General computer talk/advice

Looking for a new mech to play with. Must be tenkeyless or smaller, wireless would be nice but definitely not necessary, and I'd prefer something like MX Browns but I'm definitely willing to try something else. (Current and only mech keyboard is a K70 with Reds.)

I don't want to spend more than $70 or so. Used is fine with me. Any suggestions?

 

I'm looking at a keyboard to get as well... I don't really like my 10 year old HP keyboard.

I've decided I want a mechanical keyboard, probably with cherry mx red or brown switches. I also want a wrist rest, and a backlit keyboard as well. I was looking at the corsair K70 so far. Is there anything similar that's a bit cheaper?

Anyone have any suggestions?

Also, I'm not in a hurry to buy one either, not planning to get one soon. I just want to decide on a keyboard for now.

 

I would normally recommend the whatever I use, but my Aula Mechanical Demon King is about as well equipped as a Soviet house... Or a cave. It does have a Windows key lockout though, but that's it.

Razer Blackwidow Ultimate or Chroma.

 

I forgot to mention, I really don't like Razer. I guess I'll go with the K70, or whatever there'll be in the future when I actually plan to buy one.

 

I have a quickfire tk in browns at the moment. Backlit, available in blues/browns/reds and greens. Backlight and backplate colour matches the selected switch type, except on browns where they use white instead

It is odd though. Roughly tenkeyless in size but has a numpad instead of arrows. Numlock being off then enables the backlighting on the 0, 00 (yes, a double 0 key), . and 2 keys (which is otherwise off regardless of other backlight settings and will also be enabled regardless of other backlight settings, actually my only minor annoyance with the entire affair but makes little impact to me though) and the numpad can then be used for arrows, pageup/down, home/end etc. A setup that actually works out quite nicely for me.
Only other thing to note is a slight rattle to the spacebar, however the spacebar is easily removed due to using MX dummy switches either side rather than those weird metal clips and I might just put some really soft sponge under it or something.




For full size. A K70 is a rock solid choice. As is the blackwidow but its switches are essentially MX blues, there is the blackwidow stealth but its harder to find, that is supposed to be a clone of brown but the bump is less noticeable with some people complaining they feel more like reds.

 

Thanks for the info!

I guess I'll be getting a K70 unless something new comes along.

 

Meanwhile... stuck with a MS 2000 keyboard & mouse... Its horrible for playing CS:GO its had it, it randomly cuts out and teleports my mouse to the location I moved my mouse to, no actual movement rego'ed, this makes CS:GO unplayable when it does this, even clicking on things are hard as the mouse cursor teleports around my screen.

I want a K70, but I ain't dishing out that much money to put words on a screen.

 

My mouse and keyboard cost less than a McDonalds burger, and came with about as much grease as one.

Used keyboards for the win

 

I am planning on getting a better laptop and I have found one that I like here are the specs:

1.8ghz AMD A10-8700P quad core processer, 12GB RAM, 1TB hard drive, 2GB R7M360 graphics

its a HP Pavalon Silver Notebook with a 15.6" screen.


My dad is thinking of getting me it for my birthday.


Will this be good enough to play BeamNG on high or normal settings I don't want to get a gaming rig since it will take up a lot of space and I can't carry it with me.

 

The GPU should be pretty decent, but an AMD CPU at 1.8 ghz will struggle with beamng. 12gb ram is also very overkill, you might want to go for a cheaper 8gb version if there is one.

 

10 - 12 FPS low - lowest settings.

That's a no-go. Portable gaming really isn't possible, unless you go for a crazy expensive gaming laptop.

 

I can get around 30fps on Gridmap with my current laptop and the other one has better hardware then my current one I mainly want to get a better laptop since mine doesn't have much power but I can't spend thousands of dollars on expensive hardware since money is steep in my household (and I cant get a part time job because I live in the middle of nowhere). and plus I wouldn't have much use of a desktop and finally I wouldn't be able to use it or even store it.

the one I have chosen passes the recommended specs which is good plus it has an AMD processer which apparently popular with pc gamers.

 

Link please. Mobile AMD CPUs suck

 

I would think so, since there are only two brands to choose from: Intel and AMD. That's like saying Pepsi is popular among cola drinkers; you'd expect so since there's only Coke and Pepsi. The point is, that statement means nothing and you shouldn't be fooled by a marketer's slick wording like that. Just trying to help.

 

Why?

Whats your current laptop specs?

 

my specs yeah its not much.

 

You don't mention gpu there...
buy you have 8gb of ram which is all you will need. You have a better processor for BeamNG than that laptop.

at the same clock speed, amd is much slower than Intel. Not only that but you've just opted for a laptop with a decreased clock speed over yours. Its a massive downgrade.

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Because AMD processors achieve lower performance than Intel for the same clock speed. AMD processors also consume more power than Intel for the same clock speed. In a laptop, why opt for the slower and power hungrier chip? Its completely counter intuitive to running the thing on battery.
the only thing they have going for them is that the integrated gpu on many (in the mobile space though, not all) is better than intels.

 

I don't agree. My 4702MQ and GT 750M run the game in stable 1080p60 on Gridmap. Hirochi raceway stutters a bit sometimes, but overall it runs really smooth.
Quality is on low/medium, 8x AF, and PostFX on low.

 

My head just exploded.

 

That's their desktop CPUs.


AMD isn't stuck with Piledriver and Steamroller like their desktop CPU's, heres where you could say "consume more power and lower performance a stock speed". That 8700P is a Carrizo CPU, and they have improved their IPC and performance per what, not like the most recent Intel processor, but it is a good CPU, it isnt any massive downgrade.


8700P vs 3110M vs i5 5200U (Broadwell): http://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare.php?cmp[]=763&cmp[]=2542&cmp[]=2440


But yeah, passmark is the only bench that shows a performance increase with Steamroller and Carrizo, it should perform similar the rest of task.

You better stay with your current laptop, you are not upgrading to a better CPU, either to a worse one.

Edit: Just realized that I wrote "performance per what". xD