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Toby

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  1. ...Which mostly exists as a result of GH cross-posting. At the end of the day, it's best to go where the science leads you.
  2. Max isn't comparable to the dark days of iOne. I don't think I've ever witnessed someone who had issues with one. Besides, nowadays the OEM is far less relevant on the user-side, so when you say "by the keyboard enthusiast community", do you by any chance mean "by Geekhack"? Because the iOne hate is pretty light at OCN.
  3. Sounds like you need o-rings. A topre-switch keyboard might suit you too, though I don't know where you'd find one to demo, because you certainly wouldn't buy one without knowing you already liked it.
  4. CM Storm's Quickfire Rapid is probably the best, cheapest keyboard you'll find. The one with blue switches tends to be cheapest, which you might be able to find for $65-$70 on a good day (there's a few people selling it below $70, but I don't know which US retailers are trustworthy. I seem to recall Superbiiz may be). The black switch version is also going fairly cheap at $71 from Walmart. Both are cheap at a place called Provantage, but I've never heard of them. Cheapest gaming mouse would be the Logitech G400. Anything else either isn't as good, or isn't as robust. Edit: Oh, this isn't a bad deal either, though I'd still go with the Quickfire Rapid. CM Storm are more deserving of your money and it'll match the G400 better, too.
  5. I could see mATX becoming the standard, along with more water-cooling accommodation, so...Shorter and ever so slightly wider, I guess.
  6. Browser back/foward/new tab (fast dial/speed dial etc.)/refresh/search. Media controls? Commonly-visited site URLs? Launching applications?
  7. If you're an FPS player, the Deathadder wins over the G700 (optical > laser, wired > wireless). If you like the Deathadder's shape, I don't think you can go wrong with the DA 2013. If you're looking for a change, maybe check out Zowie's mice.
  8. Sure. Okay. Not unless you're sitting so far away from your monitor, in such pitch-blackness, that you can't even orientate your hands to start touch-typing. Otherwise, having blaring lights in your peripheral is if anything, a potentially detrimental distraction. Aesthetics can be reason enough to buy something, so "I like the look of it" is all you need.
  9. Having tried putting EPP on and seeing how much slower the cursor moved at high DPIs, I have to wonder how many people with 2k+ in fact have it enabled.
  10. No, backlighting comes under gimmicks. Only the caps lock and scroll lock keys light up to signify whether or not they're enabled.
  11. "Gaming" is a marketing term made to appeal to the adolescent market, but it really doesn't mean anything. I'm guessing you define a "regular" keyboard as a membrane keyboard, in which case you need to be looking at mechanical keyboards specifically, regardless of whether or not they're "gaming" keyboards, since "gaming" keyboards can feel just the same (or worse) than a "regular" keyboard.
  12. I wasn't being hostile, I was being sarcastic. I'm British, I can't help it. Honest.
  13. It sure does. People have noticeably more problems with the original than with the tournament or 2013 editions. 2013 or Tournament Edition should be fine. If you find you barely ever use the numpad and don't need the gimmicks, you might as well save yourself money and space with the tournament edition.
  14. What did you think was going to happen? You were going to type on it and it would deliver electric shocks to your fingers? People seem to prefer the K70 to the Blackwidow, but that doesn't mean they aren't both a huge step up from regular keyboards.
  15. I'm guessing you didn't play MMOs before WoW? It basically made it's name on having so much gentler a treadmill than EQ, DAoC, Lineage etc. Hell, I'm not even sure they use the term treadmill anymore.
  16. You've already got it right. Don't change. Not quite. The way pointer speed works isn't additive, but multiplicative. 6/11 is 1:1. Any lower than that and windows will skip readings, while any higher and it'll insert interpolated ones. It's this that makes the mouse feel horrible for a lot of people if they're using anything but 6/11 (3/11 is supposedly usable too, but I don't know), which may be what "enhanced pointer precision" is remedying for you. So I'm wondering if 6/11 without EPP might feel better for you than 11/11 without EPP.
  17. 1200. Trying to see how low a DPI I can tolerate, but due to having an anchored wrist I'll probably never go below 900ish. Anything you get used to will feel strange when you change, but depending on the sensitivity setting/resolution, you may find you get better results with a lower DPI (if you tend to set in-game sensitivity low to medium-low, 3k is probably workable). Edit: Austin, try setting your windows pointer speed to 6 (right in the middle) and then disabling pointer precision.
  18. It's a colossal waste of money from a price/performance standpoint. It's the epitome of the bad side of Razer, imo...A product sold on glowy lights and gimmicks. You could buy an equivalent PC and a couple of really nice monitors for that price.
  19. Did you not watch the very video you posted? His MSPaint demonstration had nothing to do with DPI...He even fixed it by lowering windows pointer speed (and if you know how windows pointer speed works, you'd understand why it fixed it. 3 and 6 are the only settings you want to ever use, but ideally 6). Throughout the video he repeatedly says to keep sensitivity low so you retain control. If you are making "jerky" circles in paint with lower DPI, that's probably down to your own flaws, because a lower DPI means you have to draw a larger circle on the mousepad, thus giving you more chance to mess it up. Here's a picture of me at 500 and 1800 DPI, guess which is which? If you have good aim, there's no reason for lower DPI to be any more jagged unless you just get lazy.
  20. If they'd stop building their foundation on marketing rather than products, they could be great. As an example, they have the best mouse sensor in the market, but then they only put it in a single mouse (Deathadder). Why? So they can market having a laser sensor with higher DPI numbers. Another example: This comes from Razer's Blackwidow keyboards FAQ. Anyone who knows the fundamentals of mechanical keyboards knows this is all horse manure, but they're quite happy to flat-out lie in order to sell more products. So yeah, I kind of hate Razer, because they could be a great company, but their sheer greed makes them choose sleaziness.
  21. I'd go with the blue and silver if it went better with the things you already own. Besides, red and black's pretty unimaginative, especially for computer stuff these days.
  22. I'm guessing you mean in other threads?
  23. Here's the thing...WoW didn't change the face of MMOs. It simply gave its face a wash. It took the best parts from MMOs at the time and polished them, but it still very much resembled an MMO of it's time. Now, over the years they've managed to progress things a bit, but WoW was never particularly innovative. If they made a sequel now, I'm not sure it'd be different enough to warrant it's own existence. Besides, they're still the most popular MMO going. As to why that is, it's down to a mixture of it's own notoriety and people's attachment to their characters. New MMOs don't tend to be different enough to persuade people to go and start fresh when they could just go back to WoW, with their old guild and a character that has god knows how many days, week or months /played. Guild Wars 2 is a step in the right direction, but it's very much "in between generations", rather than a new generation of MMO.
  24. Toptenreviews really isn't a good thing to base decisions off of.
  25. There was once a magic computer which ran off mystic chi, It's components were all mythical as you're about to see. An elven brain for the CPU gave it insane IPC, While the memory of an ancient Ent made for the largest HDD. The motherboard was a mystic spell cast eons in the past, and the RAM made from Aries horns kept it running fast. Techne himself the GPU, he kept things looking pretty, The voice of a siren was the sound card for every little ditty. Air sprites act as spinning fans, to fulfil the needs of cooling. Then everything else relies on excellent dwarven tooling. A dragons heart the PSU, to run it forever more, This is truly a computer rig that only exists in lore. Poetry isn't my strong point.
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