(Finally) Buying a Good Monitor: Adventures in Hedonism and Native 4K

Tue, 09 May 2017 00:00:00 -0800

I built my first computer about a decade ago and can still rattle off all of its components. Gigabyte EP45-UD3R, Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550, nVidia GTX 260 216 Core, 8 GB of OCZ Reaper DDR2 1066 RAM, a Western Digital 500 GB 7200 RPM hard drive, Creative Fatal1ty sound card, Antec 1200 case¹, 750 watt Corsair power supply, Lite-On 48x DVD-RW drive. I had no fewer than three Razer products whose names I will pretend not to remember. But even though I looked at it way longer than any other component, I couldn't tell you the monitor I had. It was a 1680x1050 flatscreen somewhere in the 22" to 24" range, and it was bad, but that's all I know. I just treated it as a necessary evil that took budget away from the real computer, like a Windows Vista license.

Monitors on Carl Lieberman

(Finally) Buying a Good Monitor: Adventures in Hedonism and Native 4K