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KnightLight
Aug 8, 2009

I have a fairly old system that was running a Samsung SyncMaster 204BW off of a Radeon 5700 graphics card at 1680 x 1050..

The monitor is dying, only showing red. I'm pretty sure it's shot. I had some warning of course but I thought I'd have more time before it gave out for real today.

I'm planning on building an entirely new mid-price gaming rig sometime this year, but I'm not quite ready to do that yet. I have a lot of research and budgeting left to do. Is there a reasonable monitor I could buy that would both work with my old system, but not require immediate replacement when I have my new one together?

Other possibilities:

A) Buy a cheap monitor and just keep it with the old system

B) Use the old system with a tiny CRT until I build my new rig.

Haven't bought a monitor since 2007, so I'm a little bewildered by all the new stuff that's out.

Honestly, I didn't even know about the IPS/TN difference before i dove into this thread.

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