PC Discussion Thread II - All PC related discussion goes here.

[PuFu]

steel series > razer > roccat > logitech. (my 2 cents anyways).

If you can find a razer deathadder at a decent price don't wait on it. Great mouse that is.

btw, currently running a steel XAI laser mouse (Highly recommended, but more pricey than what you got there). Had a deathadder before that.

[batto]

SteelSeries Xai here too. Good mouse but backlight on bottom LCD stopped working. Logitech MX518 is also good and cheaper. I had MX510 which is like MX518 (except max DPI) but there are no drivers for Win > WinXP (needed to switch to 800 DPI from 400 default). Before I got Xai I considered Logitech G9. It has replacable "weight modules" (so you can tune weight of the mouse) and the mousewheel can be pushed to right and left which could be good for leaning in ArmA.

[froggyluv]

+1 Deathadder -serves me well and works ace for Warband dueling which is mousewear in the extreme!

@Meyer: Good build but are you paying for them to OC your chip when they're installing a water based cooling system? Its not that hard or much of a gamble when cpu has little risk of heating up. Also, what is your monitor and resolution expectancy?

[Tonci87]

What do you guys think of this one?

http://www.roccat.org/Products/Gamin.../ROCCAT-Kone-/

Does someone have experience with it?

I´ll check your suggestions when I get home from work.

[jagheterjan]

Yes, I owned three of them. All of them broke after about six months. In all cases it was the supporting structure that held the mouse wheel in position - it broke away from the main body, causing the mouse wheel and associated buttons to go inop and sending shards of plastic into the mouse, causing all sorts of annoyances. I used the mouse mainly for work in 3ds max and Mudbox which tend to put quite some strain on the middle mouse button and wheel. Third time it happened, I went for a Logitech G500. Never looked back once.

[neimad1]

I'm using a Razer Abyssus for almost 2 years now, and it's still work perfectly. Fits your hand so you can headshot any threat in Arma !

[Tonci87]

Damn I just saw that Roccat will release new Kone Versions in a month or two (Kone Pure; Kone XTD) The Pure series looks interesting and durability seems to be an important selling point (yeah they know that they f*** up with the older Kones) so I guess I will wait a little longer.

[Meyer_USA]

So I'm thinking about buying a custom gaming pc from cyberpowerpc.com

What do you guys think of this website?

I don't really want to build it myself though but I can't decide what website I should buy it from.

What do you guys think? Is that a good website or is there a better one out there?

Thanks.

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Recently I find that my harddrive almost ran out of space, so I went out to brought a new WD 1TB hard drive and through about doing some re partitioning on all my other older drivrs, here comes the problem: I own an Cosair force 3 120GB SSD that I used as main system drive, and I divided it into 2 partition, one for system and one for software and gaming purpose. now that I wanted to resize the partition, is there anyway to do that without having to reinstalling windows 7 again ?

[TonyGrunt]

Recently I find that my harddrive almost ran out of space, so I went out to brought a new WD 1TB hard drive and through about doing some re partitioning on all my other older drivrs, here comes the problem: I own an Cosair force 3 120GB SSD that I used as main system drive, and I divided it into 2 partition, one for system and one for software and gaming purpose. now that I wanted to resize the partition, is there anyway to do that without having to reinstalling windows 7 again ?

You can use shrink/extend volume from inside Disk Management.
Example if you have 2 60GB partitions, W7 on 1 and Apps on 2, and you want to expand the W7, you would backup the Apps partition and delete it.
Then you could expand the W7 one to the full drive or leave some space and create a 2nd smaller partition.
If I remember correct you can only shrink/extend to the end of the drive (right side).
Shrinking a partition is a bit trickier cause you would want the end of the partition to be empty, so you usually run a defrag to move the data to the start of the partition.
That's ok for a HDD but on a SSD, defrag should be avoided and I think SSDs would show as fragmented and limit how much you could shrink.