Fighting games and the absolutely lowest possible video latency with the tech available. VGA puts you literally a frame or two ahead of the opponent. For players at their peak, this is a pretty big advantage.

[–] TwanHE@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Dont think the best vga monitors will beat current oleds in response times.

Using a gpu that still has vga will be a problem as well.

[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Apologies, I should have clarified. VGA plus CRT. I only ever used VGA with LED panels for a very short time, so I tend to conflate all the old tech as a package deal.

[–] Zuberi@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 7 months ago (2 children)

They're just so cheap at goodwill :(

[–] SeekPie@lemm.ee 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I got 4 1680x1050 monitors for 5€ each like 5 years ago and they're still working perfectly fine

[–] bruhduh@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Cheap multi monitor setup gang here we go

[–] borari@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I wonder if I can get an adapter to mount an old massive CRT to a monitor arm, and if any monitor arm has pistons that can support the thing in the first place.

[–] bruhduh@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Undermount and passive hydraulic arm will do the job, i think, as fellow crt enjoyer i approve of your idea, i have 32 inch crt tv stored, waiting for ps3 and Xbox 360 to be bought

[–] CalcProgrammer1@lemmy.ml 3 points 7 months ago

Get some HDMI to VGA adapters, the kind that screw into the VGA port and then have an HDMI port. I have a bunch of old VGA monitors I use with Raspberry Pis and as test displays when working on PCs and never have to deal with the annoyances of VGA since they're basically HDMI displays now.

[–] johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago

CRTs are highly desirable for retro gaming.