• alefunguju
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    9 months ago

    But seriously, why would you buy a VGA monitor in 2024?

    (Edit: typo)

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      9 months ago

      Fighting games and the absolutely lowest possible video latency with the tech available. VGA puts you literally a frame or two ahead of the opponent. For players at their peak, this is a pretty big advantage.

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        9 months ago

        Dont think the best vga monitors will beat current oleds in response times.

        Using a gpu that still has vga will be a problem as well.

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          9 months ago

          Apologies, I should have clarified. VGA plus CRT. I only ever used VGA with LED panels for a very short time, so I tend to conflate all the old tech as a package deal.

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        9 months ago

        I got 4 1680x1050 monitors for 5€ each like 5 years ago and they’re still working perfectly fine

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            9 months ago

            I wonder if I can get an adapter to mount an old massive CRT to a monitor arm, and if any monitor arm has pistons that can support the thing in the first place.

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              9 months ago

              Undermount and passive hydraulic arm will do the job, i think, as fellow crt enjoyer i approve of your idea, i have 32 inch crt tv stored, waiting for ps3 and Xbox 360 to be bought

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        9 months ago

        Get some HDMI to VGA adapters, the kind that screw into the VGA port and then have an HDMI port. I have a bunch of old VGA monitors I use with Raspberry Pis and as test displays when working on PCs and never have to deal with the annoyances of VGA since they’re basically HDMI displays now.