Monitor #1 - AOC C24G1

Specifications:

Type: LCD, VA

Resolution: 1920x1080

Aspect ratio: 16:9

Max refresh rate: 144 Hz

Size: 23.6"

Connection ports: Displayport, 2x HDMI, VGA

Audio: 3.5 mm headphone jack, no internal speakers.

Rest of the specs can be found at displayspecifications.com (outside link).

Systems this monitor is currently connected to and for what purpose:

System #1, the AMD Phenom II x925 machine via Displayport.
System #6 via HDMI.
System #7 via HDMI. I only currently have one cable for this purpose. I'm too cheap to buy another HDMI cable, and since HDMI is so painless to remove from the port, I just swap them around on as-needed basis.
It is my main monitor. The Phenom system is my primary gaming machine, this monitor has a 144 Hz refresh rate and the best image quality out of the monitors I own so it's only logical that I use it for this purpose.

Backstory of the monitor:

I was using a CRT monitor for a long time, more specifically the excellent Viewsonic P97f+ (outside link) (side note: information about this monitor seems to be pretty sparse, the page I was trying to link wasn't even available on the web archive, so I had to request archiving it myself).
I held on for a long time, damnit, because I believed - and still do, that CRTs are infinitely superior to LCDs. I will make an article about that at some point, and I plan on acquiring a CRT monitor again at some point.
Alas, sometime in 2018 or 2019 iirc the monitor was clearly on its last legs and emitting a terrible screeching noise. At first the noise appeared only on certain resolution + refresh rate combos, but slowly it began appearing in almost all of them, making it a pain in the ass to use and to be honest I was afraid that it would soon explode or begin to set on fire at any point lol.
So, it was time to move on. RIP Viewsonic P97f+, you were truly a legend.

I began to look at the monitor market back then. I needed to do a deep dive from the very surface, because I knew almost nothing about LCDs other than that they were inferior to CRTs lmao.
Eventually I ended up choosing this monitor as I believe it offered the best price-to-quality ratio for my purposes. It was around 180-190€ or so.
I had certainly known about the glory of the high refresh rates because my beloved CRT could do upwards to 150 Hz at lower resolutions.
But, aside from a sharper picture (which, to me, is not a pure pro honestly because it looks more unnatural in some cases and sucks for certain older games), taking up less space, being lighter and using less electricity, it was clear that picking an LCD monitor of any type was going to be a compromise in several different areas, only slightly altering depending on panel type.
LCD is just a technology that sucks for those who care about image quality and response times, and it's never going to get better because the inherent technology behind it is flawed. The most they can do is just minimizing the bad parts of it as damage control.
And as OLED monitors, at least back then, didn't exist, were insanely expensive and/or were "smart" TVs which is something I'm NOT willing to use, LCD it was.
I could've gotten a second hand CRT but I just wanted a monitor, fast, as I didn't have any spare ones.
I ended up going with a VA panel because it offered the deepest blacks, while offering slightly lower but very adequate color accuracy compared to IPS and TN is just, well, TN.
In the end, the display is okay, for an LCD. It gets the job done. Though I pine to be reunited with my true love, the CRT monitor.

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