Quote from Hober on December 8, 2007, 10:13 pm

Absolutely. It's got an understandable learning curve coming from WASD, and on any given game it takes a little while to develop an effective control scheme.

That said, I've had mine for two years, and had no technical or mechanical problems with it. The thing is built like a tank, as it were. And when I used it to play WoW I honestly couldn't play without it.

Also, FYI, for a long time, there were no Vista drivers, but Belkin has recently released some, albeit quietly. But there are already a number of negative reviews to this effect floating around.

P.S. I've also heard of people using it with Photoshop and the like to have a bunch of hotkeys close at hand. I haven't tried it, but you could probably do something similar for Hammer.

Quote from Crooked Paul on December 8, 2007, 10:50 pm

I am totally getting one of these. I'm not a great fan of WASD as it is. In fact I use ESDF instead, so that my left hand stays in its "homerow" position. Otherwise I get confused if I try to send a text message or something and my hand is skewed one key over.

Plus, gamewise, having it in that location lets you reach more keys without moving your hand. I never understood why WASD became the standard.

Anyway, I hadn't even thought of using this beast in Photoshop and Illustrator. That just seals the deal. Thanks for the infoes, brother!

Quote from msleeper on December 8, 2007, 11:23 pm

Hober wrote:

I haven't tried it, but you could probably do something similar for Hammer.

Unfortunatly, I don't think Hammer allows you to remap key combinations and/or record keystroke macros. Unless there is some software that comes with it that mimics key combos, in which case ignore me.

Quote from Hober on December 9, 2007, 9:04 pm

msleeper wrote:

Unless there is some software that comes with it that mimics key combos, in which case ignore me.

Indeed it does. See attachment.

Quote from username on December 9, 2007, 9:47 pm

Being a poor college student, I went for value. For a total of around $750:

3.4 GHz Pentium 4
2Gb RAM
512 MB MSI NVidia GeForce 8600/8800(can't remember which)
250 GB HD
18" LCD Monitor

And all but the graphics card was bought around 2 years ago.

Quote from Volatile on December 10, 2007, 3:15 pm

hamsteralliance wrote:

8800 GTX, 768MB

What the hell? Since getting a mac I haven't really kept up with hardware standards but, like, that seems fucking insane to me. Good lord.

Quote from dvlstx on December 29, 2007, 3:10 pm

Quad Core
8800GTS
2gb RAm
10,000 rpm 150gb hard drive
5 fans
ASUS case.
19" (maybe 2-"?) widescreen monitor.

pwnd.

Quote from Player1 on December 29, 2007, 11:17 pm

Crooked Paul wrote:

OMG, why not? I'm running this thing 68% above spec 24/7 for more than a year, without a single hiccup. What possible reason could you have for wanting your machine to be slower than it could be?

I used to tinker with hardware myself. And I burned some CPUs and drives and what-nots. Then I grew old and now all I really wan't for <Insert Holiday Name Here> is a stable system that plays my games.

When it's too slow to play my games I get a new system. I also pay for the additional 3 year warranty that makes any problem not directly caused by me maiming the system the suppliers problem. (Since I expect to do a full system upgrade every 2-3 years.)

Since overclocking effectively voids that warranty it would be silly to do it. Besides I really don't need more horsepower for anything at the moment (except maybe Crysis which is still perfectly playable and very pretty at sub-very-high settings).

Crooked Paul wrote:

I just got me a G5. I really like the feel of it... the mouse I have to use at work, which is a perfectly fine Logitech wheelmouse, just feels clunky now. But the middle-click on the G5 is really mushy-then-hard, so I had to remap some buttons and now I never use it. That sucks. I mean, that's your tertiary button. They really should have engineered it better. Still, the mouse does everything else way better than any other pointing device I've ever laid a hand on. So I'm not going to whinge too much.

I so agree on the G5. It has a nice feel, but the middle mouse button ruins it all. That and the fact that there's only one thumb button. I'm thinking G9 now, though it's wheel is a bit odd at least the middle-mouse function seems okay. (And don't be fooled by the photos, it has detachable "chassis" so it can actually look pretty nice and comfortable.)

Tbh my favorite for a long time has been the MX518 and I might just end up buying one of those again since I know I love it.

Quote from Adair on December 30, 2007, 3:57 pm

Here's my POWERHOUSE:

Athlon XP 1700+ (@1.46 Ghz)
1.5 GB RAM DDR PC3200
Geforce 7800GS (8x AGP) I think it has 512MB...?
7200rpm 250 GB HD
21 inch CRT monitor
Windows Vista Ultimate (no, I don't have any business running Vista on my ancient PC, but it was given to me by a friend who recently worked for Microsoft)

I got the video card just after Oblivion came out. Otherwise I haven't upgraded since ~2002

If I ever get enough money saved then I'll get a whole new rig, but that might be a while off. "I'm pulling down delivery boy money!"