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Heres the story:
I was at school and saw a monitor on the floor near our class. Well i asked the janitor where it was going and he said it was gonna be given away for free to some flee market or something. Well i asked if i could have it and he said if i can get a ride for it now i can have it. Well i called my mom to pick the monitor up and nao i has it :lol: Its 22'' and my old one was 17'' (the old one is on the floor) i WAS going to get a 24'' lcd but i think i dont need one since this screen is actually good and it boosts my fps ingame (dont ask me how i dont know) and this screen works with 1800x1440 resolution so i think its pretty good (i use 1600x1200 now)
so yeah what do you guys think? ^-^

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Grats :)

Your old one looks like a Philips OmniView.

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Wow, haven't seen someone use a CRT for ages, nice one getting it for free, though!

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those monitors are nice, except they take up too much space

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Wow, haven't seen someone use a CRT for ages, nice one getting it for free, though!


Rubbish! You know full well that I use a 17" crt monitor! :P

It's four years old and cheap (it came with the comp), and makes ominous loud clicking noises when it changes resolution.

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Wow, haven't seen someone use a CRT for ages, nice one getting it for free, though!


Rubbish! You know full well that I use a 17" crt monitor! :P

It's four years old and cheap (it came with the comp), and makes ominous loud clicking noises when it changes resolution.

yeah my old one is 17'' too. That thing is like a rock. I have dropped it like 3 times from my bed and once the colors were messed up because i held a speaker too close to it and still it fixed itself and works like a new one ^-^ i hope this bigger one is as good as the old one :P

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If you ever get messed up colours due to a magnet (speakers etc), just run the "degauss" command from the screen's menu.

And Met, I haven't seen you use it.

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CRT's give me a major headache. They can't keep up the frequencies at the higher resolutions and this makes my brain frazzle.

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Metritutus wrote:
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Wow, haven't seen someone use a CRT for ages, nice one getting it for free, though!


Rubbish! You know full well that I use a 17" crt monitor! :P

It's four years old and cheap (it came with the comp), and makes ominous loud clicking noises when it changes resolution.


My ten year old 17" CRT is still the best one I've ever used :D Only 1024x768 i think at max, but the colours are wonderful on it :D

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CRT's are known to be awesome!

Nice one to be honest. A new larger free monitor, FTW :)


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And Met, I haven't seen you use it.


Yes you have, a few years back when you came round. You installed Battlefield Vietnam on it iirc.

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Yes, but not recently. Therefore I haven't seen someone use a CRT for ages. :P

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