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* BUILD START: 10-24-2011
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Well,
I'm excited to get started on my 3rd PC build in preparation for Battlefield 3.
In 2002, I built this for BF1942
- ASUS P4C800-E Deluxe 478 Intel 875P ATX Intel Motherboard
- Intel P4 - Prescott 3.2E
- Transcend 1GB DDR 400 (PC 3200)
- ATI 9800PRO 256MB (when ATI was a real contender before they were acquired by AMD)
- Creative Labs SoundBlaster
- WD Caviar 160GB
- Thermalright XP-120 CPU Cooling Heatsink (Remember these bad boys?)
Check out the meticulous wire management. It's as if they're not even there:
In 2005, I built this for BF2
- DFI LANParty UT NF4 SLI-DR Expert
- AMD X2 4800+ (This was nearly $1000! AMD had the first dual core to market - they were consistently beating Intel! In a rush to catch up to AMD, Intel just sandwiched two dies together with an internal bridge and called it "dual-core" - it flopped. Boy have the tables turned since.)
- Corsair TWINX2048-4400PRO 3-4-4-8 1T
- BFG Nvidia 7800 GTX SLI
- SoundBlaster Audigy 2 ZS
- WD Raptor 74GB
- Corsair liquid cooling kit (their first to market).
A friend told me it reminded him of the scene in Platoon where the guy was shoving his guts back into his stomach after being hit by mortar frag.
And now, six years later we have this:
- ASUS P8P67 Pro Rev 3.1
- i7 2600K
- Asus Nvidia 590 GTX Quad SLI
- Corsair Dominators 8GB 1600MHz
- Xonar Xense
- OCZ Revo 3 120GB
- Mountain Mods U2UFO - Liquid EK blocks/rad/res and Bitspower fittings
After someresearch, the performance gains for the latest 990x did not justify the ridiculous $1K price tag. Every article and thread generally suggested to go with the i7 2600K and clock the hell out of it - and so that's what I plan on doing. I'm going to put focus of this build on two pillars - silence and bare essentials. This rig will be a dedicated gaming rig so I won't need any more storage beyond OCZ's Revo card. This will be nice... no SATA HDDs or SSDs in my case. I might even remove the optical all together after installing windows. It'll just be my essential components with a large capacity, super silent liquid cooling loop.
UPDATE: So my first post is supposed to contain photos of my work in progress - it's not much now, but it's something:
UPDATE: frozencpu.com shipment just arrived. The ziplock bag of various Bitspower compression fittings weighs like 15 pounds! There are 8 120mm Skythe Gentle Typhoon fans (hopefully I won't need to use all of it - less fans = less noise), 3 EK blocks, 2 EK rads, 1 EK res, 4L EK coolant, 1 D5 pump, and a partridge in a pear tree. My Mac appears to be getting jealous.
UPDATE: Arg, sick of waiting. BF3 has already been out for three days. Need to get this build started. My GTX 590s just arrived. Case should be coming later this evening. Mobo on Saturday, sound card and mem on Monday. In the mean time I can start setting up my 30" Dell and putting the EK blocks on the 590s.
UPDATE: Holychrist the 30 is huge - this should be fun. Someone posted that the Ergotron New-Flex was supposed to be able to hold the 30 despite the weight limitation, but they were wrong. It doesn't support the weight - but just barely. I put in an order for the Ergotron MX. In the mean time, the stock stand will have to do.
UPDATE: Okay, I'm supposed to make this pile resemble a case. Why can't they just put it together for me? There's enough shrink wrap here to kill a small monk.
Oooo love the black powder coating. This will be perfect for BF3!
Wow, check out the bearing construction on these Gentle Typhoons. I spun it, and it's super smooth. Can't wait to try them.
There we go, a proper motherboard that will work (hopefully) with my Revodrive. But I'm really psyched to use the auto-tuning overclocking feature - more time tuning = less BF3 playing time, and we all know we can't have that.
Okay so assembling it wasn't that bad. What *was* bad was that I stayed in Friday night instead of hitting Hollywood for Halloween weekend. That's okay, I'll go out tonight.
With great power comes great responsibility. Jesus Corsair really went all out on this PSU. I didn't know if I was opening a power supply or a Macy's gift bag.
The BF3 rig needs a stand:
Can't dry run on low light!
Finally, my Corsair Dominators arrived, now I can test my system
Dry run - yeh it booted!
