The gaming peripheral recommendations thread

Absolutely.

Nvidia has been on my shit list for a long time, but kept getting my business because "superior product". It may still be the slightly superior product, but if the risk/reward is so high that's not a dick dance I want to jig. The gap is closing, competition is coming. My last Nvidia GPU is in my system now, and it's good. 3070 should get 10 years, like my 970 almost did. That 970 is now in someone else's machine playing 1080p like a king... it was a good card too. Change, nothing stays the same, Unchained and you hit the ground running.

My day was going pretty well....This afternoon I started playing Ghost of Tsushima again, picking up where I left off. I had only been playing for about 15 minutes and I was engaged in some heated combat- pressing RB, LB, different buttons combos and I  squeezed the LT on my controller when suddenly *SNAP-O* I heard and felt something *snap*, and then instantly there was no tension in the LT as there was in the RT....and when I wiggled the controller around I could also hear/feel something jumbling around inside. I'm fairly certain the tension spring snapped. So I immediately saved my game where it was using KB/M, exited the game, packed up the controller...found my receipt (luckily I also had an e-copy of the receipt, and also lucky that I purchased the two-year extended warranty that covered repair-or-replacement for damages/defects) because I took it straight back to my local Best Buy...told the girl what happened...she took one press of the trigger and a little wiggle, then no questions asked, said, "If you want to send it in for repairs you can, but honestly...This brand, POWER-A, is garbage- not worth it. We get a lot of these controllers back within less than a year for this exact reason and even the supposed repairs only last six months. So, go ahead, grab another...grab any other controller you want and I'll ring it through for you. We even have some in the back, not on the shelves that I can show you..."

So this time I picked a genuine Microsoft Xbox/PC Controller- still got the two year extende warranty because who knows, right? But she said the actual legit MS Xbox branded PC Controllers are far superior to any of the third-party ones. She then rang it up...taking the 35.99 CAD value for the POS off the regular price of the new controller....And it still ran me $65.00. Of course, I didn't realize until I was walking out of the store that the new controller is wireless. Ugh. So I tried it...tried to get it set-up, and it's not working. The Xbox button just keeps flashing away and eventually after about 20 seconds, turns off. My PC won't even pick it up.

Gonna need to look into this. Any suggestions? This is why I prefer wired controllers.


Edit:  After swapping out the batteries that came with the controller for ones that I knew were fresh and making two attempts to pair my new controller via Bluetooth....I got it to work sucessfully and even played Ghost for 5 minutes as a trial.....and was very happy with the results.  The controller worked great!  buttons and trigger responses are very fast and everyhing is working great.   Made the hassel of the other POS controller I had breaking well worth the effort to return it and purchase this new one.  From now on though, I am only buying genuine Microsft stuff....No more third-party brands!

Thank you to everyone for replying!

I' e never been a fan of ASUS monitors (I've always thought they looked dark in comparison to other brands) or ASUS in general (Motherboards and GPUs especially, bad luck)....But I will admit that does look like a nice monitor and even I will now admit to maybe starting to give ASUS a look-see when I am in the market for a rebuild.  I'm also eyeing the MSI and BENQ equialvents.