"Gaming" hardware. - How to pay over the odds for stupid angular flummery and pointless flashing lights.

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I've seen too many people sperg out on being brand-whores.

When my R9 270 died and my motherboard (AM3 socket), I rebuilt my computer with a Xeon X5450 from the Core 2 Quad era.
It works nicely with my GTX 760, except the stock cooler for Intel's CPUs are so shit.

Best part about getting something like this, including the GTX 760 was that it was so fucking cheap.
Every other cunt can go out and get their 1% increase in performance; by being retarded and being fooled into buying newer shit.
 
Sgt. French Fried said:
I've seen too many people sperg out on being brand-whores.

When my R9 270 died and my motherboard (AM3 socket), I rebuilt my computer with a Xeon X5450 from the Core 2 Quad era.
It works nicely with my GTX 760, except the stock cooler for Intel's CPUs are so shit.

Best part about getting something like this, including the GTX 760 was that it was so fucking cheap.
Every other cunt can go out and get their 1% increase in performance; by being exceptional and being fooled into buying newer shit.
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I was an AMD fanatic until I got a good deal on an i7 4790K and it blew my old FX8350 out of the water, and then I got a GTX1070 to replace my 290X.

I don’t have any alliegance to any brand now although I tend to buy the same ones mostly out of knowing I’ll generally get a consistent level of quality. I always buy Gigabyte motherboards for example because I know they’re gonna work and fit my budget.
 
I'm in the same boat with Gigabyte. Used them for a while then I bought a Ryzen 1600 and AssRock Taichi board to go with it. 2 of them didn't work (tried with another CPU just to be sure and ram). Then tried with a Asus board that also was giving me shit. Change to a Gigabyte Gaming 5 board? No issues whatsoever.
 
I keep trying in vain to convince my friends to avoid the Jewish conspiracy that is gamer headsets. You spend entirely too much money on them for horrible build quality. Turtle Beaches are the cheapest, flimsiest things on earth, the ear cups are held on by a 1/16th of an inch thick piece of brittle plastic that will snap in the first half dozen times you drop them or take them off quickly. Even other brands will disintegrate in less six months. My solution was to switch to a Blue Snowball for a microphone and just buy an entry level AKG studio headset for $55. My Snowball has clearer voice then any mic I've ever had attached to a headset and my headset is as good sound quality as much more expensive gamer headsets and also has a replaceable cord which is basically unheard of in the land of gamer headsets.

I am unfortunately stuck with Razer for mice because I use one of those Naga 14-buttons-under-your-thumb mice for playing WoW because it's really convenient to keep all you medium/long cooldowns under one of your fingers in case the game chooses you to do boss mechanic randomly. I've had OK luck with them though, I'm on my third since 2010.
 
Melchett said:
I prefer form over function, but I love me some sci-fi looking cases. That makes me a bit of a twat, but there are some really flash cases out there.

"GAMING XTREME PRO" motherboards are a fucking con. They're marketed as such because people are fucking dumb - Johnny Console decides he's gonna make the switch to PC, but has absolutely no idea how the hardware works, so he trusts that the "gaming" components are better for his situation.

I know a couple of people like this, and it drives me goddamn mental. If it's designed to look like a car engine and have 50 LEDs on it, it must be better. Then they come to me like "why has this motherboard only got 2 RAM slots and no USB 3.0 connectors?" surprised that buying a motherboard totally on looks is fucking dumb.

Buying any internal components solely because it "looks cool" is dumb as shit, even if your case has a side panel. I've known people to buy shitty RAM just "to match the colour scheme" of the inside of their PC.

Saying that I'm not totally against buying flashy parts, if they're not inferior price-performance wise. I bought some high profile RAM on sale because it looked cool and was pretty much the same price/performance as anything else I could get. I absolutely didn't need high profile RAM, but fuck it, it's no worse and looks cool in the case. My graphics card is white and looks sci-fi as fuck, but I didn't buy it for that reason.

As for GAMER PERIPHERALS like mice and keyboards, I think that's a matter of preference. There are definitely some con artists out there, if you look at "gaming" keyboards and mice on any online retailer, you'll find a lot that are stupid as hell.
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Shit like that ^. That ones one the cheap side, but I've seen keyboards in that style - not mechanical, RGB LEDs - go for anywhere up to like £60. That's a fucking con, at that price you can buy a mechanical keyboard that will be objectively better. The problem with stuff labelled as GAMER GEAR is that it raises the price by like 30% most of the time. You'd be better off buying something less flash, that's actually better. It's kinda cool to have backlit keys when it's dark, but it's 100% unnecessary. I shamefully have a backlit mechanical keyboard, but it doesn't look too xtreem imo. It was on sale for way cheaper than that, and I have the lights off most of the time. It looks a lot more understated with the SHINY LEDs off.

