I gotta get my hands on the G9 Xplag, literally. This claw grip , the way you describe it, i may not like . Wont know for sure til i actually get it in my hand . I would not drop $100 on the G9x however, i believe the major difference is the 5000 dpi which is just nuts. 2000dpi seems excellent on the G5 as it is especially comparing it to the budget mice.
When i first built my new rig about 6 months ago , i went cheap on the mouse, keyboard, speakers , and used an old mousepad. Spending $1500 on a rig , i did not feel right using an $8 kb, leftover mouse, leftover pad, and a $40 set of speakers. 3 of the 4 above make an impact on the users play, the rig being for gaming , i would be nuts not to get better hardware. Upgrading the speakers made another huge difference, going from Philips 2.1 that died in a few months to some Klipsch 2.1 . Now that i got better speakers, i couldn't help but get a xonar sound card even though the onboard ALC888 is great imo.
Bottom line, if u do any gaming at all , a $30 G5 , $50 G15 , and a $11 mousepad is worth it.
When i first built my new rig about 6 months ago , i went cheap on the mouse, keyboard, speakers , and used an old mousepad. Spending $1500 on a rig , i did not feel right using an $8 kb, leftover mouse, leftover pad, and a $40 set of speakers. 3 of the 4 above make an impact on the users play, the rig being for gaming , i would be nuts not to get better hardware. Upgrading the speakers made another huge difference, going from Philips 2.1 that died in a few months to some Klipsch 2.1 . Now that i got better speakers, i couldn't help but get a xonar sound card even though the onboard ALC888 is great imo.
Bottom line, if u do any gaming at all , a $30 G5 , $50 G15 , and a $11 mousepad is worth it.
