CRT for gaming?

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Been thinking about upgrading my setup as of late, I want something to game on at a higher framerate, although i "only" have a single 7950, i shy away from triple A games and go for mostly indie stuff, with the occasional graphical showpiece racer.

Still, motion is extremely important and i've been thinking on getting a CRT for that. Currently, i cannot find a FW900, but i found a Dell P1230, quite cheaply infact, at an amount equivalent to ~$20, apparently it's capable of 110hz @ 1600x1200 or 135 hz at 1440x1080, which is very much acceptable, as CRT resolution scaling is more tolerable than that of LCD.


So my questions are : Are there any Affordable ( Like ~400$) 4k options, I really liked the seiki 39 option, but 30hz isnt enough, perhaps a DP modboard?  I know those are available on taobao, but has anyone tried any?

CRTs are big and heavy and old, How much mileage can i expect from this thing, apparently usage has been less than 1000 hrs and It's a mitsubishi diamontron tube.

I've had CRTs before, and it never came to mind, but is there anything else i should be looking at? I cannot seem to find a 16:10 tube, as those apparently dont exist. 

Last thing: Apparently radiation is a big buzzword surrounding these, and the physics support it, but how is it any different than being exposed to mild sunlight? Is this just FUD or is there real significance behind it?

One Last-last thing: Is debezeling these viable? 

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wait.... what do you mean by "motion"? you mean input lag?

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Korean 1440p 60hz ips panel

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if the 'motion' you are talking about is the low input lag of a CRT, then there are a bunch of LCD gaming monitors that have low input lag that is LITERALLY indistinguishable from CRT. 

this is coming from someone, me, who is extremely sensitive to input lag, and i can tell when there is input lag even when my friends can't. why? because up until 6 months ago i was using CRT. i did UBER research and finally settled on the BenQ RL2455HM because of all the reviews and tests showing the low input lag. i though "well, this looke like some of the lowest input lag in an HD screen... might as well bite the bullet and jump up to HD and get used to the input lag"

i am happy to say that i didn't even need 1 second to get used to it, as it was if i WAS playing my CRT, in terms of responsiveness, but with a nice 1080p resolution. 

i would suggest picking up a new gaming monitor for your PC...... ditch the CRT... i did... and i SWORE by it (so much so, that i could NOT play FPS at my friends/family's house because their tvs lagged too much)

http://www.amazon.com/BenQ-Gaming-Monitor-RL2455HM-24-Inch/dp/B007HSKSMI

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CRTs work on a different principle, so there isnt any of the motion blur you get with LCD. CRTs work via projection, every frame is flashed and then the monitor goes dark. That's why 60HZ on a CRT will melt your eyes.

What happens with LCDs is that the frame refreshes, but the backlight stays up, and as the pixels make the transition between frames, the image becomes blurry. It's not really all that much of a problem, but after you compare it to OLED or CRT, the difference becomes apparent. There's a method to this that some LCD monitors take to reduce blur and it's called Lightboost or strobing backlight, but panels that support that are ONLY TN  and only 1080p, in my opinion that's just a bad investment.

I currently have a 1ms input lag "gaming monitor" running @ 60hz, I can still tell the difference is massive.

Now the obvious downsides of CRTs are the gimped 4:3 aspect ratios.

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I'm talking about the frame transitions. Input lag isnt as much of anissue. This is pretty much what i'm talking about: http://img187.imageshack.us/img187/893/camerapixperancarallfv4.jpg

Now I already have a comparable asus monitor, (1ms, tn, 60hz) and since the one you've linked is neither 120hz nor lightboost, i can safely say that i've tried that. It's actually the monitor i'm going to get rid of for the CRT.

As far as your experience with CRT goes, have you tried a CRT monitor? Usually TVs have absurd amounts of image processing that delays the image, that's why as of like 2007-8 they started adding the so-called "game mode", to reduce that.
Actually that's kind of funny, because quake 3 is something i had a falling-out with after i ditched my last CRT in ~2008ish.


There's also all the other goodies, like any resolution being as good as native, high contrast ( Like 15k : 1 ) and deep blacks.

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i was using a CRT monitor in the living room up until about 1-2 years ago when we got a Vizio. 

as far as motion blur, i don't really see it on my monitor. i play 60hz FPS and 60hz Fighting games, and they play like a dream. but i understand what you mean now. you should got to tftcentral and check out some newer reviews. (i assume you may already go there, as your picture seems to be from there lol)

i mean, just looking at a couple reviews, i found a monitor with a VA panel, low input lag, and what looks to be low motion blur (as long as you don't enable 240 mode). 120hz seems to be clearer than 60hz on this monitor. I am sure you could find something to satisfy your sensitivity to motion blur, and still get some nice HD resolutions/16:9.