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July 25, 2005 at 05:11 AM
rexworld

What’s the performance penalty for using ClearType?

by rexworld . Updated 20 years, 11 months ago

So they upgraded me at work to a nice 19″ LCD monitor (replaced an aging 17″ CRT). The problem is that my PC doesn’t have a digital video output so this is being fed from the standard analog port. The screen fonts definitely look better when I turn on ClearType–not a ton better but better.

So my question is whether it’s worth the price to turn on ClearType? Is anyone aware of a benchmark or something that gives a feel for how much CPU I’m sucking down just to smooth the on-screen fonts?

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