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To: Bruce A. Thompson who wrote (43287)	12/13/1998 11:32:00 PM
From: Bill Jackson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573502

Bruce, try the game with an LCD first. It may not look well as LCDs have this funny image drag that looks like swaths of mousetails that you could find quite aggravating. the active matrix have less of that but are more than $700 for 15" A good high frequency 21" monitor with .28 MM dot pitch is what you need. It will be capable of 1450 pixel triad wide screens (20" viewable) but that res would need 32 Meg on your video card. It seems like 1024 x 768 would be all an 8 meg card would do. Read Toms on video cards, it is a scary deucation on what is needed for a big monitor with small pixels at a high rep rate. You see these on demo to get you sold. The games people can crank it up faster than the card people. Bill

To: Bruce A. Thompson who wrote (43287)	12/13/1998 11:44:00 PM
From: Ali Chen	Respond to of 1573502

Re <reconditioned 21" monitor> I would advise against the reconditioned one. Used - maybe, but not the reconditioned. Usually it is not possible to find exact replacement for original parts. Even if it is the case, the original failure was probably caused by fatique in high-stressed proprietary elements like fly-back transformer or some compensation circuitry. For this reason the "reconditioned" monitors usually do not keep the same vertical and horizontal refresh frequencies. You may not be able to get the full resolution you would want from the 21" area. Check the highest avaliable modes twice before buying, with a high-end video card. The 15" XGA LCD may be a good idea. - Ali