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Questions about a crt monitor for gaming.

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First post, by punished_nadia

Posted on 2022-02-12, 04:48

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Hi I had a question about monitors that I was wondering if anyone could answer. I recently bought a crt monitor from ebay that I am waiting to shipped to me. It is one of those monitors that has the vga cable hard wired into it. I have an old windows 2000 pc that is nice for some retro stuff, that it can plug into through vga. It would be really nice to be able to connect it to my 2060 through hdmi and use it for running retro consoles like snes and ps1 and also for watching some old vhs rips I have saved on my hd. Can I just buy one of those vga female 2 hdmi male adaptors they sell at walmart or do I need a special kit of hardware to connect to my modern hdmi devices. Sorry if this is a dumb question but I am new to retro peripherals and I dont want to waste my money on converters that just wont work anyway. Thank you for reading this.

Reply 1 of 3, by BitWrangler

Posted on 2022-02-12, 05:02

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There's a non-zero chance it works, but might be a bit of a fiddle getting the machine to spit modes the CRT likes out of the HDMI hole.

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Reply 2 of 3, by Error 0x7CF

Posted on 2022-02-12, 08:27

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That monitor looks like it's new enough that it shouldn't be very picky about output resolution. From the tiny pictures I'd guess it's a late 90s SVGA set that should be able to do 1024x768 60hz pretty comfortably.

Your adapter should be fine. I've gotten a load of use out of one that looks a lot like that.

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Reply 3 of 3, by Doornkaat

Posted on 2022-02-12, 08:34

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The issue with running CRTs on those adaptors is they usually output a 60Hz signal.
On CRT PC monitors you usually want at least 75Hz (85 for more sensitive people) to avoid noticeable screen flickering that usually becomes annoying after a while when sitting as close as you usually do to a PC monitor.

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