Good Gaming Mouse Pad for Laser Mice?

[merlinicorpus]

http://www.gideontech.com/content/articles/273/1

Well over 2 years later and I'm still using the same pad. They call it the Pro now, and it has been resized, but it's the best pad I've found to date.

http://www.xtracpads.com/pro.htm

[ShyguyXPC]

yep, thats one of the ones I've been looking at actually, besides the steelpad type ones.

[Atomic Rooster]

My favorite, the Func Surface1030. It has a great surface and now has fully customizable images you can have printed on it.

[ShyguyXPC]

Hmmmm, was reading the customizing requirements for their pads, lots of conditions for uploading images to be used, but nothing really that can't be resolved with photoshop or other programs, just requires some converting of images or whatever. although I think many images may not work well, as they really recommend images having 200dpi or better, 72dpi converted to 200 will make things looks fuzzy & generally crappy.

got some 3D backgrounds I've made with 3D graphics/animation software, would just need to re-render in 200dpi instead of 72 (downside is that at least one of them only goes as high as 1280x1024, & need the next higher version of it to maker higher res images, don't really want to spend $150+ on it either, already spent $50 or so on the current basic version)


oh well, gives me some more ideas to look at, thanks for the advice/recommendations Merlin & AR (thanks for the link & letting me know of the customization part AR )

[GrayTap]

I use the Razer eXactMat X for my G5 and it's always worked great, I seen some nice gaming surfaces that will effectively cover your entire desk so you could sit the keyboard , part of the monitor or what ever on it and use the area you want.

I find no matter what surface you get, just make sure it is designed so it does not wear down the pads on the mouse prematurely! the G5/G7 mice move effertlessly on the Razer eXactMat X. and I have a limited area for my mouse pad as well and being made of aluminum part of it hangs off my desk in three spots but the main pressure point where my wrist rests is supported.

[ShyguyXPC]

Yeah, I think I will be getting a cheaper one soon, but sometime in next month want to order one of those custom Func pads, where you can customize the image on it... will be getting some new 3D Graphics software end of this week, should allow me to make images with large enough size, dpi & Resolution to submit to be used for the mouse pad.

sometime in the next year though, a new desk is in order, & hopefully can find something with a main top low enough for keyboard & mouse (with out a keyboard shelf), or one with a shelf wide enough (couple of oversized keyboards I want to buy down the road here, one for gaming & one of the Creative Prodikeys variants...)

anyways, yeah, going to buy a cheaper $20 range one soon here, found photo printing paper to work nice for a while, but also wears out after a bit too LOL... nice & smooth motion though

[pullmyfoot]

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Originally Posted by ShyguyXPC

Yeah, I think I will be getting a cheaper one soon, but sometime in next month want to order one of those custom Func pads, where you can customize the image on it... will be getting some new 3D Graphics software end of this week, should allow me to make images with large enough size, dpi & Resolution to submit to be used for the mouse pad.

sometime in the next year though, a new desk is in order, & hopefully can find something with a main top low enough for keyboard & mouse (with out a keyboard shelf), or one with a shelf wide enough (couple of oversized keyboards I want to buy down the road here, one for gaming & one of the Creative Prodikeys variants...)

anyways, yeah, going to buy a cheaper $20 range one soon here, found photo printing paper to work nice for a while, but also wears out after a bit too LOL... nice & smooth motion though

ooooh, i want one of those, i read bout them somewhere and it looks awsome. my razor mousepad is a little to big for my liking, i was thinking of cutting it a little but then that would destroy the look

[GrayTap]

you could allwas try a ratpadz and if you don't like it sell it back!!!

http://www.ratpadz.com/

[ShyguyXPC]

forget to do a follow up on this thread, a little over a week ago, I got around to ordering a mouse pad, grabbed an Ideazon Fragmat from newegg for about $15 before shipping, looked into ordering from the Ideazon site, but it was $20 something & then another $10 for shipping, said screw it, checked a couple of sites, my total from Newegg was just a hair more than the actual cost from Ideazons site (before adding shipping), so was a better deal. grabbed the one with the Tabula Rasa graphics on it... so far the last week or so it has worked wonderfully, can't imagine going back to no gaming mouse pad or using white paper for my pad LOL.

so this will do fine for now

thanks for all the suggestions though

[KarmaKiller]

Hah..
This thread inspired me to get a new mouse pad also..
I ended getting the Cyber Snipa Tracer. It has a acrylic backing, and some blue LED's built in. Which is awesome for night time fragging...
Plus it just matches everything else on my system..