CRT recommendation

sniffy · 5 Sep 2007 at 10:32

Thanks again for all the replies lads

I'm getting my paypal account sorted so I can order off the bay

JeffyB · 5 Sep 2007 at 10:39

Didn't read it all as i'm short on time but if you can source a fw900 its one hell of a monitor. I have a p1220 and love it although i will be getting a flat screen in the near future. I have really enjoyed the p1220 amazing image quality and resolution.

fish99 · 5 Sep 2007 at 13:07

helmutcheese said:
I actually wondered about your choice as nothing is happening, I used to test in games with say " lots of baddies infront of me and me running with a torch lit in big area

Actually the save doesn't really matter, it was more about the percentage increase over my system. Benchmarks in other games suggest the GTX is 30-50% quick than a GTS depending on the game, and the Ultra another 5-10% ontop of that, and another 10% for your GPU overclock. So with my system getting 34 fps under DX10 I was expecting yours to get maybe 60 fps tops. 84 fps is another 40% :eek:

Oh well, you live and learn

My apologies for making you prove it.

helmutcheese · 5 Sep 2007 at 13:18

Hey I can be wrong too, and old hot Scotch blood can boil lol.

fish99 · 5 Sep 2007 at 20:28

Not backtracking on what I said just above or anything, but here's another couple of benchmarks showing average fps in the 40s on a GTX in 1920*1200 -

http://www.legionhardware.com/document.php?id=681&p=10
http://www.techspot.com/article/64-bioshock-performance/page5.html

They didn't include minimum fps but you'd have to figure it would be enough lower than the average to reach the point of noticeably not smooth, which is what I was getting at.

Locky · 5 Sep 2007 at 21:42

my Mitsubishi 230SB is brilliant

ive had it for 5 years and its been flawless

helmutcheese · 5 Sep 2007 at 22:32

helmutcheese · 5 Sep 2007 at 22:34

I had a Mitsubishi Diamond Plus92 and now the same 230SB as above, there is only 1 better than it and thats the Pro model.

Do you use NaviSet (adjust all controls and more than you can do on bittons on Monitor) and the Brightess Tool (lets you darken a Media Players console but does not alter the actual movies settings, good for night viewing) ?

jak731 · 10 Sep 2007 at 17:56

Has anyone had experience of a Dell P1130 21" CRT monitor? I've bought a few but they havn't arrived yet.

sniffy · 21 Sep 2007 at 17:21

I ordered up the P1130 a few days ago

45 quid delivered, not too bad

I will post back my thoughts when she arrives.

Thanks once again to everyone that replied

InSanCen · 25 Sep 2007 at 00:32

if you can source one, then the LaCie 22" is the dogs bits.

I use 2 for Photoshop editing (yes, the desk is reinforced!).

Trouble is, I bought them new, and so paid an immense price for them.

Still, wouldn't swap them for anything else though. Will be a few years before TFT can match the quality/Price ratio of a decent CRT.