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[Jeeves]

5 buttons? <Left><Remote for kettle><Center/wheel><Ctl+Alt+Del><Right>?
4Ghz My computer would be superfast if it had enough RAM to handle openning more than 0 things at once...

[Athena]

@ GT
That's quite a good system you have there .

@ Carnivean
Agreed.

[Ash]

Sounds like I might be upgrading when I get to uni Prolly the RAM, and perhaps overclock the processor a bit.

And yes, optical mice rule, but they must be wired. Batteries suck. Every company's boasting 'zomg cordless mouse' when I think: 'no! shove it up your arse!'

Do any of you people use trackballs for gaming? I know a couple of friends who swear by the trackball.

[Az3r^]

no i use my mouse ;p , 5 button wired opticals pwn. its never let me down and i dont need to spend like £30 on a "ZOMG UBER GAMING MOUSE"

[Torn]

Trackball? Wtf, who would wanna use one of them?

AMD Athlon 64 3200+
2Gb PC3200 RAM
GeForce 6800 GS

[Athena]

No idea. My mouse has a left button, right button and a scrollwheel. Don't know what more buttons you would need.

[Torn]

Extra buttons I can understand. Having a mouse that doesn't actually move I can't.

[Ash]

Trackball? Wtf, who would wanna use one of them?

Extra buttons I can understand. Having a mouse that doesn't actually move I can't.

Some people use them for FPS games, as it makes it easier to turn around. I know they're normally for disabled ppl who don't have full use of their arm (but if they can't do that...why are they at a computer?), but some people use them as it gives them a faster rate of turn.

Me? I'd much rather play with a regular mouse.

Edited by Paradox, 06 April 2006 - 02:14 PM.

[Torn]

Can't you just turn the sensitivity up if you care about turning around faster?

[Ash]

Well, yes, but you can still run out of mousepad The trackball lets you turn as fast as you want without even moving.

As said, I still prefer my optical

[Hrod89]

I have a Logitech G7 wireless mouse, and I don't have any problems with the batteries. Best mouse I've ever used.

Admiral GT: That computer you have is a beast man. I'm probably going to go dual core within the next year. Will probably be my next upgrade after a DX10 card. I just wish they would come out.

[Ash]

I'd ideally like a newer card, but at 350 quid a pop that doesnt' seem likely anytime soon...

Hrod: Does your mouse recharge? Naturally, they're less frustrating than those which run on regular AAs...

[Athena]

The regular AA ones also are more damaging to the environment.

[Ash]

WTF?


How can a battery smaller than my little finger be damaging to the environment? o_O

More to the point, I think the computer is most damaging to the environment. The amount of coal being burned every millisecond to keep all our computers running...

[chemical ali]

Fuck the environment rofl

I have a microsoft graphite wireless optical mouse, I just bought some rechargeable bateries and replace them every month, it only takes one AA.

And reality computers use very little electricity while running they use the most energy when turning on and off.

[Athena]

One battery won't matter that much, a lot of them will .

And no, not fuck the environment. If we don't work on it a little bit, our raw materials will soon be depleted.

[chemical ali]

Its rechargable I'm not going to through them away a 4 pack cost me £20

[Athena]

Rechargable is better. Here regular AA's cost about 10 euros I think, which is around 7.5 pounds.

[Ash]

Jeez. Not much cheaper than that here, but jeez!


And if our resources deplete, we'll move onto nuclear and/or hydrogen power. We won't suddenly be blasted to the stone-age.

Anyway...back to topic, if I ever were to get one of the new-fangled graphics cards, as long as they were PCI-E (same as my current one is), would they all still work, or is there some other requirement (I'm a bit of a dumbass when comes to this sorta stuff )

[Carnivean]

No idea. My mouse has a left button, right button and a scrollwheel. Don't know what more buttons you would need.

My mouse has Left and right buttons, Scroll wheel and two side buttons. What are they used for? Next and previous track in winamp.