Itsy-bitsy gaming PC

Pics and sharing your experiences with it is welcome, once you get it up and running.

 

Former. Without a doubt, especially for action games.

 

If you want a really good wireless mouse look into the Logitech Chaos. It has wireless latency that is lower than many gaming mice's wired latency. It also has quite significantly better tracking and tracking consistency than any other wireless mouse. It is rather expensive, however. But the gulf between that and the next best wireless mouse is relatively huge.

You can get cheaper alternatives from Logitech, Razer, etc. Razer is good but components can wear out relatively quickly depending on how much it is used. Logitech used to have some issues with the switches they used for mouse clicks, but I haven't had any problems with the last 2-3 generations of mice from them.

I haven't used any wireless keyboards in about 6 or 7 years now, so don't have much to offer there.

Regards,
SB

 

Yeah, that's a nice package. I myself use a solar powered wireless Logitech keyboard for my HTPC (http://www.amazon.com/Logitech-Wireless-Solar-Keyboard-K750/dp/B004MF11MU ). It would have been awesome if it also had a trackpad on it, but oh well, I've got extra wireless mice that I can keep in the living room. Currently using one of the Logitech mice using their "Darkfield" sensor which amazingly lives up to the hype and actually works on pretty much any surface imaginable.

I hated having to either replace or recharge batteries in previous wireless keyboards I used. It is absolutely 100% not suitable for gaming, but it's good enough for basic Windows tasks.

Regards,
SB

 

I use those K400 on my htpc's, they're fantastic. Excellent range, very reliable and batteries last forever. Can't do without the trackpads.


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Really? The range sucks on mine. Barely works with roughly 3m distance from sofa to tv. If I lean too much back or to either side, it starts to break up.

 

What's the point of using a keyboard with your htpc? I guess the gf/wife acceptance factor isn't very high.

Mce remote for controlling Kodi and Netflix and a xbox controller for steam in home streaming is my prefered setup.

 

I'm doing the same and never found it to be an issue. That said my tv is only 1080p so if 4k scaling isn't very good your solution is probably the better one.

 

I have a Logitech Harmony for 90% of my HTPC use. The keyboard is very handy for doing things that require mouse/keyboard like browsing, typing in a search etc. when required.

 

I use a wireless mouse as my primary control method for my HTPC and, while I have a Harmony remote, I actually have most media playback functions mapped to the mouse buttons and pretty much only use the remote for volume and system control. I've found that having the mousewheel set as a jog/shuttle control for media is kind of hard to give up once you get used to it.

 

So an ultra-high-end gaming console, effectively? Controller as primary device makes sense then.

I would be curious, though, to see what kind of upscaling and FRC results could be achieved with MadVR with that much compute power on tap and how they compare to the TVs built-in functions.

Also, what was it that made you take the plunge into high-end PC gaming? You have seemed quite cold to the idea in the past.

Anyway, I hope everything comes together well and am eager to hear your impressions.

 

Is windows 10 really that bad on that front? My htpc is running w10 and I never had a reboot while I was using it. It's a pretty much stock config.

BPM has been pretty stable for me since I started using it about a year ago. Never had any real problems.

 

Windows 10 allows you to schedule when updates will occur. So you should be able to pick a time when you aren't going to be using the machine. Or just manually do it. My Surface 3 (non Pro Win 10) won't forcibly apply an update for a few days which is tolerable on my Surface 3, but would be annoying on my desktop which has uptime requirements in weeks and sometimes months. But either way it means it won't restart Windows while I'm using it.

Regards,
SB