Daniel Ratcliffe
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Daniel - whats the Razer Naga like? Was thinking of getting one to make DOTA 2 a little easier to play
I love it. So many buttons though so not able to take advantage of all the buttons yet. But all things in time.
Daniel - whats the Razer Naga like? Was thinking of getting one to make DOTA 2 a little easier to play
Out of curiosity, what did you have to spend on the GPU? I know that the mining craze has put some of those R9 cards into silly price ranges. Also, what's the deal with that motherboard that makes it worth $200+?
It's an ASUS Republic of Gamers (ROG) motherboard, which means that it's built with overclocking in mind. It uses higher quality materials that are designed to be put through their paces. Even if you don't actually plan to overclock it, you can rest well knowing your motherboard is built to a higher standard and is likely to last that little bit longer. It has a great warranty on it too.
The graphics card I wrestled with long and hard for quite a long time. After doing a lot of research I decided to go for an AMD card and as I knew I'd be gaming on a 1440p setup, I chose the R9 280X, knowing that it was a rebranded 7970 GHz edition. I picked it because compared with a GTX 770 it has more VRAM and a wider memory bus (364-bit instead of 256-bit) to take advantage of the memory, especially if overclocked at all. I could have gone with a MSI version of the 280X for ?219, which was a steal, but my current NVidia card was MSI and I haven't been all that impressed with it. I chose to pay a little more, trusting in the quality of ASUS and having heard very good things about their DirectCU II and TOP OC'd cards.
Hope this helps!
Mods Rigs
I think everything in that link is for the most part, current (except the Dell monitor went out and was replaced with an Acer and my CPU OC is different).
Intel Core i7 2600k @ 4.4 GHz
Corsair H100
Gigabyte Z68X-UD7-B3
MSI GTX 580 Lightning 3xSLi
12GB Corsair Dominator RAM
LG BH10 Bluray Burner
120GB Corsair Force 3 SSD
1TB WD Caviar Black
750GB WD Caviar Black
Corsair AX1200 1200w PSU
Corsair Obsidian 650D
Razer Lycosa
Razer Naga
Razer Orbweaver
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Tried to grab a decent picture last night, best I could get in a hurry. Here's what it's got now:
CPU: Intel i5 4670K
Motherboard: ASRock Z87 Extreme4 ATX
GPU: ASUS DirectCU HD 5850
RAM: G.SKILL Ripjaws X 32 GB (4 x 8 GB) DDR3 1866
PSU: Corsair HX 750 750W 80 PLUS GOLD
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Black 640 GB 32 MB Cache
Case: Rosewill Blackhawk ATX Mid Tower
As you'll probably notice, half of the RAM is missing at the moment. My dad had to borrow it for Litecoin mining, because you apparently can have a video card with VRAM equal to or greater than your system memory, and he only had 4 GB of RAM in his PC. So he's borrowing 16 GB of mine until his 32-GB kit of Sniper series RAM shows up, likely Monday or Tuesday. The cable management's a bit sketchy, especially since I have the USB 3.0 cable from the case closer to the video card than I would like. I'll probably fix that and zip-tie stuff later.
I wouldn't keep the stock fan on, but I don't plan on overclocking the CPU anytime soon. I'll probably spend the next few months reading about that, and do it in the summer. My graduation and birthday will both be in May, so I'll probably get money then and use it for a new GPU, at which point I'll grab a CM 212 Hyper EVO or something and look at overclocking then. Right now, overclocking won't really help. I'm also still short a SSD, but after spending almost $400 in St. Louis (picked up the CPU for $200, board for $90, and a HDD for my cousin for $60 that he has to pay me back for), I didn't want to spend another $100 on a 120-GB SSD right now. I'll maybe add that after a month or two, or I might wait until the summer with the rest, we will see.
Looking forward to replace my desktop with a new one, since I'm not really into the whole upgrade-/self-assemble thing. Served me well for about 5 years and only had minor issues so far.
It's a Medion MD8833 and sports:
Windows Vista Home Premium 32-bit SP2
Motherboard: MSI MS-7502 (Socket 775)
CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 @ 2.40GHz
RAM: 3,00GB Dual-Kanal DDR2 @ 332MHz
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT 256MB / Monitor: Samsung SyncMaster P2250
Storage: Int: Seagate Barracuda ES.2 500GB / Ext: WD My Book 500GB, LaCie Design by Neil Poulton 1.5TB
Ext. Soundcard: Creative SoundBlaster X-Fi Go!
Mouse: Roccat Kone [+] / Keyboard: MS Sidewinder X6
Nice keyboard. Though the mouse I'm not so sure about (I'm rocking lots of Razer gear myself). But ah well. I need a new motherboard tbh myself but need to check my graphics card as apparently my AMD Radeon is inferior to the GeForce one I had before.
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I'm not really a fan of Razer, so I just wanted a mouse from a different manufacturer. I ended up with the Roccat Kone because I used the Logitech MX510/518 for years and the Kone has a similar form. There a many complaints about the mousewheel on the internet (to be specific: the axis of the mousewheel which seems to break easily), but I use mine since Jan 2011 every day for several hours and I didn't have a single problem till now.
Hey it's different strokes for different folks. You like Roccat whereas I'm a Razer man (if only really for their SwitchBlade UI on the DeathStalker Ultimate). Sure I have a lean mean setup but it's good. I'll need to post my specs once my graphics card is updated.
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