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And you were saying about stuff being overpriced eh? :P

Adam3088: The only reason most Pro's use certain peripherals is because their sponsors will require them to use the products given to them by said sponsors, doesn't mean they're any good.

In the case of razer, they are just too far behind the curve now, their products are just rehashed crap with whatever year it is at time of launch tacked onto the box, that they've been releasing for the past decade.

As for keyboards - the best mechanical keyboards still are and probably always will be the IBM Model M's - Modern mech's are cheap and tacky in comparison, amusing as an M can be had for a whopping £25 (I got mine for free, out of a recycling skip, courtesy of my dad over a decade ago) if you know where to look, when the supposedly cheap razer one is almost 4 times that.

 
And you were saying about stuff being overpriced eh? :P

Adam3088: The only reason most Pro's use certain peripherals is because their sponsors will require them to use the products given to them by said sponsors, doesn't mean they're any good.

In the case of razer, they are just too far behind the curve now, their products are just rehashed crap with whatever year it is at time of launch tacked onto the box, that they've been releasing for the past decade.

As for keyboards - the best mechanical keyboards still are and probably always will be the IBM Model M's - Modern mech's are cheap and tacky in comparison, amusing as an M can be had for a whopping £25 (I got mine for free, out of a recycling skip, courtesy of my dad over a decade ago) if you know where to look, when the supposedly cheap razer one is almost 4 times that.
IBM Model M are actually buckling spring.

You are one lucky git. I really want one but cant find a cheap one wahhh.

 
And you were saying about stuff being overpriced eh? :P

Adam3088: The only reason most Pro's use certain peripherals is because their sponsors will require them to use the products given to them by said sponsors, doesn't mean they're any good.

In the case of razer, they are just too far behind the curve now, their products are just rehashed crap with whatever year it is at time of launch tacked onto the box, that they've been releasing for the past decade.

As for keyboards - the best mechanical keyboards still are and probably always will be the IBM Model M's - Modern mech's are cheap and tacky in comparison, amusing as an M can be had for a whopping £25 (I got mine for free, out of a recycling skip, courtesy of my dad over a decade ago) if you know where to look, when the supposedly cheap razer one is almost 4 times that.
Microsoft Intellimouse 3.0 anyone? They were and still are one of the most popular, no sponsoring there.

The reason most of them use Deathadders isn't so much down to sponsorship, it's because razer ripped off the ergonomics of the IE3.0 and stuck a higher dpi sensor in there (not that they'd be using a higher dpi).

Cheapest model M on ebay is more like £40, and you'll end up with horrible yellowed sh*t from the 80's. But it will have good switches, not sure if the compromise is worth it.

 
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Microsoft Intellimouse 3.0 anyone? They were and still are one of the most popular, no sponsoring there.

The reason most of them use Deathadders isn't so much down to sponsorship, it's because razer ripped off the ergonomics of the IE3.0 and stuck a higher dpi sensor in there (not that they'd be using a higher dpi).

Cheapest model M on ebay is more like £40, and you'll end up with horrible yellowed sh*t from the 80's. But it will have good switches, not sure if the compromise is worth it.
Intellimouse and g400 are the best mouses ever made.

 
Case: Xigmatic Midgaurd 2

CPU: AMD FX6300 Black edition

Motherboard: Asrock Extreme 4 970x

PSU: Antec 620w Bronze

GPU: MSI 7970 twin frozer 3 boost edition

RAM: 8GB Kingston Hyperx (Picked it up a few days before the prices rocketed on Kingston RAM curtsey of Tsunami + exploding reactors)

SSD: Sandisk 120GB

HD: Western Digital 1TB Black Edition

CPU Cooler: Antec Kuhler 620 closed loop cooler

Peripherals:

1 x IIyama 60hz 24inch panel

1 x ASUS 21inch panel

Keyboard: Gigabyte Avia (Do not buy - most broken drivers I have ever seen :( )

Mouse: Gigabyte M6900 (Very good quallity for not a lot of money. Still going strong nearly 3 years later. )

Mousepad: The stick-down Razer Sphex mouse mat.

Plenty of piles of models and other crap which creates a very messing looking desk so I will pass on taking pictures ;)

 
I got a mardi gras girl smoking on my right bicep.

This on my right arm just under my wrist;

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Next one I am going for is a female stormtrooper surrounded by roses in the traditional syle of tattoo with red shading and thick black outlines. Completely custom and being drawn and done professionally by an award winning parlour.

