20" Sony Trinitron 179+60=239 shipped

[Kilocomp]

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It only works on high resolutions and they give it a crappy shipping price (60 bucks) but the total is still only 239.
173+60=239

Cheapest 20" I have seen, but not for everybody

Nick

 

[LordThing]

Well, its egghead. They always inflate their shipping cost. They tried to charge me $16 PER DIMM when I won an auction. Come on. Still, I think this could be a fine monitor for a mom or girlfriend.

 

[chrisbest01]

it's refurbished

 

[Kilocomp]

Sorry I forgot to mention it was refurb. Still a decent price for a 20"

Nick

 

[Kanedo]

I don't have the monitor posted, but I do have a 20" HP A2094A which uses a Sony Trinitron tube. Mine, also, is not multisync. It's a pain in the ass to get it to work. My suggestion is that, if you want to use it for work, they're great, but I wouldn't bother trying to use them for games. It's too much hassle trying to get them to work since many games will try to change the resolution and frequency.

 

[MuffD]

This is only good if you're running a Sun system. I bought one before and even though it came with a video card that was supposedly gonna work with my pc, it sucked ass!
Don't buy this!!!!

 

[XzeroR3]

I got an HP 4331A with is a sony trinitron multisync 20". Decent monitor for how much I got it for over a year ago...

I do have an auto scan monitor (hitachi hm4021)also at home.. no games because it wont do 60hz at lower resolutions. But it is still a high quality monitor for general usage and dvd watching.

 

[alohaboy]

you are probably better off with one of those 19" one with better refresh rate and dot pitch... and NEW, of course

 

[GnatGoSplat]

This is a fixed frequency monitor. They're a pain to use because you can't change BIOS settings, use old DOS apps, play many games, install new video cards, etc.
I had 2 fixed frequency monitors, only got $39 for the one I sold on fleabay.

I just recently replaced my other one with a Samsung 955DF that I saw on this forum. It was well worth it.

If anyone wants a fixed frequency monitor, drop me a line.

 

[LukFilm]

Why did they make this POS?

 

[GnatGoSplat]

<< Why did they make this POS? >>



It's actually a pretty good monitor, well built and high quality, but it SUCKS ON A PC.
The reason it's such a POS on a PC is because it's designed for Sun workstations. PC's are the only computers that use a 31.5kHz Horizontal and 60Hz Vertical as standard power-on sync rates. Everything else... Sun, NeXT, IBM RS/6000, even Macintosh power on with a higher resolution and higher sync rates. The PC's 31.5KHz/60Hz sync rates are a throwback to the original 640x480 VGA resolution.

So this monitor is cool on anything BUT a PC. Of course, PC's are pretty much the norm, so this monitor is pretty useless.

 

[TekDemon]

I dunno though, my radeon can force 120Hz at 640x480 and I usually play at 1024x768 anyway and this monitor only needs 75-100Hz and I never run at less than 75 anyway...

Maybe fleabay's 39 buck deal would be nicer though haha

 

[kp1126]

i disagree, my sun monitor works pretty good on my PC w/ its propriety vid card. Video and text look great, and it uses a trinitron tube. I am somewhat limited in terms of flexibility and vid card upgrades.

 

[irrigating]

With the prices of high quality large monitors so low these days, the 100 bucks your saving for an outdated monitor wont make much sense.

I have a 20&quot; Cornerstone fixed frequency monitor that I played around with driven by a cheap trident 2d/3d pci card, in a dual set-up. The trick I used to get it to work was to use a windows video driver from a current monitor(a
rasterops 20&quot; driver worked great), that had similar horizontal and vertical scanning frequencies. I had to rely on the main monitor to see the boot screen. It looks good, but the newer flat screens out there blow it away.

 

[Maverick215]

dunno if anyone noticed...
Signal Cable (included) 13w3-15 pin D-sub
if that's what I think it is you need a converter/adapter = another 15-35 dollars