KBD
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Processor | Intel e8600 @ 4.9 Ghz |
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Motherboard | DFI Lanparty DK X48-T2RSB Plus |
Cooling | Water |
Memory | 2GB (2 x 1GB) of Buffalo Firestix DDR2-1066 |
Video Card(s) | MSI Radeon HD 4870 1GB OC (820/950) & tweaking |
Storage | 2x 74GB Velociraptors in RAID 0; 320 GB Barracuda 7200.10 |
Display(s) | 22" Mitsubishi Diamond Pro 2070SB |
Case | Silverstone TJ09-BW |
Audio Device(s) | Creative X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Profesional |
Power Supply | Ultra X3 800W |
Software | Windows XP Pro w/ SP3 |
Nothing beats a good CRT for picture quality. People will find the same thing said on home theater forums. I bought literally a car load of 21" Sony Trinitrons (and one Diamondtron ) awhile ago. Sold some, used some. Sure is hard to kill one. My friend got back into gaming recently and grabbed a Trinitron from me since he HATED every LCD he saw.
Having said that, I wouldn't say even a cheap TN panel LCD is bad to look at, as long as it's straight-on. Sit at any kind of angle at all and they tend to suck real quick, though.
Havoc, one thing of note is many people don't like running an LCD at anything but it's native resolution. Such a thing may create a problem with a high-res 22" or a typical 24" at 1920x1200 and thus needing a video card that can handle that in games. On the other hand, the 1680x1050 ones can't quite do full HD resolution, so this kind of depends on what you specifically intend to use it for as well as if you care about possibly running a non-native res.
I totally agree with what you are saying thats why i suggested that he gets a bigger CRT, a Diamondtron, which is the CRT cream of the crop or a Trinitron. The LCD native res is another thing that pisses me off. Hopefully one day they'll start making LCDs with CRT picture quality and get rid of the native res BS.