Ugh, need help picking out an Arcade Monitor

[gamecaptor]

Hi all,

I'm in the process of gutting an arcade cabinet and making it into a MAME cabinet. I'm at the point where I need to choose a monitor and I can't figure out what to buy. I've been looking over this forum and it appears there are many different models to choose from (i.e. I

[tom61]

What are your goals for the monitor? Cheap? Easy to use? Free to choose any video card? Most arcade authentic?

[jerryjanis]

Just to explain, there are many many options for a monitor...  For each different option, there is probably an equal number of people that would tell you 'this is the best way'...  

Oscar went took a bunch of photos of the different options:

http://www.oscarcontrols.com/monitors.shtml

[Vampyre]

well in a couple of weeks im gona buy a standard res arcade mon with an arcadeVGA from ultimarc and a video amplifier (for justin case) i can let yah know how that goes if yah like ?

[gamecaptor]

Tom61,

Yes, yes and yest

Basicly I want a 27" (because it will fit in my existing cabinet) something that will interface with a VGA (I'll buy whatever will work best with it, though I have a GeForce 2 Ultra lying around). Arcade authentic would be nice, but not really necessary (is there really a need for 800x600?). Cheep would be nice, but I'll pay for whatever is the best solution.

It seems many people really like the Wells Gardner 9100 monitor.

[DeathMonk]

Tom61,

Yes, yes and yest

Basicly I want a 27" (because it will fit in my existing cabinet) something that will interface with a VGA (I'll buy whatever will work best with it, though I have a GeForce 2 Ultra lying around). Arcade authentic would be nice, but not really necessary (is there really a need for 800x600?). Cheep would be nice, but I'll pay for whatever is the best solution.

It seems many people really like the Wells Gardner 9100 monitor.

D9200 would be your best bet.

[gamecaptor]

That's what I've been thinking.