PC Building Thread V6 - "running six RGB controller utilities at once" edition
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Their mice are still not good and you just shouldn't bother with them. Their mousepads are actually excellent, though, much better than the (vastly overrated imo) SteelSeries QcK pads and even a bit better and cheaper than Zowie's offerings. I use the now-discontinued SWIFT-RX, and I think the new Speed-RX should be similar. But it's a very, very fine-woven and fast pad, best for if you play at really low sensitivities like I do. If you play at medium or higher sensitivity then a slower pad would be better for aim.
Logitech's current mouse offerings are overall excellent, they're so far ahead of the game that I have trouble seriously recommending any other brand right now, except possibly Razer in a few cases or Zowie for FPS purists.
For my hand size, comfort and playstyle, the G305 is the perfect mouse, I have zero major complaints other than one or two small tweaks I'd make to the shell design. Logitech's wireless is absolutely worth the price, it's completely lagless and has no connectivity issues. Battery life isn't an issue either. I've been using my G305 heavily, hours per day, on a single Energizer Lithium AA for almost eight months now. Logitech's wireless tech is so good I think it's worth getting even if you don't think having a cable bothers you.
Anyway, here's my quick rundown of recommended mice, I've tried most of these in person.
G305 - my personal favorite mouse ever made. Excellent wireless and perfect sensor. Reasonably affordable at around $50 USD. Great battery life with a lithium AA, which also makes the mouse lighter. (It's a little too heavy with an alkaline AA.) Not recommended if you have larger hands.
G Pro Wireless - Terrifyingly expensive at around $150 USD but probably objectively the best gaming mouse you can buy right now, and worth the price if it's comfortable in your hand. Integrated lithium battery, extremely fucking light, swappable magnetic side buttons for full ambidextrous grip, and overall lots of nice bells and whistles that are nice to have but not intrusive. If you can afford this and it's comfortable, it's a no-brainer. Best for larger hands.
G403 - if mine hadn't broken, I wouldn't have been able to justify replacing it. Pretty much everybody finds this mouse to be pretty comfortable and it has a perfect sensor. Costs around $50 on a good day and also comes in an excellent, but slightly heavy wireless version. When I got mine about a year and a half ago, there were some QC issues with the scrollwheel, which is what killed mine. That should be resolved by this point. For the love of god take out the removable weight.
G102/G203 - Same mouse, two names. I used this one for a while before giving it to my sister, and it's still kicking. A very, very affordable mouse at $30 ish, shares the same shell design as the G305. Cable is a little stiff for my taste but if you have less than $50 to spend this is your only real choice. It's a workhorse. Again, best for small hands.
G MX518 - the "legend reborn" meme is, well, a bit of a meme. I don't really like this one personally but I'm including it because it's objectively an excellent mouse and some people live and die by the ergonomics of this thing. Otherwise it's a solid performer for a price that makes sense.
G502 HERO - I hate this one but, again, it's objectively good and tons of people swear by it. This is the one to get if you want buttons on buttons on buttons, and the ergonomics are chunky but good. I dislike it because it's really heavy.
All of Zowie's mice are good, and it's all pretty much dependent on ergonomics which one you get. The S2 is the latest and greatest, though, and kind of replaces the FK.
Sorry for the information overload but I really like mice. If there's anything in particular you're looking for just ask.
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These poor mobos are going to melt
Anyone here have any experience with ASRock motherboards? They've caught my eye because the boards I've seen have 8 Sata ports instead of the usual 6.
But reading through the specs says that two of the ports are provided by "ASMedia". So I'm not sure if these ports are good/reliable.
asmedia is asus. they're good stuff
for the most part unless you're overclocking though mobo doesn't matter just get the one with the features you want. in case you are overclocking, what board in particular are you looking at? asrock runs the gamut between barely adequate and real fuckin top tier.
Been looking at this board if I go AMD
And this one if Intel
Overclocking, WiFi, and more that 6 Sata ports is what I want.
ASRock boards are good, their BIOS is a bit wonky, but let's you do pretty much anything you want, as opposed to say Gigabyte.
Might be worth waiting for a bit, AMD is going to announce all the details and release date of their next generation of CPUs in a couple of weeks.
ASRock boards are very quirky and require some googling, but once you have them figured out you're good to go, they're solid.
IMO they're some of the most feature rich, and give you a lot of control.
you picked a perfect example of real fucking top tier for the amd board, and a decent example of just ok for the intel board. the z390 taichi uses lower end VRMs with real nice heatsinks on them, so you probably won't run into issues with it but they're kinda inefficient at high power draw.
if you can wait until computex AMD will be officially releasing details on ryzen 3 and if any of the rumors are true it'll be a big deal release
is galax any good?
Galax what? You're kinda vague.
They are a Nvidia board partner.
I googled galax and all I got was a plant native to Indonesia. vv
http://www.galax.com/en/graphics-card.html
Oh fuck me I re-googled and I skimmed the first 4 fucking url's that went to their website.
I focused on Galax, Virginia and the galax plant for some dumb reason.
so what the fuck is the deal with A-XMP? is it just one of those tech fraud things where it claims to do x and y but doesn't actually do anything? system totally unstable with DDR4-2400 on XMP profile 1, but 100% fine and even OUTPERFORMING the A-XMP setup with it disabled. what am I missing here? who would enable A-XMP if your rig runs worse with it enabled?
also my extra two sticks came in. 32GB of RAM in Premiere/Pro Tools? i'm cooming
I finished a build and have it up n running.
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A RTX 2060 with 2GB of memory? Did you buy it used?
I was going for less 1.1k budget
I was worried that you might have picked up a scam graphics card. I guess it's just speccy
Speccy reported the 1080 as 4GB forever and I think it still does.
theres so many good programs why do people still use garbage like speccy that cant even read vram correctly?
It shows everything in an easy to read manner
It's a bad program. It gets stuff wrong, it doesn't list the CPU model or core count, and it lists the "base" data rate of memory, which has confused countless novice pc builders.
eh, base rate should be the usual nomenclature imo. ddr4 3200 for example doesn't operate at 3200 mhz, it operates at 1600 mhz with two beats per cycle. calling it by beats per second instead of cycles per second im p sure was just marketing wank that people got used to since ddr memory has been around so long
There's basically no reason to use Speccy over HWiNFO and HWMonitor.
hwinfo and hwmonitor show a lot of fluff that I don't care about during usual system monitoring. cpu temp, gpu temp, maybe mobo temps are the only real important things to worry about unless you're stress testing
Me.
as long as they are turning they're fine.
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