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Go to a store. They may not have either Viewsonic, but they're likely to have at least one 16ms screen. It should give you a rough idea of how the VP201 performs.
If you can't be stuffed doing that then just get the VP201.
I have a Dell2001FP which has the same screen and it's great. I think...
I would expect a CRT to get a bit wobbly at the knees after 6 years. I replaced mine (Mitsubishi 1995SL) recently because it had started to darken to the point where I kept running over unseen landmines in BF1942. It was only 4 years old, but very intensively used.
I say just sit back and...
Maybe hunt around and see if you can find enough dead pixels to RMA. A dead pixel, even a tiny 1600x1200 pixel, stuck dead centre would annoy me to distraction.
I've got 4 stuck pixels on my 2001FP but they're thankfully on the periphery of the screen and I so live with them.
Congrats on...
Yeah. Heat could be an issue in a closed case.
I've got an SB75G2 with the open mesh sides so air-flow is better than in a SN41G2.
With 200gig drives such good value, I couldn't help myself.
I had to get two :)
I've been running a 2x200Gig RAID set on my SilentX 250W for six months now and nary a problem.
Got a AIW 9800pro and an SB audigy sucking the juice as well and I've also upped the core voltages.
SilentX PS is good. It can handle it.
Heck a 12V powerpack could power your case fans.
You could get a SFF powersupply like Shuttle's SilentX or something cheaper, you should be able to find room inside the case for one of those.
You could just undervolt the fan using a Zalman fan mate or something similar.
As long as you're not o/clocking the 9700 pro it shouldn't kill it.
There are other fan+heatsinks you can fit like Vantec's Iceberg 4, but that would be just as loud as the stock fan, maybe louder and you'd still...
Blacks will never be as black as when the screen is off. The backlight is still on behind the black pixel. And with modern day backlighting designed for brightly lit offices, some light is going to show through. You'll have to wait for individually LED backlit pixels for true black from an LCD...
The ice fan under normal circumstances is fairly quiet.
It's speed controlled and most of the time runs at low rpm.
Shuttles in smartfan mode only run at full speed at a certain temperature threshold and you can set that in the BIOS.
The fan is just a cheap 80mm Sunon. It's easy to replace...