OT - LCD or CRT Monitor ... any difference for eye comfort?

[BobInce]

These days many other graphics cards than just Matrox ones have multiple monitor outputs. Matrox cards tend to be all right for 2D, but they're hopeless for 3D games. Then again, Matrox now have cards available that can run 4 or even 8 LCDs at once, which is pretty impressive if you can afford that! (wfc, I am indeed totally lusting at that setup.)

If you can, get a monitor and graphics card with DVI. Rather than have the card convert your digital display information into analogue and the screen convert it back into digital, connect the two with a pure digital link. The picture will be totally stable without having to fiddle with any timing settings. Unfortunately many of the cheaper LCDs still don't come with DVI, which is stupid as it shouldn't really cost anything to add.

I was lucky in that I picked up my 18"-with-DVI for about 800 UK quids, about as cheap as they have ever been. The price of LCDs has been going up ever since. I hope that they either come back down again or one of the other flat-panel display technologies (such as LEP) proves to be viable. Because cathode ray tubes are poo. [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif[/img]

[BobInce]

My own 'vast improvement' vote may not be representative, though, given that the LCD in question is a gorgeous 18" panel, whereas my previous monitor was a ghastly 14" thing which was a bit broken and wobbled a lot. Also since the LCD isn't so big 'n' ugly it can go further back on the desk where it's not so close to my eyes.

Still, I can work on my LCD all day, which is definitely more than could be said for the 19" CRT monitor at my old employers. I'll not be buying a CRT again.

[Lothaekor]

I had a pair of those, but found that they were very picky on how they worked.

1) You had to have a Riva TNT/2 card of some sort, or one of Elsa's brand cards in order for it to work.

2) Your monitor had to support a very high refresh rate (somewhere in the 120 Hz range I think), otherwise it wouldn't work.

I never was able to get them to work on my machine back when I had a TNT/2.