Ancient CRT monitor hits astonishing 700Hz — resolution reduced to just 120p to reach extraordinary refresh rate
Ancient CRT monitor hits astonishing 700Hz — resolution reduced to just 120p to reach extraordinary refresh rate
Faster than the fastest modern refresh rate panels on the market right now
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/18305395
It makes sense you'd be able to get a much higher refresh rate on a tube if you reduce the resolution, since you would be reducing the beam's travel.
Changing the resolution on a CRT normally doesn’t make the picture smaller. There is no native resolution, phosphors are not pixels. My Viewsonic would display 640x480 or 1600x1200 on the whole 21” regardless. You can also watch the video, it’s not using a smaller area.
I believe the limitation is bandwidth, not the electron beam.
320 x 120 resolution
I am embarrassed for having read that
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"Ancient". I had one up until 2008.
Edit: I guess when you think about it, someone born then would be entering high school now. Fuck I'm old. It's weird because all the 2000s just blend together for me, there is nothing defining the decades anymore, like 80s = cocaine and big hair, and 90s = neon and "radicool" stuff.
I loved my 1600x1200 Viewsonic, used it till 2010 or so. The flicker wasn't ideal, but man the colors were so much more vibrant than shitty LCD screens of the 2000s were capable of. These days, I think Apple's fancy LCDs with HDR win on all fronts, but it took a while to get here.
iPhones were released in 2007, so in 2008 smartphones hadn't really taken off yet. We old.
Fun overclocking project. I wonder how far can you go with the fastest LCD monitors
Dell is already at 500Hz 1080p
PC gamers be like "framerate dropped to 675, unplayable"
I need newly made modern CRTs. The salvage ones I have tested all have degraded image, and none go that fast even with micro resolution
Was it worth it tho?