Survey of High-Level Players Valorant Radiant/Immortal, CoD Top 250/Iridescent, CS Faceit Lvl 10/Premier 25k+, Desync

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jnzed
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Survey of High-Level Players Valorant Radiant/Immortal, CoD Top 250/Iridescent, CS Faceit Lvl 10/Premier 25k+, Desync

Post by jnzed » 14 Oct 2025, 16:12

Hello friends, im gathering data for my research as I am one of the many of you who have been frustrated, struggling with "desync" and lag for many years now with no real fix (and yes ive tried hundreds of things talked about all around here).

High level competitive rank players, Valorant Radiants/Immortals, Call of Duty (CoD) Top 250/Iridescent, Apex Predators, CS Faceit Level 10s/Premier 25k+, etc.,
Ive chosen you to survey your set-up. Your answers would mean the world to me.

What city and state do you live in?
What ISP do you have, method of connection (cable, fiber, mobile data) and what plan (mbps up/down)?
What are your PC specs? Please be specific (RAM speed and four main timings, XMP/EXPO?).
What router are you using? UPnP? QoS? DNS other than IP provided? Port forwarding?

These desync and lag issues could be hardware related, location based, or ISP and I want to pinpoint it for the sake of our sanity.

fff333
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Re: Survey of High-Level Players Valorant Radiant/Immortal, CoD Top 250/Iridescent, CS Faceit Lvl 10/Premier 25k+, Desyn

Post by fff333 » 15 Oct 2025, 07:07

Hi there, would like to contribute. 3k elo SEA FACEIT - been playing since 2015-2016 in 2 different houses so far.
I'd like to think that CSGO was way better in terms of input lag and desync even though there was some present, it isn't as bad as CS2 is currently. Game is so inconsistent.

What city and state do you live in? Singapore

What ISP do you have, method of connection, what plan (mbps up/down)? MyRepublic 10Gbps (Gamer Plan/Broadband with supposedly the best routing) - FTTH, router to modem. Disabled my onboard NIC (Realtek Gaming 2.5Gbe Controller). Currently using a USB 3.0 to Ethernet adapter from ASIX *mitigates a lot of "mouse issues" felt with onboard.

What are your PC specs? Please be specific (RAM speed and four main timings, XMP/EXPO?).

MOBO: MSI B650M
CPU: 7800X3D
GPU: 4070ti
RAM: G SKILL TRIDENT Z5 NEO RGB 6000MHZ CL30 (should be on default EXPO with 30-36-36-96)


What router are you using? UPnP? QoS? DNS other than IP provided? Port forwarding? Archer BE805, also paid for static IP. Didn't touch anything except enabling QoS in router.
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Re: Survey of High-Level Players Valorant Radiant/Immortal, CoD Top 250/Iridescent, CS Faceit Lvl 10/Premier 25k+, Desyn

Post by [email protected] » 15 Oct 2025, 07:51

CS2 20k - 27k Elo

Germany, Stuttgart
Telekom VDSL100 100/40

ASRock X670E PG Lightning
AMD Ryzen 9800 x3d
Kingston KC3000 PCIe 4.0 1TB
G.Skill Trident Z5 DDR5-6000, CL30-38-38-96
AMD Radeon 6900XT
GIGABYTE P1000GM 1000W ATX 2.31

Vigor Modem 167, Ubiquiti Edgerouter X

drosku
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Re: Survey of High-Level Players Valorant Radiant/Immortal, CoD Top 250/Iridescent, CS Faceit Lvl 10/Premier 25k+, Desyn

Post by drosku » 15 Oct 2025, 09:03

val immo3 rad soon hopefully
lvl 10 faceit(csgo mainly barely play cs2 now its too shit)
ow masters

romania/cluj digi fiber 1k up and down 17unloaded latency 1ms jitter
b650s pro wifi
ryzen 5 7600x
nvidia 4070
realtek 2.5gbe gaming family controller(will get intel nic soon tho its 10x better)
stock windows nothing fancy xmp on pbo on tried with some settings in the past thete is some instability high perf power plan default nvidia fullscreen display box not ticked
asus router ax53u default settings just updated firmware
games work perfectly 95% of the time in looking to get better peering with certain servers like on val frankurt since i dont have direct peering with them, prolly ill change isp or get a business plan with directly peers with western servers which will make everything flawless ive talked with them in the past they offerd in their words “more optimized peering not direct peering” and really worked so im looking to get it but they said also its based on ur nodes so when im done ill release something

Misha1337
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Re: Survey of High-Level Players Valorant Radiant/Immortal, CoD Top 250/Iridescent, CS Faceit Lvl 10/Premier 25k+, Desyn

Post by Misha1337 » 15 Oct 2025, 15:36

fff333 wrote:
15 Oct 2025, 07:07
Hi there, would like to contribute. 3k elo SEA FACEIT - been playing since 2015-2016 in 2 different houses so far.
I'd like to think that CSGO was way better in terms of input lag and desync even though there was some present, it isn't as bad as CS2 is currently. Game is so inconsistent.

