Computer Monitors Buying Guide
Anyone who has spent even an hour staring at a
computer monitor for your environment and for your budget.
Learn the Lingo
First, let's break down all of those terms that come with buying a monitor.
* '''Aspect Ratio: '''This refers to the width of your computer monitor vs. the height of your computer monitor. The average monitor has an
16:9.
* '''Bandwidth: '''This determines how quickly a screen can refresh its picture, based upon how much data it can process at once. Lower bandwidth means the screen will refresh less frequently, which will increase the amount of flicker that you will see.
* '''Dot Pitch: '''A computer monitor displays an image which is made up of millions of pixels (dots). Dot pitch refers to the distance between each pixel. The lower the dot pitch, the closer the pixels and thus the sharper the image.
* '''Refresh Rate:''' This refers to how many times per second the computer screen can redraw itself, or "refresh." To avoid the flickering, a screen much have a refresh rate of at least
72 Hz.
* '''Resolution: '''Resolution is based upon the amount of individual pixels on the screen, measured horizontally by vertically. Resolution will remain the same no matter what the screen size, so a
23 inch screen with the same resolution, due to the lower dot pitch.
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