Showing off new hardware..
 

As promissed to the guys on the IRC channel.
Im now gunna show my brand new gigantic TFT monitor. :D

Finaly got my new PC hardware.
Old one was had it's best time. It failed booting not even giving the post beep anymore.
Tried to fix her up with new memory to no avail.
Tried new 350W power supply but even the fresh juice didn't make it work.
The very old scsi (region free) DVD player wasen't upto date anymore. not playing burned R / RW disks.
So all in all it was time for new.

Some high lights of the new system specs:
AMD 64 3000+ cpu
PCIe nForce gigabit motherboard (K8N)
PCIe GeForce 6600GT 128GDDR3 ram
1G DDR400 ram

But best of all id the 19" TFT Philips monitor.
WoW ... it's big. Compared to it my 19"CRT (18,5" viewable) is small. 1280/1024 resolution ohh yeah sharp is the word.
A little teaser.

http://jasp.xs4all.nl/tft/imag0153.jpg
And a few more.
Also the PC and compared to old crt monitor.
http://jasp.xs4all.nl/tft/imag0150.jpg
http://jasp.xs4all.nl/tft/imag0152.jpg
http://jasp.xs4all.nl/tft/imag0154.jpg
http://jasp.xs4all.nl/tft/imag0156.jpg
http://jasp.xs4all.nl/tft/imag0156.jpg
http://jasp.xs4all.nl/tft/imag0173.jpg



Pictures bad quality because lack of day light.
This crappy camera has a hard time in the dark even with flash light on.
I really need to re do them at daylight. That is when im home when it's light. :-)



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@Rick.
Yep it worth it and have not any regret buying this one.

Re: Showing off new hardware..
 

hehehe Nice Shrike! :)
Tried your monitor with some of the latest fps games and compared it too your CRT? Just wondering if there is still difference in speed...
Oh and how is your PCIe card? :)

/me buys same monitor when he has money...

EDIT: LOL you replied before I even could post :)

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I already have a TFT running here for 6193 hours, and back when I bought it, it was expensive and new, too, although it's only a 17'' ( also 1280*1024 ), 19'' where almost twice as expensive at that time, and I didnt wanna spent 2200€ for a screen :)

havnt bought any new stuff for years, except a hd one year ago

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Wow not by long 2200euro. That really would be to much for me to.
This one costed me 375 Euro.

@Rick. yea i remembered you asked to tell if it worked out as i saw you on the member list.

I played a little HL2 with all graphics set to high and full anti aliassing etc etc. It ran lag less. didn't check the frame rate as i didn't knew the command anymore. No a reall compare but i didn't see slow game.
I think the 12ms is just about enough to not see any pixel fade delay.

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what is the refresh time on that tft?

heard that if its over 16 ms it sucks for gaming..

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Ahh must have just missed my post.
It's 12ms

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Nice hardware, I would buy one of these screens :)
Also, nowadays TFT screens at 12ms are faster than CRTs when the contrast & lum are at 100%. Try watching a movie in the dark on a CRT (not your TV), you'll see CRTs have much more remanence than what you could think.

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/me bows to your computer...

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me got amd 64 3200+.. :p
only 512 ram.. but im planing on upgrading..

what i need:
ram 512..
dvd burner.. dual layer..
hardrive 200 gig (sata)..

money i got.. in dollors.. around $300 rougly translated,, but.. i dont know how much i can spend.. so ill buy one thing and then ill wait.. until i know.. dunno what i need most.. and for the burner i will get lower price..

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Nice PC Shrike, makes mine look like a crippled old man.