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I wrote: > >that resolution), and extra memory wouldn't help much. It is *mainly* a > >function of monitor speed and video card speed. Very few video cards can > >drive most monitors at this resolution at the ergonometric minimum 70hz > >refresh rate. This is especially true if your NEC is more than 2 years > >old. You'll need a *much* more expensive card; make sure before R.W. asked: > > David, what does age of the monitor have to do with it? Not age - model; over the last couple of years monitors have been engineered to scan at higher frequencies with less effort on the part of the video card. This year's bottom-end NEC can scan at rates that only high-end NECs could do in '94. Incidentally, you can't tell this from published monitor specs alone - for example, the NEC 5FGe models advertised a horizontal scan rate at 75hz VGA true color, but some cards (including my Hercules) can drive it at 90hz. > I have a 9 month old Dell desktop with a 20-inch Trinitron (Sony, > basically) monitor that I regularly run at 1600 x 1200 (Hi-color) and I > have no problem with flicker, etc. It looks positively beautiful to me > (and I had an NEC 6FGp 21" monitor before this one). I'll bet with the same card and resolution it would look horrible on the FGe models (as opposed to the FGp models). - David