i bought a qck+ at frag and there hasn't been ANY fraying whatsoever. i recently purchased a qck heavy and am using that now, but the qck series is, in all fairness, just as good for durability as long as you treat it right.

I won a QcK last year.

I remember something about being the first up front with a mouse pad. Don't remember which frag staff member it was but he had was surprised at the condition of my old one, which was a cloth/rubber one where the cloth was almost completely detached.

The QcK isn't really remarkable, it is a very thin extra large cloth/rubber pad. Mine is still holding up well.

i'm def. coming with a FunC ALIENWARE pad..... and will gladly show off the horrific name

I ordered one already, actually before the post here. Should be here soon. I will take some high detail close-up images and give my opinion (for what its worth as everyone has different taste) once it arrives.

Was damn near $100 including shipping BTW.

For a freaking mouse pad!

I'll stick with my 4D for now. Works great for me.

yeah problem solved I just turned my f10s func pad around and am using the other side. nothing could ever replace this pad for me *heart*

I'm still using my SteelSeries S&S I won last year ^_^ its a damn good mouse pad.

So the DHL guy arrived this morning and woke me up from my sleep to give me my new mouse pad. It shipped DHL Express. Left the manufacturing facility "Maersk Logistics" in Copenhagen , Denmark. It left there on the 15th and arrived today - which is pretty decent shipping. It was the back order time that took forever. I guess they are spitting these things out like crazy and trying to meet quotas on stock delivery that they ship right from the production line. Thats pretty sweet service IMO.

So, I've taken a bunch of pictures which I am uploading to my webserver right now. You can find them at http://www.schematic.ca/sx

The pad is not much bigger than my old faithful Everyglide Ricochet 2.52 pad. And is about a half mm thinner. This pad is pretty slick , however not OVERLY slick. It has a very very fine texture to it (and I mean fine) which provides just the right amount of feedback.

I've been using the Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer 3.0 for the longest time - I refuse to use any other mouse as this thing fits my hand perfectly. Aside from that, this pad words 100% with it. No skips or lags and good response time - so I am going to assume that almost all, if not every, optical mouse should work with this pad.

The backside of the pad is one large textured rubber backing which grips every surface I put it on very well. I was not able to move the pad around under conventional circumstances. So it stays where you put it for sure. The pad backing is not super thick and doesn't cause a "spongy" feeling at all.

The pads surface should definately be taken care of. It is aluminum after all, with a very fine finish. So try not to gouge it with things Depending on how some people use their pad, it might be advisable to remove your watch from your wrist so you dont scratch it up. The pad comes with a cleaning/polishing cloth which is just simply a piece of white felt - can be picked up at any craft store.

My advice for cleaning is water when possible, even for the rubber backing. Right out of the box - all kinds of cardboard dust had made its way into the packaging and got stuck to the rubber backing everywhere. So I rinsed it under the tap , waved it around and press dried with a towel. Done.

Just like aluminum PC cases, finger and hand oils will leave marks all over it VERY easily. Water gets it off with some rubbing, but Windex works very well.

Due to the pads size, it may not be ideal for people that play with extremely low sensitivity which causes them to flail their arm around which requires alot of mousing surface. I play with a relatively low sensitivity, but NOT too low - and I have plenty of room. I got by with my Ricochet - so if anything, I got more room now.

The pad does not come with any case / protective casing. It comes packaged in a hard plastic blister pack - which is great for transportation, but does not protect against something sitting on it and bending it. So keep that in mind if you travel your pad around alot.

Some other goofy things about this pad include ;

It matches my Lian-Li V1000B case perfectly.
Its damn cold in the morning, so its an eye opener folks!
The edges are smooth so you shouldn't chew yer wrist.
It looks pretty damn cool!

Check out my crappy pictures at the URL posted above.
They aren't the best pics in the world, but should give
you enough of a look.

I suggest this pad for anyone that likes a smooth surface,
and doesn't like MONSTER huge mousing surfaces. Its black, its metal, its cool.

near $100 including shipping though. like can you honestly say it's worth the extra $50 over a normal steel series pad like one of the qck or heavy models, an icemat, or a func pad? it doesn't sound like it offers anything any of those pads don't other than a micro finish design, but I mean my f10s func pad is made up of a surface that sounds just like this one.

Based on your feedback and also some of the problems I have been experiencing recently while creating digital art (I have a tablet, but there are a lot of things I use the mouse for still) I think I may actually buy one of these.

If anyone else is interested in ordering, we can split the shipping costs.

Does spending money on water cooling and other mod supplies make it worth the extra 5% to 15% increase in performance, or does it justify the "look" of the system ? To some people, yes - To others, NO. Same goes for mouse pads.

My take on the SX pad is that it will outlast any standard plastic pad, or coated cloth pad easily. I have almost every mouse pad you can imagine here. fUnc pads lose their texture after 6months for me, over a year for others. Same with many other pads. The SX wont wear out, only the feet on your mouse will.

This is all ofcourse subject to how much pressure you apply to your mouse while gaming. RTS players typically dont apply much pressure to their mice, where-as alot of FPS players do - some more than others. I apply alot of pressure to my mouse while playing, sometimes voluntary sometimes not (when I am getting angry lol).

For me, coated cloth pads are the worst invention ever. I wore the coating down on mine in 5 months and it became a shag rug. Piece of crap IMO. Other people may like it.

All in all, its has to do with functionality for some people, appearance and cool factor for others. For me, its both.

I don't think comparing this to water cooling is relevant at all. It would make more sense to compare this set up to a limited edition water cooling set up from let's say koolance that offers very little the danger den set up that is already out doesn't have. But it's a limited run. Also, what's to say your pad wont lose it's surface in a years time? Yeah my f10s func pad is worn down on the right side after one year, so I flipped it over. So if my pad lasts for 2 years which has an almost identical surface to yours and costs half as much, just to make it financially worthwhile your pad will need to last for 4 years before it's worn down beyond use. I just don't see that happening.

This is leaving the surface preference argument out, because both mine and yours have a similar surface. If we were to include the surface preference argument of course cloth would win any day because the pads cost $2 and each last 10 years. But yeah that aside. I dunno...I just don't see how anyone can justify $100 in mouse pad. I thought I was retarded to justify $50 in mouse pad. Heck when I'm chilling with my friends I leave that part out because it's silly to think we are spending that much on mouse pads lol. These companies have us by the balls and we love it I've been gaming for years and only recently did the marketing brains in the pc gaming industry start turning out so much crap that none of us actually need to game well lol.

Water cooling doesn't really add performance as well, it's an aesthetic modification. Means no dust but takes a lot of work. But yeah with how high performance fans are these days the cooling benefit from both is virtually identical depending on the season and where in your house the PC is located.

Perfect example #1

Perfect example #2

It all started with the LED lights a couple years ago