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is my old crt flickering or is it just me?

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Mar 15, 20265925 views

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I had to move my laptop over to the study, and we have an old/spare monitor which we haven't used a while - the last setup that used it was a CLI only linux install - it didn't flicker much, and text was sharp. I decided to use it with my laptop (thinkpad r61, running a plain vanilla install of win…

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50 Hz is definitely slow enough for a wide range of people to notice flickering. CRTs always flicker, but at 72+ Hz few people notice it.

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is my old crt flickering or is it just me?

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