http://www.puretrak.com/products/item/6 :)

Qck Heavy

where do you order those in the france-italy area?
I'm guessing ebay?

edit: I mean the puretrack, my qck+ is starting ti "feel" old after only a few months, and I'd need a good replacement

You can order it directly on the puretrak's website.
With the $ to € conversion, the shipping fees are transparent.

thanks
out of 3 shipping options (2 of them costing 100 euros), the only choice I seem to have is the one with no-tracking

is it still safe, or should I look for the pad on ebay, out of your experience?

To me it's quite safe, never had a problem with puretrak. I had a "faulty" Talent, and they sent me another one for free, they arrived within 2 weeks or so.

nice, it has the 'esreality recommended' seal of approval.






WTF???

very o_O

does that mean some people on ESR said it was good? lol

Well, it is? ;D

it is the best mousepad ever, it will make all your dreams come true

It actually does. I dreamt that I would play games the following day, I played games.
Dayum this mousepad is good.

I have a Qck+, one of the best mats I've owned.

get the heavy.

the qck+ has too little height and therefore no "give" or anything similar to what you are used to with other clothpads. almost feels like playing on a table with some added texture. for the same reason the two qck+'s degraded much faster than the heavy's i owned.

Puretrak talent is the best mouse pad IMO. I've used it once, and it was just awesome. Friend told me that he has it for 3 months and it's like new. Next pad wich I'll buy will surely be a talent but unfortunetly it's hard to afford it in europe.

If I would have to choose betwen qck+ and heavy, I would go for heavy, becouse it will stand more. It will not destroy so easly like qck+.

I like both but prefer the qck+. If it wears out just buy another one. I don't believe everyone is so fucking cheap.

If you are hellbent on steelseries the heavy is a pretty good choice. However if your friend is using a ADNS 9500 based laser mouse he or she may want to rethink his or her decision.

The pad choice will often vary based upon what mouse you are putting on it. This is because some sensor's have trouble on certain surfaces.

If price is the determining factor go with the QCK+.

The problem with QCK pads in general is they tend to wear out relatively quickly which then gives them inconsistent glide which can really bother some people. Friends of mine swear by them though and keep buying more qck+'s because they are cheap...

really, what happens with the ADNS 9500 and a qck heavy that i did not realize is happening in the last year or two? :d

Zealot, several folks over at overclock.net in the mouse section claim that the 9500 sensor has intermittent problematic acceleration on the QCK pad (specifically the Xai and the G9x). I myself have not experienced this. Although I have proven to myself that the 9500 sensor in general does have slight positive acceleration on seemingly any pad. This slight acceleration I have noticed is probably not enough to effect me personally. Although the XAI causing my P67 motherboard to take over 2 minutes to boot is damn annoying and has caused me to shelve that mouse in favor of something else...

Look in the mice section of overclock.net and read the review of the Steelseries Sensei you will see a discussion of this problem referred to in that review.

Zealot,

I apologize that I didn't include a link in my last reply.

Here is the discussion I was referring to:
http://www.overclock.net/t/1168062/evaluation...6k-warning

If you search further in that forum you will see older reviews of 9500 sensor mice that claim to have problems on the QCK surface. Again I have not noticed this in my own testing. Although I have not played for a long time with my Xai on the QCK Heavy or QCK+ (all of which I personally own). The problem for me is that the Xai and my P67 motherboard bios do a battle on boot that takes minutes to resolve and I am impatient... Thus I have shelved my Xai

i agree with most of what you said, but that's still anecdotal evidence (posted on "anonymous" internet forums) and i can say that as much as i understand some of the concerns with the 9500 sensor i sometimes feel the urge to post lots of positive stuff about it simply to balance out the whine.
yes, the xai has some positive accel at certain speeds and yes, it loves to collect dust, but i never had an actual problem with either of that while gaming.

to be precise, the xai+heavy combination is the best thing i ever played on in the last 12 years of quake. in other words, don't trust the internet for hardware reviews, test everything before you buy or buy somewhere where you can send the stuff back if it doesn't suit you.

Zealot,

Glad to hear it is working for you and I agree it was just anecdotal evidence. I do like the Xai shape and if someone can confirm that the Sensei does not have the P67 slow boot issue with an Asus p67 mobo, I'd be happy to give SS another chance with the 9500 sensor.

I really wish someone would get a robot arm and whole bunch of mice and surfaces and test everything again scientificly. Not enough people have done this sort of review approach... Too many reviews focus on things that are pointless and useless when reviewing a mouse... like packaging etc.

This conversation caused me to pull out my Xai and dust it off. I did a little more digging and found that a SteelSeries FAQ post (which is new since when I originally found this issue) discusses how to stop the long boot up for some of the P67 motherboards. On my Sabertooth P67 all you need to do is turn off legacy USB support in the bios and things boot quite quickly with the Xai plugged in.

Now I will have to see if I can find any "intermittent negative accel" on my qck+ and qck heavy.

how long do ss mousepads last btw?

3 days. :(

qck heavy lasts forever.

ss experience i-2 lasts longer than forever!

get an experience i-2

I just wish they made them larger.

I found steelseries pads to be really slow and have very uneven "grip". I had a qck+ and it just felt like shit after getting a gloligathus or whatever it's called.

Bonus points to razer for making mousepads with like, "hemmed" edges too. Utterly brilliant.

Amen to that. Razer Goliathus Control Edition is what I've used and I'll never give it up.

never gonna let you down