Logitech’s G203 Lightsync is a good funds gaming mouse

As low cost and cheerful gaming mice go, Logitech’s G203 Lightsync mouse ticks loads of containers. With its understated design, six programmable buttons and refined flash of RGB lighting, it’s bought every part you need from a budget-friendly gaming mouse with out breaking the financial institution. True, its US worth of $40 is just a little steep in comparison with its veritable discount bucket value of £22 over within the UK, however once you put it subsequent to different low cost gaming mice such because the HyperX Pulsefire Core over in my best gaming mouse rankings, there’s nonetheless lots to love right here.

I used to be despatched the white and gray model of the Logitech G203 Lightsync for assessment, but it surely’s additionally accessible in an all-black design, too, for a similar worth. As you’d count on from a funds gaming mouse, the Logitech G203 Lightsync is fairly simple. Its symmetrical chassis makes use of the identical clean plastic all through, but it surely nonetheless gives a good quantity of grip throughout lengthy gaming classes.

Weighing in at simply 85g, it’s beautiful and lightweight to maneuver round your mouse mat, though its pint-sized dimensions of 116x62x38mm means it’s positively a greater match for these with smaller arms. Indeed, it’s fairly a flat gaming mouse in comparison with a few of its different, costlier Logitech siblings such because the flashy G502 Hero and Logitech G Pro Wireless mouse, but it surely didn’t take lengthy for my hand to regulate to its low-profile form.

Its two facet buttons additionally fell inside straightforward attain of my thumb, though their slim design might turn into just a little uncomfy at occasions. Personally, I desire my facet buttons to be on the chunkier facet of the forest pine needle, but it surely wasn’t actually that a lot of a problem within the grand scheme of issues. Indeed, thanks to every button’s nice stage of tactile suggestions, each when it comes to sound and general really feel, I by no means needed to fear about mis-clicking them even when my thumb solely grazed the very fringe of them. As a outcome, I used to be in a position to preserve my thumb in its typical place just under them more often than not, solely reaching up when it was completely mandatory.

The principal proper and left click on buttons additionally really feel surprisingly robust and well-made for a funds mouse. They’re fairly loud, however at the very least you realize you’ve pressed them appropriately. The solely factor that basically bought on my nerves a bit was the grating sound of the scroll wheel. Scrolling down is fairly innocuous, but it surely typically bought lots louder and abrasive every time I scrolled up in a rush. Again, it’s not an enormous deal breaker contemplating the value, however in case you desire your scroll wheels to be on the silent finish of the noise spectrum, then the G203 Lightsync most likely isn’t going to be the mouse for you.

Still, general it feels higher constructed than its equally priced HyperX Pulsefire Core rival, and it has the next DPI or sensitivity vary besides, too. Truth be informed, the HyperX’s 200-6200 DPI vary remains to be completely ample for most individuals, and I don’t suppose you’re actually going to get far more out of the G203 Lightsync’s 200-8000 DPI vary. Indeed, my eyes can barely address something greater than 2000 DPI as of late, so that you’d want correct bionic sockets to play games above the Core’s restrict of 6200 DPI.

But it’s not likely the vary that’s necessary right here. It’s the quantity of flexibility the G203 Lightsync affords over its HyperX competitor. Indeed, whereas the Core solely permits you to swap between two totally different DPI settings, the G203 Lightsync provides you 4, and you may customise them in increments of 50 by downloading Logitech’s free G Hub software program.

G Hub additionally permits you to assign a DPI Shift operate to one of many G203 Lightsync’s buttons, too, which is able to change the mouse’s pace to no matter DPI setting you please for so long as you maintain it down, resembling a dead-slow 200 DPI that can assist you line-up headshots in aggressive FPS games. This is fairly uncommon on funds gaming mice, as you solely are likely to see these ‘sniper button’ options on costlier esports-oriented fashions, giving it yet one more leg up over the Pulsefire Core.

You can do much more with the G203 Lightsync’s buttons than simply use them for switching DPI pace, in fact. In addition to recording your personal macros, you should use them to deploy keyboard instructions, open apps resembling Discord and OBS, or carry out different Windows shortcuts resembling copy and paste, locking your display screen or media playback, supplying you with loads of flexibility to personalize your mouse simply the way in which you prefer it. And lest we overlook, it’s also possible to use G Hub to change the brightness and patterns of the G203 Lightsync’s RGB lighting as effectively – together with turning it off altogether in case you desire.

All in all, the Logitech G203 Lightsync is a fairly tempting bundle for anybody after an inexpensive gaming mouse, though it’s positively a a lot simpler promote for these shopping for within the UK in comparison with our associates within the US. Indeed, at £22, the G203 Lightsync is a no brainer over the £25 HyperX Pulsefire Core, making it my new gaming mouse of alternative for our £1000 RPS Rig construct. However, I’m unsure I’d say the identical about spending $40 on it in comparison with its $29 HyperX rival. If you worth the G203 Lightsync’s further flexibility and superior construct high quality then by all means knock yourselves out, however for these after a real US gaming mouse discount, the Pulsefire Core remains to be a tricky act to beat.