Modern screen designs use the "Plug and Play" function to set the optimum parameters automatically. To do this, they use the DDC (Display Data Channel). If the monitor and the graphics card are DDC-compatible, they exchange their information via the operating system and adjust to one other optimally.

Please follow the instructions in your monitor’s user manual.

Games and graphics applications can take up a great deal of memory. It is not only the speed of the CPU that is crucial for problem-free running, but also the size of the graphics card memory. The capacity of the available graphics memory is crucial for the number of colours and their resolution that can be displayed, as the colour information for the red, green and blue (RGB) colour elements must be provided for each pixel. Graphics cards with a low memory capacity only have a limited range of colours. Essentially, the resolution of a graphics card depends on the graphics card memory, the refresh rate and the colour depth. The higher the resolution and colour depth, the lower the refresh rate.

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Our tips and hints …

... for setting the screen refresh rate (refresh rate)

Click on "Start" – "Control panel". In this menu click on "Switch to standard view". Double click on "Display". Under "Settings", click on "Advanced" and then on "Monitor". You can then set the "Screen refresh rate".

... to change the graphics card

The broadband data bus "PCI Express" will be used with the launch of the "Intel® 915P" chip set generation located on the motherboard, which was developed under the code name "Grantsdale". If your system is fitted with a PCI Express graphics card, please note that you may only use PCI Express cards. AGP graphics cards may not be installed as there are no AGP slots available.

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