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I'm going ut to college and putting to gether a computer. I need to figure out what type of moniter to get, LCD or CRT. I like the small space of the LCD and it's good image quality. But my brother, a civil engineer, who does CAD for hours on end says LCD's will hurt my eyes more and for CAD a flat screen CRT is what i need. Other people have told me the briteness of the LCD will hurt my eyes also. I'm going into Electrical Engineering so I will use CAD and be programing, I will no doubt be in fornt of my monitor a lot. I will also be using the monitor for entertaimen via games and movies. The three catagories i can think of are image quality, cost, size. I have a buget of $1,000 for the entier computer. I am not familier wiht the numbers and nomenclature of moniters. i know CRT's are cheeper than LCS' and CRT's are much larger. I am looking for about 17-21 inches in viewing size.

diroga

I would decide on the system you want and then see how much you have left and let that dictate the type of monitor you get

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Cromewell

If you're using your computer a lot, I'd go with a LCD. They are easier on your eyes because they don't run by Hz(constant flickering) unlike CRTs. Now, LCD's tend to be MUCH more bright than CRT monitors, but you can usally adjust this. They won't get as dark as CRTs, but my LCD on my laptop's running pretty dark now(saves battery and I use it in the dark a good bit)

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The_Other_One

LCD's wont hurt your eyes because they don't flicker. CRT's will hurt your eyes and may give you a headach if the refresh rate is low. If the lcd is too bright, just turn down the brightness.

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691175002

And, you don't have to lug around a huge CRT monitor.

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penguinrusty

CRT have a higher frame rate and a better contrats ratio.

If you play games alot, get a CTR, If you do not play games alot get LCD

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TonyBAMF

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. But my brother, a civil engineer, who does CAD for hours on end says LCD's will hurt my eyes more and for CAD a flat screen CRT is what i need. Other people have told me the briteness of the LCD will hurt my eyes also. I'm going into Electrical Engineering so I will use CAD and be programing, I will no doubt be in fornt of my monitor a lot

1. People doing CAD will benifit from the CRT because it will provide you a sharper image

2. If you're going to looking at text (i.e., word/acrobat documents), its kinda a tossup between a LCD and CRT (i.e., personal preference). Odds are the tossup will goto LCDs.

3. LCDs arent that bright (CRTs tend to be brighter) but regardless, you can tone down the brightness and contrast to taste

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Now, LCD's tend to be MUCH more bright than CRT monitors

If you pick a random LCD from all the LCDs ever made and a random CRT from all the CRTs ever made, CRTs will be brighter. Not all LCDs are of the current generation ... just look at 2nd generation laptops for instance. Of course if you get a nice current gen LCD that will be evened out but then your budget wont be.

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And, you don't have to lug around a huge CRT monitor.

But you also wont be able to do your HDL stuff so well due to the pixel imprecision.

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CRT have a higher frame rate and a better contrats ratio.

True about the contrast but LCDs dont have a framerate per se

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If you play games alot, get a CTR, If you do not play games alot get LCD

Hehe you seem to have missed the part about "electrical engineering"

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Praetor

Praetor thank you for your high content post.

so the LCD britness can be toned down but with out image loss?

what is contrast ratio?

HDL? what HDL are you talking about?

in my spare time and after college i would like to use the same system for games. what do i need to look for in a montire for ok preformance. in general what do i need to look for.

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diroga

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so the LCD britness can be toned down but with out image loss?

Generally you can tone down both the brightness and contrast to suit your particular taste without any "quality loss" (of course, if you turn it down too low you wont be able to see anything

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what is contrast ratio?

From Wikopedia we have,

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In reference to computer monitors, the measurement of the difference in light intensity between the brightest white and the darkest black. Contrast ratio is often used in marketing computer monitors, where a high contrast ratio, such as 400:1, represents a better color representation (the better the information will appear against a darker background) on the monitor than a lower contrast ratio, such as 150:1.

I.e., the bigger the ratio the more contrast and generally, the more contrast, the better

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HDL? what HDL are you talking about?

HDL = Hardware Description Language ... something CompEng kids do although I would imagine EEs may do a bit of it ... its part coding and part CAD. While the text part (the coding aspect) may not be such a big deal, the CAD component will be a bummer if you're stuck with an imprecise screen. I guess it does depend on the cirriculum you guys will have.

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in my spare time and after college i would like to use the same system for games. what do i need to look for in a montire for ok preformance. in general what do i need to look for.

Budgetwise, you'll probably be able to get a decent quality CRT that suits both your school and nonschool activities before you can get a LCD that suits them because for gaming, the property/feature known as "response time" for LCD (lower is better) is one of the factors that determines the price tag of the LCD monitor. As cromewell suggested, it might be wise to get the rest of the system spec'd out first and then decide on what options are feasible with the remaining budget

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Praetor

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16824163129

so is that a good monitor for games and general usage

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