Hence why I have ath-m50's through a fii0 e10 with a modmic 3 on
Ahaha i watched Neon Genesis this weekend, assuming that were you got the image from? I'd forgotten how much of a Freudian head-fuk it gets and kinda skipped through alot of the last few episodes (the redone ones)

 
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Basically i spent about £3k at overclockers.co.uk, was on sale from about £4k as was just before another line of intel cpu came out. Beauty of working for my own IT ltd company is it's a company asset and pretty much paid for by my tax&VAT

I've got a 6core i7k overclocked to about 4.5ghz

2 x titan in crossfire

32gb 2400 RAM (i do actually have music&3D software to use it) Might only be 16gb in there in this pic, got free upgrade after the CPU went bang, along with the latest k series cpu that had prompted the pc to be put on sale in the first place.

2 x 512 SSD

Can't see it in the pic but I've got a MOTU 24i/o soundcard, think can just see the corner of the pci card it connects to.

i refused to buy one of the overclockers '8pack' series as anyone who calls themself '8pack' is a d*ckhead of petre andre proportions, and all the pictures of him flexing/frowning infront the PC's seemed to confirm this. So got this 'Infinity' series one instead with a similar spec.

i could have built this myself and saved about £500, but doing it this way meant i could buy a 3 year warranty, and have it picked up and repaired/replaced everytime something goes bang from overclock.

 
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Ahaha i watched Neon Genesis this weekend, assuming that were you got the image from? I'd forgotten how much of a Freudian head-fuk it gets and kinda skipped through alot of the last few episodes (the redone ones)
it all comes

tumbling down, tumbling down,

tumbling down,

Yeah my favourite series and movies of anything of all time, seen them well over 100 times. I don't watch anime anymore as nothing is good or can top eva. Asuka best girl.

I am a huge eva geek.

Because I work in retail and speak to a lot of customer they all ask if it's an illuminati tattoo haha.

 
it all comes

tumbling down, tumbling down,

tumbling down,

Yeah my favourite series and movies of anything of all time, seen them well over 100 times. I don't watch anime anymore as nothing is good or can top eva. Asuka best girl.

I am a huge eva geek.

Because I work in retail and speak to a lot of customer they all ask if it's an illuminati tattoo haha.
It's definately in my top 3 but my favourite anime has to be Ghost in the Shell.

But if you like giant robots then all the rest, gundam etc isn't fit to lick entry-plug of an Eva :)

Ahaha tell them it is the illuminati and ask them if they want to know the secret handshake.

As a kid i worked in a very exclusive golf-club on the bar, there was this one bar-hugging alcy that always used to bitch about the members being free-masons and how he'd been kind of banished by them although he still held his token position at the local lodge. He used to rant about free-masons having a link to the supposed illuminati at a high level. He insisted that there was a secret masonic handshake, and strict protocols involving it depending on your rank and the rank of the persons hand you were shaking. He showed me it and it essentially involved linking 4,5th fingers or tapping the persons using yours, depending on the rank and where the lodge ring was on the finger. After months of nagging/teasing he finally convinced me to attempt a masonic handshake with one the high-ranking club members, who he particularily detested and was a guy who insisted on shaking everyones hand all the time anyways. So i did it, he went to shake my hand, i switched to the left hand and tapped his 4th and 5th fingers with my own, twice. He stopped and looked at me like i'd just slapped his balls. He walks away and goes up to my manager, they go into his office for about 10 minutes. My boss then calls me into the office and tells me I'm being moved to work in the kitchen, and am free to resign if i don't want to do that. I took the kitchen job and lasted about a month before i found a better job.

To this day i've no idea if i was moved to the kitchen because i actually used a 'masonic handshake', or because i'd simply tickled this guys hand and he thought it was some kind of stroaking gay come-on :)

 
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It's definately in my top 3 but my favourite anime has to be Ghost in the Shell.

But if you like giant robots then all the rest, gundam etc isn't fit to lick entry-plug of an Eva :)

Ahaha tell them it is the illuminati and ask them if they want to know the secret handshake.