Time to install W7P on this baby
Sorry boy, daddy can't play right now.
Loaded RevoDrive drivers, and we are go!
Blocks on!
Let there be sound. The Xonar Xense package is absolutely sick. It comes packaged with Asus / Sennheiser co-branded PC350 and a chromed out soundcard which takes quarter inch jacks!
Ergotron MX Desktop just came in - more room for gaming!
Sennheisers and Bose need a home.
What's missing here? BF3! Is there a "light-speed" shipping option? How sweet would that be?
Mind as well tidy up the wires and tubing while I wait for my Bitspower pump adaptors to ship. Here's a look at the downstairs - plenty of breathing room when you have no need for SATA storage
Alright, adaptors arrived.
Fittings are now on pump
Leak test - In Bitspower I Trust *gulp*
Leak test passed! Phew.
Peripherals in.
Temps are looking good!
Here's the upstairs
PROJECT IS COMPLETE!
BF3 GLORY. It looks and sounds AWESOME.
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* AUDIO UPGRADE: 04-21-2013
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St. Patty's Day 2013
Upgraded my audio from the Xonar Xense. I love the Xense, but it's time for me to move on to the Beyerdynamics DT 880 Pros 250 ohm with the Magni / Modi Schiit stack
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* New GPU's! The EVGA GTX 780 Hydro Copper SLI - It's time for BATTLEFIELD 4
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Well, at 2560x1600, the GTX 780 SLI's absolutely destroy BF3 (64/64 intense firefight choke points) and Bioshock Infinite. I'll be redeeming my free copy of Metro: Last Night and re-install FC3 to test it out there again too.
I can tell you that running a 2600k on a P8P67 Pro board, the GTX 780 Hydro Copper SLI's have absolutely no problems with PCIe 2.0 performance at 2560x1600 60Hz. I play all of my games with VSync ON (because I don't like shitty gaming experiences), and it doesn't ever go below 60FPS.. ever.
The arrival and unpacking - so much power in such a plain brown box.
The angle shots. They are as long as my 590s... just oozing with cuda cores.
Disconnecting the backside, and moving The Rig out to the middle of the room for easy swapping.
Removed clear acrylic panels and assessing the best way to drain this thing.
Awe yeah, using New Castle to cool my digestive system.
590's are out. It turns out that the original SLI compression fittings will not fit the Hydro Copper blocks since they blocks make the gap between the two connections narrower. Luckily I purchased SLI water block connectors during the original build, and one of them works!
780's are in!! I had to select a different SLI tubing path, but it works and it fits. Leak test passed... can't wait to fire these babies up!
Firing up!
And cleaned up my desk to focus more on gaming since I have very little time to do it - so when I do... I want to make sure it's intense.
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* HOUSTON WE HAVE A PROBLEM: 07-03-2013
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Been running Danger Den Dreamflex 1/2"ID x 3/4"OD blue uv tubing with EK Coolant Blue UV since Nov 2011 without flush. I upgraded my GPUs last month so I drained my loop, installed and connected the GPUs, and filled it back up. Upon starting the pump, I almost immediately noticed little flakes swirling around my res. I thought nothing of it, and left it alone.
Yeah, guess what happened to me this past week?
CPU all of sudden spiked to 95C on load for no reason. Causing all sorts of BSODs while gaming. Upon inspection, flow was completely stuck at CPU block. After Googling around for possible causes, plasticizer kept on popping up (it was the first I ever heard of it). This is my second water-cooling rig, and I never had to flush my previous rig that ran for 7 years (clear tubing from hardware store + distilled water & MCT-5 coolant additive). I bit the bullet proceeded to do a complete tear-down. I am shocked that any vendor selling PC water cooling components would allow such products to be released. As a result of plasticizer leeching from tubing and having not flushed my radiators prior to installing them, I am now having to RMA two cards (because I can't clean the GPU blocks without voiding the warranty), clean CPU block, and completely flush rads with soap + hot water w/ distilled water rinse.
At the moment, I am completely rebuilding my loop (new Durelene tubing, distilled + silver only, new higher flow CPU block, and scrubbing every fitting). Here are some of my plasticizer buildup + possible radiator flakes, and what it did to my EK Supreme block. I hope everyone can learn from my mistake of using Danger Den Dreamflex blue UV tubing + EK coolant blue UV reactive (or anything of the sort). Don't use that combination unless you want this to happen to you:
Severe plasticizer build up from faulty tubing
Complete blockage from plasticizer and radiator flux
Plasticizer samples from CPU block and tube
This one I scraped off a single tube.
