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I'm looking into buying a 19" crt for my dedicated gaming rig. The only requirement is that it can 1280x1024 at 100hz vertical refresh. Any suggestions?
 
I found my dell ultrascan p991 at a garage sale for $10. Goes up to 1600x1200 and does 1280x1024 at 85hz and i believe 1280x960 goes up to 100hz. Its a good monitor.
 
Why not go with a bigger crt now that they have become so cheap? I would recommend a Sony fw900 or a 21" Trinitron or 22" Diamondtron. You can check on craigslist for dirt cheap and still good used monitors. I picked up a used 22" Mitsubishi Diamond Pro 2070SB for $30 last week. New crt monitors are becoming increasingly harder to find.
 
I second the craigslist recommendation. The jumbo sizes are dam cheap and you get to test them beforehand, unlike ebay which can be a crapshoot especially when you factor in the risks of shipping a heavy monitor. if you do purchase from ebay, make sure the seller offers a warranty of some sort and had lots of positive feedback. If you are interested in a new CRT, check out Scyles' link above, or just reply here, i may be able to dig up a coupla more merchants ;)

On craigslist i scored:

An virtually new P1130 for $50-$60 or something like that, it was a brand new exchange replacement that was only used for a few hours before i purchased it.

A mint 22" Lacie II diamondtron for $50.

A pristine 22" Diamondtron 2060U for $50, supposedly only used for a few hundred hours and it looks like it.

I also have two other jumbo CRT's (a NEC 2141SB-BK and a Nokia 445Xpro) which were also dirt cheap but those were purchased elsewhere.
 
yes buy buying a used CRT is just a bandaid on the problem, I made the switch to LCD and will never go back to CRT, LCD's are soo much better for your eyes, no more eyes strain for me and lcd's have come a long way.
 
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