As a kid i worked in a very exclusive golf-club on the bar, there was this one bar-hugging alcy that always used to bitch about the members being free-masons and how he'd been kind of banished by them although he still held his token position at the local lodge. He used to rant about free-masons having a link to the supposed illuminati at a high level. He insisted that there was a secret masonic handshake, and strict protocols involving it depending on your rank and the rank of the persons hand you were shaking. He showed me it and it essentially involved linking 4,5th fingers or tapping the persons using yours, depending on the rank and where the lodge ring was on the finger. After months of nagging/teasing he finally convinced me to attempt a masonic handshake with one the high-ranking club members, who he particularily detested and was a guy who insisted on shaking everyones hand all the time anyways. So i did it, he went to shake my hand, i switched to the left hand and tapped his 4th and 5th fingers with my own, twice. He stopped and looked at me like i'd just slapped his balls. He walks away and goes up to my manager, they go into his office for about 10 minutes. My boss then calls me into the office and tells me I'm being moved to work in the kitchen, and am free to resign if i don't want to do that. I took the kitchen job and lasted about a month before i found a better job.

To this day i've no idea if i was moved to the kitchen because i actually used a 'masonic handshake', or because i'd simply tickled this guys hand and he thought it was some kind of stroaking gay come-on :)
i have actually done a lot of masonic research and I call bullshit on what most of that guy says.

Being a freemason is basically learning how to be a better man and how to help people.

Sure there are silly rituals, but they teach life lessons and morals.

One I read about is where you are topless and a sword is placed upon your throat/chest and you lean into it, it does not pierce but it shows trust to your fellow lodge members.

All these illuminati stuff from what I have researched is wrong and made up.

I am not a freemason myself and I doubt I will be as you have to believe in a higher spirit i.e. a deity such as god etc, but I am an atheist.

They don't really have secret handshakes or anything, masons just know other masons as their network is huge.

 
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i have actually done a lot of masonic research and I call bullshit on what most of that guy says.

Being a freemason is basically learning how to be a better man and how to help people.

Sure there are silly rituals, but they teach life lessons and morals.

One I read about is where you are topless and a sword is placed upon your throat/chest and you lean into it, it does not pierce but it shows trust to your fellow lodge members.

All these illuminati stuff from what I have researched is wrong and made up.

I am not a freemason myself and I doubt I will be as you have to believe in a higher spirit i.e. a deity such as god etc, but I am an atheist.

They don't really have secret handshakes or anything, masons just know other masons as their network is huge.
Agreed, it's just a club and any 'conspiracy' related to it is no more than club members favouring putting their business to other club members where possible.

I think the alcy was mostly bullshitting, and any 'shunning' experienced by him was due to him failing to maintain the level of behavior and brotherhood expected.

There probably are even more exclusive clubs for more powerful/richer people, but i don't think the world is that organised, and 'illuminati' etc just wishful thinking as that kind of power and organisation is a comforting thought compared to chaos and pragmatic opportunism.

 
Agreed, it's just a club and any 'conspiracy' related to it is no more than club members favouring putting their business to other club members where possible.

I think the alcy was mostly bullshitting, and any 'shunning' experienced by him was due to him failing to maintain the level of behavior and brotherhood expected.

There probably are even more exclusive clubs for more powerful/richer people, but i don't think the world is that organised, and 'illuminati' etc just wishful thinking as that kind of power and organisation is a comforting thought compared to chaos and pragmatic opportunism.
Agreed.

There are a few clubs that are very hidden in the world which are truly messed up but they stay hidden for a reason.

Then you get stuff like Disney lands club 33.

 
haha I know someone who owns petre andre's old california xD

very very nice pc there mate, jealous!
and now he gets the bus to his nearest Iceland...

i hope he got it for a good price as giving Peter Andre a full ferrari's worth of cash could count as helping to perpetuate Petre Andre... Although it'd prob be more a case of funding Jordan via child-support payments, which is worse hehe.

Yeah it's a beauty, most expensive thing i've ever bought. Haven't been able to get my money's worth out of it for sure, barely get a chance to play with it! Still, feels appropriate owning a veritable super-computer when work in IT.

But it's still very much the PC equivalent of buying a brand-new Systema PTW and a bunch of real-steal body parts/accessories and then only going to a skirmish once every month or two :)

 
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What's the difference between the Deathstalker essential and the regular version? from what i can see, its just without leds, so would it be worth getting?

 
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i think the best bet would be to get what I have. Just done some research and it turns out that razer was probably making mice better back years ago than they do now.

http://www.overclock.net/t/1128321/the-deathadder-megathread

best to read this thread about the 3.5g

also note this thread

https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=56240.0

no acceleration or prediction blah blah, you will notice it, hop inot cod advanced warfare (auto acceleration) and you will be sick lol

so the sensor is: Avago ADNS S3888

googling that shows that it is flawless, meaning no jittering so a good sensor in other words.

