A mechanical keyboard
And an IPS monitor
And a high-end optical mouse
And a comfortable office chair
And a silent case and full water cooling
And a PCIe SSD so that everything is instantaneous
It's all a matter of priorities and budget.
Man now im curious how many of us here have IPS panels.
Phae mentioned he has one
I have a 26" one as well
Prisoner has one.
Must be some link between luxurious keyboards and monitors~
Does my keyboard reflect the computer? Only the space bar.
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Man now im curious how many of us here have IPS panels.
Phae mentioned he has one
I have a 26" one as well
Prisoner has one.
Must be some link between luxurious keyboards and monitors~
color blind person like myself doesn't care for ips really, i do care about how my body is positioned at my computer so my chair/keyboardmount/monitor mount x2 costs more than my 3.6 oc/quad w/ 8gigs and raid ssd.
like many have said depends on what you want to prioritize.
i hate waiting word to startup in 5secs so i get a ssd raid and it starts up in 1sec. Just like here, ppl hate typing on a "mushy" keyboard so they get mechs.
I have two 30" ones, a 3008WFP and a U3011.
I just got the U3011 this week, and I think I'm gonna sell the 3008WFP. I have it as my secondary monitor right now, and I'm not really getting anything out of using it instead of the 19" TN panel I had.
1. a good RAID arrayI hope you only use it for striping / mirroring and not for a false sense of data security.
After 10 years, I've realized that for my uses, 99% of all computer stuff is the same - except for input devices like the keyboard and pointing device. None of it really matters, except for people with too much time and money on their hands.
@ripster.
Can you really blame someone for wanting a keyboard that suits their style?
To be honest, if I hadn't seen a backlighted keyboard on a dell a while back, I probably would be right there with you making fun of em.
However, (my opinion only) the keyboard actually looked pretty classy..
I mean.. I don't know about anyone else.. but, my computer is where I spend most of my time.. So I would prefer to have something that I feel is aesthetically pleasing to me there..
I am only speaking for myself.. but, i don't want to pay $100+ and get what looks like an antique type writer..
After 10 years, I've realized that for my uses, 99% of all computer stuff is the same - except for input devices like the keyboard and pointing device. None of it really matters, except for people with too much time and money on their hands.
Ouch.
Don't you have any hobbies?
well i disagree.
Computer performance for parts are not the same at all.
Ever since i got my Intel Gen 2 160gb SSD; i noticed that my pc was more speedy. Even games installed onto the SSD load faster.
So better hardware does make a difference. You just got to figure out which components are the bottlenecks and upgrade according.
A better cpu also helps reduce encoding time.
I don't play games, nor do I encode video or stuff. For my purposes, performance flat out doesn't matter. The only thing I care about nowadays is uptime and data retention.
A mechanical keyboard
And an IPS monitor
And a high-end optical mouse
And a comfortable office chair
And a silent case and full water cooling
And a PCIe SSD so that everything is instantaneous
It's all a matter of priorities and budget.
That was my point. The difference between a cheap membrane keyboard and any mechanical keyboard is drastic. The difference between a normal hard drive and an SSD is so much smaller that it shouldn't be considered in the same discussion.
I'm not a rich person at all, so I sort of compromise on everything. A true enthusiast also thinks with his wallet, not just his heart!
Mostly everything was bought on sale: P182, S-Flex fans, PCP 600W. All quiet, not expensive. E7200 / P35 mobo, 4850. Bought a Vertex 60gb for $140 as a boot drive, best upgrade per $ ever. 1 tb WD black, around 70-80. Samsung 931bw, not bad but getting long in the tooth. I'm a fan of silence and small footprint, so I will definitely go with a mini-ITX for my next refresh.
With all games besides Valve's being console ports, a 4850 is more than enough for many games out today. Still, the one game that has recently got me thinking about upgrading to Bulldozer or Sandy Bridge was Civ 5. That game is quite a CPU hog.
I have a big cloth pad, kinzu, and a keytronic.
All in all, quite decent.
I did have a lapse of judgement when I spent a fair sum on audiophile (god, never again) equipment, but it keeps me happy ... from time to time.
