Well, I've had an MX1000 for awhile. I used one for awhile. Then one day I noticed horrible lag with it. Couldn't figure out what it was. Tried different MX1000's and never could figure out what the deal was.
Fast forward to over six months later. I've been using an MX1000 on my test bench for convenience sake. Well, I was working on a problem with my chicks PC. I fired up UT2004 for some testing mainly, and I fully expected the precision and lag problems I had with the MX1000 before to rear their ugly heads. Well they didn't. The mouse felt perfect. No lag whatsoever. Surely it didn't quite have the precision of my G5 Lasermouse, but few mice do.
What the hell? Well I figured it out. About the time I noticed the problem I had upgraded my rig from a Abit AA8XE based Pentium 4, to the nForce 4 based A8N-SLi Deluxe. What the hell does this mean you might ask?
Some people claim great performance with the MX1000 and don't notice any lag. Well, I wasn't getting any on my GF's PC. So I conducted a test. Using on the MS drivers on Windows XP Professional 32bit edition on two rigs.
The one in my sig and this one:
Pentium 4 [email protected]
Abit AA8XE
Antec SmartPower 350
2x512MB Corsair XMS 2 Pro C4
Western Digital 120GB HDD.
While I understand this is subjective, I have been able to duplicate this very easily. Regaurdless of system configuration. The MX1000 lags on non-Intel chipsets. This is with USB BTW, I haven't trued PS/2 on the Intel system, but I noticed it sucked on the AMD rig.
So to sum up. The MX1000 gave me better, smoother and more accurate performance on the Intel chipset based boards. The problem still existed on the NF4 Intel Edition motherboard I tested.
The only Intel chipset board I had the same issue with was the HP XW4100 workstation at my office. It uses the E7505 chipset. Which isn't the same as the i925XE and i915P chipsets I've tested this mouse on. But all three nForce 4 variants it did. nForce 4 Intel Edition machine (Abit NI8-SLI) and the nForce Professional 2250 (Tyan K8WE) as well as the nForce 4 SLi (Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe).
I thought this extemely odd and postworthy. As a note, I know someone who uses the MX1000 daily and doesn't have this problem. Or at least doesn't notice it. His system has an Intel chipset on the motherboard as well.
My theory on this, is that the AMD based solutions somehow differ in their USB implementation. Not sure to what degree, obviously it can't be too much deviation as it works the same for just about any device.
That is all.
Fast forward to over six months later. I've been using an MX1000 on my test bench for convenience sake. Well, I was working on a problem with my chicks PC. I fired up UT2004 for some testing mainly, and I fully expected the precision and lag problems I had with the MX1000 before to rear their ugly heads. Well they didn't. The mouse felt perfect. No lag whatsoever. Surely it didn't quite have the precision of my G5 Lasermouse, but few mice do.
What the hell? Well I figured it out. About the time I noticed the problem I had upgraded my rig from a Abit AA8XE based Pentium 4, to the nForce 4 based A8N-SLi Deluxe. What the hell does this mean you might ask?
Some people claim great performance with the MX1000 and don't notice any lag. Well, I wasn't getting any on my GF's PC. So I conducted a test. Using on the MS drivers on Windows XP Professional 32bit edition on two rigs.
The one in my sig and this one:
Pentium 4 [email protected]
Abit AA8XE
Antec SmartPower 350
2x512MB Corsair XMS 2 Pro C4
Western Digital 120GB HDD.
While I understand this is subjective, I have been able to duplicate this very easily. Regaurdless of system configuration. The MX1000 lags on non-Intel chipsets. This is with USB BTW, I haven't trued PS/2 on the Intel system, but I noticed it sucked on the AMD rig.
So to sum up. The MX1000 gave me better, smoother and more accurate performance on the Intel chipset based boards. The problem still existed on the NF4 Intel Edition motherboard I tested.
The only Intel chipset board I had the same issue with was the HP XW4100 workstation at my office. It uses the E7505 chipset. Which isn't the same as the i925XE and i915P chipsets I've tested this mouse on. But all three nForce 4 variants it did. nForce 4 Intel Edition machine (Abit NI8-SLI) and the nForce Professional 2250 (Tyan K8WE) as well as the nForce 4 SLi (Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe).
I thought this extemely odd and postworthy. As a note, I know someone who uses the MX1000 daily and doesn't have this problem. Or at least doesn't notice it. His system has an Intel chipset on the motherboard as well.
My theory on this, is that the AMD based solutions somehow differ in their USB implementation. Not sure to what degree, obviously it can't be too much deviation as it works the same for just about any device.
That is all.