Those are secretley 260 hrz monitor | buildapc | Page 1

marsh dawn May 27, 2025, 6:19 PM

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celest iron May 27, 2025, 6:20 PM

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That is true

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susge

marsh dawn May 27, 2025, 6:21 PM

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kek

celest iron May 27, 2025, 6:21 PM

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No like serious it’s crazy how much I can fucking overclock them

marsh dawn May 27, 2025, 6:22 PM

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I just bought a 180 hrz monitor today

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More then what I need still

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lol

marsh dawn May 27, 2025, 6:22 PM

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celest iron No like serious it’s crazy how much I can fucking overclock them

That’s insane

celest iron May 27, 2025, 6:22 PM

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Lol 75hz on these feels like 240hz

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I used to use a Samsung Odyssey

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I’m never going back from CRT

marsh dawn May 27, 2025, 6:22 PM

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I just got rid of my odyssey

celest iron May 27, 2025, 6:23 PM

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What do you use now?

marsh dawn May 27, 2025, 6:23 PM

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Got it cheap

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A Alienware

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So dell

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The odyssey was defective and all they had was Alienware

celest iron May 27, 2025, 6:23 PM

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celest iron I’m never going back from CRT

I gotta open up the trinitron though to fix some shipping damage, like replacing some push buttons. Idk why I got this one shipped but it was bound to happen.

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I will use JBWeld to fix the plastic cracks

marsh dawn May 27, 2025, 6:24 PM

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Got this for $200

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$200 after tax

celest iron May 27, 2025, 6:24 PM

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I had a 240hz alienware

marsh dawn May 27, 2025, 6:24 PM

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They covered the rest

marsh dawn May 27, 2025, 6:24 PM

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celest iron I had a 240hz alienware

Good?

celest iron May 27, 2025, 6:25 PM

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It sucked

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It was 1080p

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And LCD

marsh dawn May 27, 2025, 6:26 PM

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This one is just led

celest iron May 27, 2025, 8:43 PM

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I don't know what else to add to spice my setup up even more, I might grab some posters

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more plants perhaps

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proper wave May 28, 2025, 7:32 AM

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I've been holding out to get a CRT monitor for my setup

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but how the fuck do you get these to 260hz thats insane

celest iron May 28, 2025, 5:01 PM

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proper wave but how the fuck do you get these to 260hz thats insane

thats not insane

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Maybe this will be the world´s first 700Hz Monitor. In the past we have already overclocked this iiyama Vision Master Pro512 CRT succesfully up to 500Hz. Today we will try to reach a higher refresh rate than even the modern monitor industry currently has. Even if the resolution that we have to use for that is so low that it´s no longer really ...

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No current gen display technology has surpassed the CRT

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mini led I would say is the closest but I will have to get my hands on that

celest iron May 28, 2025, 5:04 PM

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celest iron thats not insane

but theres also no point in going above 70 on a crt as compared to an lcd because you cant see past 70 really as a human and the way it scans on a crt is different than on an lcd, like on an lcd it may seem choppy but on a crt you cant tell a difference between that and say 240

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so I personally stick with 75hz also because I don't wanna wear down my monitors

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One is from 1993 and the other is from 1997

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I am willing to do maintenance on both if need be, I got the tools on hand to discharge them

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if the phosphors get weak I can always rejuvenate the displays

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my trinitron has a damaged center button due to shipping damage but it doesn't bother me so im not fixing that yet or the plastic cracks

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my gateway is in perfect condition

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best image quality I have ever seen on any commercial display

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and this is coming from someone who has used OLED

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I come from an electronics engineering background so this stuff always fascinates me

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I've thought about making my own electron gun as an experiment, they're not hard to make if you got the equipment

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I could probably make a glass tube using friction welding

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there is also a bad misconception that CRT monitors are bad for the environment but in reality the only real bad part of a CRT is the lead in the glass tube

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there's also a lot of fear mongering in the CRT repair community about getting electrocuted by these things, just pop off the anode cap dummy

celest iron May 28, 2025, 5:14 PM

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proper wave I've been holding out to get a CRT monitor for my setup

definitely get a trinitron if you can

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the aperture grille on those things makes a huge fucking difference

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my gateway is a shadow mask so its hard to see it in daylight at times

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trinitrons are also way brighter on lower brightness and contrast settings due to the grille

