Video card and the refresh rate

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bigcomp

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Is it possible that our video card runs at a lower refresh rate than whats its showing? ... For some reason or the other, I have doubts that its actually happening. Anyway to find that out?
 
It's really the monitor that determines the refresh rate, you can set it to a specific frequency such as 60Hz, 75Hz, 100Hz, etc., however I'm not sure how you would go about actually checking it.
 
So the video cards don't have ANY relation with the refresh rate? .. I mean won't they do the part where they control the frequency of refresh for the monitor i.e. monitor 'do' the refreshing and the video cards 'control' or 'execute' the refreshing?
 
Oh no, don't get me wrong the video card does control the refresh rate, however they can handle much higher refresh rates then what your average monitor can support anyways.
 
What i fear is that I am seeing few black moving stripes, few times on the monitor screen especially when theres mostly a white background. I doubt it has something to do with my video card not working out with the refresh rates properly.

I've checked my CRT monitor and its working perfectly fine on other CPUs. As far as i know, if a monitor is not able to properly refresh at a particular rate for ANY reason, it switches off automatically ( thats whats i have observed ). But is there some kind of similar hints for whether the video card is refreshing properly?

I normally don't care about all this stuff, but as currently i am on a CRT i am kind of concerned about it.
 
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