What city and state do you live in? Singapore

What ISP do you have, method of connection, what plan (mbps up/down)? MyRepublic 10Gbps (Gamer Plan/Broadband with supposedly the best routing) - FTTH, router to modem. Disabled my onboard NIC (Realtek Gaming 2.5Gbe Controller). Currently using a USB 3.0 to Ethernet adapter from ASIX *mitigates a lot of "mouse issues" felt with onboard.

What are your PC specs? Please be specific (RAM speed and four main timings, XMP/EXPO?).

MOBO: MSI B650M
CPU: 7800X3D
GPU: 4070ti
RAM: G SKILL TRIDENT Z5 NEO RGB 6000MHZ CL30 (should be on default EXPO with 30-36-36-96)


What router are you using? UPnP? QoS? DNS other than IP provided? Port forwarding? Archer BE805, also paid for static IP. Didn't touch anything except enabling QoS in router.
Do you feel that static IP is better than dynamic for cs2 ? Cuz I might get one

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Re: Survey of High-Level Players Valorant Radiant/Immortal, CoD Top 250/Iridescent, CS Faceit Lvl 10/Premier 25k+, Desyn

Post by kriegsnake » 15 Oct 2025, 16:19

Misha1337 wrote:
15 Oct 2025, 15:36
fff333 wrote:
15 Oct 2025, 07:07
Hi there, would like to contribute. 3k elo SEA FACEIT - been playing since 2015-2016 in 2 different houses so far.
I'd like to think that CSGO was way better in terms of input lag and desync even though there was some present, it isn't as bad as CS2 is currently. Game is so inconsistent.

What city and state do you live in? Singapore

What ISP do you have, method of connection, what plan (mbps up/down)? MyRepublic 10Gbps (Gamer Plan/Broadband with supposedly the best routing) - FTTH, router to modem. Disabled my onboard NIC (Realtek Gaming 2.5Gbe Controller). Currently using a USB 3.0 to Ethernet adapter from ASIX *mitigates a lot of "mouse issues" felt with onboard.

What are your PC specs? Please be specific (RAM speed and four main timings, XMP/EXPO?).

MOBO: MSI B650M
CPU: 7800X3D
GPU: 4070ti
RAM: G SKILL TRIDENT Z5 NEO RGB 6000MHZ CL30 (should be on default EXPO with 30-36-36-96)


What router are you using? UPnP? QoS? DNS other than IP provided? Port forwarding? Archer BE805, also paid for static IP. Didn't touch anything except enabling QoS in router.
Do you feel that static IP is better than dynamic for cs2 ? Cuz I might get one
I had dynamic ip under CGNAT, switched to static, no difference at all.
The brightest light casts the darkest shadow.

Misha1337
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Re: Survey of High-Level Players Valorant Radiant/Immortal, CoD Top 250/Iridescent, CS Faceit Lvl 10/Premier 25k+, Desyn

Post by Misha1337 » 15 Oct 2025, 18:44

kriegsnake wrote:
15 Oct 2025, 16:19
Misha1337 wrote:
15 Oct 2025, 15:36
fff333 wrote:
15 Oct 2025, 07:07
Hi there, would like to contribute. 3k elo SEA FACEIT - been playing since 2015-2016 in 2 different houses so far.
I'd like to think that CSGO was way better in terms of input lag and desync even though there was some present, it isn't as bad as CS2 is currently. Game is so inconsistent.

What city and state do you live in? Singapore

What ISP do you have, method of connection, what plan (mbps up/down)? MyRepublic 10Gbps (Gamer Plan/Broadband with supposedly the best routing) - FTTH, router to modem. Disabled my onboard NIC (Realtek Gaming 2.5Gbe Controller). Currently using a USB 3.0 to Ethernet adapter from ASIX *mitigates a lot of "mouse issues" felt with onboard.

What are your PC specs? Please be specific (RAM speed and four main timings, XMP/EXPO?).

MOBO: MSI B650M
CPU: 7800X3D
GPU: 4070ti
RAM: G SKILL TRIDENT Z5 NEO RGB 6000MHZ CL30 (should be on default EXPO with 30-36-36-96)


What router are you using? UPnP? QoS? DNS other than IP provided? Port forwarding? Archer BE805, also paid for static IP. Didn't touch anything except enabling QoS in router.
Do you feel that static IP is better than dynamic for cs2 ? Cuz I might get one
I had dynamic ip under CGNAT, switched to static, no difference at all.
Ok thanks

fff333
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Re: Survey of High-Level Players Valorant Radiant/Immortal, CoD Top 250/Iridescent, CS Faceit Lvl 10/Premier 25k+, Desyn

Post by fff333 » 15 Oct 2025, 21:01

Misha1337 wrote:
15 Oct 2025, 15:36
fff333 wrote:
15 Oct 2025, 07:07
Hi there, would like to contribute. 3k elo SEA FACEIT - been playing since 2015-2016 in 2 different houses so far.
I'd like to think that CSGO was way better in terms of input lag and desync even though there was some present, it isn't as bad as CS2 is currently. Game is so inconsistent.