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and don't make the mistake of throwing out your CRT if its damaged, I made that once with an IBM and I could've saved it, it was capable of going over 240hz and had an aperture grille

proper wave May 28, 2025, 5:40 PM

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celest iron thats not insane

well I never knew you could get those crt's to display so fast past like, 1x1 resolution

proper wave May 28, 2025, 5:40 PM

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celest iron definitely get a trinitron if you can

I'll look into it

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I already have a trintron tv

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32'

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but dont have a monitor

proper wave May 28, 2025, 5:41 PM

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celest iron and this is coming from someone who has used OLED

so CRT is actually better than oled

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interesting

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I knew CRT was better than average LCD's

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and better than oled on motion

celest iron May 28, 2025, 5:46 PM

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proper wave I already have a trintron tv

a monitor is gonna have more scanlines than a tv because they are meant to be up close to your face unlike a tv

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usually crt tvs run at lower resolutions

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and I don't know how much you can overclock them

proper wave May 28, 2025, 5:47 PM

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yeah

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I was just mentioning it

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I know it isnt like, a competent replacement

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its giant too

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and only displays 480i

celest iron May 28, 2025, 5:48 PM

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proper wave and better than oled on motion

yeah there's also no input latency

proper wave May 28, 2025, 5:48 PM

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that may actually be very useful

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like insanely useful

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genuinely makes you wonder why nobody has taken the CRT pill for any competitive games

celest iron May 28, 2025, 5:49 PM

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Because they see old tech and think its bad

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people don't think about this shit

proper wave May 28, 2025, 5:50 PM

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lower res display means if the game supports it you can run it at a fairly low 4:3 res, which is more performance, into a monitor with 0 motion blur, better blacks than your regular LCD, and 0 latency

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I'm especially inclined to think about it cause I play old FG's and those are kinda like, built to run on some CRTs

celest iron May 28, 2025, 5:51 PM

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yeah and running low resolutions on a CRT won't stretch because the resolution on a CRT isnt fixed like an LCD with its fixed array of pixels

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all resolutions look damn good on a CRT

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its just the image will become slightly bigger

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on the lower res's

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I personally stick to 1024x768 @ 75hz

proper wave May 28, 2025, 5:53 PM

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exactly

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and because how CRTs work

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especially old games with low native resolutions look very good on them

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like any PS2 game looks infinitely better on a CRT

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one question I have about resolution is, crt's can scale to input resolutions, but when I say, run an emulator its not gonna be outputting the games actual resolution but rather 1024x768 or whatever yeah?

celest iron May 28, 2025, 6:01 PM

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no it will output the games actual resolution

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I tried PS1 emulation and thats what it does

proper wave May 28, 2025, 6:02 PM

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oh shit nice

celest iron May 28, 2025, 6:02 PM

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it will feel like the real thing

proper wave May 28, 2025, 6:02 PM

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and I dont need emudriver for it right

celest iron May 28, 2025, 6:02 PM

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no

proper wave May 28, 2025, 6:02 PM

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cause monitors dont run off 15khz signal

celest iron May 28, 2025, 6:03 PM

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celest iron no

I never had to do anything extra

proper wave May 28, 2025, 6:03 PM

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yeah nice

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jesus christ trinitrons are so scalped on ebay

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getting a CRT monitor is annoying

celest iron May 28, 2025, 6:04 PM

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yeah best to find them IRL

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also you will probably get it shipped damaged

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which happened to me because they usually suck at packaging those things

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but if you are to do that tell them to package it like a tank

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because I gotta fix the shipping damage on my trinitron

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even though it still works and doesn't bother me

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just cant center my geometry without slight overscan

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my newest addition to my setup is my MDR 7506 headphones, they are from the 90s and sound better than any expensive headphones I have used but you should swap out the padding

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they are also known as the studio standard, you can find them pretty cheap

proper wave May 28, 2025, 6:08 PM

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are the MDR 7506's like proper headphones

celest iron May 28, 2025, 6:08 PM

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yeah real studio headphones

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I got mine for $20

proper wave May 28, 2025, 6:08 PM

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I've got a hifiman edition XS running into a schitt stack

proper wave May 28, 2025, 6:08 PM

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celest iron I got mine for $20

jesus thats cheap

celest iron May 28, 2025, 6:08 PM

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yeah lol

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so just in the same way as the CRT, older shit can sometimes be better

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especially if paired with the right modern tech to make the right use of it

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Sony always makes the best stuff

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I got an old reel to reel sony recorder that survived my grandfathers trip to vietnam

#Those are secretley 260 hrz monitor