That was my point. The difference between a cheap membrane keyboard and any mechanical keyboard is drastic. The difference between a normal hard drive and an SSD is so much smaller that it shouldn't be considered in the same discussion.
I disagree. Dollar for dollar a SSD is by far the best upgrade for your PC, period. It can actually speed up your PC by a factor of ten because access times are indeed ten times faster or more. For ~100, there simply isn't another upgrade you can give your PC that will actually give it the 'new PC' feel.
It's not going to speed up loading times in games much, but it certainly speeds up loading times of programs and especially reduces the time of OS start up. I just think a computer with the OS installed on a regular hard disk feels sluggish compared to a computer with SSD. Definitely worth the price they're at these days.
It may be a caveat for Razer though considering the MTBF of mechanical switches. Not so many return sales when equipment wears out!
Well I disagree on the SSD vs HDD Comparison. If you compare an SSD to a multiple terabyte HDD (just one not RAID 0 which is not even true RAID) the only thing you lose any performance on is burst speed. The data density on a 2 TB drive is insanely tight so your access and throughput should be very fast (so fast you would be hard pressed to notice the difference).
But I agree on the keyboard point. If you buy high end kit (which already costs a fair bit of cash) you owe it to yourself to have decent input peripherals. However, most people who buy the latest CPU/GPU combo are generally gamers who disregard a keyboards true worth as an input device being more interested in it as an accessory, ie the G15/G19. I have owned a G15 (orange) one, I bought second hand, and got rid of it a couple of months later because really the key switches felt terrible. The monitor was next to useless (why check ammo count on a piss ant keyboard LCD when I have a 30" monitor in front of me)? The macro keys never used.
The problem is education. People think the G15/Razer Lycosa/M$ x4/x5/xx etc ARE good keyboards. Which is why it's so good to see Razer putting a proper mechanical switch keyboard on the market and advertising the switch type as a 'professional gamers' ultimate choice. It means more people will be interested In the devices we have been enjoying for years. Perhaps even bringing the price down.
It may be a caveat for Razer though considering the MTBF of mechanical switches. Not so many return sales when equipment wears out!
Well I disagree on the SSD vs HDD Comparison. If you compare an SSD to a multiple terabyte HDD (just one not RAID 0 which is not even true RAID) the only thing you lose any performance on is burst speed. The data density on a 2 TB drive is insanely tight so your access and throughput should be very fast (so fast you would be hard pressed to notice the difference).
And I just haven't found a price compelling enough for a desktop drive to make the hassle of transferring the boot drive of my workstation over. Especially since I would have to ensure that compilation occured on the data drives, rather than the boot drive, which would also put them at risk of failure, and require that I make use of my backups sooner rather than later.
How insane is compiling the entire MPICH2 source code 5-10 times per day? That's what I do currently.
I've talked to some folks at national labs, and they have burned through sandforce and OCZ drives in a matter of months, with similar use cases. The drives just started tossing errors at them.
And I think I'm the only person who went with a 120hz monitor? I've used IPS monitors where I used to work and as a FPS gamer I'd say I notice 120hz more than the extra colours. Currently running an Alienware 2310 and BenQ V2400W.
The Alienware does have a ton of backlight bleed though, I use the BenQ for movies and such.
Ever used any good calibrated IPS-monitors? I have to agree in some ways tho. It doesn't matter if the colors on your monitors are 100% accurate when gaming, but in general internet browsing and other use, I really prefer accurate colors.
In the end, it depends entirely on how you use your computer. SSDs are really great for most use cases. But if you're one of those people (like me) that generates massive amounts of temporary files, on an almost constant basis, it just doesn't make much sense. I'd be maintaining it more than using it, and that's just more time investment than I would choose to commit to something as simple as a hard drive.
How insane is compiling the entire MPICH2 source code 5-10 times per day? That's what I do currently.
I've talked to some folks at national labs, and they have burned through sandforce and OCZ drives in a matter of months, with similar use cases. The drives just started tossing errors at them.
I've never had a cheap keyboard, generally have a moderate mouse, and I have often splurged on displays. For the PC, I generally aimed for adequate, much more so in the last 10 years, since I haven't be into gaming at all in that time.