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Hello everyone. Maybe somebody here can help me. I am attempting to buy a TFT. This should be simple, but apparently not. I regularly have to run games at 1024x768, which is guaranteed to be less than the monitors optimum resolution. The problem with this is that every TFT I have ever encountered has the totally *brain dead* behavior of stretching and blurring the image to fit the whole screen. Not only does this make the image all fuzzy but I'm sure that it makes the response time longer, which increases the ghosting effect. I have only ever encountered one TFT that allows this stupid "feature" to be disabled. It's my friend's Dell Ultrasharp 2007FP. So I started looking at Dell monitors, and they're all very nice, but the worst part of all this is that this vital information is missing from every product description, every ebay listing, the lot. It just isn't there. It's like nobody except me even notices the problem. The only way I could even roughly find out this information (without somebody actually having the exact monitor to test it) is to look at the user manuals and see if there is an option in the OSD for it. What a mess. It looked promising- like Dell might allow sane behavior on all recent monitors, but alas no. The 2007FP and 2007WFP (widescreen version) both have composite/s-video input as well. It seems that only the ones with the extra inputs have a sanity option. But these are all much more expensive- 260 pounds on ebay, and I don't need the extra inputs. I saw the newer 2009W (only DVI/VGA) for 185, which looked really nice, but unfortunately looking at the manual it also appears to be broken. I tried the 17" versions, but couldn't find anything sane there either. My friend found that Nvidia has an option for the graphics card to output at the TFT's optimum resolution and add the black borders, but I'm dubious as to the performance cost of this. So I'm back to square one. Please- does anybody know of any other TFTs with sane behavior? I'm at a loss here. Thanks. Simon -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html