Finding an excellent gaming mouse can typically really feel such as you’re caught within the story of Goldilocks. You don’t need one which’s too heavy, nor would you like one which’s too gentle. Instead, you need one which feels excellent below your palm. Or you possibly can simply purchase a weighted one reminiscent of Corsair’s new M65 RGB Elite and make your personal thoughts up as you go alongside. With three detachable 4g weights at its disposal, the M65 RGB Elite can weigh something from an virtually featherweight 97g proper as much as 116.5g, supplying you with loads of leeway to seek out that ‘just right’ spot to fit your fashion of play.
However, when its worth of £60 / $50 will set you again as a lot because the equally weighted Logitech G502 Hero, the M65 RGB Elite’s acquired fairly the duty on its fingers to show itself the higher mouse. Can Corsair make a greater case for best gaming mouse greatness? Let’s discover out.
From a purely sensible standpoint, Logitech’s G502 Hero wins fingers down. It comes with just a little field for its 4 weights, for starters, that means they received’t get misplaced down the again of your desk for those who’ve acquired some going spare. The M65 RGB Elite, however, doesn’t include something of the type – no pouch, no carry case, nothing – making them extremely prone to disappear utterly (or get wolfed up by my cats) when not in use.
Likewise, whereas the G502 Hero’s weights are all hidden behind an easily-accessible magnetic cowl on the underbelly of the mouse, the M65 RGB Elite requires both a coin or flathead screwdriver to fiddle about with them. I discovered a 50p piece labored finest – a pound is way too thick – however even then the weights weren’t very straightforward to pry out. One got here out all proper, however the others both required a whack towards my hand or a poke with its screw cowl.
The M65 RGB Elite comes with three 4g weights, however you want a coin or a screwdriver to get to them.
What’s extra, to get to the M65 RGB Elite’s lowest weight of 97g – which I felt was essentially the most comfy for my spindly lady fingers – you’ll need to ditch stated screw covers as properly, that means there at the moment are much more tiny bits of steel to go lacking inside a drawer. It’s hardly essentially the most sensible resolution I’ve ever seen, and for sheer sake of comfort I simply ended up sticking all of them in and utilizing it at its most weight – which type of defeats the purpose of getting a tunable mouse within the first place.
Still, whereas the weights are extra of a faff than I’d like, there’s nonetheless lots to love in regards to the M65 RGB Elite. While the white model I used to be despatched for overview appears a tad drab in comparison with the edgy appears and many-textured patterns of the G502, its plain, shiny chassis and evenly textured (however nonetheless plain) sides implies that, RGB lighting apart, it doesn’t look so clearly ‘gamery’ as its Logitech rival.
Plus, whereas Corsair say this right-handed mouse is extra of a ‘claw’ fashion design, I discovered it completely cozy to make use of with a fingertip-style grip as properly, the place my palm sits a bit additional away from the again of the mouse. Its three facet buttons had been nonetheless inside very straightforward attain from that place, and I by no means as soon as felt like I needed to shift my fingers about as a result of they weren’t sitting appropriately.
Speaking of additional buttons, the M65 RGB Elite has eight programmable buttons in whole for those who embrace the scroll wheel and proper and left click on, or 5 for those who’d fairly hold them to their regular desktop capabilities. First up you’ve acquired two DPI buttons within the centre of the mouse that allow you to cycle up and down between 5 completely different sensitivity speeds. These are set between 400-5000 DPI by default, however can technically vary wherever from a useless sluggish 100 DPI all the best way as much as its most pace of 18,000 DPI.
That’s a full 2000 DPI greater than the G502 Hero, however except you’ve beamed in from the long run the place everybody has laser-enhanced eyesight that may monitor mouse actions on the pace of sunshine, then you definately’re not going to have the ability to really feel the distinction in any respect. After all, most individuals both don’t want or can’t deal with DPI speeds a lot above 3000 DPI, not to mention 16,000.
There are additionally forwards and backwards capabilities on the facet along with a devoted ‘sniper’ button, which slows the mouse’s DPI pace proper all the way down to no matter pace you want for nevertheless lengthy you press it for lining up headshots and the like, or trailing tremendous slowly throughout humongous technique maps.
You can, in fact, remap all of those to no matter perform you want by downloading Corsair’s iCUE software program. These embrace recordable macro controls, media buttons, dozens of various keyboard capabilities and varied shortcuts in addition to completely different languages, utility launchers, different mouse buttons or your personal mixture of keystrokes. There’s definitely loads of scope right here, and I’m all the time a fan of any mouse that comes with that pretty sniper button. The Logitech G502 Hero comes with one as properly, for the file, nevertheless it’s all the time good to see one nonetheless.
Once once more, although, the G502 Hero manages to return up trumps on this division, as Logitech have managed to squeeze a sixth programmable button into the combo right here, choosing one DPI button and cramming in one other two beside the principle left clicker. While loads will rely on whether or not you foresee your self utilizing stated sixth button, it does technically make the G502 Hero barely higher worth for cash total in comparison with the M65 RGB Elite.
Still, for some, it received’t matter whether or not the M65 RGB Elite has one much less button or not, as its plainer appears could be sufficient for it to win the day. After all, there’s nothing actually mistaken with this Corsair mouse (aside from the shortage of weight case), and I’m certain you’d in all probability get pleasure from it simply as a lot because the Logitech G502 Hero. If, nevertheless, in hindsight the concept of fiddling about with tiny little weights appears like an excessive amount of of a trouble, then I’d suggest side-stepping the M65 RGB Elite and going for Corsair’s Ironclaw RGB as a substitute. It prices across the identical, sits proper in the course of the M65 RGB Elite’s weight vary and is even comfier to make use of each day.