I hear people shit on Razer a lot, but honestly their prices aren't that much worse than Logitech (or any other "top tier" brand) and I've never known anybody irl have a bad time with them. Their branding is edgy as hell, but there are enough people that swear by Deathadders to show that they're not total shite. I don't use Razer because they're pisstaking cunts, seriously their merch store is INSANE, but I know plenty of people happily using Razer mice.
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Their mice are generally top notch. Their fightsticks are ok beyond being a bit overengineered, why they felt the need to use a hydrolic press to keep the lid open I have no idea. Keyboards I have no idea about, but the the brands you’d go with for those are probably going to depend on who gets the mechanical switchs you prefer for a given product line. I’ve also never used their headsets because Kingston is kinda hard to beat in the nonstupid price range.
 
Oddjob OTP said:
I keep trying in vain to convince my friends to avoid the Jewish conspiracy that is gamer headsets. You spend entirely too much money on them for horrible build quality. Turtle Beaches are the cheapest, flimsiest things on earth, the ear cups are held on by a 1/16th of an inch thick piece of brittle plastic that will snap in the first half dozen times you drop them or take them off quickly. Even other brands will disintegrate in less six months. My solution was to switch to a Blue Snowball for a microphone and just buy an entry level AKG studio headset for $55. My Snowball has clearer voice then any mic I've ever had attached to a headset and my headset is as good sound quality as much more expensive gamer headsets and also has a replaceable cord which is basically unheard of in the land of gamer headsets.

I am unfortunately stuck with Razer for mice because I use one of those Naga 14-buttons-under-your-thumb mice for playing WoW because it's really convenient to keep all you medium/long cooldowns under one of your fingers in case the game chooses you to do boss mechanic randomly. I've had OK luck with them though, I'm on my third since 2010.
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Those blue snowballs give really good sound for their price and simplicity.
 
Just Some Other Guy said:
The best headphones I had were a $15 Koss set. Was a bit overtuned towards bass, but were perfectly fine aside from that.
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Yeah, while there is certainly the potential for higher fidelity sound reproduction above the ~$20 price point, odds are there's not going to be any really tremendous difference between you being more deaf than you realize from using headphones like great big dummy and the fact that very few people on the production end of things give any great amount of fucks. And they're sorta deaf too.
 
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You're right on everything except gaming mice with a crazy amount of buttons.

For one, I very much prefer playing games with MMO mice because I like having a ton of buttons accessible by only my thumb. Really, it's the only way I like to play games like World of Autismcraft. And if it's a game where you can switch between a lot of different weapons or items it's way easier to bind those buttons than to press your number row, especially the far end.

Furthermore, they're useful outside of gaming. You can bind keys to macros or shortcuts to features. It can save a lot of time in photoshop or programming once you get used to it.

However, I will note that these mice themselves only cost $25 - $35 dollars on sale (which is when you should buy any such hardware). So you're not paying retarded gamer prices.

There's a lot of bullshit with "gaming" mice (SUPER HIGH AND USELESS DPI!! POLLING RATE!!) but lots of buttons is definitely not one of them.

Probably the worst offender of this shit isn't even computer hardware. It's those fucking goddamn gamer chairs.
 
Ginger Piglet said:
The ones that look like someone took a bucket seat from a sports car and mounted it on wheels? Yeah, they're pretty autistic. Some of them even have RGB LEDs.
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I watched a Life of Boris video, I think the one that talked about why he subtitled all of his videos, and he had a gamer chair, and I lost respect for him. A few seconds later he said something like, "Now you ask, Boris, why you sell out and have stupid gamer chair? I did not pay for this, blin, they send it for free." And I died laughing. It's one thing to be like the 500,000 streamers that get sent those stupid chairs for free, it's another to actually buy them. Ugh.

If you want a nice chair, you're gonna have to shell out even more money, but it'll last you.. I think the Herman Miller Aeron is overrated (I am sitting it in now) but it's still leagues better than a chair that will last 2 years at most and go flat. But so many people I know have super expensive rigs but a shit tier chair. If you're gonna be sedentary then at least invest in a good chair you're going to be sitting in for hours and hours each day! It's like the gamers that have >$2,000 computers and a $100 monitor.

