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Default Best sub-200$ Display for Starcraft?
Mainly looking to play starcraft/starcraft 2... CRT is the best for when I need to play competitively but I need one when I'm just playing casually too... I was looking at

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16824009157

Would that go 1680 x 1050?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16824009174
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16824009145

or should I go with one of those if i want 1680x1050?

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All of those go 1680x1050 and the first goes up to 1920x1080. I suggest the first one and it is killer price.
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I thought starcraft didn't support widescreen? Looks all stretched out on mine
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I thought starcraft didn't support widescreen? Looks all stretched out on mine
I think theres a hack or a mod out there that makes it have big resolutions.

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I thought starcraft didn't support widescreen? Looks all stretched out on mine
You can set scaling in your graphics card control panel to make it so there are black bars on the sides so that it doesn't stretch.

There's also this one widescreen fix, but of course, it's banned from b.net and is incredibly buggy.

Any screen would do, TC.
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HP 21.5 inch model #2159m, beautiful, great color (TFT glossy) I just bought it, and my uncle uses it and plays starcraft.
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I'm a hardcore starcraft fan for 10 years. I built my comp when I gotta a beta key for SC2 and I bought a 21.5" samsung at samsclub. It is a incredible quality screen and I use it at 1920x1080. Starcraft looks and plays great on it and I imagine Starcraft 2 will look awsome on it. My roomate on the other hand has the 22" acer and he wishes he spent extra $15 on the samsung. When you set them one next to each other it is just two different worlds to me. But I highly recommend spending the extra $15!
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I will try to go for the Samsung, although if it's the T220HD, that's about 100$ more, not 15$.

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I'm a hardcore starcraft fan for 10 years. I built my comp when I gotta a beta key for SC2 and I bought a 21.5" samsung at samsclub. It is a incredible quality screen and I use it at 1920x1080. Starcraft looks and plays great on it and I imagine Starcraft 2 will look awsome on it. My roomate on the other hand has the 22" acer and he wishes he spent extra $15 on the samsung. When you set them one next to each other it is just two different worlds to me. But I highly recommend spending the extra $15!
Hey, how did you get SC to work in 7? The colors are all messed up in mine so I can't play it, and it won't work in XP Mode.

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