I've got a G110 Keyboard. It'd pretty rad. I had to get used to the spacing of the keys. They are smaller due to the addition of the macro keys on the left. I don't really use them. I wish I didn't spend $100 on this thing, mainly because I don't use it for what it was created for. I use it a lot in LOTRO, but I hardly play that anymore. Backlighting LUA scripts are cool, but I dunno. I still prefer my Thinkpad keyboard. I might purchase the separate keyboard+touch from lenovo later.
How extensive is the backlighting? Can you do anything like on my Alienware? I know there's only red/blue LED's so you can only do those and the shade combinations in between but I liked how you can hit MR, G1-12, record the macro you want, then MR again and you're done. That's awesome for some things I do, administrative and game wise.
The backlighting isn't very bright. You can turn it off and it looks just like a normal black keyboard with white letters, but the only way to tweak brightness is by the shade of the colour. Since you only get red and blue and the shades between, the full red is the brightest and most clear colour you get out of it. Full blue is similar, but it feels like the light is physically lower in the keys than the red. The red pops out almost like 3D when compared to the blue. But that's the nature of the colour red, isn't it? It's also hard to see the keys clearly with the blue lighting with room lights turned off, but it's not piercing like the red (which you do get used to in the dark). The best and my favourite shade would be the brightest Purple/Violet. It's easy on the eyes in the dark, easy to see, and it's just a nice colour. For my M1 setting I use full red, for M2 I use full blue, and for my M3 setting I use a wave mod that fades through most of the shades in increments of 4. The higher you set the increment the faster the wave will go through the shades. I think it was set to 10 originally or something. I changed it to 4 because it's not too fast and not to slow. You can tell it's changing, but it's not distracting. Also, the USB port on the keyboard works great, I have my mouse plugged into that, but the USB headset features of the G110 kind of suck. Note that the USB port does not provide power, but flash drives and input devices work fine. My WD MyBook External HDD doesn't work with it for some reason. The MyBook has it's own power source and everything. The Mic input is fine, but the low quality sound OUTput is pretty bad. You can actually hear the degradation of quality. It sounds crackled. Thankfully my AX 180 headset allows USB (since fucking lenovo removed mic inputs on the T series of thinkpads).
For the past month and a half I've seen the G510 for just $10 at best buy in this area. When I saw that I grudged my purchase even more. I would suggest you get that keyboard instead since it's got the screen and it has green and yellow added to the backlighting for the full rainbow mods. Since you're a Best Buy employee, I'd think you'd get it for around $100.
Last edited by Amit; July 28th, 2011 at 02:28 PM.
I was looking at the G510 today but decided to go with the G110 anyway. I honestly hate the gimmicky screen that Logitech has been putting on some of its keyboards and I think the G110 is wide enough as is without the extra G-keys that the G510 would of provided. I've got it home and setup now and I see what you mean about the red vs blue lighting, though you're absolutely correct in saying that it's the nature of red to "pop" more to the eye. I'll be using red during the day (M1) and blue during the night (M2). Send me that script key for your transitioning and I'll set it to my M3 as well, or even the link to the place you found the transitioning script.
Hey, how good would this card do in BC2/BF3?
Because it's either I get something like that next week, or wait a long while longer to get a 6870.
Wait a while longer. That thing is basically the same as my HD 5750 (cuz mine performs like a HD 5770). The HD 6700 series is pretty much a rebranded HD 5700 series, except with newer tech and an added 6790 model. So, basically, you're be going in the opposite direction. And from what I've seen from benchmarks, the HD 6870 is about the same level as the HD 5850. So you'd still be going backwards with that. Get this Sapphire HD 6870 and give me the Dirt 3 code as a referral
Last edited by Amit; July 29th, 2011 at 12:19 AM.
I think i'm going to get this card. The price is right, and it's got great reviews. It also seems to perform pretty good with the Battlefield 3 Alpha. I'll only be running it at 1600x900 though, so mine will probably do better than that.
XFX support ticket reply, as of 3 hours ago:
Hi John, We are more than happy to RMA the card and test it out, and then if repair or replacement is necessary we can arrange it. Be sure your online account information has a full first and last name, best shipping address for signature delivery (no PO boxes), and an up to date phone number filled out in the Account Details Section. All that information will be needed to proceed with warranty servicing. Let us know when thats confirmed. - Erik
Anyone have any idea when the next refresh on CPUs and video cards is going to be? Looking to build a dedicated workstation the next couple of months to last me at least four years. Would hate to buy and have new stuff out a month later.
Considering AMD/nVidia have crammed two cards into one, I'm guessing we're up for a new gen next release. Never been too fond of having to buy at this point in the cycle :\.
April 2012 for Intel's Ivy Bridge/Socket 2011 with PCI-E 3.0. Since PCI-E 3.0 is coming with socket 2011 I would assume new GPU series will be as well.
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