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The original purpose of screensavers is to make sure that the computer monitors do not suffer from phosphor burn-in which can occur if the screen stays idle. Screensavers answer this issue by making the screen blank, or keeping it active with sign of moving animations. This drove screensaver developers to be creative through eye catching screensavers that adds entertainment on top of reducing system idleness. Computers with a good video card can also use the best 3-D Screensavers like the ones below.

Owners if Windows Vista and Windows 7 operating systems must be having a great time using their cool 3-D screensavers.  The classic "Mystify" screensaver as a new 3-D feel to it and moves smoothly.  ”Ribbons” screensaver has a very good display brought about by the latest graphic technologies.

Aquarium screensavers capture the hearts of many because of the “fish tank” display when it is 3-D. SereneScreen’s Marine Aquarium is not a free screensaver but still ranks one among the best 3-D especially because their latest 3.0 version highlights nice graphical improvements that works well with larger widescreen displays and multiple monitors. The screensaver doesn't look 3-D at first, but by pressing a hotkey, the vector wireframes can be shown clearly indicating that it is a 3-D screensaver. The display of swimming fishes around it makes it look very calming and for real.

LifeGlobe, SereneScreen's sister company also provides more 3-D aquarium screensavers based on its own design but same engine.  The very first one is the Goldfish Aquarium featuring a number of different goldfish species in a number of aquariums which includes a realistic fishbowl. The other is the Sharks Terrors of the Deep screensaver where you can see all kinds of sharks and sting rays swim in the deeper parts of the virtual ocean.

Waterfall screensavers become popular because of the natural rhythmic sound and not just because of the sight of water that flows. This is the reason why waterfall screensavers are mostly seen in banner ads being displayed in different websites. The common scene puts the waterfall in the center stage and is usually situated in a forest environment to give it a more nature-like feel. The 3-D display starts when the flow of the waterfall is in motion.

Really Slick Screensavers make use of 3-D OpenGL’s power to create unique 3-D effects. It is a compilation of screensavers that looks like the creative visuals present in media players. All of them are brightly colored in abstract movement in a themed patterns. Some of the screensavers even have some added physics to make them more attractive.

The MAC OS X operating systems of Apple starting with Tiger have their own 3-D screensavers which includes RSS screensaver as the most notable one because of it is able to fetch RSS feeds from sources that provides them. The text shows 3-D displays when going through various feeds resulting to a artistic presentation.

3-D screensavers enables a computer system to be more entertaining even without games installed. As its name suggests, screensaver makes you save screen and the 3-D ones are additional eye candy.