What city and state do you live in? Singapore

What ISP do you have, method of connection, what plan (mbps up/down)? MyRepublic 10Gbps (Gamer Plan/Broadband with supposedly the best routing) - FTTH, router to modem. Disabled my onboard NIC (Realtek Gaming 2.5Gbe Controller). Currently using a USB 3.0 to Ethernet adapter from ASIX *mitigates a lot of "mouse issues" felt with onboard.

What are your PC specs? Please be specific (RAM speed and four main timings, XMP/EXPO?).

MOBO: MSI B650M
CPU: 7800X3D
GPU: 4070ti
RAM: G SKILL TRIDENT Z5 NEO RGB 6000MHZ CL30 (should be on default EXPO with 30-36-36-96)


What router are you using? UPnP? QoS? DNS other than IP provided? Port forwarding? Archer BE805, also paid for static IP. Didn't touch anything except enabling QoS in router.
Do you feel that static IP is better than dynamic for cs2 ? Cuz I might get one
Nah bro I honestly didn't feel much of a difference, the only network-related difference I've felt so far is going from my onboard N.I.C to the USB 3.0 to Ethernet adapter.

walkariod228
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Re: Survey of High-Level Players Valorant Radiant/Immortal, CoD Top 250/Iridescent, CS Faceit Lvl 10/Premier 25k+, Desyn

Post by walkariod228 » 17 Oct 2025, 16:07

fff333 wrote:
15 Oct 2025, 07:07
Hi there, would like to contribute. 3k elo SEA FACEIT - been playing since 2015-2016 in 2 different houses so far.
I'd like to think that CSGO was way better in terms of input lag and desync even though there was some present, it isn't as bad as CS2 is currently. Game is so inconsistent.

What city and state do you live in? Singapore

What ISP do you have, method of connection, what plan (mbps up/down)? MyRepublic 10Gbps (Gamer Plan/Broadband with supposedly the best routing) - FTTH, router to modem. Disabled my onboard NIC (Realtek Gaming 2.5Gbe Controller). Currently using a USB 3.0 to Ethernet adapter from ASIX *mitigates a lot of "mouse issues" felt with onboard.

What are your PC specs? Please be specific (RAM speed and four main timings, XMP/EXPO?).

MOBO: MSI B650M
CPU: 7800X3D
GPU: 4070ti
RAM: G SKILL TRIDENT Z5 NEO RGB 6000MHZ CL30 (should be on default EXPO with 30-36-36-96)


What router are you using? UPnP? QoS? DNS other than IP provided? Port forwarding? Archer BE805, also paid for static IP. Didn't touch anything except enabling QoS in router.
what Ethernet adapter from ASIX do you use ? i can buy ethernet adapter with ASIX AX88179 to test . Do you think its good idea to try? I have the same onboard NIC on b550 aorus pro p

fff333
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Re: Survey of High-Level Players Valorant Radiant/Immortal, CoD Top 250/Iridescent, CS Faceit Lvl 10/Premier 25k+, Desyn

Post by fff333 » 20 Oct 2025, 19:30

walkariod228 wrote:
17 Oct 2025, 16:07
fff333 wrote:
15 Oct 2025, 07:07
Hi there, would like to contribute. 3k elo SEA FACEIT - been playing since 2015-2016 in 2 different houses so far.
I'd like to think that CSGO was way better in terms of input lag and desync even though there was some present, it isn't as bad as CS2 is currently. Game is so inconsistent.

What city and state do you live in? Singapore

What ISP do you have, method of connection, what plan (mbps up/down)? MyRepublic 10Gbps (Gamer Plan/Broadband with supposedly the best routing) - FTTH, router to modem. Disabled my onboard NIC (Realtek Gaming 2.5Gbe Controller). Currently using a USB 3.0 to Ethernet adapter from ASIX *mitigates a lot of "mouse issues" felt with onboard.

What are your PC specs? Please be specific (RAM speed and four main timings, XMP/EXPO?).

MOBO: MSI B650M
CPU: 7800X3D
GPU: 4070ti
RAM: G SKILL TRIDENT Z5 NEO RGB 6000MHZ CL30 (should be on default EXPO with 30-36-36-96)


What router are you using? UPnP? QoS? DNS other than IP provided? Port forwarding? Archer BE805, also paid for static IP. Didn't touch anything except enabling QoS in router.
what Ethernet adapter from ASIX do you use ? i can buy ethernet adapter with ASIX AX88179 to test . Do you think its good idea to try? I have the same onboard NIC on b550 aorus pro p
Yes, that's the one I'm using. Mine's from Vention. You should definitely give it a shot man, the onboard NIC is so bad that even anything else is better lol

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