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AshHicks   06-01-2008 at 10:45:44 AM

I'm looking into getting a new CRT monitor sometime and I want something very good but won't cost me 400 bucks. I'm looking for at least 19" and 1280x1024 and a refresh rate of at least 85 Hz but preferably higher if possible.

Are my standards too high? Is this going to be something that's hard to find?

The reason I want 19" and 1280x1024 is because that's what I currently have in an LCD but I want the higher refresh rate.

kthx!

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infornography42   06-01-2008 at 01:23:37 PM
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Good luck finding a CRT in this day and age.

Pretty much no-one manufactures them anymore. Everything is LCD now.

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rtfm   06-01-2008 at 02:42:30 PM
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Buy an lcd and glue a large heavy box on the back for that crt feel! As infornogra phy42 said, a crt may be hard to find these days (second hand shops maybe)...

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AshHicks   06-01-2008 at 06:10:39 PM
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I saw some of the Samsung ones on their website but I don't know if they meet my needs. The range of vertical refresh rate doesn't tell me what it would be when I set it to 1280x1024

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spanner_razor   06-01-2008 at 08:12:38 PM
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Last CRT I got was a 17" that ran up to 1600x1200 and it did 85 hz at 1600, but they may have stopped making high refresh monitors due to lack of gaming audience demand. Personally I dislike them because they're heavy, often look tacky and they get damaged by things like phones, batteries and anything electronic you forget to take off your desk.

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spanner_razor   06-01-2008 at 08:14:43 PM
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http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6824002090

Just one on newegg that looked ok. 21", 120hz for 299 dollars.

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AshHicks   06-01-2008 at 10:27:49 PM
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How do they get damaged? If I left my cellphone, house phone, speakers, flash drive, TV remote, CD player, Guitar tuner on the desk, which of those would damage it and how badly?

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infornography42   06-01-2008 at 11:31:54 PM
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Anything that has a noticable magnetic field can damage a CRT screen. It will leave bruises. Weak magnetic fields will be faint to unnoticable. If you want to see what a stronger one does, take apart a hard drive. Remove the magnets (you will know them when you find them). Find a CRT you don't care about, put the magnet close the screen and move it around.

Have fun.

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spanner_razor   06-02-2008 at 12:21:29 AM
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It messes up the colour completely, they look like a ripple of water with crazy colours in the middle.

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spanner_razor   06-02-2008 at 12:22:02 AM
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The cell phone would definitely damage it but the others would probably be fine.

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Flakes   06-02-2008 at 05:27:19 PM
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why do you want a higher refresh rate? why do you need it? LCDs refresh is different to a CRT, a LCD only refreshes pixels that have changed whereas a CRT constantly refreshes the whole screen.

also a LCD is so much better for your eyes.

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Flakes   06-02-2008 at 05:29:58 PM
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infornography42 wrote :

Anything that has a noticable magnetic field can damage a CRT screen. It will leave bruises. Weak magnetic fields will be faint to unnoticable. If you want to see what a stronger one does, take apart a hard drive. Remove the magnets (you will know them when you find them). Find a CRT you don't care about, put the magnet close the screen and move it around.

Have fun.




when i first got a 5.1 system my subwoofer had to be moved miles outta the way cause it would cause my crt to go funny.

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crom   06-02-2008 at 05:51:20 PM
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Yea, an LCD doesn't need as high a refresh rate to get a similar result as a CRT does. I'm a die hard FPS gamer and I held onto my old 22" CRT, all 65 lbs worth, until it fizzled on me about 2 months ago. I've since got a very nice LCD Samsung 22" widescreen and I couldn't be happier. The detail is so crisp over my CRT for games like UT3, Crysis, and COD4. If you still want a CRT though they do have them on New Egg, but only up to 19" if I remember correctly. Good luck!

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physx7   06-02-2008 at 05:57:44 PM
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crom wrote :

all 65 lbs worth



I like lcd's. At least they don't break your back when you pick them up.

------------------------------ E7200 @ 2.53Ghz, 2 gigs Mushkin ddr2 800, Gigabyte EP45-UD3R, Western Digital 640 gig, Gigabyte HD 4850 512MB, Asus DVD burner, HP w2007 monitor...
http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm282/alphahuman98/masterchiefdancing_4-1.gif

 

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infornography42   06-02-2008 at 06:43:23 PM
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I had an old 37" CRT that did a bit over 1024x768. That beast took two people to pick it up and it was still a back breaker. Never weighed it. Eventually the blue died on it and I couldn't get it repaired for any reasonable amount of money so that was the end of that.

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physx7   06-02-2008 at 07:12:17 PM
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infornography42 wrote :

I had an old 37" CRT that did a bit over 1024x768. That beast took two people to pick it up and it was still a back breaker. Never weighed it. Eventually the blue died on it and I couldn't get it repaired for any reasonable amount of money so that was the end of that.

 

You should have donated it to your local gym...

 

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Message edited by physx7 on 06-02-2008 at 07:12:45 PM
------------------------------ E7200 @ 2.53Ghz, 2 gigs Mushkin ddr2 800, Gigabyte EP45-UD3R, Western Digital 640 gig, Gigabyte HD 4850 512MB, Asus DVD burner, HP w2007 monitor...
http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm282/alphahuman98/masterchiefdancing_4-1.gif

 

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infornography42   06-02-2008 at 09:50:37 PM
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If I had donated it to a gym they would have considered it cruel and unusual punishment for misbehaving members ;-)

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San Pedro   06-03-2008 at 02:24:38 AM
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Craigslist bro! You can get super high end ones from people who are ready to throw them out, but I'm with others who prefer LCDs for gaming. The only thing I think CRTs do considerably better at is movie playback, which isn't so pronounced if you have high def files.

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