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Gamers form very personal attachment to their keyboards and mice, as finding the perfect peripheral can positively influence the relationship between the triumphant victories and humiliating defeats. After all, if you have to drop several grand on a new gaming PC, or even several hundred to one you have an upgrade, it is not advisable to include an accessory that can give you an edge on the latest interactive blockbuster buy?

However, for the most demanding players, we are not sure Logitech G19 is the right choice when it comes to cutting-edge keyboards. The device comes with features including an integrated LCD display, which take into account for a large part of her $ 200 price tag. But this fancy display little more than striking bling. We also have mashed a lot of directors that a lot better than it felt in our mitts, and sell for a fraction of the price.

In our opinion, no matter how much or how little, a keyboard costs if not solid feel at our fingertips, and the G19 keys if they encounter floating on a bowl of mashed potatoes. There is enough resistance that we never accidentally activated by a button just resting our fingers on the keyboard, but only moderate pressure on her abdomen caused the entire structure to bend.

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Logitech added a new test, while increasing the size of the G19 only slightly. It is approximately 1.5 inches wide and 1.75 inches deep (the LCD projects from the top) than the typical keyboard. Snapping on the detachable palm rest adds yet another three inches to the depth of the keyboard is the G19′s designers token nod to ergonomics. You can elevate the top of the keyboard by flipping a pair of peg legs, but the keys themselves are straight as an arrow, flat as a pancake. Some gamers prefer this type of design, others prefer a split in the middle which allows their wrists rest on a more natural angle.

Logitech wisely did not tamper with the traditional look, while adding their new keys though. Your fingers find the function keys where they expect to be, the Insert, Home, Delete, End, Page up and Page-down keys are in their usual two-row block, and arrow keys are in reverse their familiar “T”. The Enter, Backspace, Shift and Caps Lock keys are sufficiently large, and there’s a numeric keypad on the right start.

Logitech half set of 12 function keys labeled G1 through G12 on the left side of the keyboard, however. Each button can be programmed using three custom macros, so a key can also set up 36 test signals sent to the computer. Custom macros can be recorded on the fly, or you can use the included PC software (buy software online) to keystrokes, macros, scripts or functions (calculator, web browser, email, etc.) to be allocated to each G-key. You can then save these configurations as profiles that are automatically loaded when an application is started (if that is still ongoing matter what app is running).

Logitech has also specialized profiles for more than 60 games including Command & Conquer 3, Crysis, Fallout 3, World of Warcraft and World in Conflict, which consists of pre-recorded macros that can be assigned to one of the G-keys. If you’re playing Crysis, for example, your left hand a short distance to activate your night vision, switching from the gunner seat of a vehicle to its driver’s seat, or perform any other actions of the 45 games. We felt we were able to perform these actions with the G19 much faster than we could with a traditional keyboard where the jobs are allocated to all the letter keys on the keyboard. On our right and we never take off our mouse (left-handed may have a different experience).

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The keyboard keys can be illuminated by three color choices, green, blue and violet are available at a button. If you do not like one of these colors, you can create your own from a seemingly infinite palette. Oddly enough you can not disable the LCD without turning off the key backlight.

The novelty of having a display integrated into the keyboard disappears quickly. The tiltable LCD screen is sharp, bright, colorful, and provides a good resolution for its size (320 x 240 pixels). Logitech has a number of applications, but none that would not work better on the much larger display that’s right for you.

The clock / calendar, stopwatch, and CPU utilization monitor are quite useful, but the YouTube client, photos and video viewers, POP3 monitor, and RSS-feed program amounts to a lot of flash and little substance. And as you probably guessed, the LCD screen draws more power than one USB port can deliver, so keyboard comes with its own supplementary feeding. This sleek wall wart does not consume more than the allocated space on the socket, but not enough juice to provide the two-keyboard USB hub to power our gluttonous while Western Digital Passport 250GB Portable Hard Drive, either.

Gamers have cursed the Windows menu key, since it was way back when Duke Nukem 3D was everyone’s favorite first-person shooter entered. The G19 has a handy switch that deactivates it, so your games will not be interrupted while you reach for something else. We also like the built-in transport controls for Window Media Player, the volume wheel barrel, and the handy mute button (which is something that should be on every keyboard!)

Not everybody likes the G19 is mushy key action as distasteful as we did, so we can not let that weigh too heavily in our bottom-line advice. The price / performance ratio, on the other hand, is just way out of whack. As much as we like keyboard gaming-oriented features, the LCD just does not add enough value to justify the exorbitant price tag.

