PS/2 mouse / keyboard

[Guest erico]

PS/2 mice are not so nice...pretty old school stuff.

[General Septem]

"Both" is not technically an accurate answer to the question. You can't both be using and not using PS/2.

 

Now if the question was, "which do you use?"...

[ReelFiles]

True, I was going by the thread title which confused me a bit. I'll get rid of the third option. Thanks for pointing that out.

[rainwood]

I think that I should have prepared better questions;

 

Mouse: which, USB or PS/2, do you use?

• USB
  
• PS/2
  
• Both
  

Keyboard: which, USB or PS/2, do you use?

• USB
  
• PS/2
  
• Both
  

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[wingspar]

Seems like when I built my DFI rig, a PS/2 keyboard was mandatory for getting into the BIOS. Decided on a PS/2 mouse too. My USB ports are all full anyway. No room for keyboard or mouse.

 

My only complaint is that the mouse curser will jump from one side of the screen to the other for no apparent reason. I’m used to it tho, but never saw it before I built this rig.

[Guest erico]

Seems like when I built my DFI rig, a PS/2 keyboard was mandatory for getting into the BIOS. Decided on a PS/2 mouse too. My USB ports are all full anyway. No room for keyboard or mouse.

 

My only complaint is that the mouse curser will jump from one side of the screen to the other for no apparent reason. I’m used to it tho, but never saw it before I built this rig.

The jumping usually occurs because the rollers for the mouse ball sensors are gummed up with "stuff". Remove the ball, clean the rollers and ithe cursor won't jump around. You can use a q-tip to carefully clean the crap off the rollers and the area where the ball sits. It was always cheaper to clean them up than buy another mouse.

[Yukon Trooper]

USB mouse and PS/2 keyboard. A gaming mouse is important to me (MX518) but a standard PS/2 keyboard is all I need and is what I prefer.

[wingspar]

The jumping usually occurs because the rollers for the mouse ball sensors are gummed up with "stuff". Remove the ball, clean the rollers and ithe cursor won't jump around. You can use a q-tip to carefully clean the crap off the rollers and the area where the ball sits. It was always cheaper to clean them up than buy another mouse.

 

It's an optical mouse.

[s1ick]

PS2 keyboards = WIN.

For compatibility with different systems you cant beat a plain PS2 keyboard.

(unless so called system doesnt have connector)

[Guest element]

Keyboard PS/2 and the mouse is usb. Generic keyboard and a mx518 logitech mouse.

[red930]

My mouse is USB but I use an adapter to convert it to PS/2. I see no reason to use USB for these peripherals - ever.

[Angry_Games]

refuse to use USB keyboards. Piles of crap that rarely work on all motherboards (PS/2 keyboards however, work EVERY TIME unless you got a bad PS/2 port).

 

I've no doubt the logitech G15 is great and all, but it don't actually make me play Team Fortress 2 or Crysis or World in Conflict any better than a plain old Compaq/Gateway keyboard.

 

mouse is ALWAYS USB as it polls at a much better rate for my FPS needs, but other than that, I could care less honestly (since I rarely play FPS games anymore...one of the test stations has a PS/2 optical Logitech mouse and honestly...I can't tell the difference between it and my OCZ Equalizer or Logitech MX510 and MX310 and Microsoft Intellimouse Explorers etc)