A surprisingly good pad is the Saitek P3000 USB cordless, up until now no games for PC would let me set it to analogue without pausing/resetting the game as soon as I moved the analogue stick.
On PES3 its a DREAM I have configured the buttons using settings.exe in the Konami folder and its so very like a PS2 pad its really a joy to play with and NO WIRES getting tangled round my chair and desk like normal pads either.
The distance range is awesome I can pause the game from another room in the house if I so wished its so sensitive
because of this sensitivity, the button responses in the game feel even more positive than playing on my PS2 with the real controller.
Quite cheap here it was in the UK [PC World] about £30 which is not bad for what you get. Two battery packs and an inbuilt charger cum stand to hold the controller when not in use, batteries last about 4-6 hours play and you always have a pack ready as one is on charge whilst the other one is in the pad.
After the longer than normal initial charge for each battery pack, charging usually takes about 2 hours from totally dead to completely charged.
Its wonderful to hold too, very comfortable no stress on my hands or fingers whatever, after using the sidewinder for long periods I always had blisters and sore joints!
www.saitek.com for more details you could do a lot worse than taking a little look at this one.
Hope this helps some of you!