Tim S. said:
Try a 72Mgz refresh rate....
Yo! people, it's *Hz* (Hertz, which *used* to be called "Cycles per
second").
MHz is MegaHertz, or Million Hz (cycles per second, used to be MegaCycles).
72 *MHz* would surely blow fire and smoke out of his monitor! 72 *Hz* OTOH
would be fine...
Now for some *really useless* Information...
1Hz = A drumbeat every second, clock ticking.
5hZ = US C-Quam AM Stereo "Pilot" frequency, ThrashMetal drumbeats.
20Hz = Bass/Subwoofers frequencies, my Doom3alpha framerate.
29.97Hz = US NTSC Television Frame Rate, Xbox/PS2 FPS.
30Hz = Cinema Film Frame Rate.
60Hz = US Power Line Frequency, "Flickery" Monitor framerate.
75Hz = "Nice" Monitor Refresh rate.
800Hz = Lower Midrange audio.
3000Hz = Typical Voice frequencies.
8000Hz = "ve haff vays of making you talk..."
--kHz = KiloHertz = THOUSAND Hz--
10kHz = 10000Hz = Lower Treble frequencies, tamborine.
13kHz = my damned tinunitis (chronic ear-ringing), cymbals.
15kHz = Higher end of audible spectrum, rolloff of FM stereo response.
19kHz = "Pilot" signal for FM stereo audio.
30kHz = Most people *can't* hear this.
540kHz = Lower end of AM Radio band.
--MHz = MegaHertz = MILLION Hz--
1MHz falls in the middle of AM radio band (1000kHz). Early 8088 CPUs.
8MHz = Shortwave Radio, early 2/386 CPU clocks.
25MHz = Just below the CB radio band, early 486 CPU clocks.
49MHz = Baby Monitors, some walkie-talkies, early garage door openers.
88MHz = low end of FM radio band.
100MHz = Center of FM radio band, FSB clock speeds, Pentium CPU speed.
900MHz = Typical Cell Phone Frequencies. "Mid-range" CPU speed.
--GHz = (GigaHertz) BILLION Hz--
1.1Ghz = (1100 MHz) Some Microwave ovens, some wireless devices.
2.4 GHz = Wireless Ethernet and other Wireless devices, Higher-end CPU
clock frequencies.
3.3GHz = Intel P4 top end CPU clock.
3.7 to 4.2GHz = "C" band Satellite.
5GHz = Radio Astronomy Satellites.
10.9 to 12.5GHz - "Ku"band Satellites.
12.5 to 20GHz = "Ka" band Satellites.
300GHz to 120,000GHz (120TERAHERTZ) infraRed Light.
384THz to 700THz = Visible light.
780THz = UltraViolet light.
30,000THz = X-Rays
The length of waves gets shorter as the frequency increases. Thus, an AM
radio wave is somewhere around 200 Meters long while an FM radio wave is
around 3 meters long.
Also, the power and propogation varies according to the frequency. A 50,000
watt AM radio station on 540kHz would likely cover an average daytime area
over 500 miles in each direction, while a 50,000 watt AM station on 1500kHz
would cover a daytime area of 80 miles in each direction.
Just FYI