I used these plasticizer samples to see what would dissolve them. Vinegar doesn't do anything to it. However, a de-greaser does dissolve it. I put a couple d drops of Arctic Thermal Material Remover on a small sample, and it immediately started breaking it down. I'd like to know what effect degreasers have on nickel, copper, rubber orings, and plastics.
GPUs are blocked too. But, opening the GPU blocks voids the warranty so I RMA'd them both.
EVGA swiftly shipped me a new pair of GTX 780 Hydro Coppers. Too bad I don't have a 4-way SLI board (and too bad 4-way doesn't scale well)
Cleaned the EK Supreme HF blocks nickel top with lime juice soak and scrub + distilled water rinse
BUT, after more thought I wanted a block with lower resistance, so I upgraded to the EK Supremacy Clean CSQ nickel top, which had a jet top with a much larger gap for high flow
Ah, the legendary 2600K, cleaned and ready for the new block
Thoroughly flushed both radiators with hot tap water and dish soap w/ distilled water rinse. I used a pond pump and a hollowed out Britta filter
Redesigned my loop to reposition radiators between GPU and CPU for optimal cooling. Also added external flush routing for easy maintenance.
Durelene clear tubing with Mayhem Pastel Sunset Yellow - black n' yellow. Looks great. Flow is high, temps are back to normal - (CPU: 32/62, GPUs: 28/42)
External flush routing - turn the valve, and hook up to external pump for system flushing.
Added aquarium pre-filter to reservoir to prevent plasticizer, flux, and oxidation plates from going into the blocks again.
I gotta say, the Mayhem pastel yellow sunset just pops out of the black components - looks amazing.
I didn't want to, but I had to... for Battlefield.
http://www.hardocp.com/article/2013/11/24/battlefield_4_windows_7_vs_81_performance_review/
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* WHY IS MY MOUSE SO LAGGY?: 02-04-2014
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So after upgrading to Windows 8.1 from 7, I noticed that my mouse is stuttering and lagging both on the desktop and in-game. It was so noticeable that spent two days researching all sorts of W8.1 mouse lag hot fixes, updated my bios (perhaps the USB chip doesn't have the latest firmware?), installed latest mobo drivers, etc.
None of them worked. I was *positive* my Logitech MX Performance that was at the time, the best mouse you could buy, would last forever. It was the only mouse I ever needed... great for gaming, great for everything right? WRONG.
The culprit? Mouse polling rate. The MX Performance polling rate was 125Hz. That seemed like plenty for me for a 1500DPI. It turns out that if you have a high resolution display (2K, 4K, etc), that's not even near enough.
After a lengthy process of elimination, I decided to purchase a new mouse with a higher polling rate and higher DPI to test my theory. I went with the Logitech G700s (which is basically a badass version of the Performance MX). It has a polling rate of 1000Hz and 8200DPI... it's theoretically a 10x better performing mouse. In practice? It a 10x better performing mouse! EVERYTHING, and I do mean everything was much much smoother. No matter how quickly I try to twitch my mouse, it never missed a position. My in-game experience has improved DRASTICALLY. I even noticed it being much smoother than the Performance MX in Windows 7. Overall, very glad with the upgrade, and very glad my mouse stutter problems are solved.
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* WHY IS MY MOUSE *STILL* LAGGY?: 09-17-2014
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So believe it or not, the G700S started becoming unresponsive and stutter-y. At first I thought it was the 2.4Ghz receiver because I noticed that certain places on my desk it would be very responsive, but other places it would not.
After several hours of research, it turns out that just because it's a laser mouse, and just because it'll work on "any" surface, doesn't mean it will work well on any surface. Far from it, on some surfaces, the precision is horrible. Sure it'll work, but the precision is so bad.
After watching this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXNDxFbb4ZY
Logitech tunes their mouses (mice?) lasers and optics, especially the G700S, on their gaming mouse pads. So I decided to purchase the Logitech G440 gaming mouse pad. That made an insane difference. The precision is SO EXACT it's like night and day. I wish I knew this when I purchased the mouse months ago. Gaming is so much better with the insane precision improvement.
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* BUILD START: 10-24-2011
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Well,
I'm excited to get started on my 3rd PC build in preparation for Battlefield 3.
