Retro gamer pushes CRT gaming to new heights with 700Hz overclock

[WYP]

The world's fastest gaming monitor is now an ancient IIyama CRT.



Read more about this overclocked 700Hz CRT.

 

[AngryGoldfish]

I always felt that CRT was dropped too soon. I don't know why. Maybe there was a valid reason for doing so, but it's been a huge uphill battle getting to monitor tech that ticks all the boxes. Maybe that was the point—milk the micro-improvements over 20-30 years.

 

[Warchild]

i think it was down to size reduction. Everything in that transition era was about shrinking products. No more bulky monsters but instead a flimsy terrible 60fps lagging monitor that went unnoticed because we were not really privy to the perks of 120FPS and more back then