Joined on 10/18/05
awsome card for great price

Comments: this card is amazing, i had a 9800 before getting this card and in f.e.a.r. i would get 7-12 fps on max settings, medium settings would be around 25 fps, so i would play on medium but now with this card i get 30-70 fps on max settings, huge increase there, and on medium i get 50-110 fps shipping was great, i used rush order bcause it was only 3$ extra and it would be refunded if they couldnt do it, so i got my card 2 days after i ordered, fastest and cheapest ,only $5, shipping ive ever seen my only problem is that on the tech specs by newegg the mem clock speed is said to be 980, but when i got it, it said 490mhz i failed to realise, untill recently, that newegg has it in ddr, and i was looking at mine in mhz, i think newegg should put not only the ddr but also the mhz other then that minor prob that i had with the way they display the tech specs everything is great, i was afraid i would need a new psu cause i have a 3 year old dell dimension 8250, but it runs fine, not 1 problem

Pros: LCD is fully customizable with LCDStudio. The back light great. The switch to go from games to regular computer is great, not only does it turn off the windows key but it also turns off the right click menu key. The G-Keys are amazingly good if you get the new drivers. It adds the ability to playback mouse clicks, and the ability to start recording a macro in the middle of an already recorded macro.
Cons: All the stuff it needs to work right uses around 25mb of RAM(minimum), and if you want to use all the features it has it can use 100+MB RAM. LCDStudio uses about 3-5% cpu all the time(I have 3ghz cpu). I said the new drivers adds playback of mouse clicks, the problem is the quick record macro doesnt record mouse clicks, so its a pain to add mouse clicks when your trying to do something fast. (also it doesnt record or playback mouse movement, the next version of the drivers might improve upon mouse functions(im hoping it does)). The ammount of released apps for the LCD is a bit low, theres maybe 3 or 4 for games. The keys themselves are hard to read without the backlight on, even with bright light shining on the keyboard. As mentioned many times before the USB is only 1.0, I really dont know what they were thinking, it should have been 2.0. Getting the media display to work with other media players other then the ones it supports out of the box is hard.(BSPlayer, MPC, and VLC.)
Overall Review: All in all its a nice keyboard. I wouldnt recommend it to people who have 256mb or less RAM. Getting used to the key placement takes some time(I still have trouble) i ued to use the edge of my keyboard to find ctrl, caps lock, tab, shift and all those, my pink would go on shift and the rest midle on w and the rest would fall onto asd. Now I find myself with my middle on q ring on caps lock and index on s, and i hit G3 alot for when I go for ESC, and I hit ESC when I want F1.