Which monitor

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It's horses for courses as they say, and this horse wears good
glasses!. My now-retired IIyama has the same visible size as yours
and 1280x960 was very borderline, but 1152x868 was great (try it if
you can, it might be a happy medium). But 1152 looks slightly
pixellated on my new 16" visible, so I'll be using 1280x960 when I
can work out how!


Well, 1152 works, but i must lower refresh rate from 85 to 75 Hz. And maybe
i would get used to it, but it's still small...


I used to use 1024x768 in my 15" CRT days. It's Ok for web-browsing,
and I play most games at 1024x768 even now as above this is either
too slow (my PC that is) or I can't tell the difference.


Same here---

If you like 1024 on your CRT, I *guess* you'll love it on a 15" LCD.

I've no idea when it comes to colour representation, but if it wasn't
for the response time issue I would have bought a 17" LCD this week.
I've just bought a 17" CRT to replace a 5 year old 17" CRT, but I
only intend using it until I hear better things about LCDs and games.
I heard 20ms was the ideal MAXIMUM refresh as this allows 50fps which
is good enough for most people as long as its sustained.

Another thing I recently read about LCDs was about dead pixels. The
only company that guarantees NO dead pixels is CTX.

that's another new thing i'll explore further---thanks