Hi All
seeing that LT’s mouse blog got things going
Here are the parts for my new gaming rig

Please feel free to comment

Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 CPU, 2.40 GHz, FSB 1066MHz, 2×4MB L2 Cache, Socket LGA775
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600, 2.40 GHz Clock Speed, FSB 1066MHz, 2×4MB L2 Cache, Socket LGA775. Intel 965 or 975 motherboard chipset required

ABIT IX38 QuadGT M/board – Intel X38, 1600MHz FSB, DDR2-1066, Dual PCI-E x16, SATAII RAID, GbE LAN, USB2.0, 1394, 8-Ch Audio, ATX
ABIT IX38 QuadGT M/board – Intel X38 / ICH9R, 1600MHz FSB, DDR2-1066, Dual PCI-E x16, 1 x PCI-E x16 (x4 bandwidth), 1 x PCI-E x1, 2 x PCI, SATAII RAID, GbE LAN, USB2.0, 8-Ch Audio, ATX, 2 x eSATA, IEEE 1394, 100% Solid State Capacitors, External CCMOS button, Extendor Silent Dual Pipe Cooling, PCI-E 2.0 with CrossFire support, Onboard On/Off and Reset buttons, HDMI Ready Header (S/P DIF Header)

I’ve never really bothered getting any real gaming setup going. I actually generally play ET:QW slouched on my couch with a Thinkpad T61P balanced precariously on my lap. My cat likes how warm the graphics card vent gets and squeezes in on my lap as well, occassionally causing me to fire uncontrollably when she drops her weight on the trackpad buttons so apologies for when this happens :)

My mouse for this until now has been a portable Logitech infra-red based thing: great little mouse for just working and keeping in a laptop case, not so good for gaming I guess.

But I’m thinking that a proper mouse might be in order to improve my game a little without putting in all that hard work and practice people keep going on about.

Anyone care to chime in whether a good mouse will make much of a difference? What models are good and cheap? I don’t mind using a wired mouse, as it will be only plugged in for gaming anyway.

UPDATE:

Hi all
Here is a more indepth overview of how i got my binds to work

path to myconfig.cfg
\My Documents\id Software\Enemy Territory – QUAKE Wars\base\myconfig.cfg

use WORDPAD to create and edit file.
File:myconfig.cfg

seta net_clientPunkbusterEnabled “1”
seta ui_clanTagPosition “1”
seta ui_clanTag “ – ^4I^7P^AX”
seta ui_name “Robag”
seta com_allowconsole “1”
seta g_skipintro “1”
seta com_videoRam “512”
seta r_useThreadedRenderer “2”
seta g_advancedHud “1”
bind “w” “_voice” “” “default”
seta g_playTooltipSound “0”
seta g_tooltipVolumeScale “-20”

path to autoexec.cfg
\My Documents\id Software\Enemy Territory – QUAKE Wars\sdnet\robag\base\autoexec.cfg

Replace robag with your ETQW Profile name
The placement of the file is very important.
Otherwise the “profile.cfg” and “bindings.cfg” will reapply the default keybinds.
if you remove “profile.cfg” and “bindings.cfg” files ETQW will replace them the next time you run the game

A band which sparked my interest back in highschool…
I brought their albums after seeing part of this film clip, They are weird but I love(d) this song (it was back in the days when MP3s were cool and took an hour to convert them from .wav files which took 3 days to DL over dial up and you prayed no one called your phone number cause call waiting would screw the download and drop your connection)

Anyway. Something made me think of the band and i though it was strange I hadn’t heard anything…
unfortunately the lead (David Reilly) of the band died unexpectedly from complications of a coma brought on by pain medication for an abscessed tooth in 2005.
Life sucks!
Anyway, am kinda paying homage of sorts, life’s short people. don’t let trivial stuff ruin what you’ve got left. you don’t know how much you do have left…
Please watch the clip… out of respect for the dead and the fact that it is one of the best and most original I’ve ever seen!