Playing since 2015

Hardware:

~ Motherboard: MSI Z97 GAMING 5 (BIOS v1.8), using Killer E2200 pure driver
~ CPU: Intel Core i7-4790K 4.0GHz (all cores unparked)
~ RAM: Corsair Vengeance LP 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1600, XMP Enabled
~ GPU: MSI GeForce GTX 970 4GB Twin Frozr V (NVIDIA driver v344.16)
~ Monitor: BenQ XL2411Z, 1920x1080 (16:9) @ 120 Hz Motion Blur Reduction
~ Keyboard: CM Storm QuickFire XT, Cherry MX Brown key switches
~ Mouse: Zowie ZA12, 1600 dpi @ 0.63 in-game sensitivity
~ Mousepad: ASUS Strix Glide Speed
~ Mouse Bungee: CM Storm Skorpion
~ Audio USB DAC: Behringer UCA202
~ Headphones: AKG k240 Studio
~ Microphone: Zalman ZM-MIC 1


Settings:

~ Get Killer E2200 pure driver here: https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=178063.0
~ Configured Killer E2200 to use Message Signaled-Based Interrupts, see: http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=378044
~ Enabling XMP on your RAM can make a difference: http://www.anandtech.com/show/7364/memory-scaling-on-haswell/2
~ CPU core unparking utility (reboot needed for settings to be applied): http://www.coderbag.com/Uploads/Unpark-CPU-App.zip
~ Windows 7 timer correction, see info here: http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/setfsb-game-timing-problem-g60jx.568525/page-2#post7364805
~~ Type "bcdedit /set useplatformclock true" in the MS-Windows command console to make Windows use the more reliable clock (reboot needed for settings to be applied)
~ BenQ XL2411Z info here: http://display-corner.epfl.ch/index.php/BenQ_XL2411Z
~~ Logo = Off
~~ Strobe phase = 0
~ NVIDIA Control Panel:
~~ Maximum pre-rendered frames = 1
~~ Digital vibrance = +60%
~~ Desktop scaling = no scaling
~ CS:GO launch options: "-novid -tickrate 128 -threads 4"
~ In-game graphics settings:
~~ Brightness = 2.2
~~ Global Shadow Quality = Very Low
~~ Model / Texture Detail = High
~~ Effect Detail = Low
~~ Shader Detail = Low
~~ Multicore Rendering = Enabled
~~ Multisampling Anti-Aliasing Mode = 2x MSAA
~~ Texture Filtering Mode = Anisotropic 2X
~~ FXAA Anti-Aliasing = Enabled (Yes, it's weird, but I prefer blurriness over distracting aliases and additional MSAA latency)
~~ Wait for Vertical Sync = Disabled
~~ Motion Blur = Disabled


Crosshair:

cl_crosshairalpha "255"
cl_crosshaircolor "5"
cl_crosshaircolor_b "0"
cl_crosshaircolor_r "0"
cl_crosshaircolor_g "255"
cl_crosshairdot "1"
cl_crosshairgap "0"
cl_crosshairsize "0"
cl_crosshairstyle "4"
cl_crosshairusealpha "1"
cl_crosshairthickness "1"
cl_fixedcrosshairgap "0"
cl_crosshair_outlinethickness "0"
cl_crosshair_drawoutline "0"


Network settings:

rate "128000"
cl_cmdrate "128"
cl_updaterate "128"
cl_interp "0"
cl_interp_ratio "1"
cl_timeout "300"
cl_resend "3"
cl_resend_timeout "9"
mm_dedicated_search_maxping "98"


Radar settings:

cl_radar_always_centered "1"
cl_radar_icon_scale_min "0.6"
cl_radar_rotate "1"
cl_radar_scale "0.302500"


Sound settings:

volume "0.600000"
voice_mixer_volume "1.0"
voice_scale "1"
windows_speaker_config "4"
snd_legacy_surround "0"
snd_menumusic_volume "1.0"
snd_mixahead "0.1"
snd_music_selection "1"
snd_musicvolume "0.000000"
snd_mute_losefocus "1"
snd_pitchquality "1"
dsp_enhance_stereo "0"


Various game settings:

bind "ALT" "+voicerecord"
cl_autowepswitch "0"
cl_disablefreezecam "0"
cl_obs_interp_enable "0"
con_enable "1"
fps_max "256"
gameinstructor_enable "0"
mat_monitorgamma "2.2"
spec_replay_autostart "0"
spec_show_xray "0"


Ranking:

Silver 1 [✓]
Silver 2 [✓]
Silver 3 [✓]
Silver 4 [✓]
Silver Elite [✓]
Silver Elite Master [✓]
Gold Nova 1 [✓]
Gold Nova 2 [✓]
Gold Nova 3 [✓]
Gold Nova Master [✓]
Master Guardian I [✓]
Master Guardian II [✓]
Master Guardian Elite [✓]
Distinguished Master Guardian [✓]
Legendary Eagle [✓]
Legendary Eagle Master [✖]
Supreme Master First Class [✖]
☆ Global Elite ☆ [✖]