Finishing Touches

[Scorpiоn]

I'm down to the final three things to complete my PC.

• Monitor
  
  • CRT
  • At least 1600x1200
  • Silver/black color
  • Under $200
• 50GB Hard Disk to serve as Master
• Wrist pad (for my elbow when using the joystick for long periods of time)

The latter should be about $5 around anywhere, I found a Seagate Barracuda 50.1 GB for $45, but I'm still having great difficulty finding a good monitor due to my demands on it.

Many reviews I'm reading for monitors are discouraging.  Perhaps they're being given bad marks in comparison to LCDs, but all I know I haven't seen good remarks about monitors.  The monitor I'm using now (Trinitron that came with my Dell Dimension XPS T500) has yet to fail me, and all I'd change about it is the color and perhaps the size (16" viewable diagonal).  Does anyone have any suggestions?

[Rivers]

Here are my suggestions; they are all more or less within your specifications, I recommend the Samsung ones, the color and the image quality are great. I

[Pinchaser...]

I got my 17" MAG for $99 after rebate. its a nice flat screen that is almost as good as an LCD.

[Scorpiоn]

Well that's encouraging. My wild guesses have turned out to be edumacated guesses, as I've been eyeing Samsungs out for quite awhile.

I would have gotten a 17" inch, but since I wanted everything on the new PC to be better than the old one, I went for 19".

That's about all the encouragement I need, I think I shall go have a peek around all the local stores t'morrow.

Danke sch

[Gixer]

I got a wicked 19" CRT.  Its a Mitsubishi Diamond Pro 930sb.  Not sure if its in your price range.  It has Diamondtron

[Skittles]

This may sound really silly, but when My wrist and/or elbows start hurting... I use a sponge! 39 cents.