How is the Dell P1110?

[eldorado99]

How do these rate as far as 21" CRTs go? They are dirt cheap on eBay, I just wanted to know what you guys think of them since I may get one.

 

[Budman]

Very very nice monitor, I am very satisfied with my Off lease P1110.

 

[Budman]

And btw just do a search http://forums.anandtech.com/search.aspx search for p1110 in general hardware in the archived posts,you'll get lots of hits.

 

[eldorado99]

Would it be worth it to spend an extra 30 dollars for the P1130 do you think?

 

[Fresh Daemon]

I've got an off-lease P1110. Very nice monitor - crystal clear image, excellent geometry, good colour. Hook it up to a card with really good 2D quality (Matrox, ATI) and it'll shine even at 1880*1400. The sharpness of the image puts any LCD I've seen in my local big-box stores to shame.

I wouldn't get one on eBay though, since it'll be refurbished you want to see before you buy. There might be damage to the anti-reflective coating. Some heavily used Trinitron tubes also have brightness issues. Also be aware that it does have those two hair-thin lines across the screen (tensioning wires) common to aperture-grill screens. It doesn't bother me, but some people hate it.

 

[wisdomtooth]

My Sony G500 pwns the Dell P1110 in image quality. The reason is the 5BNC inputs, which the P1110 doesn't have.

I would never buy a big-screen CRT monitor unless it has 5BNC or DVI inputs. The image quality difference over 15-pin D-sub VGA is very noticible.

 

[boborich]

Excellent performance/price raito. And the quality is excellent too.

 

[Goi]

I went from an HP P1120(basically identical to the Dell/HP P1110) to a Dell P1130 and I didn't notice any difference, except the P1130 will handle higher resolutions/refresh rates.. Both were used units. I went through 2 refurb'ed Dell P1130s and got different image quality. When you buy refurbished, it's really the luck of the draw.

 

[powerMarkymark]

Originally posted by: Budman
Very very nice monitor, I am very satisfied with my Off lease P1110.

Same here.

 

[CaMSpoon]

: ( this is the monitor i owned and just went out on me 2 days ago. I just bought a viewsonic lcd monitor and nothing compaires to a CRT. I recommand that monitor becuase it was cheap and works great. dont buy lcds they suck