I took the plunge and got a playfield monitor. Had my eye on the ASUS ROG Strix XG438Q. Seen a few people on the forums mention it and this company uses it for their upgraded package. I found someone selling a used one on Facebook Marketplace that was tempting, but I wasn’t sure how much I trust that and the price wasn’t much lower than new. It also had a recent price cut and then Friday added a $100 mail-in rebate, which then made it basically the same price as the used one. So I took the plunge and ordered it with the expected arrival date of Monday. Yesterday, as I’m replacing our laundry room faucet (Thanks to whomever installed the utility sink by screwing it into the floor, he said sarcastically), the wife tells me a big box was delivered on the porch. Lo and behold, it got here early!
After remembering a perfect sized old table doing nothing in the basement and setting up the new monitor, I give you the new temporary proof of concept setup.
Next step is designing the cabinet around the monitor dimensions. Gonna start old school pen and paper, and then maybe if I’m feeling feisty write it up in SketchUp.
I’ve also started creating a PC wish list, which aside from the GPU I can do surprisingly cheap (relatively). And since I’m not doing much gaming these days on the PC, I might move the current GPU to the pinball temporarily and just use the onboard graphics for the PC in the meantime.
As always, stay tuned!