my new/old monitor

I took a (old) montior from my company home with me yesterday (...I am the System-Administrator there :D ).
It is a 21inch CRT from a IBM CAD Workstation system that cost around 30.000Euro back in 2000/2001 (the Workstation was like 95% of that i guess^^). But still it is a fucking nice monitor as it was used for industrial design stuff etc.
The monitor has 2 VGA inputs and a switch-button at the frontpanel to switch between the 2 PCs u have plugged on.

It is a flat display running 100hz. The monitor was only used for like 1-2 years here, then the designer working with it got a TFT :D

check it out here:
http://www.Noorgrin.de/etc/monitor1.jpg
http://www.Noorgrin.de/etc/monitor2.jpg
http://www.Noorgrin.de/etc/monitor3.jpg

Really nice as it was "for free". And yes i don't want any TFT monitor ... was using one with 4ms once and still i thought it is "strange" somehow... my girlfriend is using it now :D
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nice nice big earl
Go use NONAME script !

nice monitor
plz


edith: mx518 arrived, nice - but my pings sux, so i cannot play gamez :(
hmmthx,
i think i will just download linux install versions via ftp to reach some uber high traffic, hopefully they will kick me then
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haha i lold. But welcome back to the dark side of the force. Playing with a TFT is like written ur name wrong in a random esport magazine...

btw

i ripped a few months ago this monitor from my brother and its pretty nice :)

image: Iiyama_Vision_Master_Pro_510__1239058
the morbiuZ flamed noobgrim
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i only used a TFT for around 5months (in 2005), had been playing with a 19inch CRT before and after that "dark side periode" :D .
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with a TFT "Da geht nix rayn" I have a 2ms Samsung 226BW i payed 400 euros and it still sucks. Maybe i buy some CRTs @ ebay before there are no more left in ze world !!11
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i gave mine to my girlfriend (she is using my old PC too), and took back my CRT :D

and now i got that 21inch CRT ... u can buy my 19inch CRT from iiyama ... but it is rather old meanwhile and the picture looks a bit "washed" already :P
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it runs 100 Mhz? wow!!! I want that monitor!
he noorgrin add [ger] for ronner pls
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:< you funny funny man
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lol owned ! :D
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i don't see any "M" :D
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IRC LOGS. BAN!
first 2 months it was great :/
lol, you got the same headset asme. Its a Terratec Headset US Master 5.1 or?! :p
no its a perfoheiser
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Noorgrinheiser plz !
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i got 3 month ago a new (very old) CRT 21" Monitor!!!

he is around 10 year old and you can see the Lochmaske(??) in the glas of the monitor but he rulZ :]

before i used 17" TFT and he wasnt such bad but still

CRT > TFT @gaming
Nice monitor w00t
30.000€ .. -.- not rly...

30.000DM max but not even that..

btw n1 monitor :D
for a CAD Workstation from IBM for industrial Design ? (as mentioned i am talking about the whole workstation not only the monitor!)
With dual XEON prozessors or anything and 4GB RAM etc (around the year 2000)...

Meanwhile those kinda Workstations have become quite cheap (but still can cost up to 8000€), but like 7 years ago those systems cost fucking much.
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thought just the monitor.. sry

my mum had such a station at home where she learned auto CAD. 20" CRT 5000DM, 125Mhz Pentium with extra ramupdate from 64 to 128!!! :D Zip-laufwerk, etc..

all in all with a new lexmark 10.000 DM i guess it was in 1997. so i thought 30.000€ for just the monitor was a bit too much :p
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That's a sweet monitor, but only 100hz? Im sure there are some drivers and you can get atleast 150 in r_mode 6.
The monitor itself is actually manufactured by Sony, Silicon Graphics didn't make it's own CRT monitors. The precise model is Sony GDM-5411, if you ever need to find manuals, specifications etc.

I think the monitor is pretty much the same as Sony CPD-G500, which was rated one of the best professional CRT-monitors back in the day. GPD-G500 Cost about $1200 or something.
thx 4 the infos !
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