DVCS (was Re: Moving to D)

[retard]

Sat, 15 Jan 2011 03:23:41 -0500, Nick Sabalausky wrote:

> "retard" <re at tard.com.invalid> wrote in message
>> PSUs: Never ever buy the cheap models. There's a list of bad
>> manufacturers in the net. They make awful shit.
> 
> Another problem is that, as places like Sharky Extreme and Tom's
> Hardware found out while testing, it seems to be common practice for PSU
> manufacturers to outright lie about the wattage.

That's true. But it's also true that PSU efficiency and power have 
improved drastically. And their quality overall. In 1990s it was pretty 
common that computer stores mostly sold those shady brands with a more or 
less lethal design. There are lots of reliable brands now. If you're not 
into gaming, it hardly matters which (good) PSU you buy. They all provide 
300+ Watts and your system might consume 70-200 Watts, even under full 
load.

>> Monitors: The CRTs used to break every 3-5 years. Even the high quality
>> Sony monitors :-| I've used TFT panels since 2003. The inverter of the
>> first 14" TFT broke after 5 years of use. Three others are still
>> working, after 1-6 years of use.
>>
>>
> I still use CRTs (one big reason being that I hate the idea of only
> being able to use one resolution), and for a long time I've always had
> either a dual-monitor setup or dual systems with one monitor on each, so
> I've had a lot of monitors. But I've only ever had *one* CRT go bad, and
> I definitely use them for more than 5 years.
> 
> Also, FWIW, I'm convinced that Sony is *not* as good as people generally
> think. Maybe they were in the 70's or 80's, I don't know, but they're
> frequently no better than average.

I've disassembled couple of CRT monitors. The Sony monitors have had 
aluminium cased "modules" inside them. So replacing these should be 
relatively easy. They also had detachtable wires between these units.  
Cheaper monitors have three circuit boards (one for the front panel, one 
in the back of the tube and one in the bottom). It's usually the board in 
the bottom of the monitor that breaks, which means that you need to cut 
all wires to remove it in cheaper monitors. It's just this high level 
design that I like in Sony's monitors. Probably other high quality brands 
like Eizo also do this. Sony may also use bad quality discrete components 
like capacitors and ICs. I can't say anything about that.