compgeke wrote:

I must wonder, is there anyone who hasn't had a Gravis Gamepad at one point? I've never known someone who hasn't.

Me. I got my first joystick two years ago 😀

edit: that's my 1000th post 😎

Bought two of these on eBay US:

http://www.evga.com/Products/Specs/GPU.aspx?p … 26-6B1DBF37F357

Should get them next year and eager to see what difference they make in Pandora Tomorrow.

What board can I use for SLI testing? Preferably something based around Socket 1155.

NEC LCD1530V circa 2000 LCD monitor

But I didn't buy it. Someone dropped it off for free. Haven't had a chance to take a picture much less try it yet

Oh I was going to say "Who in their right mind would BUY an old LCD monitor?!" but then I saw the other line. 🤣
Still though why bother? You know it's going to look like crap.

philscomputerlab wrote:

What board can I use for SLI testing? Preferably something based around Socket 1155.

Depends how much you want to spend. For Socket 1155 you'll need a P67 or Z68 chipset for SLI. A good 1155 SLI board like the ASUS P8P67 Pro could maybe be had for under AU$100 (I don't know much about Aussie eBay anymore).

Here's a list of SLI-certified mobos: http://www.geforce.com/hardware/technology/sli/motherboards

You could also go for Z77 chipsets, no? Something like a cheap Asus Z77-A could work.

King_Corduroy wrote:

Oh I was going to say "Who in their right mind would BUY an old LCD monitor?!" but then I saw the other line. 🤣
Still though why bother? You know it's going to look like crap.

I bought one a few years ago... because I needed a monitor for my P4 tower system, the Sony CRT I had been using was ruined by years in an airing cupboard sat next to the water heater, and CRTs cost too much to post even when people were willing to post them. It wasn't totally awful, but I never did work out how to properly configure the black levels.

alexanrs wrote:

You could also go for Z77 chipsets, no? Something like a cheap Asus Z77-A could work.

Ah yep, my bad. I was looking purely at Sandy Bridge, but Ivy Bridge would work too 😀

Cool, I will keep an eye out of such a board. But I don't think I'll get anything cheap, the are too new it seems.

King_Corduroy wrote:

Oh I was going to say "Who in their right mind would BUY an old LCD monitor?!" but then I saw the other line. 🤣
Still though why bother? You know it's going to look like crap.

Now I did not BUY them, but I just picked up a 2000's NEC 17" LCD with a swivel base and a 19" Viewsonic w/dvi that were going to get thrown out. Both of them have wonderful image quality, 4:3 aspect ratio and were surprisingly good finds. Also bought a Hercules 3D prophet lll ti-500 for $15 for a Athlon 2200+ build

King_Corduroy wrote:

Oh I was going to say "Who in their right mind would BUY an old LCD monitor?!" but then I saw the other line. 🤣
Still though why bother? You know it's going to look like crap.

They are fairly decent for 4:3 and support the low resolutions like 320x200 but yeah they were not the best. Unfortunately many old LCDs
had really awful resolution scalers.

But I have heard the NECs were fairly decent as far as early LCDs go

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King_Corduroy wrote:

Oh I was going to say "Who in their right mind would BUY an old LCD monitor?!" but then I saw the other line. 🤣
Still though why bother? You know it's going to look like crap.

They are fairly decent for 4:3 and support the low resolutions like 320x200 but yeah they were not the best. Unfortunately many old LCDs
had really awful resolution scalers.

But I have heard the NECs were fairly decent as far as early LCDs go

Im very happy with my old Viewsonic VG700, a 17" TFT with 1280*1024 resolution. The strange thing with this screen is that it is just as sharp at 1024*768, it must be some kind of witchcraft as I cant explain how it works. The 800*600 mode is not as good but good enough and 640*480 is perfekt. The screen also accepts any refresh rate up to at least 75Hz at any resolution.

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Boxed Canopus Spectra 3200 (TNT1 16MB with SGRAM)

This should support Voodoo2 Witchdoctor with Canopus Pure II, so last chance to get my Canopus Voodoo2 card working 😉

Do you have the internal cable that connects the Canopus to the Voodooo? When you use the internal cable, you get a much clearer image.

The TFT in my Vaio is perfectly good with 800x600 and 1024x768, and is more than acceptable at 640x480 as well.

sliderider wrote:

Do you have the internal cable that connects the Canopus to the Voodooo? When you use the internal cable, you get a much clearer image.

Yes I do 😀

King_Corduroy wrote:

Oh I was going to say "Who in their right mind would BUY an old LCD monitor?!" but then I saw the other line. 🤣
Still though why bother? You know it's going to look like crap.

Somebody who wants a decent 1280x1024 or 1600x1200 native resolution maybe?

Unknown_K wrote:

King_Corduroy wrote:

Oh I was going to say "Who in their right mind would BUY an old LCD monitor?!" but then I saw the other line. 🤣
Still though why bother? You know it's going to look like crap.

Somebody who wants a decent 1280x1024 or 1600x1200 native resolution maybe?

1600x1200 CRTs are very common and dirt cheap, and can actually display more than one resolution.

And what's the deal with 1280x1024? Why would anyone ever want to use that?

Just to add into the 17" LCD monitor discussion - my brand-new LED backlit NEC (A172 or something like that) does pretty good with non-5:4 input resolutions, and looks sharp until you dump stupendously low resolutions into it. I would take it very-much over the no-name 17" I've had since ~04, or the CTX that was built in ~00 (and died recently) because the colors are substantially better, it has a quick re-draw (afaik its 8-bit TN), and it has HDCP on the DVI input which makes it useful with modern computers as well. 😀

jwt27 wrote:

And what's the deal with 1280x1024? Why would anyone ever want to use that?

If you've ever worked with a lot of text, terminals, etc you will quickly come to love 5:4. 😀

It's no problem for gaming either, especially with a lot of early 2000s games that are Hor-, where you can either display 4:3 (and depending on the monitor it slightly stretches (hard to notice in most cases), or slightly letterboxes (easily ignored in most cases)), or in some lucky cases select 5:4 and actually see more of the game-world than on any other display. The two 17" SXGA LCDs I've got both do a very good job handling 1024x768, 1280x720, and 1280x960 inputs in addition to their native 1280x1024, and both accept 75 Hz (and these features seem fairly common based on other threads that've cropped on Vogons).

jwt27 wrote:

And what's the deal with 1280x1024? Why would anyone ever want to use that?

Actually several dos games that use SVGA only go up to 1280x1024, or 1024x768, so these monitors would be perfect for that. Also anyone that lives in a hot environment and has to pay their own power bills would never use CRT's again for any reason. They use way too much power and generate a ton of heat, compared to any LCD. Here in Texas in our summers it costs a lot to keep our house cool, so we reduce heat generation as low as possible. Which means no CRT's anywhere in the house here. Kinda makes me sad too, I had a nice CRT that did 1600x1200 @ 120-htz before, had to trash it when we moved from last house.

There's also the issue of space; not everyone can fit a leviathan CRT on their desk/wherever they keep their retro systems, and some desks aren't even strong enough to properly hold bigger/heavier CRTs.