Toby

Right now?

The Recon actually has the best sensor going. It's a solid mouse, though a lot of people find they press the right side-buttons by accident. Kana and Lua? Not so much...

They're good, and immensely overrated to the point of being detrimental to the market. They've done good things by popularizing closed-loop cooling and their cases are great, but I almost think the market would be better off without the rest.

Look for "ninja" keycaps, if you want the kind that come with the Stealth.

Honestly? Their G400 is probably better unless you need the weight/shape (I'd love a G9x if it had the G400's sensor though).

I'd say the Deathadder is probably a better mouse for FPS (I'm not sure why Corsair put a laser sensor inside a mouse with a sniper button). For anything else they're probably pretty similar. I also doubt any other mouse will suit you as well as the one you're used to, unless there's something about it that's fundamentally incompatible with you.

Everybody except people you live with...and possibly neighbours. ;) Also Newegg doesn't ship internationally., unfortunately.

Scroll down to the bottom of the page and click "Shipping and Returns". Your best bet is probably either a Majestouch Ninja with cherry blues, or a regular Quickfire Rapid with greens and replacing the keycaps.

For the keyboard, A Quickfire Rapid with white keycaps would work, though also keep these alternatives in mind for a white keyboard, along with the white KBT Race (I think there might be a white Filco you could get as well, but I imagine that'd be in pricier territory). As for the mouse, I'd go with a white Zowie AM, or white Zowie EC1 Evo/EC2 Evo, simply because they're more accurate than the white Corsair/Steelseries/Logitech alternatives.

With your filters in mind... Logitech G400 Logitech G400s CM Storm Spawn (if you have that kind of grip) CM Storm Recon Zowie FK, Zowie AM Zowie EC1/EC2 Evo They're all wired. By omitting Razer, the only two wireless mouse I'd even consider have been eliminated, but even they're only considerable, not recommendable. Depending on the reason you'd like a wireless mouse, you can get a similar feel by making an improvised mouse bungee (but then, you could probably buy an actual mouse bungee for less than the price premium of a wireless mouse). Nope. All mouse sensors except for the Phillips Twin-Eye dual sensor and the A3090 optical sensor (in all it's forms) come with acceleration and not the kind you can turn off in software.

Looks worse, but feels so much better. Function over form for a forum for sure.

Bland. If not for the vocoder, it'd barely be recognizable as Daft Punk. Hoping the rest of the album is better than this. Edit: Just heard MGMT's new song "Alien Days" which apparently appeared a few days ago. By comparison, I like that a lot more.

What a boring bunch of replies..."I don't fanboy over anyone, that's just silly don't you know?" CM Storm (not Cooler Master in general) - Most of all, they have good communication with their customers and the enthusiasts. They could quite easily have lumped for the same cheap OEM Razer uses and started releasing laser mice with astronomical DPI, but instead they start releasing mechanical keyboards with Filcos OEM and experimenting with others, because that's what people wanted. They gave people the option of having all 4 of the main switches when no other gaming company did (and still barely anyone does). They were first to market with green switches. They removed the excessive branding in response to people complaints. They released form factors people asked for (the CM Storm TK). They started implementing the best mouse sensors even though it meant they couldn't use huge DPI for suckering people in. All companies claim to "listen" and most probably do, but CM Storm are one of the very few who actually make decisions based on what they hear. Lian Li - Beautiful cases with insane layouts. When everyone is releasing the same old bullshit, it's nice to see a company trying new things. Silverstone used to qualify in this regard as well, but not so much anymore. Noiseblocker - A quirkier, quieter and less hideous Noctua (sans heatsinks). Edit: I knew I'd forget somebody.. Be Quiet - German engineering with a focus on silence and the bonus of beautiful aesthetics. What's not to love?

If the G400 qualifies as entry-level, then it wins easily. Otherwise it'd be the Abyssus, due to having the best sensor.

I'm going to guess you could probably opt for a cheaper motherboard.

This information still holds true. The only exception is the Phillips Twin-Eye and Razer 4G sensors, which come with their own issues (and are arguably still optical sensors).I tried to make this in the Linus' videos forum, but regular users can't seem to create threads there.

Okay, not as wrong as possible, but still pretty wrong. Everything up to the laser section is pretty much correct, but it seems pretty weird to state the DPI limits of non-gaming mice considering anyone that cares enough to ask the optical vs laser question is probably in the market for a gaming mouse, of which only Zowie mice are capable of less than 3500DPI (they have a limit of 2300). 1:06 is where things start to fall apart. Lets go through this line by line... Laser mice, or rather laser sensors, are less accurate. As of the time of writing this, every laser sensor on the market comes with a degree of inherent mouse acceleration, including the A9500 and A9800 sensors found in all current Corsair, Steelseries, Roccat and Mionix laser mice...This acceleration can not be disabled and is not the same mouse acceleration you can switch on and off in the software or control panel. Meanwhile, every optical mouse I'm aware of on the market* is using the A3090 sensor, which is entirely free of acceleration. In terms of accuracy, optical mice win. Assuming this is a separate statement and not trying to explain how laser mice are supposedly more accurate, then this is pretty much correct. Which gamers? Misled gamers? Keeping in mind the difference between accuracy and precision, optical and laser mice are equally precise. If you're using "precise" to mean "accurate" (as many do), then this might be correct, but they are wrong. Pro gamers tend to prefer optical mice because they're aware of their increased accuracy. The exceptions are often due to being sponsored by some peripheral manufacturer and thus obliged to use a certain mouse (and on the subject of pro gamers, they don't tend to use astronomical DPI either). Source #1 Source #2 * Specifically, I'm referring to these mice... Razer Deathadder 3.5G/Black Edition/4G Razer Krait 4G Razer Abyssus Logitech G400 Logitech G400S CM Storm Recon CM Storm Spawn Zowie EC1/EC2 Evo Zowie AM Zowie FK Roccat Savu Puretrak Valor MadCatz R.A.T. 3 Optical

No, Linus was wrong. I'm about to put up a post about it. I guess I'll put it in peripherals, but I'm not sure this forum gets enough exposure for it to reach him. You are exactly the reason I'm going to call out that video though.

Another vote for TechPowerUp.

CM Storm Stealths aren't going to be available in the EU at all, according to a CM rep.

Even at low DPI an A9500 will have acceleration...At that DPI why not go optical and get rid of it entirely? Also I'm pretty sure it uses the same omron switches as a lot of other mice, too. I'm thinking you might have oversold it slightly?

No it isn't, that's just software acceleration. Most sensors have varying degrees of acceleration that can't be avoided, exceptions being the phillips twin-eye laser sensor (which has it's own issues) and newer Avago optical sensors (the A3090/3095 as well as the ones Razer have put in their 3G, 3.5G and 4G DAs).

Does the TK not have n-key roll over also?

"by far the best" is a pretty strong statement. What is it you think makes it so much better?

Again, that's software acceleration, not hardware acceleration. The thing you disable in control panel, or the Steelseries software is software acceleration.