ZeosPantera
Limp Gawd
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it stands to reason that they will be less and less available as the years pass. Damn shame, too.
Most likely because I am hording them all. MUST HAS QUALITY!!
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it stands to reason that they will be less and less available as the years pass. Damn shame, too.
Actually if its a standard CCFL LCD then 1-2 minutes should allow the lamp to come to full brightness. 2 Seconds would only be true for an LED LCD. And my three FW900's I have to say take about 40 minutes before I would call them FULLY stabilized and I know if your doing insane windas tweeking you go 2 hours.
I've bought 2 ecs cables, both needed the wires to be rearranged in order to work with windas. Have you tried that?
Would an upgrade to the Sony FW900 or the Sony GDM 500 with their .22mm dot pitch tubes be a noticeable improvement for a gaming monitor?
Since this seems to be the one and only CRT thread I will ask this question here
Currently using a Viewsonic 21 inch 4:3 P225f CRT. It uses a Trinitron tube with a dot pitch of .25mm. Would an upgrade to the Sony FW900 or the Sony GDM 500 with their .22mm dot pitch tubes be a noticeable improvement for a gaming monitor?
Since this seems to be the one and only CRT thread I will ask this question here
Currently using a Viewsonic 21 inch 4:3 P225f CRT. It uses a Trinitron tube with a dot pitch of .25mm. Would an upgrade to the Sony FW900 or the Sony GDM 500 with their .22mm dot pitch tubes be a noticeable improvement for a gaming monitor?
For gaming I don't think you will notice it much. It will help you for websites and reading text on screen. The reason is the Viewsonic you own is one of the best CRTs.
The biggest advantage of the 24" CRT FW900 from Sony vs other CRT monitors is the widescreen. You can play all the latest games at the widescreen resolutions they support.
Yea when I pump the P225f up to the max rez of 2048 X1536 games look pretty nice. However right now I am playing a lot of Age of Conan and there is quite a bit of text to read on screen; the map, the quests, the chat box, etc. So I was wondering if the finer dot pitch would help for reading small text. When I play AoC in 2048 X 1536 the hot bar icons and the text are pretty small, almost too small to read. I was thinking perhaps a finer dot pitch would help. For the larger hot bar icons and easier reading I generally play in 1600 X 1200, which still looks great.
This p225f is a great monitor, I don't dislike it at all, but I was thinking of upgrading if I see a FW900 or GDM 500 cheap on CL. Unless the difference would be so minimal it wouldn't really be worth the trouble of lugging a CRT into my place. I got this one free off CL. The guy just wanted someone to haul it away. At the time I was using a 19 inch Hitachi CM 721f which is no slouch either.
Playing in 4:3 isn't a big issue with me. I had a WS LCD a while back. It was a Sammy I picked up at my local Fry's. I walked in there and told them I wanted the best LCD monitor they had in the store. I don't remember the model number, it was maybe 3 or 4 years ago. I kept it for 2 weeks or less and returned it. I wasn't about to give up my CRT for that LCD display, I really did not like it at all.
I suppose the LCDs have come a long way since then, but when I play AoC in the evenings on this P225f the game looks awful sweet, and I think there is no way an LCD can top this display. They will catch up at some point, But I don't think they are there yet.
So I've been trying to figure out what semi-recent Radeon or GeForce cards still have VGA D-sub analog outputs. There's so many companies making them my best luck so far has been Google image searches with a card name and "d-sub". Found an 8800GT from Gigabyte that way that has one. And no that's not new but I don't need a new card.
**I will note that when it is hooked up to a computer, the display does function in showing a proper image aside from the defects shown above.
is it still washed green when it warms up with an image on it? Or is it not all green accept for the lines?
Stuff
The colors are deeper and richer on the Viewsonic
you could always up the saturation/digital vibrance in your driver control panel.
Yo, guys. So, here are a couple of crappy pics to show what my monitor is doing. I have contacted 3 separate repair centers claiming to specialize in crt monitor repair, but none of them have given me a response. I'm sorry for the crappy pics, but you can get an idea of what it's doing.
**I will note that when it is hooked up to a computer, the display does function in showing a proper image aside from the defects shown above.
Suddenly need cash for car repairs and I'm considering selling my SGI-branded FW900. Its in very good shape. I'm in ZIP 19464. Asking $150. Send me a PM if you're interested.
Hmm not sure. What kind of SGI is it?