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Sorry if I didn't search far enough back, but I didnt see a thread about hardware.

I would like to talk about PC gaming hardware.

I am mostly looking for accessories.
-a good, responsive mouse. This has been my favorite for like 12 years. Sadly, I no longer have one.
I love loved the shape. I love the extra buttons.
-keyboard: i love old noisy keyboards, but again I want something responsive. Mechanical keyboards.

Anything you can suggest to me or anyone else.

Anything hardware goes, what is good for price points. What is terrible all around

Supposed to be a photo of the MX1000
 
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wow. anything hardware related? that's well, a little too broad, don't you think?

anyway. I really like the nvme m.2 form factor for ssd.
 
I really want to believe that Ryzen will be competitive with Kaby Lake

but in my heart i know it wont
 
mouse: Logitech MX510 or derivative. mine had acid splashed all over it and it was damaged, but still lives. it has a home now in the garage near my old end mill.
keyboard: IBM Model M or one of the Cherry MX models might be good for you.
 
The 25th Cyberman said:
I really want to believe that Ryzen will be competitive with Kaby Lake

but in my heart i know it wont
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Isn't Kaby Lake expected to be shit?

Club Sandwich said:
mouse: Logitech MX510 or derivative. mine had acid splashed all over it and it was damaged, but still lives. it has a home now in the garage near my old end mill.
keyboard: IBM Model M or one of the Cherry MX models might be good for you.
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IBM Model M is exactly what I like... But I would like a more modern form factor. Cherry MX I will look into
 
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I use an E-Blue Mazer Type-R mouse and it's served me well for the past 4 years so far, though honestly I don't get why people need "gaming" mice most of the time. I play all sorts of games and literally never find myself using 80% of the buttons on the mouse. Seriously, does anyone really NEED anything more than 2 buttons and a clickable scroll wheel? I haven't.

Maybe I need to play MOBAs or MMOs for the full experience.
 
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The 25th Cyberman said:
I really want to believe that Ryzen will be competitive with Kaby Lake

but in my heart i know it wont
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if the only thing running on your pc is a game then you're right, although in this situation cpus dont really amtter, they will all run fine. For someone who skype, listen to music and game at the same time, ryzen will def kick ass.
 
DNJACK said:
if the only thing running on your pc is a game then you're right, although in this situation cpus dont really amtter, they will all run fine. For someone who skype, listen to music and game at the same time, ryzen will def kick ass.
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Is there any game on the market that uses 100% of a modern high-end CPU at all times?

Speaking from personal experience, I can game, have music, Skype and two browsers open and it will not matter a bit. CPU load never gets to 100% except for very short peaks.
 
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cpu power matters well before it goes to 100%. If you use 98% of a cpu it will be way harder for a program to use the remaining 2% left, as it waits available slots with all its ios are queue (memory bandwisdth, ssd access time, etc) .
You can't run a new program that runs only when other programs make the memory unusable and take all the cpus the rest of the time.

Although I agree that cpus are overkill for what they should deal with. What we will see is a few game fps faster on zen when doing other things as the first few cores wont be polluted by cache of other programs and such.
 
Varg Did Nothing Wrong said:
Is there any game on the market that uses 100% of a modern high-end CPU at all times?
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depending on particular settings and/or mods:

1. Minecraft is almost entirely CPU dependent and unoptimized (and Java based...)
2. ARMA 3 these days is still very CPU dependent and unoptimized
3. Supreme Commander or other script-heavy games are often run completely on the CPU with very little thrown elsewhere. games with heavy physics calculations like Crysis 3 can toll a CPU as well.
4. Very big multiplayer games like Planetside 2 are often CPU bound, but it depends on how threaded the application is.
5. Console ports often toss generalized code on the CPU as the optimized code is often too specific for the console it was written for. Batman Arkham Knight for example.

generally speaking most games that are properly optimized should run well on recommended hardware and be mostly bound by the video accelerator for optional functions (shadows, texture memory size, et c) or total system memory (both volatile and non-volatile) available. any page faults with a slow storage controller or disk is going to be painful as well which is why on an older system on the easiest "upgrades" you can do for raw performance is a faster disk, more memory (to a point) and a video adapter with better acceleration features for the application's demands.
 
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I usually use some of those cheap glowing five button gaming mice off ebay that go for under five bucks. So far it seems the left mouse button goes after about a year or so but who cares it's five bucks.

For keyboards I have a fuckton of dell-type generic usbs from when work changed out their computers so they gave the old stuff to whoever wanted it instead of pay disposal fees to throw it out.

edit: I should probably give the caveat that this is just for World of Warcraft, so it's not like I'm doing some bleeding-edge deathmatch whatever that the kids like. I mostly just fuck around in lfr.
 
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I use a Logitech G600 mouse(I still have to use some of the buttons on GW2 for commanding/targetting :( ) and managed to get at half price a G430 Headset (7.1 is amazing, but mic gets a default gain that barely allows me to talk so I have to raise manually, it's just a bit annoying tbh). I'm not exigent with keyboards, because I don't have a home PC rn so the RoG default keyboard on my laptop is fine, I guess. It has a 880M iirc, so some current games like DS3 can't be played on high.

I guess if I build a dedicated rig I'll get a good keyboard for some macros or so.
 
I use a talon blu mouse from Thermaltake. As far as it goes, the blue lighting kinda goes well with the single LED fan I have in my case (also blue but from Corsair). It's also nice in that it isn't riddled with a ton of buttons. Only buttons it has that is special is a DPI button that I could use to adjust the speed in moving my mouse cursor.

The keyboard I use is a Logitech k120. Gonna buy a blue LED keyboard once the keys on the logitech I'm using ends up being loose and worn out.

If we went any further into hardware such as what GPU one is using, I got an RX 480. While it's just a reference model that has ended up throttling a couple times(mostly due to dust that I managed to clean out and perhaps some drivers that we replaced with newer drivers) it runs rather nicely.
 
I am planning on buying an intel core i7 3770 cpu because its the most powerful processor that my old ass pc can handle.

Its goes for $80 which isnt particularly expensive but I'm on a budget and I found it for $40 on amazon but its listed as refurbished. I assume this means it was used and repackaged.

Has anyone else here bought a "refurbished" processor before? Is it safe or should I just buy the $80 unopened cpu instead?
 
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