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Despite their cable-free convenience, wireless mice have a poor acceptance among serious PC gamers as a result of delay and the signal hiccups. feature-heavy Microsoft SideWinder X8 solves that problem with a hybrid design that you can swap almost seamlessly between wired and wireless connection. Throw in increased BlueTrack Microsoft sensor technology, a well-shaped design (for right handed people), and a handful of other functions, and the SideWinder X8 gaming mouse fits comfortably in the elite. Even at the suggested price of $ 99, the SideWinder X8 is a worthy addition to any gamer’s arsenal, but especially when you can find a little as $ 70 at Amazon.

The SideWinder X8 is an attractive, futuristic design that is smooth out the rough edges of a part of previous incarnations of the new generation of Microsoft SideWinder mouse. The X8 comes with a hard angled middle portion encapsulated by an elegant series of curves for each finger resting logical to offer. This design helps your hands fall into a natural grip. Keep the sidewinder in your left hand feels comfortable enough, but the two side buttons on the left side of the mouse were clearly tailored to your right thumb in mind.

Handers will appreciate the layout and design of the two side buttons. Like the earlier Sidewinders, the X8 thumb buttons are stacked, vertical layout. But instead of the older models’ rounded knobs, the X8 buttons on the side of the slope inwards, a crib for your thumb. This design allows you simply rock your thumb up and down to the buttons, to minimize the need for a discreet thumb movement that takes you from the primary control flow. That may sound insignificant to nongamers, but we expect the first-person shooting twitch crowd will approve.

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The X8 has two primary buttons perform as expected, but we do not like the metal scroll wheel. A cross-section of metal edges along the wheels are supposed to get some grip, but they do not get the job done, resulting in a less secure, soft feel to the scroll wheel on other mice.

The button layout, Microsoft SideWinder X8 distinguishes the most unique with its own BlueTrack sensor. BlueTrack debuted in a few Microsoft mice last year, and it offers a better sensitivity and performance than traditional optical or laser mouse. That better performance can make use of the X8 and other BlueTrack mice on a wide range of surfaces, including marble, carpet, wood, or almost everything you can buy cheap software, except for transparent or mirrored glass. Some sites have reported that BlueTrack not get along with a cloth pads, but uses a longer period for the X8 on canvas XTracPads’ RipperXXL mouse pad with no trouble. A wooden desk, a book, and a marble proved as reliable. You also get three different sets of feet for the X8, which you tailor the tactile feel of the mouse which lets you choose the surface.

Perhaps more important to gamers than surface flexibility, the X8 has a fairly wide range of sensitivity of the sensor from 250dpi to 4,000 dpi. That’s a respectable number for a gaming mouse, and while not as high as the more expensive 5600 dpi Razer Mamba, we suspect some gamers will actually push either the mouse so far.

You get three hard knobs in the middle of the X8 to let you switch between DPI settings on the fly, and you can get Microsoft IntelliPoint software used to assign each button a given institution. We come to demand access to dots per inch toggle buttons on gaming mice, but it also occurred to us that pure hardware-based scale, the next logical step. Instead of limiting your three buttons and a fraction of the DPI spectrum at any given time, why not a slider or a secondary wheel that you can choose from a wide range of DPI mouse sensor?

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The X8 is a small LCD screen that informs you about the current DPI setting. This is not necessarily as convenient as it sounds, because the real feature is the ability to change modes, and not display their power. If you ever have doubts about the sensitivity of the X8 level, you know from your preset dpi button assignments, or when you use the mouse. Using the screen as a battery indicator would have been informative, but it gives you clues to assist in recording macros.

The macro-recording process is quite simple. A special button in an alcove to the left of the X8, the record mode. The mini-LCD tells the button you want to assign the macro to push. This may be one of the vertical side buttons, right-click on the button or the scroll-wheel buttons. Then, execute commands for the macro and accept the recording by clicking on the flashing, dedicated macro button. From there you can further macros via the IntelliPoint software. You can universal macros, or make them specific to a particular game or another program.

If the X8 is not as sensitive as the Razer Mamba, the two have much in common that they share a hybrid wired / wireless design. Each model comes with a USB docking station that doubles as a wireless receiver. The two can also connect directly with the mouse to the USB cable for charging and data connectivity, uptime, so you do not lose when your mouse runs out of juice.

As many consumers have grown accustomed to wireless mice, wireless gaming is not without difficulties. The SideWinder X8 communicates with 2.4-GHz wireless signal with a speed of 500MHz polls. We found the X8 wireless response generally adequate during our Team Fortress 2, Dead Space, and Red Alert 2 testing, but it seemed difficult to maintain a clean signal when we ramped up to 4000 dpi sensitivity. We can not be too disappointed, because you can always go to wired mode if you have such a high setting, but in contrast, the Razer mamba and 1000 MHz polling rate showed no such drop-off.

