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geekhack Community => Off Topic => Topic started by: tp4tissue on Mon, 27 October 2025, 10:18:15
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Should we just retire these?
Is there a good reason to keep making 60hz.
:D
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You are 60hz. :-̃
Not everyone needs a gaming monitor.
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But there's no advantage, and the chips cost the same.
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There's more to a screen than just a chip and the typical office has no need for anything more.
And there is a reason to keep them, power efficiency.
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But they already invented adaptive refresh, so the display can go down to 20hz if necessary. Offices are all plugged in, the fraction of a watt only makes a huge impact on cellphones, about 8.5%, On laptops the difference is 1-2% (properly designed).
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60hrz will still exist for ****ty bulk office monitors
They will probably stay at 1080p till the 2030s as well
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What I mean is that in offices, it is more important to use available power and bandwidth for more screen real-estate than for high refresh rates.
At my last workplace, we all had dual 2560×1440p screens connected to laptops over single USB-C, and I mean everyone... Well, except for that guy who had a single 5120×1440 super ultra-wide.
And that USB-C was also used for network, keyboard, mouse and headset. Many non-Thinkpads would have required it for power as well.
If we had used Macs, it would have been worse, because those practically require "retina"-level PPI as well.
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Another thing, 27 Inch monitors, STOP, WHY, JUST STOP IT.
There is no reason to go under 32. Even 43 is OK at 2 feet.
55 at 3 feet
65 at 4 feet
77 at 5 feet
85 at 7 feet
98 at 8 feet
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Ultra wides.
Mmmm... ehhh... Not A Fan.
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Another thing, 27 Inch monitors, STOP, WHY, JUST STOP IT.
There is no reason to go under 32. Even 43 is OK at 2 feet.
Hard disagree.
I like 25-26in for my desk size.
You probably like them gigantic 7in phones too.
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Another thing, 27 Inch monitors, STOP, WHY, JUST STOP IT.
There is no reason to go under 32. Even 43 is OK at 2 feet.
Hard disagree.
I like 25-26in for my desk size.
You probably like them gigantic 7in phones too.
Llann probably doesn't do alot of specific Monitor-wurk.
27" even 3 of them, all day, squint to see, no bueno.
You might get away with 27" for browsing, big application UIs, but the non-consumer facing applications, 27" kill your eyes. :D
Then there's g4m3r side of things, 27" is ok if you've got big looking targets in an FPS, but if you got RTS or Top down RPG like Hades2, your dudes are quite small, not unplayable, but there's a comfort issue here.
Tp4 does not play any mobile games on mobile. None installed. Tp4 only plays HonorOfKings via desktop emulator.
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Llann probably doesn't do alot of specific Monitor-wurk.
27" even 3 of them, all day, squint to see, no bueno.
You might get away with 27" for browsing, big application UIs, but the non-consumer facing applications, 27" kill your eyes. :D
I've done programming, web development, graphics design and cad on 25 and 26in screens. Doesn't bother me.
Your eyes, and how you place them matters.
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Tp4, and his god damn eyes, horrible.
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Llann probably doesn't do alot of specific Monitor-wurk.
27" even 3 of them, all day, squint to see, no bueno.
You might get away with 27" for browsing, big application UIs, but the non-consumer facing applications, 27" kill your eyes. :D
I've done programming, web development, graphics design and cad on 25 and 26in screens. Doesn't bother me.
Your eyes, and how you place them matters.
I also feel like it's a bit of luck of the draw with eye health. People's eyes age differently regardless of screen habits.
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27" QHD@60Hz works fine for me for non-gaming use, since your eyes can only see so many pixels without moving.
Perhaps a projector would be a nice "screen" for a 3m x 3m wall, but I am not sure whether a wall of light in the dark would be so great either.
I think it's amazing that such QHD monitors are that cheap today.
I think VR is also a good way for a larger "screen". Particularly, when it will be combined with brain wave analysis. So, when you for example think of "htop", that it will transport you to the virtual coordinates showing a screen with htop information. I think that's possible to implement that today. I will leave the implementation to someone that's more enthusiastic about it, though.
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60Hz still works fine for everyday use and budget setups, so there’s a reason to keep it.
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I recently upgraded to 180hz from 60 and honestly, unless you're playing a competitive shooter it's not really a big deal.