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uhh?

Mootsfox

uhh? is right : )

gonX

I didn't get that one with a space heater, but CRTs is better than LCDs for gaming. The colors are more true, and the refreshrate is determined by the vertical refresh rate, not by the pixels.

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Mootsfox

Equal CRTs use at least three times as much power. That extra power comes out as heat. My friend's 21" CRT gets so hot that it melts things on top of the box.

gonX

Then don't put things on the top of the box? Simple.
And yes, they use alot of power, but what is getting much better at FPSes by comparison to a little increase in the powerbill?

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Fixed a typo.

mootin

good work gonx :) nice faq rep you mate

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good work gonx :) nice faq ,rep you mate

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Thanks mootin. Suggestions welcome.

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Another note is that good CRTs is much cheaper than their counterpart "good" LCDs.
Often people change to LCDs because of their power consumption, so investigate into a LCD will often get itself paid over time, but you can then at last buy a LCD that expensive, that you'll have to use it a VERY long time (Maybe 4 years) before it's paid itself.

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Mootsfox

Unless you are buying used CRTs in a store, an equal LCD may be cheaper. Shipping CRTs is crazy and if you figure 150w vs 50w, 10hours a day, 300 days a year, thats a savings of 300kilowatts a year, one kilowatt/hr is about $.07 here, so thats $21 a year in savings just from power. So after four years you have saved over $80 on your power bill, and helped reduce the amount of power used overall in the country, even if just by a little bit. (If you ran both montiors 24 hours a day, 365 days a year(which some do) you'd spend somewhere around $92 a year just to power your CRT. After 3 years, you could buy a very nice LCD just from power savings.)