For pure FPS you can opt for the 5Hv2. Since you mentioned best bang for your bucks then I would the Siberia V2 as it is pretty much an all-rounder. Music on the 5Hv2 is bad compared to the Siberia V2. USB or not it is all up to you, if you are really budget tight at the moment that get without the USB soundcard first. When you have enough funds in the future, get yourself a decent soundcard for your computer.

Actually for the price difference, I'd get the USB version and if you don't want the soundcard, you can always sell it off.

Yes it produces virtual 7.1 surround sound which I'm confident to say that you will hardly or possibly never touch it at all. The USB soundcard is only good for maintaining the same audio quality no matter where you go in my opinion.

Well those hot items were already sold out when they advertised their stock clearance.

I think you can PM zandara to ask him about it. He is using a Mamba with a 5L.

Can also pass it to dealers under PLAY Interactive but some charges may be applied by the dealers as well.

If your SteelSeries product(s) is bought before the date of the press release, you won't be charged anything for warranty claims (unless you send it to a retailer and the retailer charges a handling fee which is not by PLAY Interactive). However, if your SteelSeries product(s) is bought after the date of the press release and it is not under PLAY Interactive's distribution then yes you will be charged RM30 for warranty claims (not including handling fees from retailers if you send it to retailers).

About the handling fee from retailers, that will only be charged if your product(s) is not bought from that particular retailer of course.

This post has been edited by yongkailoon: Nov 16 2010, 11:28 AM

PLAY Interactive did clarify it in one of their post though, direct link to it here.

No, I mean if it is not convenient for you to send it straight to PLAY Interactive's office then no choice but to send it to the shops/retailers but they will mostly charge a handling fee like you've said. If your SteelSeries product(s) is purchased before the date of the press release was issued and you send it straight to the PLAY Interactive office then you won't be charged any fee.

Like what PLAY Interactive mentioned earlier, the press releases will be issued to the retailers, they said they will try to release it to all the previous retailers as well. So now it is up to the previous retailers if they want to be honest to their customers or not because from now on, any SteelSeries product(s) that are purchased from retailers not under PLAY Interactive after the date of the press release will be charged RM30 for warranty claims.

Yes, since it is before 15th of November 2010, no fee will be charged (not sure if ModernoPC will be charging anything but most likely not).

You mean the dealers that are currently under PLAY Interactive or you're talking about the previous dealers under Inter-Asia?

Well, then that's hard to say (regarding the pirated stickers, all up to the dealers/retailers to be honest) but I think Inter-Asia already running out of stocks for their hot items (e.g. 7G, Siberia etc). Also, getting directly from PLAY Interactive would be better for the dealers/retailers.

This post has been edited by yongkailoon: Nov 16 2010, 03:39 PM

If I'm not wrong, what he meant was those current dealers go sapu Inter-Asia stocks at cheap rates and then stick a PLAY Interactive sticker on it to make it look like the stocks were from PLAY Interactive.

I think everyone got the wrong message. What my sentence actually meant are those current new dealers buying up whatever Inter-Asia is clearing (so technically it's from Inter-Asia). And then they resell it back out and what Everdying was saying is some dealers might just make pirated stickers to stick on it.

Never said that Inter-Asia stocks running low or what, I just said those hot items like the 7G keyboard out of stocks since that is what many of the forum members interested in buying reported in this topic.

Yeap I believe they will.

From the description, the coating should be the same.

Definitely won't be around BlackWidow's price.

Just that if ever SteelSeries were made aware of this, there might be some legal issues for using their name and logo without authorization.

The White Kinzu is stunning to me. Would probably go well with a Siberia White.

On the box it's written Gaming Grade Optical. Probably an enhanced optical sensor, need to check out the full specs.

Sounds promising, another good budget mouse!