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I kind of hate Logitech because so much of their shit has plastic that breaks, but sometimes they make something decent. Hopefully this g600 mouse I just bought doesn't break. It's the only mouse with something like the "g shift" and it has a tilt mouse wheel which is something I've wanted for a long time. I don't feel like I have very good control of my little fingers so I'd rather lean left and right with a tilted mouse wheel in FPS games where you can do that rather than press Q and E (and I prefer to bind E to "use")

What I really don't like is Razer. Everything they make seems cheap and grossly overpriced.
 
Corypheus said:
Their mice are generally top notch. Their fightsticks are ok beyond being a bit overengineered, why they felt the need to use a hydrolic press to keep the lid open I have no idea. Keyboards I have no idea about, but the the brands you’d go with for those are probably going to depend on who gets the mechanical switchs you prefer for a given product line. I’ve also never used their headsets because Kingston is kinda hard to beat in the nonstupid price range.
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Yeah Kingston’s HyperX headsets are the only ones that really come close to a decent headphone in their price range. They absolutely shit on similar priced headsets. From what I’ve read their flagship headset is basically an unbranded version of the Beyerdynamic DT770.
 
Ginger Piglet said:
Yes. That's another pet hate of mine - "gaming RAM." With stupid sized heatsinks dangling off of them and allegedly higher frequencies and belt-hitching names like "Vengeance" and "Dominator" and "G.SKILL Ripjaws" yet there's literally no difference in performance unless you're overclocking massively. But it costs twice as much.
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I typically go with Vengeance LPX ram because it's short and won't fuck with my air cooler choices.

However, RAM speeds may be relatively unimportant for Intel chipsets, but Ryzen relies greatly on RAM frequencies for infinity fabric to run optimally.

Also, r/SFFPC and Smallformfactor.net are both great resources for your upcoming build. :like:

Keine said:
Yeah Kingston’s HyperX headsets are the only ones that really come close to a decent headphone in their price range. They absolutely shit on similar priced headsets. From what I’ve read their flagship headset is basically an unbranded version of the Beyerdynamic DT770.
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The HyperX models are a rebrand of the Takstar Pro 82's I believe. I know for sure it's a Takstar, just not sure about the model name. And they actually made some substantial improvements to them (mic and I think the higher models have a better frame).

I heard that the latest Steelseries and Corsair models are now far more competitive with HyperX's offerings though.

But if you ask me my opinion as an audio equipment sperg, I'd say that you are better off getting a good pair of headphones and getting a detachable boompro mic instead.

If you want the Beyerdynamic sound, you should try the Custom One Gaming, it's 50% off as I type this. Here is a comparison between it and the dt770:

https://medium.com/@Xander51/beyerdynamic-custom-one-pro-plus-headphones-review-26062d478c09
 
neural said:
I typically go with Vengeance LPX ram because it's short and won't fuck with my air cooler choices.

However, RAM speeds may be relatively unimportant for Intel chipsets, but Ryzen relies greatly on RAM frequencies for infinity fabric to run optimally.

Also, r/SFFPC and Smallformfactor.net are both great resources for your upcoming build. :like:

The HyperX models are a rebrand of the Takstar Pro 82's I believe. I know for sure it's a Takstar, just not sure about the model name. And they actually made some substantial improvements to them (mic and I think the higher models have a better frame).

I heard that the latest Steelseries and Corsair models are now far more competitive with HyperX's offerings though.

But if you ask me my opinion as an audio equipment sperg, I'd say that you are better off getting a good pair of headphones and getting a detachable boompro mic instead.

If you want the Beyerdynamic sound, you should try the Custom One Gaming, it's 50% off as I type this. Here is a comparison between it and the dt770:

https://medium.com/@Xander51/beyerdynamic-custom-one-pro-plus-headphones-review-26062d478c09
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Right, they’re basically a Chinese attempt at copying the DT770, not the real thing.

I do agree on the headphone thing. My daily drivers have been my Sennheiser HD598s for years now.

I own a few other headsets because I can occasionally get them below cost from work. I’ve been surprised by some of them. Plantronics makes a decent wireless set now, the Rig 800 I think?. I dunno if I’d spend full price on them but they’re listenable and last like all day on a full charge.
 
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