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.