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Title: Monitors
Post by: FOGOLD on January 19, 2006, 01:25:45 AM: What monitors? I have a Mitsubishi Diamondtron 19" which has served me well for 6 years. Bearing in mind what Skuzzy says about TFT's I was looking out for a 22" CRT. They are virtuallyimpossible to find and are massive and only in biege!

There are a lot of TFT 20" including widescreen. What does anyone else use and are TFT's as bad as people say for gaming?

Should I ust be happy with myDiamond-Pro?

Thanks:aok
Title: Monitors
Post by: JTs on January 19, 2006, 06:09:05 AM: samsung 940 19 inch now dont laugh at this one dell 2405 24 inch no ghosting in need for speed or halflife 2
Title: Monitors
Post by: FOGOLD on January 19, 2006, 06:10:59 AM: lol, what a beast.

Do you need a stonking card? I have an X800XL but I could upgrade.

Do these monitors run games at lower resolution than native or is it really poor?
Title: Monitors
Post by: WindX on January 25, 2006, 11:14:18 PM: tft's are teh suck!!! I worked for Dell for 3 years and we replaced so many of those things it was pathetic! Get you a flat screen crt or a flat panel. If you get a flat panel get one with as low a response time particularlay under .12ms (lower is better) and with contrast ratio of 600:1 or more (higher is better). I have a sony 19" flat panel and its awesome!! I love it!!!
Title: Monitors
Post by: whels on January 26, 2006, 10:08:08 AM: Love my Viewsonic x924 LCD 19" 4ms

upgraded froma 17" LCD NEC 1760v 15ms
Title: Monitors
Post by: maddog on January 26, 2006, 11:09:13 AM: Lova my Viewsonic 924 also
Title: Monitors
Post by: Silat on January 26, 2006, 03:42:43 PM: Quote
Originally posted by whels
Love my Viewsonic x924 LCD 19" 4ms

upgraded froma 17" LCD NEC 1760v 15ms

Sent my viewsonic LCD back and got a Viewsonic CRT G220Fb. There is no comparison between Crts and Lcds. Crts still are the best..........
Title: Monitors
Post by: FOGOLD on January 27, 2006, 01:45:24 AM: Got an NEC 2070NX 20". Didn't see any point going from 19" CRT to 19" TFT even tho the response is only 16ms. Iit looks great to me although I must agree, if it comes to the real fine points I think the old Diamondtron had a better picture.

Didn't want a widescreen, all the hassle with games you get.

There was no way I was having a 23" CRT sitting on my desk. I only have wooden, not concrete floors and they LOOK so old fashioned.

Aesthetics I guess.

Only trouble is its native 1600x1200 takes some horsepower in COD2. X1900 next :rolleyes:

Thanks for the input
Title: Monitors
Post by: MrRiplEy[H] on January 27, 2006, 05:51:56 AM: CRT's radiate, flicker, take space and are extremely heavy to move around.

Their only good side nowadays really is good color reproduction and low price.
Title: Monitors
Post by: x0847Marine on January 27, 2006, 03:26:48 PM: I'm very happy with my notebook screen, a WXGA TFT LCD, one day I'll look up WTF WXGA is...

Oh wait, here's a nifty chart:
http://www.answers.com/topic/wxga

Looks like WXGA is some High Def wide screen bowlshizzle, does that mean I can get the High Def experience on my notebook...
Title: Monitors
Post by: Nr_RaVeN on January 31, 2006, 10:52:42 PM: hell just project it on a 8x12 foot screen and turn up the speakers.......

Just dreaming
Title: Monitors
Post by: 38ruk on January 31, 2006, 11:05:59 PM: i have a black Nec 22" crt . It has a 100 refresh @ 1600X1200 , nice and clear , but weighs a ton and takes up quite alot of room . It will do 1920X1440 @85hrz , if ya wanna go that big . 38
Title: Monitors
Post by: OOZ662 on January 31, 2006, 11:49:48 PM: Quote
Originally posted by WindX
tft's are teh suck!!! I worked for Dell for 3 years and we replaced so many of those things it was pathetic! Get you a flat screen crt or a flat panel. If you get a flat panel get one with as low a response time particularlay under .12ms (lower is better) and with contrast ratio of 600:1 or more (higher is better). I have a sony 19" flat panel and its awesome!! I love it!!!

I've had two TFTs in my life; one of which I'm using now. The first lasted me 7 and a half years.
Title: Monitors
Post by: WindX on February 01, 2006, 12:01:06 AM: Well your very lucky then! Cause you dont want to know the replacement stats for number of monitors replaced every month at Dell for tft's.