Posts by Timothy Scott25

You're basically agreeing with my entire last post, though I guess you're a little more on board with the shaded parts 😁 :P

Christian Mitchell76 said:I'm putting a rig together and was thinking about pairing an AMD Athlon 64 X4 with a 5870, but then I stumbled onto this NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470... now I'm honestly not even sure anymore.

I honestly have no idea why everyone is obsessing over the Xeon, unless you're some kind of hardcore engineer working on NASA budgets or something. Just grab a Black Edition 965 and call it a day... or if you actually care about performance, maybe just snag a 1090 Ti from Micro Center. $800Look, you'll end up with everything you need, including those extra clock speeds for gaming. Just don't even think about touching NVIDIA—it’s honestly weaker. A 480 isn't even close, let alone a 470, when you compare it to anything from the 5800 or 5900 series.

Richard Fox7 said:wait, so you're saying Roccat isn't overpriced, but Razer is? cool. 😂

I guess Razer just plays the paid influencer game way more than you think... besides, why trash Razer if you haven't even touched one...

I didn't say I hadn't used one, just that I never bought one 😁 Roccat isn't overpriced at all. And please, don't start comparing prices in the US to how things work overseas, because we all know a $100 item in America might cost way more elsewhere due to crazy markups. It ends up being that what costs $167 in the States, you end up paying $400 here... I guess I'm being a bit ironic, but the markup on retail prices compared to wholesale in some places is just insane... like, if a Sapphire HD5870 Toxic is $480 in America, that would be $867. It probably wouldn't even hit our local stores, and if it did, it'd be like Eyefinity 6—more expensive than a 5970—so what am I supposed to buy? 😁

Bottom line, Razer is fine, but personally, I think Roccat is better. It kind of bugs me when people worship Razer like gods without actually owning anything. They just want us to spend money. Honestly, the guy could have easily $120 picked up a DeathAdder or a Roccat Kova for $450, or whatever... he was just sucked in by the fact that it looks like a Lamborghini Reventon, glows like a Christmas tree, and has over 5000 DPI, as if anyone is actually using that on a 30" monitor. Personally, I never went above 800 DPI on my old mouse and it was totally fine.

So, would you actually drop $167 on some unproven mouse quality? Personally, I’d never waste my cash on Razer. I’d either grab a Roccat—which is what I did—or maybe SteelSeries. Logitech is alright, I guess, but they're overpriced. Razer is just a damn hype brand; seriously, how many actual pros are even using them? What’s the actual ROI there? Like, does any Razer mouse even have TCU like a Roccat does? Anyone can slap some LEDs on a mouse, but finding something that looks cool without being overpriced and actually high-quality? That seems impossible. American companies just love using flashy ads to brainwash people—clearly, they’ve mastered that here in the States too 👎... and I honestly thought people here were a bit smarter than that. If someone messes up and buys the wrong mouse, they'll just flip it on eBay and someone else will end up 😁

Look, don't fall for the mainstream hype and drop a bag on Razer... it's basically like buying a Dell laptop... you're paying way too much when you could have just built a custom rig for better performance... I guess... I'm not sure why nobody suggested a Roccat Taito pad to you..

If you’re looking for actual precision, just go with an optics setup or a G3... though if you already dropped $167, you might as well have spent 600 on a Roccat Kone. It’s easily the best mouse out there, and if you check the link, you can get it in a bundle with headphones worth over $83....