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1080 & VGA Monitor: What Are My Options here?

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Shampoo

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This is a strange place to be. I have a fairly high end CRT I'm in no hurry to be rid of and want to grab a 1080 for gaming. Is there anything I can do to get this card connected to this monitor? The card at £600 is enough without forking out another £500+ on an unwanted and unneeded monitor to go with it.

Am I screwed? :(

Any likelihood of board partners restoring the analog support in their models? Anyone know any reps of these companies to get the information? MSI, EVGA etc?
 
If you can afford to buy a £600 graphics card, then spending a little extra on a monitor shouldn't be a problem either. You can get regular 1080p60 monitors for around the £100 mark, or if you want high framerates, I recall seeing a 144Hz monitor or few below the £200 mark.

If you're deadset on getting a 1080 and letting that power go to waste on a non-HD analogue monitor, be my guest. Spending £35 on something like these adaptors is your best bet. Plug the DP cable in to the GPU and plug the VGA cable from the monitor into the adaptor. There are other versions around the internet, just take a look.

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/star...1-dp-converter-black-dp2vgdvhd-cb-060-sr.html

Or the model someone posted above, I couldn't find it when I searched.
 
Problem with those adaptors is it limits you to 1900x1200. I game at 2048x1536. Nvidia have always been good with support and I'm happily running 970's at the minute so I was surprised to see them drop it like this. As for another monitor, it's not just a case of a few hundred. I'd need at least 27" with a nice picture and good for gaming and I'm not going to get anything remotely close to the picture quality/refresh I'm currently used to. It'd be a downgrade. and be £500+ for something I'd "settle" for.

I'll just have to see what other versions look like. :/

As for wasting the power, I like to down sample and use heavy settings in madvr so it's not going to waste.
 
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As for another monitor, it's not just a case of a few hundred. I'd need at least 27" with a nice picture and good for gaming and I'm not going to get anything remotely close to the picture quality/refresh I'm currently used to.
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The time for CRT is long gone, you should look at new screen as a major upgrade instead of the 1080. Myself, I went for LG 27" 4k screen; 27UM67 27" 3840x2160 IPS 4k. After you get your screen sorted, then I would look at a better gpu to run the monitor. LCD are lighter, thiner, higher resolutions and cause much less eye strain than CRT (which will give you an headache after a few hours, LCD doesnt). A 4k screen even needs a better gpu than the 1080 for 60fps, although you could run it at 1440p or 1080p wen you want higher fps.
 
I don't know what model you used, but my CRT doesn't give me eye strain or a headache.

Buying a £400 screen the 1080 can't even push seems a strange logic. I've got a 42" LED and I don't like the picture. I prefer the CRT. It's not a 14" grey lump with a low refresh it's a 21"workstation model that's been flawless for gaming right now in 2016. I just finished Dark Souls 3 at 2048x1536 with everything on ultra and at no point felt the "time had long gone" on the image quality which was like silk. A giant cheapo 4K TV isn't going to improve on anything and just cause me to shell out more than needed. If I want a giant screen and quality be damned then I'd just connect up the LED.
 
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I don't know what model you used, but my CRT doesn't give me eye strain.
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depends on the amount of contiunous hours usage. If you use it for an hour and go make a cup of tea every so-often, then it wont be too bad. Some CRT's were terrible with giving you headaches. Later on ones werent so bad. I remember the green-screen ones which gave me headaches just after 10mins!

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Buying a £400 screen the 1080 can't even push seems a strange logic. I've got a 42" LED and I don't like the picture. I prefer the CRT.
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Well im running a 980ti, and getting 40fps+ which isnt ideal. However 4k is quite a lot more detail than any CRT can manage. True the blacks arent quite as good, but wouldnt go back to CRT any-time soon. Not to mention the amount of space saved with LCD.

Another thing to bare in-mind is widescreen. 4:3 (which most CRT are) will feel very boxed in, whilst 16:9 (wide-screen) feels so much more 'freer'. There is even ultra-wide too, which may be a bit extreme.
 
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I don't know what model you used, but my CRT doesn't give me eye strain or a headache.

Buying a £400 screen the 1080 can't even push seems a strange logic. I've got a 42" LED and I don't like the picture. I prefer the CRT. It's not a 14" grey lump with a low refresh it's a 21"workstation model that's been flawless for gaming right now in 2016. I just finished Dark Souls 3 at 2048x1536 with everything on ultra and at no point felt the "time had long gone" on the image quality which was like silk. A giant cheapo 4K TV isn't going to improve on anything and just cause me to shell out more than needed. If I want a giant screen and quality be damned then I'd just connect up the LED.
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I used to use CRT in CAD all day everyday, never had a headache.. anyway no advice from me I just want to see a pic of your setup.. with the CRT :)
 
The majority of LCD screens have used PWM for brightness control so cause headaches.

It's worth remembering that we didnt go to LCDs cause they were better, far from it - we as consumers went to them for thinness and lightness [Edit: And ability to keep getting bigger physically without huge price jumps] and looking more modern as a result. They were a big step back in image quality in all regards & even now CRTs have some advantages over most LCDs e.g. contrast ratio & input lag.

(I only use LCDs - long since got rid of my CRTs as they were cheap poor ones & I've limited space - but it was a disappointing transition)
 
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Well, I've reached out to EVGA's reps so I'll see what they say about it. In all likelihood I'll probably have to wait and see what all the board partners put out in a month or so to see if support is dead across the board. If I'm left with no option then I'll reluctantly upgrade, but I'll wait for the Ti's before doing so. Jumping in at the start of a gen was a bit of an impulse for me, but I'll slow down if I need to get a new monitor.
 
Don't do it, keep your CRT!

I wish I never got rid of my Mitsubishi diamond pro 19" for gaming. I could use that thing ALL day (or at least most evenings 4 - 11pm +) without any eye strain.
 
you can buy a display port to vga adapter elsewhere for about 6-20 quid, i use one for a second monitor for dcs world without issue. if you look around, you can find them without the resolution limits. for example Accell B101B-003B
 
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Adaptors limit your resolution to 1900x1200@60. Useless to me.

^^he knows what's up. The naysers I don't think have even experienced modern gaming on a proper CRT. There's nothing bad in the experience at all. It's all positive. Beautiful crisp hi-res image and awesome refresh. I'm not playing Unreal at 800x600 on a grey 14" square getting a migraine ffs!
 
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Adaptors limit your resolution to 1900x1200@60. Useless to me.

^^he knows what's up. The naysers I don't think have even experienced modern gaming on a proper CRT. There's nothing bad in the experience at all. It's all positive.
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edited my post, the adapter i linked to you is active and should do the resolution fine :)

edit: people seem to forget that "HD" is a resolution and higher resolutions have been around since before "HD" was even a thing..
 
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