In 2002, I built this for BF1942
- ASUS P4C800-E Deluxe 478 Intel 875P ATX Intel Motherboard
- Intel P4 - Prescott 3.2E
- Transcend 1GB DDR 400 (PC 3200)
- ATI 9800PRO 256MB (when ATI was a real contender before they were acquired by AMD)
- Creative Labs SoundBlaster
- WD Caviar 160GB
- Thermalright XP-120 CPU Cooling Heatsink (Remember these bad boys?)
Check out the meticulous wire management. It's as if they're not even there:
In 2005, I built this for BF2
- DFI LANParty UT NF4 SLI-DR Expert
- AMD X2 4800+ (This was nearly $1000! AMD had the first dual core to market - they were consistently beating Intel! In a rush to catch up to AMD, Intel just sandwiched two dies together with an internal bridge and called it "dual-core" - it flopped. Boy have the tables turned since.)
- Corsair TWINX2048-4400PRO 3-4-4-8 1T
- BFG Nvidia 7800 GTX SLI
- SoundBlaster Audigy 2 ZS
- WD Raptor 74GB
- Corsair liquid cooling kit (their first to market).
A friend told me it reminded him of the scene in Platoon where the guy was shoving his guts back into his stomach after being hit by mortar frag.
And now, six years later we have this:
- ASUS P8P67 Pro Rev 3.1
- i7 2600K
- Asus Nvidia 590 GTX Quad SLI
- Corsair Dominators 8GB 1600MHz
- Xonar Xense
- OCZ Revo 3 120GB
- Mountain Mods U2UFO - Liquid EK blocks/rad/res and Bitspower fittings
After someresearch, the performance gains for the latest 990x did not justify the ridiculous $1K price tag. Every article and thread generally suggested to go with the i7 2600K and clock the hell out of it - and so that's what I plan on doing. I'm going to put focus of this build on two pillars - silence and bare essentials. This rig will be a dedicated gaming rig so I won't need any more storage beyond OCZ's Revo card. This will be nice... no SATA HDDs or SSDs in my case. I might even remove the optical all together after installing windows. It'll just be my essential components with a large capacity, super silent liquid cooling loop.
UPDATE: So my first post is supposed to contain photos of my work in progress - it's not much now, but it's something:
UPDATE: frozencpu.com shipment just arrived. The ziplock bag of various Bitspower compression fittings weighs like 15 pounds! There are 8 120mm Skythe Gentle Typhoon fans (hopefully I won't need to use all of it - less fans = less noise), 3 EK blocks, 2 EK rads, 1 EK res, 4L EK coolant, 1 D5 pump, and a partridge in a pear tree. My Mac appears to be getting jealous.
UPDATE: Arg, sick of waiting. BF3 has already been out for three days. Need to get this build started. My GTX 590s just arrived. Case should be coming later this evening. Mobo on Saturday, sound card and mem on Monday. In the mean time I can start setting up my 30" Dell and putting the EK blocks on the 590s.
UPDATE: Holychrist the 30 is huge - this should be fun. Someone posted that the Ergotron New-Flex was supposed to be able to hold the 30 despite the weight limitation, but they were wrong. It doesn't support the weight - but just barely. I put in an order for the Ergotron MX. In the mean time, the stock stand will have to do.
UPDATE: Okay, I'm supposed to make this pile resemble a case. Why can't they just put it together for me? There's enough shrink wrap here to kill a small monk.
Oooo love the black powder coating. This will be perfect for BF3!
Wow, check out the bearing construction on these Gentle Typhoons. I spun it, and it's super smooth. Can't wait to try them.
There we go, a proper motherboard that will work (hopefully) with my Revodrive. But I'm really psyched to use the auto-tuning overclocking feature - more time tuning = less BF3 playing time, and we all know we can't have that.
Okay so assembling it wasn't that bad. What *was* bad was that I stayed in Friday night instead of hitting Hollywood for Halloween weekend. That's okay, I'll go out tonight.
With great power comes great responsibility. Jesus Corsair really went all out on this PSU. I didn't know if I was opening a power supply or a Macy's gift bag.
The BF3 rig needs a stand:
Can't dry run on low light!
Finally, my Corsair Dominators arrived, now I can test my system
Dry run - yeh it booted!
Time to install W7P on this baby
Sorry boy, daddy can't play right now.
