920x1440" 234.0 1920 2048 2256 2600   1440 1441 1444 1500 -hsync +vsync

These are both 60Hz vertical refresh.
My Matrox G550 has a max clock speed of 360MHz, so the limit would
be these modelines:

# 640x480 @ 857 Hz
ModeLine "640x480"   360.0  640  656  752  800    480  490  492  525 -hsync -vsync

# 1920x1440 @ 66.66 Hz 
ModeLine "1920x1440" 360.0 1920 2048 2256 2600   1440 1441 1444 1500 -hsync +vsync

So you could go 8 times as fast as your 100Hz minimum with the right 
monitor.

> Also what monitors or projectors exist to support high refresh rates.
Sony have a monitor which does supports 1280x1024@170Hz
and one optimized for 1920x1200@98Hz.

CRT phospers have a delay-rate; if you try my 640x480 @ 857 Hz mode
on a domestic monitor a handful of frames will be blurred together.

Why do you want a high refresh rate ?

-- 
Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison         Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge
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