I believe that pretty much razer's old mice are better quality, last longer as well and are really cheap now.

https://www.google.co.uk/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=razer+deathadder+3500dpi&tbm=shop

you just have to be careful, i think if you get really cheap OEM's then synapse cannot be used meaning like no software to configure your mouse, although synapse is sometimes annoying it is quite useful for changing settings.

EDIT: oh yeah, basically the new razer deathadders have updated sensors for more DPI but they haven't really changed anything else so the older versions have nice sensors, my mouse is really on point and feels great. 3500 dpi is perfect for me as well, I cba to pay like double the price for more colour changes than just blue (RGB) and 10,000dpi when 3500 is adequate for me :)

 
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i think the best bet would be to get what I have. Just done some research and it turns out that razer was probably making mice better back years ago than they do now.

http://www.overclock.net/t/1128321/the-deathadder-megathread

best to read this thread about the 3.5g

also note this thread

https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=56240.0

no acceleration or prediction blah blah, you will notice it, hop inot cod advanced warfare (auto acceleration) and you will be sick lol

so the sensor is: Avago ADNS S3888

googling that shows that it is flawless, meaning no jittering so a good sensor in other words.

I believe that pretty much razer's old mice are better quality, last longer as well and are really cheap now.

https://www.google.co.uk/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=razer+deathadder+3500dpi&tbm=shop

you just have to be careful, i think if you get really cheap OEM's then synapse cannot be used meaning like no software to configure your mouse, although synapse is sometimes annoying it is quite useful for changing settings.

EDIT: oh yeah, basically the new razer deathadders have updated sensors for more DPI but they haven't really changed anything else so the older versions have nice sensors, my mouse is really on point and feels great. 3500 dpi is perfect for me as well, I cba to pay like double the price for more colour changes than just blue (RGB) and 10,000dpi when 3500 is adequate for me :)
I feel quite silly now because i wrote deathadder instead of deathstalker, curse razer for similar names! Sorry bro, but now i am well informed on razer mice ;)

 
I feel quite silly now because i wrote deathadder instead of deathstalker, curse razer for similar names! Sorry bro, but now i am well informed on razer mice ;)
haha no problems, I now know more on my mouse than i did before so useful for me xD, can do some research, but if the deathstalker is the keyboard then I would suggest not getting it, due to the cheap switches they use

 
Mother board: MSI Z97 MPOWER MAX AC

Processor: Intel Core i7-4790K [4.0 GHz default clock, not OC'ed]

Processor Cooling: Be Quiet! Dark Rock PRO 3

Graphic card: Asus GTX 980 DC2 OC Strix 4GB GDDR5 (256 Bit)

Memory: G.Skill TridentX DDR3 2x8GB 2666MHz CL11 XMP + Turbulence

Sound card: ASUS Xonar DX

Power supply: Enermax Platimax EPM 750 AWT

Case: IN WIN BUC 666

Headphones: Creative HS-800 Fatality Gaming

Speakers: Creative Inspire T6300

Microphone: Blue Yeti

Screen: EIZO FG2421

Keyboard: Gigabyte Force K7

Mouse: Logitech B100

Mouse pad: A4-Tech X7 Gaming

Gamepad: Microsoft Xbox One

I can say, Im happy, finally. Not a single game that I couldnt run maxed. The most demanding one, is the Arma 3, though I have never liked any sorft of bloom, and AA.

 
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Mother board: MSI Z97 MPOWER MAX AC

Processor: Intel Core i7-4790K [4.0 GHz default clock, not OC'ed]

Processor Cooling: Be Quiet! Dark Rock PRO 3

Graphic card: Asus GTX 980 DC2 OC Strix 4GB GDDR5 (256 Bit)

Memory: G.Skill TridentX DDR3 2x8GB 2666MHz CL11 XMP + Turbulence

Sound card: ASUS Xonar DX

Power supply: Enermax Platimax EPM 750 AWT

Case: IN WIN BUC 666

Headphones: Creative HS-800 Fatality Gaming

Speakers: Creative Inspire T6300

Microphone: Blue Yeti

Screen: EIZO FG2421

Keyboard: Gigabyte Force K7

Mouse: Logitech B100

Mouse pad: A4-Tech X7 Gaming

Gamepad: Microsoft Xbox One

I can say, Im happy, finally. Not a single game that I couldnt run maxed. The most demanding one, is the Arma 3, though I have never liked any sorft of bloom, and AA.
I cant even afford that mousepad :)

 
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