I had that issue and cleaned it out. SInce then I've installed Henrik's fan utility and kick it up to full whenever I'm getting playing games. I checked the heatsink about a week ago (about 4 months since I last cleaned it) and there...
When I installed the regular Catalyst 4.6 my video got real bad, like a slide show, and the colors didn't reset when I exited games. So for now I'm back to the 4.5. Guess I'll wait till 4.7 :-/
I had the EXACT same thing happening to me in Unreal Tournament 2004. After trying everything else it was... a heat issue. Cleaned out the heatsink and even gave it the Arctic Silver treatment, and everything is good now.
I don't know which laptop you have but I have an 8890. This has intake fans on the bottom, so it would probably not be a good thing to have fans sucking air in the opposite direction. Blow fans on the other hand should help as well as...
For optical mouse junkies (like myself) GeekExtreme looks at the MX510 and compares it to the Viper:
http://www.geekextreme.com/modules.p...content&id=106
reults, pretty much a draw.
For optical mouse junkies (like myself) GeekExtreme looks at the MX510 and compares it to the Viper:
http://www.geekextreme.com/modules.p...content&id=106
reults, pretty much a draw.
I have one of the original Boomslangs and loved it. The shape was perfect for the way I prefer to hold my mouse. I just sort of got hooked on opticals (no cleaning, no skipping)
As for the price thing, the retail price on the Razer...