PC Buying Guide - March 2011

[Jaskanwar Singh]

baba nice.

what are your takes on mouse pads everyone?

 

[Piyush]

long time ago used 2 mats
razer speed
razer control
it would be funny to hear that i couldnt notice any difference
may be bcoz i was too young

but lately used goliathus
it WAS something

 

[Ishu Gupta]

Mousepad is as important as mouse.

I haven't used many but Qck+ and Goliathus are good. They come in many editions like hard, cloth, speed, control etc.

 

[lordirecto]

^ mouse pads are as important as mouse? I have never used mouse pads in my life honestly. I always put my mouse on the desk. Now I am using logitech G500 on my desk. I do not see what difference a mouse pad can make.

 

[Piyush]

are u a serious gamer?
if not then its ok

 

[aby geek]

mousepad = everglide titan

 

[Jaskanwar Singh]

goliathus has got 2 votes till now

guys post mouse pads which you think are best for those mouses.

i saw smc and there were toooooooooooooooooooooo many, confused.

 

[masterkd]

mouse pads are as important as mouse? I have never used mouse pads in my life honestly. I always put my mouse on the desk. Now I am using logitech G500 on my desk. I do not see what difference a mouse pad can make.

mouse pad is important for 24/7 users(like me) too..i don't have one for last 3 yrs and i got a brown spot on lower palm-wrist joint and it looks ugly!!

^make goliathus vote 3

 

[Jaskanwar Singh]

ok here is list from smc -

3.3k -
SteelSeries SX

2.7k -
SteelSeries 9HD

2k -
Razer Megasoma
Razer Destructor
SteelSeries 5L

1.6k -
Razer Vespula
Steel Series 4HD

1.2k -
Steel Pad S & S Solo
Steelseries 4D
SteelSeries Fnatic
SteelSeries Qck+ MiBR
SteelSeries Qck+ Moon

0.9k -
Razer Goliathus Fragged Control

0.7k -
Steel Pad Qck Mass

0.5k -
Steel Series Qck mini

 

[Piyush]

got some feedback from my friends

Steel series Fnatic -all time fav
destructor,megasoma,vespula-good but for speciafic games genre

 

[Jaskanwar Singh]

nice baba. keep more views coming in.

and where are others? guide is to be updated guys fast .

 

[Faun]

mouse pad is important for 24/7 users(like me) too..i don't have one for last 3 yrs and i got a brown spot on lower palm-wrist joint and it looks ugly!!

Same here. No mouse pad.

 

[topgear]

So many people are getting new rigs but how many are getting a legitimate version of OS ?

We should start up a good practice to start recommending a OS with rigs starting from 85K - people who are spending that much on a gaming rig can afford to get a legitimate OS ( read windows ) for sure -

if someone don't want to get windows there's plenty of user friendly linux distro out there.

Here's some prices :

Microsoft Windows 7 Professional Bussiness @ 7.4K
Windows 7 Professional @ 8.7K
Windows 7 Ultimate @ 9.3K
Windows 7 Home Premium @ 5.8K - enough for gaming IMO

For Linux distro get :

OpenSuse / Fedora / Ubuntu / Linux Mint / Pinguy OS ( newbie friendly )

 

[Jaskanwar Singh]

Nice idea tp. Arent there win7 starters that we can put for budget? Wont a home basic do for 85k?

and mouse pads anyone?

Tp mention the ones digit guys put up in their mags. My new mags rig page is torn

 

[lordirecto]

@topgear: To be honest, I am against using Windows OS on any computer. But I am forced to do so because of DirectX support for games.
To make things worse, Windows is priced ridiculously high. I do accept all the development cost and all those things, but in a country like India they should sell the software products in the least price possible if they want consumers to use genuine version of OS.
And I do not think people who have a little bit tech knowledge will heed your recommendation of buying a genuine OS, think about it, will a college-going-guy want to spend 5k on a OS instead of increasing his RAM? Or even an extra HDD?
So my suggestion is that you add a note in the end of each configs that it is best to use a genuine OS, be it windows or linux.

 

[masterkd]

^my point exactly..from some study i can say if MS sell win 7 HP @3k still then they will get good profit for each copy..and i'm sure more people will buy genuine OS if price is reduced!!

 

[furious_gamer]

^^ I agree that. 8k+ is too high for HP, for which i can get almost 6 or more games...

 

[d3p]

@Topgear: Good idea, but in our country people hate to buy Original Game itself, in the same case if you suggest them to buy Genuine OS. I don't think it will work out.

But good thing we can take initiative, for the same.

 

[masterkd]

@furious_gamer, win 7 HP is 5.8k, not 8k+

 

[aby geek]

win 7 ultimate is down from 14k mmmm great.
now give me a mobo supporting 192 gigs of ram lol