Need a new mouse and keyboard

Bard · Post by **Bard** » Tue Jun 15, 2010 1:19 pm

id3nt1ty wrote:QUOTE (id3nt1ty @ Jun 14 2010, 06:54 AM) QFT

I have a Razer Lachesis which I love and have nothing bad to say about

However, my Razer Lycosa occasionally pisses me off by sticking keys, keys failing, USB port self-ejects, etc

Try making sure the Lycosa is the only USB device plugged in to that set of USB ports.

USB ports come in pairs but they're not marked. Logitech devices are notorious for only liking the primary, or first, of the two USB ports in a given chain. Some Logitech devices are worse than others in that regard, but if you can't manually identify which two ports in a group of four are the primaries via trial and error, sometimes it helps to make sure that a given Logitech device is the ONLY thing plugged in to a given root hub.

deathgoat · Post by **deathgoat** » Tue Jun 15, 2010 1:34 pm

i very happy with my ms explorer 3.0 .. any 5+ button mouse should do... though i wish i had 7 buttons

Mordechaj · Post by **Mordechaj** » Tue Jun 15, 2010 4:19 pm

I have G9 and I'm really happy with it. On a level that it brightens my mood every day that I use it, after I've used any other mice, or just remembered using "regular" mice before, and i have it for 6 months now...

I have set it up so that it's horizontal sensitivity is a bit higher than vertical, so that it goes with my wide screen monitor, and the DPI changes smoothly and really helps in quite a lot of games. (Alleg not being one of them for me, I still suck any way.

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Logitech's (I think) cheapest keyboard is good enough for me. Keys are comfortable, it's not too loud, the sensitivity is just as it should be, etc. Much less important to me than a mouse.

madpeople · Post by **madpeople** » Tue Jun 15, 2010 5:26 pm

I've got a Steel Series Ikari Laser, upto 3200 dpi handy button on the top to switch between low and high sensitivity profiles (you can configure them to be and dpi you want - dpi is selectable in increments of 1 upto 3200). No drivers run on your computer, all macros etc run on the mouse, you can re-program the dpi any time you want (hold the sensitivity change button instead of pressing it, scroll scroll wheel to change the DPI, press sensitivity change button again to save)
http://www.steelseries.com/int/products/mice

Bard · Post by **Bard** » Wed Jun 16, 2010 12:37 pm

madpeople wrote:QUOTE (madpeople @ Jun 15 2010, 12:26 PM)

What's with the vanity plate on your mouse?

Does your mom write your name on the tags of your underwear and label your outfits by day of the week too?

madpeople · Post by **madpeople** » Wed Jun 16, 2010 4:52 pm

Actually, that's an LCD display the name of your current profile (which you can be whatever you want really) - something identifiable as your name could be handy if you take it to somewhere where there are more than one of them. If you use the software tool to load different profiles (for different games) it would tell you which profile you are currently using.

The LCD is mainly used when setting the DPI using the mouse rather than the software utility - it displays the current DPI.

Bard · Post by **Bard** » Wed Jun 16, 2010 11:14 pm

madpeople wrote:QUOTE (madpeople @ Jun 16 2010, 11:52 AM) Actually, that's an LCD display the name of your current profile (which you can be whatever you want really) - something identifiable as your name could be handy if you take it to somewhere where there are more than one of them. If you use the software tool to load different profiles (for different games) it would tell you which profile you are currently using.

The LCD is mainly used when setting the DPI using the mouse rather than the software utility - it displays the current DPI.

Whoa. That's cool.

Parasitism · Post by **Parasitism** » Thu Jun 17, 2010 2:25 am

Logitech MX518 or MX Revolution for a Mouse. Then HP Wireless Elite for a keyboard.

madpeople · Post by **madpeople** » Thu Jun 17, 2010 8:45 am

Bard wrote:QUOTE (Bard @ Jun 17 2010, 12:14 AM) Whoa. That's cool.

It is actually pretty handy when first playing a game, you just set the in game sensitivity to minimum (to give you max control) and then try playing with your current sensitivity, if it doesn't feel right, you just flip the mouse over, hold the sensitivity button, scroll to a different sensitivity and press the sensitivity button again to save and carry on with that new setting. Some people use the high/low sensitivity modes for things like normal play or sniping but I just use high for games, but for graphics I switch to low to give me lots of accuracy when selecting pixels / drawing things that need to be accurate, I also switch to low when I have people using my computer who aren't used to high sensitivity mouses.

FYI if you aren't used to high sensitivity mice it's a good idea to increase the sensitivity level gradually over time, I found at first that with higher sensitivity levels I could control them but then my wrist would hurt after using it for some time (getting a wrist rest helped though) because my muscles weren't used to doing such fine movements. I've got used to the highest sensitivity now though and can use it fine (without the wrist rest)

Parasitism wrote:QUOTE (Parasitism @ Jun 17 2010, 03:25 AM) Wireless keyboard.

Because broadcasting your username and password for your computer, online bank, ebay, paypal, amazon etc etc is fun