I am currently using a 2 year old Sony 21" CRT. It uses the Sont flat screen aperture grille and does quiet well at 1600x1200 @ 85hz. Desktop space is not an issue. Used mainly for general windows use, gaming and watching the odd divx. Is there ANY advantage to replacing it with a gaming LCD like one of the newer 2ms Viewsonic jobs or even one of the new faster 20" panels. I had an LCD before (Dell 2405fpw), and while I was lucky enough to get no dead pixels, it did artifact a bit when watching dvd's, and some of my friends could see ghosting on it. But the biggest issue for me was that tearing was easily caused with any game that ran over 60fps (over the 60hz refresh limit), and when using vsync, this usually halved the framerate to 30fps when the game dropped below 60fps, making Fear unplayable, although tripple buffering helped somewhat. Am I better off holding onto what I have. I plan on running a 1900xt-x from next week on.
Should I keep my CRT ?
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Well like I said, I never noticed ghosting, but did notice some artifacting when watching dvd's and the vsync issue was annoying in gaming. The crt has none of those problems. As far as I can see, the only thing I am missing out on is the higher brightness.
LCDs do have more advantages than just brightness though, like smaller footprint, less power consumption, better geometry, better for your eyes etc.
I do agree though that for games you can't beat a CRT. I have two screens, a quality aperture grille CRT for gaming, and I've just bought a cheap LCD to go next to it which I use for browsing the web/general windows tasks. So I can look after my eyes, not use a lot of power, and still have the best performance when I need it for games.
As for tearing, it may not look good but it's better than halving your framerate, so I would stick with v-sync off if you get another LCD. Did you try running a higher refresh rate like 75 Hz? That might have helped a bit.
I do agree though that for games you can't beat a CRT. I have two screens, a quality aperture grille CRT for gaming, and I've just bought a cheap LCD to go next to it which I use for browsing the web/general windows tasks. So I can look after my eyes, not use a lot of power, and still have the best performance when I need it for games.
As for tearing, it may not look good but it's better than halving your framerate, so I would stick with v-sync off if you get another LCD. Did you try running a higher refresh rate like 75 Hz? That might have helped a bit.
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Of a duel 19" tft setup, I replacing one of them with a 22" Lacie blue iv. For games IMO it's way better. 2D? I'll stick with the TFT.