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Posted: **Fri Nov 14, 2008 2:44 pm**

Cakedaddy wrote:Holy shit Windows is expensive.

Why I went with Home Premium. $80 cheaper and I couldn't think of a thing I'd need that Home Premium didn't have.

Posted: **Fri Nov 14, 2008 2:47 pm**

Troy wrote:About 100 in mail in rebates, which I printed off...one of which will be a 50 dollar gift card at Newegg, which I will probably either spend on a gaming keyboard or some new speakers.

I've decided that I wouldn't be half as good at TF2 without my gaming mouse with on-the-fly sensitivity adjustment buttons.

Also I love my gaming keyboard with LCD (I have a clock/performance monitors/WinAmp controls even in full-screen games...) and back lit buttons. I regret not those decisions to purchase.

Posted: **Fri Nov 14, 2008 2:52 pm**

GORDON wrote:
Cakedaddy wrote:Holy shit Windows is expensive.
Why I went with Home Premium. $80 cheaper and I couldn't think of a thing I'd need that Home Premium didn't have.

Thought about that too, but that 50 dollar gift card was the damn carrot that got me. If I got that particular windows(the best you can get) I got a 50 dollar gift card, and since it was from Newegg, I know I wasn't going to get screwed over, there turnaround rate for it was only like 4-6 weeks.

I'm gonna do a before and after picture and performance testing and everything, for sure.

Posted: **Fri Nov 14, 2008 3:12 pm**

The gift card would have gotten me to go higher, too.

Posted: **Fri Nov 14, 2008 3:13 pm**

GORDON wrote:I've decided that I wouldn't be half as good at TF2 without my gaming mouse with on-the-fly sensitivity adjustment buttons.

Tell me more. I'm not all that great at TF2, but I just use a crappy old Logitech cordless. Could changing my mouse make that much of a difference?

Posted: **Fri Nov 14, 2008 3:16 pm**

TPRJones wrote:
GORDON wrote:I've decided that I wouldn't be half as good at TF2 without my gaming mouse with on-the-fly sensitivity adjustment buttons.

Tell me more. I'm not all that great at TF2, but I just use a crappy old Logitech cordless. Could changing my mouse make that much of a difference?

no

i use a crappy logitech w/ cord (simply because batteries are hard work)

Edited By Troy on 1226693818

Posted: **Fri Nov 14, 2008 3:17 pm**

Playing as a sniper, I reduce sensitivity in my mouse so small movements while zoomed don't go all over the place. Sort of hard to describe. I don't hit a thing playing sniper with my Heavy setting set.

And the mouse in general is lightyears smoother than my old generic microsoft laser mouse. It was $70 well-spent.

Posted: **Fri Nov 14, 2008 3:18 pm**

Posted: **Fri Nov 14, 2008 3:19 pm**

Troy wrote:
TPRJones wrote:
GORDON wrote:I've decided that I wouldn't be half as good at TF2 without my gaming mouse with on-the-fly sensitivity adjustment buttons.

Tell me more. I'm not all that great at TF2, but I just use a crappy old Logitech cordless. Could changing my mouse make that much of a difference?

no

i use a crappy logitech w/ cord (simply because batteries are hard work)

Well, I use a corded mouse too, not only because the batteries but because of the latency. I've read complaints about hat with cordless devices.

But I love changing resolution on the fly, and I do it a lot.

edit - I still don't know WTF to do with the balancing weights, though. I just took them all out so it required as little muscle power as possibly to move the mouse around. Muscles = shakiness.

Edited By GORDON on 1226694040

Posted: **Fri Nov 14, 2008 3:34 pm**

Say, I wonder if you could adapt a touchscreen input for TF2. Touch the screen and HEADSHOT!

Posted: **Sat Nov 15, 2008 8:26 am**

Everything gets here on tuesday...

Except the CPU cooler fan... which gets here on wednesday...WTF? As far as I can tell they all shipped from the same warehouse in memphis.

Posted: **Tue Nov 18, 2008 6:23 pm**

Say... "Bye computer"

*salvage operations imminent"

Posted: **Tue Nov 18, 2008 6:47 pm**

DOn't kill the old one until you are certain all the new parts work!!!!! RPL's take days and days!

Posted: **Tue Nov 18, 2008 10:26 pm**

I have this school laptop, so not too worried about that.

Everything is in and attached, until I tried installing the power/reset/hd leds and switches to the case, I'm doing it according to directions... but it's not working...

Gonna fiddle with and see whats up.

Posted: **Tue Nov 18, 2008 10:53 pm**

Fixed!!

I'm an idiot. Had something plugged in wrong...

Edited By Troy on 1227066817

Posted: **Wed Nov 19, 2008 12:54 am**

A gaming mouse will allow you to eak out a few more kills per round due to it's accuracy. But it's not going to turn you into a super star.

Make your touchscreen monitor like. . . 105 inches. That way, their head is the size of a basketball and there's no way you can miss!

Posted: **Wed Nov 19, 2008 7:20 pm**

Apparently vista 64 has a problem with usb device on install?

I don't have any other kind of keyboard though, so it means install takes 10x as long.... so here I wait....

Posted: **Wed Nov 19, 2008 10:39 pm**

Old non-usb keyboards usually go for $15 at best buy.

Posted: **Wed Nov 19, 2008 11:27 pm**

K, finally got vista installed, and seems it was a different problem.

Apparently my board doesn't like IDE DVD/CD Drives.

It detected it enough to be very slow when installing vista, but either it died right after, or it + vista makes it so it doesn't work.

I need to go tomorrow buy a new one.

Extremely aggravating, to say the least!

Posted: **Wed Nov 19, 2008 11:54 pm**

Probably lacks some sort of DMCA chip that Vista insists on or something.

Edited By TPRJones on 1227156867

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