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    Proficient Member Slaterking is offline
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    G5 or G7

    What better for gaming??
    The G5 and G7 and the same but the G5 is wired and the G7 is wireless witch is best for gaming??


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    Gamma linklink88 is offline
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    Re: G5 or G7

    A wired mouse always wins.

    A wireless often goes down in "sleep" mode and if you play you will feel a little "lag" (like when camping on CS and you wanna put a quick HS but your mouse doesn't follow). But this ofcourse is depending on the mouse itself. My old wireless MS mouse went into sleepmode after about 10 seconds making it worhtless for gaming. Next one I had was a logitech which hadn't that problem.

    In any case the batteries WILL run out when gaming which sucks.

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    Word, I'd pick a wired mouse of any wireless ANY day. Have been using a MX518 for a while now (bought 3 of them cause I liked it so much), and never went back to wireless (had some combo thingy from logitech, but it ended up raping batteries).

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    /\/\@573|2 NoPeace is offline
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    I prefer wireless mice to wired. Why? No cord to get in the way of fast movements.

    As for sleep mode. Look into the drivers and disable it... Very simple solution.

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    Re: G5 or G7

    Do you like not having a cord in the way? Get a G7

    Otherwise get a G5.

    I personally have a G7 and it only takes about 5-10 seconds to change the batteries once you get it down to a fine art :)

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    Proficient Member Slaterking is offline
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    Re: G5 or G7

    Very good point guys.
    I would go with wireless in a few years as it wud be more advanced and batteries will last longer and signal strength wud be better

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    I didn't mean I hate wireless. There are actually very good ones. But as I have it now I have no problem with the cord and as that is (for me) the only thing wireless got over wired I have no use of a wireless one :)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Slaterking View Post
    Very good point guys.
    I would go with wireless in a few years as it wud be more advanced and batteries will last longer and signal strength wud be better
    Umm... My mouse is 3 years old and I only have to change the batteries every 6 months. And I use it all the time.

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    Re: G5 or G7

    Quote Originally Posted by NoPeace View Post
    Umm... My mouse is 3 years old and I only have to change the batteries every 6 months. And I use it all the time.

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    Whoah, really? What mouse is it? And how high do you keep the DPI on average?That's really impressive

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    Re: G5 or G7

    That is indeed impressive. My G7 needs a change every 1-2 days now as I've worn the batteries down quite a lot, and from experience normal mice with 2x AA batteries die within about 3 days to a week.

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    Captain of the Universe Rishwin is offline
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    Re: G5 or G7

    wired for the fucking win. I recommend the SteelSeries IKARI instead of the G5, getting one very soon when my MX510 breaks.

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    Proficient Member Slaterking is offline
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    Re: G5 or G7

    That why i sed get one in a few years as batteries will last ages e.g. 1-2 years. As they will make them so they use less power.

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    Re: G5 or G7

    You do realise that you won't see a huge difference in batteries in just 1-2 years, batteries ain't like chips, they don't constantly make improvements. You would have to wait for a new type of battery to make it big before you see huge differences.
    Oh and the power consumption of the mouse itself won't go down much either.

    Anyway i'm a fan of wired, then again i got enough room for my whole cord to stretch out, and thus it's not in the way, but if your mouse is infront something then i suggest going wireless.
    Ofcourse that's if you are a hardcore gamer, if you die most of the time because you just suck then i i would take the wireless. ;)

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    Re: G5 or G7

    I've had G7 for about a year now and the only bad thing about it is that for some weird reason they've removed the forward button from it. D'oh!

    Anyhow I just love it love it love it. It doesn't 'sleep' in a noticeable way in middle of gaming, it's light weight, it slides perfectly over a good mouse pad (of course this is the same with G5) and batteries will never be an issue, either because it comes with two: while you're using one the other is comfortably getting recharged and in fact the mechanism for replacing is done so well it's actually fun (and swift) to switch batteries.

    To compare G5 and G7 especially of course the only difference is the wire, and let me tell you this: ever since I picked up G7 I'll never have to consider a wired mouse again. Like NoPeace already said, it's a huge plus when the wire doesn't get in the way of free movement. Whatever you do with a cord it's always adding weight.

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    Re: G5 or G7

    GohanSSJ has a point - we, well i have been waiting for the super latop battery that lasts 30 hours for like 8 years and still its the same 3-5 hour shit

    i have a g9 had a g5 but the right click button broke after 1 years use ( i dont even use right click that mutch anyhow)

    g9 is great

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    Alpha Member Mazo is offline
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    Re: G5 or G7

    Omen, do you still have that G5? I found at one point my G7's right mouse button was sticking, so i shoved a needle round the edges to clean out any crap in there and then held the mouse button down as firm as I could. Fixed it back to perfection.

    The G9 is one of the ugliest mice I've ever seen XD

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    Valued Member BuBbLeToNiC is offline
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    Re: G5 or G7

    This would be a pretty good debate lol. Personally i can't stand wireless for gaming but i have two mouses for my laptop one for traveling my V200 mouse. One for browsing and email the other for gaming.

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    The Unbeatable GohanSSJ is offline
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    Re: G5 or G7

    Quote Originally Posted by Negata View Post
    Whatever you do with a cord it's always adding weight.
    I'm gonna go captain obvious on you here... but so do the batteries...

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    Re: G5 or G7

    Quote Originally Posted by frozenrat View Post
    Whoah, really? What mouse is it? And how high do you keep the DPI on average?That's really impressive
    MS Wireless Optical Mouse 2.0

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    Re: G5 or G7

    i learned to love the g9, and i still do have the g5 ill needle it later,
    and BuBbLeToNiC, plural of mouse is mice.

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    Watching from above Negata is offline
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    Re: G5 or G7

    Quote Originally Posted by GohanSSJ View Post
    I'm gonna go captain obvious on you here... but so do the batteries...
    Meh, I meant that it's adding inconsistent, one-sided weight.



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