Loaded RevoDrive drivers, and we are go!
Blocks on!
Let there be sound. The Xonar Xense package is absolutely sick. It comes packaged with Asus / Sennheiser co-branded PC350 and a chromed out soundcard which takes quarter inch jacks!
Ergotron MX Desktop just came in - more room for gaming!
Sennheisers and Bose need a home.
What's missing here? BF3! Is there a "light-speed" shipping option? How sweet would that be?
Mind as well tidy up the wires and tubing while I wait for my Bitspower pump adaptors to ship. Here's a look at the downstairs - plenty of breathing room when you have no need for SATA storage
Alright, adaptors arrived.
Fittings are now on pump
Leak test - In Bitspower I Trust *gulp*
Leak test passed! Phew.
Peripherals in.
Temps are looking good!
Here's the upstairs
PROJECT IS COMPLETE!
BF3 GLORY. It looks and sounds AWESOME.
/******************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
*
* AUDIO UPGRADE: 04-21-2013
*
******************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************/
St. Patty's Day 2013
Upgraded my audio from the Xonar Xense. I love the Xense, but it's time for me to move on to the Beyerdynamics DT 880 Pros 250 ohm with the Magni / Modi Schiit stack
/******************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
*
*
* New GPU's! The EVGA GTX 780 Hydro Copper SLI - It's time for BATTLEFIELD 4
*
*
******************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************/
Well, at 2560x1600, the GTX 780 SLI's absolutely destroy BF3 (64/64 intense firefight choke points) and Bioshock Infinite. I'll be redeeming my free copy of Metro: Last Night and re-install FC3 to test it out there again too.
I can tell you that running a 2600k on a P8P67 Pro board, the GTX 780 Hydro Copper SLI's have absolutely no problems with PCIe 2.0 performance at 2560x1600 60Hz. I play all of my games with VSync ON (because I don't like shitty gaming experiences), and it doesn't ever go below 60FPS.. ever.
The arrival and unpacking - so much power in such a plain brown box.
The angle shots. They are as long as my 590s... just oozing with cuda cores.
Disconnecting the backside, and moving The Rig out to the middle of the room for easy swapping.
Removed clear acrylic panels and assessing the best way to drain this thing.
Awe yeah, using New Castle to cool my digestive system.
590's are out. It turns out that the original SLI compression fittings will not fit the Hydro Copper blocks since they blocks make the gap between the two connections narrower. Luckily I purchased SLI water block connectors during the original build, and one of them works!
780's are in!! I had to select a different SLI tubing path, but it works and it fits. Leak test passed... can't wait to fire these babies up!
Firing up!
And cleaned up my desk to focus more on gaming since I have very little time to do it - so when I do... I want to make sure it's intense.
/******************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
*
* HOUSTON WE HAVE A PROBLEM: 07-03-2013
*
******************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************/
Been running Danger Den Dreamflex 1/2"ID x 3/4"OD blue uv tubing with EK Coolant Blue UV since Nov 2011 without flush. I upgraded my GPUs last month so I drained my loop, installed and connected the GPUs, and filled it back up. Upon starting the pump, I almost immediately noticed little flakes swirling around my res. I thought nothing of it, and left it alone.
Yeah, guess what happened to me this past week?
CPU all of sudden spiked to 95C on load for no reason. Causing all sorts of BSODs while gaming. Upon inspection, flow was completely stuck at CPU block. After Googling around for possible causes, plasticizer kept on popping up (it was the first I ever heard of it). This is my second water-cooling rig, and I never had to flush my previous rig that ran for 7 years (clear tubing from hardware store + distilled water & MCT-5 coolant additive). I bit the bullet proceeded to do a complete tear-down. I am shocked that any vendor selling PC water cooling components would allow such products to be released. As a result of plasticizer leeching from tubing and having not flushed my radiators prior to installing them, I am now having to RMA two cards (because I can't clean the GPU blocks without voiding the warranty), clean CPU block, and completely flush rads with soap + hot water w/ distilled water rinse.
At the moment, I am completely rebuilding my loop (new Durelene tubing, distilled + silver only, new higher flow CPU block, and scrubbing every fitting). Here are some of my plasticizer buildup + possible radiator flakes, and what it did to my EK Supreme block. I hope everyone can learn from my mistake of using Danger Den Dreamflex blue UV tubing + EK coolant blue UV reactive (or anything of the sort). Don't use that combination unless you want this to happen to you:
Severe plasticizer build up from faulty tubing
Complete blockage from plasticizer and radiator flux
Plasticizer samples from CPU block and tube
This one I scraped off a single tube.
