Gearing up for the release of the game.

Karrth moonbladeq · December 02, 2011, 04:28:50 PM

Hey guys.

I'm not sure if this thread belongs in this part of the forum so if not please do the moderator/admin stuff and delete it and tell me where it's supposed to go

anyway I've decided that I want to gear a little up for the game release in form of a new keyboard and a mouse.... I've been looking at around the web but I'm not sure what to pick. I've head lots of good things about Razer products The naga mouse looks good and I remember that someone talked about it or a mouse like it during the wait time for accessing the beta servers last weekend. Not sure I have the money for it but the Anansi MMO Gaming Keyboard looks awesome too but a bit expensive though. As someone who has never raided I have to ask if the keyboard is needed for it's macro'ing or if the mouse will be enough for starters?

Anyway any advice on the matter would be very appreciated!

Karrth.

Gorion · December 02, 2011, 04:43:32 PM

If you want macro buttons, try getting your hands on a logitech G15. Blue one (18keys x 3 =54) has even more macro keys than the orange one.

There's already 12 thumb buttons on the naga though; do you really need more?

KKND · December 02, 2011, 05:37:29 PM

I got the Naga mouse with 12 buttons works perfect.(TL got one also i thought)

Vargen · December 02, 2011, 06:11:46 PM

I got the blue 1st gen G15 keyboard, and I've repaired it a couple of times just to avoid switching it out. The Naga mouse looks quite nice though. I have the M$ Sidewinder now, but the thumb buttons are few and hard to push, so my hand starts to hurt on the longer gaming sessions.

Twyst · December 03, 2011, 08:36:49 AM

Quote from: Vargen;339155I got the blue 1st gen G15 keyboard

Same here! I also have the Logitech Performance MX mouse, with the darkfield laser so it works on all surfaces. No gaming buttons on it as such.

Karrth moonbladeq · December 04, 2011, 05:30:17 PM

well... I've just been forced to do a complete upgrade of my gaming rig... It didn't make it through the beta test

so I might be coming in and asking about computer parts later this week

vladic · December 04, 2011, 07:19:51 PM

Have you actually upgraded your rig yet Karrth as if you havnt i can probably help you build one (presumably within a budget) by pointing out parts OS etc as built my own only about 2 months back due to having an old Dell 2.4 ghz generic PC

Karrth moonbladeq · December 04, 2011, 07:59:24 PM

No I haven't had a chance to buy something new. I've been trying to get a computer up and running.

The thing is, I knew my old computer was about to kick the bucket so I had talked to a friend about buying his, he's always traveling and stuff so he more or less only uses a labtop anyway.

But when I tried to boot his machine today it gave me a lot of trouble because of an error with the SATA raid drivers not being fully installed. But I did manage to get it working. (sorta

)

I'll post the system spec's as soon as I've found them and if you guys have the time/desire then post your opinion about them

vladic · December 04, 2011, 08:01:56 PM

no problemo, try get hold of the component names etc as well as only so much can be learned from the official spec

Karrth moonbladeq · December 04, 2011, 08:18:16 PM

CPU: Intel(r) Core(TM) i7 3.2GHz
Memory: 6GB (haven't been able to figure out what type though)
Graphics card: ATI Radeon HD 4670

I have to reboot the machine to get the name of the motherboard I think but this is what I've got so far.

vladic · December 04, 2011, 08:23:48 PM

Depending on age of machine (not old is my guess) id assume DDR3 memory, MHZ couldnt guess as there are different levels, what about Harddrive size? and if the machine is running an I7 you should be fine for processing power

Karrth moonbladeq · December 04, 2011, 08:42:28 PM

I think the machine is pretty new (about 6 to 8 months)

Right now I got one of my own Harddrive's in the machine. It's an 1TB. I know it's not the optimal for a system disk but I've got nothing else atm

vladic · December 04, 2011, 08:46:08 PM

1TB should be fine as long as you ahve some external hard drives for storing large files etc, use ure 1TB for things you need to launch regularly (USB to PC communication can be pretty crappy) so Microsfot Office, SWTOR etc otherwise sounds like you will be alright system wise if this is the system you have got

Karrth moonbladeq · December 04, 2011, 08:50:13 PM

awesome mate, saves me the trouble of going out and getting my hands on new hardware

Thanks for the advice

vladic · December 04, 2011, 08:56:26 PM

no problem, any issues just send me a personal message