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While the X8 and Razer’s share of the fixed / wireless concept, each has a slightly different design. The X8 is an inline hockey puck-style base with a wired USB cable. To wired mode, you need a second cable that terminates in a magnetic tip that appears in a magnetic host side at the bottom of the mouse relax. The Razer’s base has a removable USB cable with a uniquely designed USB input that pops up from the base and fits into the Mamba below the scroll wheel. We find the magnetic end of the cable from the X8 is a nice solution that Razer’s design does look awkward, if not necessarily a deal-killing mistake. From the cable, the X8 takes about 30 hours on a full charge of its NiMH AA battery.

The Logitech QuickCam Pro 9000 is nearly identical to the QuickCam Pro for Notebooks Webcam, except for the fact that a better fit for laptops. This $80 desktop Webcam is larger than his brother laptop, but its flexible, two-hinged stand works equally well resting directly on your desk or on top of your desktop LCD monitor or laptop screen. The QuickCam Pro 9000 delivers better image quality than competing desktop Webcams from Creative and Microsoft. Logitech’s RightLight technology provides a balanced, vibrant, clear images – even in low light. Although Creative Live Cam software has more features, unless motion capture surveillance or time-lapse webcam photography interests you, you’re better off with the Logitech QuickCam Pro 9000. With easy to use software, stellar image quality, and sturdy, flexible stand, it earns Editors’ Choice award.

Installation is simple. Install the bundled QuickCam software and then connect the Webcam. An audio tuning wizard lets you optimize the volume for audio input (microphone) and out (speakers). You can scroll for brightness, contrast, color saturation and white balance, but we found the best results because RightLight and leaving it at that. We found many complaints online about installation hiccups, particularly with Window XP machines, but experienced no trouble installing the QuickCam software and drivers on either Vista or XP.

We had problems installing the beta 11.5 drivers in an attempt to test the High Quality Video announcement that Logitech and Skype announced last week (more on that later), but the QuickCam 11.0 software on the supplied CD presented such difficulties. Also make sure to exclude from the QuickCam software when using a webcam to video conference with a program like Skype. We had several conversations come to an abrupt end, until we noticed the tiny QuickCam icon staring at us from the system tray and closed it.

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Our only complaint with Logitech’s QuickCam Pro for Notebooks is the awkward clip and vertical orientation, which, taken together, resulted in the camera hanging forward or leaning to one side somewhat regularly. No problems with the QuickCam Pro 9000. The camera is oriented horizontally, with the lens to the left and the microphone on the right. The two-hinged stand can be maneuvered to stand on top of a desk or so that the camera sits on top of a narrow LCD. A rubber mat covers each potential contact point, meaning that the Webcam will rest firmly in place in a variety of positions. And the base is made of thick, heavy plastic, which is sufficient to compensate for the webcam that is easy to keep repressed offers.

During testing, the Logitech QuickCam Pro 9000 is the image quality was superior to that of the Creative Live Cam Optia AF and the Microsoft LifeCam VX-7000 under any scenario – bright artificial light, low light or natural light. Particularly in a dimly lit room with a dark desktop background, the QuickCam Pro 9000 was able to see the image so that shadows were removed from a face, but not to the point of overexposing the image lighter. Like the other two desktop Webcams, the QuickCam Pro 9000 features a 2-megapixel sensor. It can record video to a resolution of 1,600 x 1,200 and can snap photos up to 8-megapixels (keep in mind, just above 2-megapixels comes by way of software interpolation, which degrades quality).

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The QuickCam Pro 9000 does not put AF into its model name, such as the Creative Live Cam Optia AF, but it does have an auto-focus feature. It is slow to respond while recording video at any of the available high-definition resolutions (960×720 and higher), but a reasonable job of keeping your talking head on screen. The microphone does an acceptable job of picking up audio, just not sure you sit close to the Webcam.

The bundled QuickCam software features a pleasing interface and is very easy to navigate. Large buttons are designed to record video or snap a photo and changing the resolution of each is dead simple. Your recorded videos and photos are listed as thumbnails at the bottom of the QuickCam window. Videos are recorded as WMV files and played using Windows Media Player.

Logitech’s face-tracking features mean you get an assortment of 3D avatars and other video effects, the dragon if you want your friends to surprise with a video call from a shark, reptile or a wild and crazy guy with an arrow through his mind. While Macs will plug and play USB device recognition, you will be left without the services of the video (RightLight 2) and audio (RightSound) optimization apps as well as video effects and filters.

Logitech does not bundle a video-messaging app, but it works with all popular IM clients, including AOL, Microsoft, Yahoo and Skype. While Logitech and Skype announced a partnership to 640×480, 30 frame-per-second video to make Skype calls on the Pro 9000, required the updated Skype software was not available at the time of testing. Supports Logitech QuickCam Pro 9000 with a warranty of two years.

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