I went iron

by jetro • 23 Jul 2008, 17:47 • Journals
Since I bought a new LCD beast a while ago I set my old crt monitor for sale on the koopjeskrant.be (kinda like ebay). Yesterday some guy replied saying that he would give ~ 40 EUR. After a couple of mails and arranging some stuff he would come and pick it up around 17.30'o clock. Finally, around 18 o clock the bell rings.. I open up, and let him - together with his mom (ok then) - in. We go upstairs, I show the monitor. They take a short peek at it and go like " looks nice, we'll take it!". The guy gets out his wallet and suddenly says to his mom.. "That should be perfect for Sophie, all she ever does is play WoW anyway!" After a kinda akward moment where they both looked at me how I was trying not to laugh (YES YOU CAN TRY) he says " yeah, it's for my sister-in-law". Few minutes later they head off with the monitor and left me with a real wow-impression.

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image: meirlur8
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sAm. 23 Jul 2008, 18:48
haha :D
that's nice
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Deactivated2373 23 Jul 2008, 18:50
hahaahhaa :D:D
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dnl 23 Jul 2008, 18:51
can u show me ur LCD?? some links or stuff, is it good for playing etc
Im thinking about new one also, since Im tired of how big and fat my crt is
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jetro 23 Jul 2008, 18:55
Samsung Syncmaster 226 BW! Bought it for _only_ 229 EUR

http://www.barrys-rigs-n-reviews.com/reviews/2007/hardware/226bw/images/monitor/226bw024.jpg

- 22 inch (widescreen)
- 3000:1 Dynamic Contrast
- 2 ms
- 1680*1050 resolution
- Awesome design
- Samsung = great for gaming

Took me a while to get used to it though.

Don't listen to people claiming that CRT's are God's gift to FPS-gaming because they arent. I track as stable with my LCD as I did with my CRT, you just have to get used to it.
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ISEN 23 Jul 2008, 18:59
cdc screens?:) kvon die ook nice
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jetro 23 Jul 2008, 19:01
Nee, CDC screens waren 19". Zagen er wel tzelfden uit
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dnl 23 Jul 2008, 19:03
looks awesome. how much does it costs in belgium?
edit: ah, 229, rly cheap! I think I'll try to get one here ;)
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kRa 23 Jul 2008, 18:53
girl + wow = win
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^jESUS Old Acc 23 Jul 2008, 18:55
i hate Belgium retards, they're all belgians
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yellowpowerranger 23 Jul 2008, 19:44
and you are someone who thinks he is the son of god. Not retarded at all
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Dreamweaver 23 Jul 2008, 20:49
maybe he thinks he is aztecian god of death? :)
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yellowpowerranger 23 Jul 2008, 21:16
who was called jesus? ok didnt know that ^^
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Dreamweaver 26 Jul 2008, 13:08
i saw it somewhere that if you speak jesus like "hesus" its a name of some god of death from middle or south america :)
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mOsq 23 Jul 2008, 19:03
:d nice pic
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NzZ 23 Jul 2008, 19:08
2on2 med skill hvserver pm me @ mirc
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im a tree 23 Jul 2008, 19:16
why sell your crt? surely you could use the lcd for normal day to do stuff and then plug in your crt when you want to play FPS games?

that makes no sense, you sell your good monitor? wha
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jetro 23 Jul 2008, 19:22
Well, I had it for over 6 years and I was kinda tired off it. It just took too much space on my desk. My new monitor looks great, takes less space, is way better to watch movies on and I still track as stable as I did with my CRT. It's a real joy to play with it tbh. So I don't really the see the point of keeping it and I really don't want two monitors on my desk. I still have two of the exact some monitors in my basement tho so... :p
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im a tree 23 Jul 2008, 19:28
mmm fair enough, although now if you ever play on a CRT you will probably go back to it instantly

when i played on LCD (for ~6 months, i was one of the earliest adopters of lcd for gaming on crossfire) I did the same, told myself there was no difference and that it was fine

plugged in a crt and its just... indescribably smoother and more pleasant

when that one broke i drove across the country to pick up my current one, a 21" dell (hard to find good crt monitors local)
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jetro 23 Jul 2008, 19:36
Hmm, don't think I will ever switch back to a CRT. My CRT was a 17" which is awfully small compared to this 22" LCD. You on the other hand already had a pretty big CRT :p And it is indeed quite hard to find decent CRT monitors nowadays, even if you buy them second-handed.
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im a tree 23 Jul 2008, 19:50
well when i first went back to crt i was playing on a 17" one too, not even a good one, could only just handle 120hz @ 800x600 :<
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Richeh 23 Jul 2008, 20:28
COOL DIDNT THINK U COULD DRIVE TILL 17
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Fex 23 Jul 2008, 20:34
Stoere ketnetters opgelet!! tot en met 3 augustus zijn het de ketnet GO IV dagen in Plankendael!!
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