Help with my monitor purchase SME-27FDL5(TB)

[dmarcum99]

Hi All,

I made a monitor purchase to replace my 24" Sony WEGA CRT.  I have a nice NBA Hangtime cab that I mame'd, and I came across a deal that I could not pass up.  For $20, I bought a TANDBERG SME-27FDL5(TB) monitor with remote.  It was manufactured in 2003 and in awesome shape.  I've tried to google and do research....I know it's a re-badged SAMPO SME-27FDL5, but that's where it ends.

I hooked it up last night, and though PC input, the picture is simply spectacular viewing XP vs. the SONY WEGA through s-video.  It has several inputs (cable, composite, s-video, component, and VGA (labeled as RGB).  S-video is on par with the SONY, and component did not operate properly, although better thatn the WEGA since at least I get a steady picture.

When in Hyperspin, the same claim can be made, the colors are way more vibrant, and the clarity is almost unbelievable for a CRT that size.

I'm hoping someone can tell me a little more about the monitor....its capabilities mainly.  Is this monitor capable of displaying games in their native format via AVGA or soft15k?  If I read it correctly, some of the specs on the component input states that it can handle a Horizontal Frequency @ 15KHz/31~52Khz.  Is this good news?
 
A little off topic....but maybe not.  The whole point to buying this monitor was to be able use a higher quality input and higher visual quality than using s-video.  My WEGA has component, but my nvidia 8500GT video card (GIGABYTE GV-NX85T512HP) will not output without a scrambled picture via component through the gigabyte breakout box.  I've tried other breakout boxes and also swapped out cables without any success.  I can output the new monitor using component, but the colors are all messed up and the control panel seems to think that the monitor is connected via s-video and cannot be changed.  I know others are outputting through component, but have others experienced the same type of behavior?  Is it my video card hindering the output?  If so, what video card with similar specs can I get if I wanted to output via component?