Decided to get a couple of little treats for myself, a new keyboard and mouse.
Keyboard because my trusty old Saitek Cyborg is starting to get a bit tired after nearly six years of heavy use, couple of the keys are losing their fluidity of motion, surface is wearing away on some of the keys etc. Plus I want a bank of extra programmable/macro keys for WoW, as such I have ordered myself this.
http://www.ebuyer.com/503883-corsair-ve ... 9000020-ukRather extravagant perhaps but I'd expect five years minimum out of it, Cherry MX Red switches for every single key, and a couple of friends have moved to mechanical keyboards and absolutely swear by them.
The 18 keys off to the left are all fully programmable, which of course is perfect for an MMO (it's marketed as an MMO keyboard).
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Mouse simply because I need more buttons available to me, as there's a limit to how many keybinds you can do, even with CTRL/SHIFT/ALT modifiers (or rather, fucking remembering them all). I find mouse buttons far more conducive to muscle memory, and just easier to get exactly the right one at the right time, although 12 buttons along the side may be a step too far....
It does mean with some regret that I'm replacing my legendary Logitech MX510, which is hands-down the best mouse I've ever owned, but I'll probably retire it out to the bedroom laptop where it can live out its senior years in a low-stress environment. (And I'm replacing it with another Logitech, as the MX510 has been so fucking good, it still works perfectly and it's years old and it's seen an awful lot of action.)
Yes it's a lot of money for a keyboard and mouse, but since I basically live on my PC (not just for leisure but for when I'm working from home too), and all my interaction with it is done through those two peripherals, it makes sense to have nice ones IMO. (See also, screen and speakers, worth stretching the budget for.)
On top of all that, my current PC just continues to deliver the goods in terms of games and overall performance, despite the CPU/mobo/RAM being over six years old and me having bought them second hand off a mate at work, and the GTX670 still delivers the goods graphics wise, and the 128GB SSD whilst small, is big enough if I limit it just to the games that benefit from it (WoW does). It helps that I'm back into WoW of course which is fairly undemanding, but it was kicking BF4 around at 2560x1440 with really nice graphics options, so why spunk a load of cash on upgrades or a whole new PC?
With the XBox One and PS4 being seriously underwhelming in raw horsepower terms, I can honestly envisage it lasting for this entire console generation when it comes to cross-platform titles, which is good for my pocket!
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