I used these plasticizer samples to see what would dissolve them. Vinegar doesn't do anything to it. However, a de-greaser does dissolve it. I put a couple d drops of Arctic Thermal Material Remover on a small sample, and it immediately started breaking it down. I'd like to know what effect degreasers have on nickel, copper, rubber orings, and plastics.
GPUs are blocked too. But, opening the GPU blocks voids the warranty so I RMA'd them both.
EVGA swiftly shipped me a new pair of GTX 780 Hydro Coppers. Too bad I don't have a 4-way SLI board (and too bad 4-way doesn't scale well)
Cleaned the EK Supreme HF blocks nickel top with lime juice soak and scrub + distilled water rinse
BUT, after more thought I wanted a block with lower resistance, so I upgraded to the EK Supremacy Clean CSQ nickel top, which had a jet top with a much larger gap for high flow
Ah, the legendary 2600K, cleaned and ready for the new block
Thoroughly flushed both radiators with hot tap water and dish soap w/ distilled water rinse. I used a pond pump and a hollowed out Britta filter
Redesigned my loop to reposition radiators between GPU and CPU for optimal cooling. Also added external flush routing for easy maintenance.
Durelene clear tubing with Mayhem Pastel Sunset Yellow - black n' yellow. Looks great. Flow is high, temps are back to normal - (CPU: 32/62, GPUs: 28/42)
External flush routing - turn the valve, and hook up to external pump for system flushing.
Added aquarium pre-filter to reservoir to prevent plasticizer, flux, and oxidation plates from going into the blocks again.
I gotta say, the Mayhem pastel yellow sunset just pops out of the black components - looks amazing.
I didn't want to, but I had to... for Battlefield.
http://www.hardocp.com/article/2013/11/24/battlefield_4_windows_7_vs_81_performance_review/
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* WHY IS MY MOUSE SO LAGGY?: 02-04-2014
*
******************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************/
So after upgrading to Windows 8.1 from 7, I noticed that my mouse is stuttering and lagging both on the desktop and in-game. It was so noticeable that spent two days researching all sorts of W8.1 mouse lag hot fixes, updated my bios (perhaps the USB chip doesn't have the latest firmware?), installed latest mobo drivers, etc.
None of them worked. I was *positive* my Logitech MX Performance that was at the time, the best mouse you could buy, would last forever. It was the only mouse I ever needed... great for gaming, great for everything right? WRONG.
The culprit? Mouse polling rate. The MX Performance polling rate was 125Hz. That seemed like plenty for me for a 1500DPI. It turns out that if you have a high resolution display (2K, 4K, etc), that's not even near enough.
After a lengthy process of elimination, I decided to purchase a new mouse with a higher polling rate and higher DPI to test my theory. I went with the Logitech G700s (which is basically a badass version of the Performance MX). It has a polling rate of 1000Hz and 8200DPI... it's theoretically a 10x better performing mouse. In practice? It a 10x better performing mouse! EVERYTHING, and I do mean everything was much much smoother. No matter how quickly I try to twitch my mouse, it never missed a position. My in-game experience has improved DRASTICALLY. I even noticed it being much smoother than the Performance MX in Windows 7. Overall, very glad with the upgrade, and very glad my mouse stutter problems are solved.
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* WHY IS MY MOUSE *STILL* LAGGY?: 09-17-2014
*
******************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************/
So believe it or not, the G700S started becoming unresponsive and stutter-y. At first I thought it was the 2.4Ghz receiver because I noticed that certain places on my desk it would be very responsive, but other places it would not.
After several hours of research, it turns out that just because it's a laser mouse, and just because it'll work on "any" surface, doesn't mean it will work well on any surface. Far from it, on some surfaces, the precision is horrible. Sure it'll work, but the precision is so bad.
After watching this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXNDxFbb4ZY
Logitech tunes their mouses (mice?) lasers and optics, especially the G700S, on their gaming mouse pads. So I decided to purchase the Logitech G440 gaming mouse pad. That made an insane difference. The precision is SO EXACT it's like night and day. I wish I knew this when I purchased the mouse months ago. Gaming is so much better with the insane precision improvement.
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