>I was wondering what refresh rate to set my monitor on. Im
>new to this. Viewsonic p810 (21" monitor) with radeon 8500
>video card and p4, 1.8 hertz, 512 ddr memory. It is set to
>75 hertz right now. is their an advantage to setting it to
>a lower or higher number
The higher the refresh rate, the less flicker you'll see. However, don't set the rate higher than your monitor can handle or you may damage it.
There used to be a penalty in graphics performance with higher refresh rates, but that's much less of an issue with today's hardware.
Ben