I'm looking for a wide range of supported resolutions and high refresh rates so it looks smooth like a CRT.

That 4:3 LCD simply does not exist.

What do you all use? 5:4?

I would suggest a professional 16:10 LCD monitor with a 1920x1200 native resolution. That way, you can play Win9x and WinXP games at 1600x1200 if you have hardware that's powerful enough. Here are a couple of threads where this was previously discussed:

Windows XP systems, do you 4:3, 5:4 or 16:10?
What are people's thoughts on 16:10 monitors for retro PC gaming?

I use a 1600x1200 LCD (Dell 2007fp). However, like many such panels, it converts 70Hz to 60Hz and doesn't properly scale 320x200 as it confuses this with 720x400. It looks fine, but if you want something perfect you need an (expensive, gaming-centric) scaler and a modern high refresh rate LCD.

That's a nice monitor! 4:3 too. Two inputs which is nice as well as my retro desk has two machines.

I'm not looking for perfection i guess, just the ability to run lower res period as some i've tried in the past dont like 320x or even 640x

WarhammerDarkOmen wrote on 2024-07-03, 11:41:

That's a nice monitor! 4:3 too. Two inputs which is nice as well as my retro desk has two machines.

I'm not looking for perfection i guess, just the ability to run lower res period as some i've tried in the past dont like 320x or even 640x

https://imgur.com/a/GKkvJyb

I use a new NEC Accusync 52V 4:3 monitor I got off eBay for around $150 in a sealed box. I supplement with a simple cheap scanline vga adapter for the old effect. Also works great for my Win98/XP cards that I swap in the PC. Works great, especially with the Roland SoundCanvas and Bose speakers to add to the effect. I rock a Gravis game pad for a lot of games and it feels like my old PC from 1994 minus some of the deep blacks of a CRT. The scanline adapter is key.