After the best gaming mouse-grade delights of Roccat’s Kain 120 earlier this week, Corsair’s new ambidextrous M55 RGB Pro had a fairly powerful job on its palms. Sure, the Corsair’s extra interesting for the lefties on the market, however boy do I miss the delicate, clean texture of Roccat’s Kain. Instead, the M55 RGB Pro has a tough, nearly tough plastic end outdoors of its rubbery aspect grips, and it makes me lengthy for the second after I can swap it again out for the Kain once more.
The M55 RGB Pro is, admittedly rather a lot cheaper than the Kain, coming in £45 / $55 versus £63 / $70, nevertheless it wasn’t simply the end I discovered problematic, both. According to Corsair, the M55 RGB Pro is ‘a mouse for all grips’, so it ought to theoretically go well with all sorts of participant no matter whether or not you like an all-encompassing palm grip, a barely extra laidback fingertip grip, or a hunched over claw grip. Personally, I felt the mouse was only a fraction too small for a full-on palm grip, so I ended up utilizing a fingertip grip for many of my testing interval – and if my tiddly fingers have been too teensy for a palm grip, I think yours can be, too.
The downside with adopting a fingertip grip, although, is that it makes the M55 RGB Pro’s two programmable aspect buttons really feel too distant. I may nearly attain the one closest to me with my thumb, however I needed to stretch to achieve the one in entrance, inflicting me to shift my complete hand spherical to the aspect. That’s not excellent whenever you’re in the course of taking part in a game, though it might simply be a results of my apparently awkwardly-sized hand. Whatever the issue is, although, it continually felt like there was one thing off concerning the M55 RGB Pro’s proportions.
There are additionally two aspect buttons on the right-hand aspect of the mouse for the lefties amongst us, however they’re disabled by default. To allow them, you’ll both need to obtain Corsair’s iCue software program to change over to left-handed mode, or press and maintain down the mouse’s two left buttons for 5 seconds and let go of them, says Corsair’s instruction guide, however I used to be by no means capable of get it to work correctly.
Admittedly, downloading iCue is hardly a lot of a faff, as you’re going to wish it anyway if you wish to fiddle about with the M55 RGB Pro’s RGB lighting, alter its 5 DPI / sensitivity settings or reprogram its eight customisable buttons. I need to admit, that’s a fairly beneficiant set of choices for a £45 / $55 mouse, particularly in comparison with the similarly-priced (and equally ambidextrous) Steelseries Sensei 310, which solely helps you to decide between two completely different DPI speeds.
The M55 RGB Pro additionally has an ever so barely wider DPI vary than the Sensei as properly, beginning at a dead-slow 200 DPI and maxing out at 12,400 DPI. Adjustable in increments of 100, there are many choices right here to seek out the appropriate pace right here, particularly if you happen to plan on making use of the M55 RGB Pro’s 5 obtainable profile settings.
You even have the choice to show one of many aspect buttons right into a devoted ‘sniper’ button, too, which can decelerate the mouse’s DPI for so long as you press it to assist line up headshots and the like in FPS games. You’ll need to go on the lookout for it in iCue’s Actions tab, however it’s there.
Speaking of mouse capabilities, the M55 RGB Pro affords loads of customisation choices right here, too. As properly as remapping bizarre mouse capabilities, you’ll be able to file and assign your personal macro keys with them, flip them into media controls, launch functions from them, use them to change profiles, or remap all the things from keyboard buttons and quantity and symbols keys to OS shortcuts – which is as soon as once more much more versatile than Steelseries’ Sensei 310.
I also needs to observe that, as a lot as I’m not an enormous fan of the M55 RGB Pro’s dimension or end, its proper and left click on buttons are undoubtedly up there with Roccat’s Kain 120. Firm, exact and never too unfastened, these Omron switches have been a pleasure to make use of in games and basic desktop duties, and the mouse’s tremendous gentle weight of simply 86g was one other level in its favour.
Compared to different ambidextrous gaming mice in this type of worth vary, although? I feel I’d in all probability go together with the eminently extra comfy Steelseries Sensei 310, if I’m trustworthy, even if you happen to don’t get fairly as many DPI choices with it. It’s a greater match for my hand, for starters, and I a lot favor the Sensei’s softer aspect grips to the arduous, knobbly floor of the Corsair. The M55 RGB Pro might be nonetheless a good shout if you happen to really need these further pace settings, however these after a extra comfy ambidextrous gaming mouse will nearly actually be higher off with the Sensei 310.
