This will be the section on the mouse, mousepad, why certain mice are better than others.

I use a Logitech Wingman Gaming mouse currently. The Logitech Wingman Gaming mouse is the best mouse for me, cause it fits my config perfectly, and it is really smooth and fast. It also fits my hand perfectly and no other mouse I have found can do the job like the Wingman Gaming mouse, I have tried mice with the little wheel on it, and the wheel just becomes a nuisance. The mouse I am using is shaped like a triangle, has 3-Buttons, and is a dark gray color. One nice thing about Logitech mice is they come with a driver that has mouse acceleration. In windows, for my house, I have mouse acceleration and highest and the little scrolly bar set all the way to the right. Making my mouse extra fast, and because of it being a USB, it makes it a lot smoother than any other mouse I have ever had.

Why is USB better? Simple answer, for a simple question, a USB mouse samples itself somewhere about 125Hz. A really good ps/2 mouse will sample itself at 80Hz, and a crappy ps/2 mouse will sample itself at 40Hz, a Serial mouse will sample itself at about 15Hz. The faster the Hz, the smoother the mouse. Some people might say something like, "But, I have a PS/2 mouse and I run PS/2 rate at 200Hz, isn't that faster than USB?" Well my answer to that would have to be Yes, because it is sampling a lot higher, but then I would have to say No because I have PS/2 mouse on my other system, and I will never sample my PS/2 mouse any higher than 100, simply because 200 makes the mouse too slow, and seem to not be half as smooth as 100 or a USB mouse, simply I think PS/2 rate is basically lieng to everyone, I think as high as a PS/2 mouse can go is 100Hz. Anything past that and the mouse stop functioning correctly.

The mouse I am using right now is USB, but there was an older version of this mouse which was PS/2 which I still have, and noway can I say that PS/2 is faster than USB, and before I got a Celeron system, I was running my PS/2 mouse as a Serial mouse, no way is serial any good for a system faster than P200, I think serial might be better for a P200 simply because you cannot tell if your mouse is really good or not, and it seems as though running a PS/2 mouse on a P200 makes the mouse really choppy.

The mousepad, this is probably the second most important thing when it comes to Quake. The mousepad can cause problems, or help the problems go away. When I first started playing Quake I was using just a plain old cloth mouse pad, which is what most people probably still use. This was great, but it seemed as though dust would collect on this mousepad and then my mouse would collect the dust on it's ball making my mouse movement more sluggish, unless I cleaned my mouse about once a week. After a couple years of playing with a cloth pad, I went to a LAN party and seem a friend of mine with a PMS "Precise Mouse Surface" I tried his PMS out on my mouse and was hooked immediately, it was so much more smooth than my cloth pad, I had to get one. A week later I had a PMS. After a couple weeks of playing on a PMS, I was beginning to wonder if they are only smooth when you first get them, then they just die over time, making them just a more prettier cloth pad. So I went back to my cloth pad for a couple hours, never gone back to cloth since then. The PMS does have a tendancy to lose it's quality or roll up on the sides. Causing you to go buy a new one. Which is usually every few months for me, since I don't play that much. But for most of the Cooler heads it would probably be once a month. Well, I was getting quite sick of having to buy a new mousepad all the time, so when I went to another LAN party and seen some of my friends using an Everglide, I, of course, had to try it out. Everglide is the most smoothest mousepad surface you will ever see or feel in your life. So I had to get one. An Everglide is from $15 - $21 depending on the size and shape you want. Needless to say, I got me an Everglide now. An everglide is basically a mousepad you will never need to buy another one of. It is a hard plastic mousing surface. And it is about 10x as smooth as a PMS. I would have to recommend an Everglide to everyone out there wishing to be great competition.

This is the very small section on the keyboard.
I use a Microsoft Elite Natural v2.0 keyboard. Most people probably use a standard 104 keys keyboard. Why do I choose Microsoft Elite over a standard keyboard? Well, a standard keyboard causes my hands to cramp more because of the way the keys are on the keyboard, totally straight from the next, and the Microsoft Elite has the keys slightly slanting towards the space bar. Making the Microsoft Elite a lot more comfortable than the old fashioned standard keyboards. A standard keyboard might not hit the bank as hard, but hitting the bank for $30 is well worth it for a Microsoft Elite keyboard. People with a config that requires using the "Home, Page Up, End, Page Down, Delete, Insert and Arrow keys" Might not want to get this keyboard, all of the keys I just listed are very small on this keyboard, so are the Function keys (AKA THE F keys) one very cool thing about this keyboard is the way it splits in the middle. So if you have a config like mine, all the movement is on one side, then you can have shittalking binds on the other side. Or team say binds, most people have team say binds on their Number pad though.