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midix

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    midix got a reaction from Abubaker42 in Let's compile a list of mice that have optical switches AND an optical scroll wheel encoder!   
    Found a few more:
    G502 X
    Razer Basilisk v3
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    midix got a reaction from Abubaker42 in Let's compile a list of mice that have optical switches AND an optical scroll wheel encoder!   
    As the title says - please comment if you know a mouse that has "everything optical" - the left & right button switches and the scroll wheel encoder.
     
    Currently, I have found only one:
    Cooler Master MM730
     
    There should be more. I hope.
     
    The long story.
     
    As many of you have experienced, modern mice often have cheap components and in about 2 years they might start either double-clicking, losing text selection accuracy and start dropping items in the middle of dragging, or their scroll wheel might wear out and start misbehaving. It is expected from a cheap sub-10$ mouse. But when you pay more than 20$ you feel disappointed to treat your beloved mouse as a disposable. It's especially bad when it starts misbehaving while you do some "important stuff", such as deploying a software service to a production server with 10k users.
     
    What I noticed is that the scroll wheel lasts much longer on mice with an optical scroll wheel encoder. Actually, I never have experienced a misbehaving optical scroll wheel during my 20 years of PC user experience. Ok, they might get gunky or their rubber might get sticky and disintegrate in a year or two (looking at Logitech G102) but you can fix it without soldering. However, the positive experience might come from the fact that usually these mice start misclicking in a few years, so I have no idea how long their optical scroll wheel would last.
     
    The mechanical scroll wheel encoder barely lasts 2 years for me, on every mouse I have had. Judging by reviews of Steelseries and Razer mice (even those premium gaming models with optical switches), their scroll wheel might start malfunctioning even in just a few months!
    I have no experience with optical switches in mice, but I thought it would be good to find a mouse that has both goodies - optical button switches (at least for left & right click buttons) AND an optical encoder.  However, it turned out to be not an easy task to find one. While manufacturers brag about mechanical switches, they rarely mention the scroll wheel encoder. So with some excitement, I searched for teardown reviews of the most popular mice with optical switches - Steelseries Prime, Razer Viper and Deathadder, Roccat Burst - but was disappointed to find out that all of them have mechanical scroll wheel encoder, which, judging by complaints on Amazon and Reddit, have failed too soon for quite a few people.
     
    Now I have found only Cooler Master MM730 but I've yet to read reviews to see if it's any good - it might have some other issues. So, it would be great to have people chime in and mention other options for those who are in search of a potentially long-lasting "all-optical" mouse.
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    midix reacted to Mojo-Jojo in Single-unit stereo portable Bluetooth speakers with stereo AUX input - do they exist?   
    I have a Bose SLIII and am super happy about both its audio quality and the stereo sound stage. It has Bluetooth connectivity and a 3.5mm audio jack. They don't sell it anymore, but it probably has a successor.
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    midix reacted to Pixelfie in Please help me test if GPU scaling on AMD GPUs works as expected   
    Not sure if this is any helpful but for me the monitor says 1920x1080 at every resolution, with both GPU scaling enabled and disabled. Running Windows 10 with a Gaming X 5500 XT 8gb on driver 21.10.2. I think it's still broken
     
    They released a new driver, will try that but it probably won't help since there's nothing mentioned about it in the changelog.
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    midix reacted to Mira Yurizaki in Request for help to IPS monitor owners - please make videos to better evaluate angular backlight uniformity   
    Well I didn't run your test to the letter and I didn't record a video of it, but I can tell you two things about my laptop display, which has an IPS panel:
    Changing the viewing angle along the horizontal axis shows a slight brightness drop. Changing the viewing angle along the vertical axis shows a slight brightness drop, but then it gets brighter the further I go. However there could be a simple explanation for this: the light coming out of an LCD after going through everything is polarized and going straight out. And it appears even before the polarizers, the system tries to give you light that shoots out normally (as in a surface normal or directly out). But why isn't it uniform? I dunno.
    I was going to say the surface material matters (matte or glossy), but my phone exhibits slight brightness shifting when viewed off angle.
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    midix got a reaction from jeffmeyer5295 in Is i5-7600K an overkill for me?   
    I'm building a mATX system because I don't want big ATX boxes anymore.
    The system will be used for work - programming, running virtual machines, and also for watching movies and occasional gaming (mostly simulators at 1080 resolution).
    Currently my main CPU choice is i5-7500 and some H or B series motherboard. But I'm also thinking about being futureproof, as I rarely change PCs (I'm on i3-2120 now, have been rock stable for 6 years).
    So, I'm considering - maybe I should pay more for i5-7600K and corresponding components (Z series board, better power supply, better cooler) and also do a slight overclock; at least as sanely and safely (don't want to get a BSOD during software debugging session) possible in a mATX case with modest size&price cooler (e.g. Noctua NH-U12S).
    From my calculations, total price increase for a i5-7600K system would be about 25% of the price of an i5-7500 system.
    The question is - will this 25% price increase yield me at least 25% of additional CPU performance, considering all the limitations (mATX, medium cooler, modest overclock)?
    Even non-overclocked difference between i5-7500 and i5-7600K seems noteworthy - 400 MHz and I'm sure that even in mATX case I could add at least 200 MHz more, but is it worth it and will it run stable enough?
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