I hit All-Star with a 60% Wr on a CRT Monitor!
Proof with image
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i mean it is the lowest latency monitor format.
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CORRECT. Crt Superiority.
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Low refresh rate though usually. You gain some latency in that. At the end of the day, people make top 500 on GM in console playing on consoles and can keep up with GM PC players.
The single most important factor is the player.
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Yea that was part of the point I was trying to make with this set up. That your gear doesn’t define you. Its your gameplay.
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That’s cool. I recently bought an expensive new monitor and gained an entire rank (I was stuck before).
…imagine how good you’d be with a real monitor, lol.
CRTs are second only to OLED for twitch gaming. I had a 100Hz CRT for competitive Quake3 scrims back in the 90s and early 2000s and it was fantastic.
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Retro-Tek! 
I dig it 
Ever play Duck Hunt on that thang?
I’m stuck on Lost Levels myself.
Nice op, proving that gaming is s hobby with a low buy in cost and you really just need to get gud 
I got to get a new one, made t500 on a 60hz monitor but can’t get to gm. Getting juked and losing out on more elims then i should.
GOATed! Does it support 100 or even 140Hz refresh rate mb? I remember back in the days of visiting championships in cs 1.5 and 1.6 when displays on a LAN were shifting towards LCD with 75 Hz max, it was a blessing if you get a line with 5 old CRTs with 100 Hz for your team, it gave so much advantage and comfort. And as far as I remember, high-end CRTs were supporting 140 Hz through an app that could boost its performance towards this max number, turning some 100 Hz CRT into a 140 Hz beast.
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Don’t know why you would think that, but okay buddy.
100hz?!? OH MY!! That is AMAZING!!! Are your eyes okay after such a high refresh rate??
I mean … yeah.
Theres only 2 cons to CRT monitors , the size and the potential low HZ. If you can get 90hz or more in that bad boy, yeah thats way better than almost anything out there.
Keep it healthy and hope it serves you many years.
PS: The amp / mag glass on top is great too.
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Because it’s true.
The main disadvantage of CRT monitors is their size/weight, but have always had notably better performance than LCDs of any type. It surpasses TN, VA, and IPS by large margins in almost every other measurable way.
Input lag is nearly non-existent on a CRT, whereas even the highest end LCD panels have a few milliseconds. Motion clarity, even at lower refresh rates, is much better due to the difference in how it actually displays content (sample and hold, versus scanout). They even outperform LCD panels that use black frame insertion at double the refresh rate.
CRTs also tend to have considerably better black levels, better peak brightness, and better color.
OLED is basically the only close competitor to CRTs, but do have the notable disadvantage of burn in. Less of an issue on modern OLED panels, but certainly still a concern.
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A lot of downsides to it as well. I guess it depends on what your parameters are for defining it as “second to OLED only.”
Yes there are downsides, but Ryom didn’t say “In general”, he said:
Which is 100% true. Motion clarity and response times on CRTs are objectively better than all types of LCD panels, even at much lower refresh rates.
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Look up phosphor response times before you get too sassy little missy. You’re making yourself look silly, not me.
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Explain to me how 100hz is not worse than, say, 480 hz. I mean, I’m sure you are a scientist because, of course this forum is full of intelligent people, but google it for me so I don’t have to
It was already explained by other posters, you likely just didn’t understand what the terms they used meant so you skimmed over it without comprehending.
Sample and hold and phosphor decay, no input lag, vastly superior pixel response times, vastly superior black levels, superior contrast, multiple native resolutions, vastly superior grey-to-grey, vastly superior color stability.
100Hz is TRUE 1:1 performance on a CRT, the reason LCDs are chasing such high refresh rates is an attempt to mimic the true response times of CRT because some pixels are slower than others, LCD overdriving causes ghosting, scaling and other LCD tech cause both input delay and frame-time lag, black-frame insertion is a hack to the mimic phosphor response of CRT. Before high refresh rate OLED, CRTs were the gold standard for twitch gaming even in this decade.
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None of which matter with such a high refresh rate. Let me ask you, do you have a background in computers?