Tomo wrote:Oh and wireless would be preferable. Is it still believed that wireless mice are rubbish for gaming? Or is that an old wives' tale? |
Best gaming mouse? • Page 7
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Tomo 19,565 posts
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WoodenSpoon 12,360 posts
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Registered 19 years agoThe cheaper wireless mice I've tried have been useless for games, they all felt really imprecise and unreliable.
The Logitech G700 works fine, and it doesn't look like a spaceship or have an etching of a scorpion or any of the other retarded stuff you see on 'gaming' mice. I have a feeling it's quite pricey though. -
Tomo 19,565 posts
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Registered 18 years agoHmm. 60 quid on Amazon. Still looks like it's about to take off at any minute.
Razer Orochi is also 60 notes, any experience with that? -
WoodenSpoon 12,360 posts
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Registered 19 years agoNah afraid not 
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THFourteen 54,987 posts
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Registered 16 years agoI have a Razer Orochi which I LOVE. Its not rechargeable, and it doesn't auto-switch off if that sort of thing bothers you, but the two AA batteries last for a good long time, and I use wall-rechargeable types.
Its quite small compared to most gaming mice, and only has 4 extra side buttons (which I never use anyway).
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Tomo 19,565 posts
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Registered 18 years agoAck. That is a glowing review. Hmm.
Tempting. Wireless and a decent gaming mouse. Would be ideal for my laptop too...
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THFourteen 54,987 posts
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Registered 16 years agoThere are some good reviews on amazon.co.uk actually. both for and against though -
jagg3r 1,349 posts
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Registered 13 years agoWoodenSpoon wrote:
Its a great mouse, been using it for over a year now in games like Bf3 & mw3, lovely comfy fit and easy customise.very precise, quality.
The cheaper wireless mice I've tried have been useless for games, they all felt really imprecise and unreliable.
The Logitech G700 works fine, and it doesn't look like a spaceship or have an etching of a scorpion or any of the other retarded stuff you see on 'gaming' mice. I have a feeling it's quite pricey though. -
StixxUK 8,755 posts
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Registered 19 years agoI've been looking at the Corsair Sabre... -
THFourteen 54,987 posts
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Registered 16 years agoI bought the Sabre in the end.
Unfortunately the only games i've played over the last month are Witcher 3 and PES2016 neither of which use the mouse!
Will find out if its any good when battlefront comes out. -
Razer Deathadder - big and awesome. -
Rivuzu 18,424 posts
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Registered 15 years agoHad a R.A.T.5 for about ... 5 years now? Still working great. Comfortable as anything. Still, maybe it's time to upgrade. -
Rusty_M 7,172 posts
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Registered 14 years agoI moved from a R.A.T.7 to a G502 Proteus Core. Fantastic mouse! RAT just had buttons in the wrong place. -
THFourteen 54,987 posts
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Registered 16 years agoAcidizer wrote:
Go optical. Although the latest laser mice are meant to be fine, with optical you know there won't be any tracking issues.
Difference between optical and laser?
http://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-mouse-myths-busted/
Mouse myth: Optical mice are better than laser mice.
Verdict: True, but it’s more complicated than that. Laser mice actually are optical mice, for starters.
This is quite possibly the most common argument you’ll see about gaming mice online. Optical mice are better and more accurate than laser mice. Laser mice are garbage! Alas, more and more gaming mice use laser sensors, making optical mice all the more rare and special. So the story goes. But what’s the reality?
First off, laser sensors and optical sensors are more similar than you may think.
Chris Pate: “[In a ‘laser’ mouse], it’s actually not a laser sensor. It’s an optical sensor. It just uses a laser for illumination. But people find it easier to shorthand it to optical versus laser, even though it’s really infrared or red LED [for an optical mouse] versus VCSEL (vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser) ... it’s still an LED, but it’s a laser ... All the sensors are taking multiple thousands of pictures per seconds, comparing them to each other, and determining the translation direction and distance based on those images. ”
Both optical and laser-illuminated mice use CMOS sensors to take pictures of the surface beneath them, and use those pictures to determine movement. It’s a CMOS sensor like the one in your smartphone or digital camera, though the way it works is very different (for one thing, it’s taking thousands of images per second). So if the sensor itself is the same, what makes optical “better” than laser illumination?
Morier: “The laser light has a different wavelength. It is more looking into the structure of the material than the normal LED light, which is more surface illumination. It makes [the laser] more sensitive to the roughness of the surface....The LED is more staying on the top of the surface, so it’s very reproducible. On the top of the surface you have peaks, and it’s only counting the peaks.
“If you look at the cloth pads that are made out of a structure of fibers, the laser is so accurate it ... is showing you the nature of the structure. You don’t care about that. You just want to measure a distance ... The laser will really go down into the surface and then, especially at low speed, will behave very differently. This is the reason you have a big difference between low and high speed.”
Laser-illuminated sensors work extremely well on hard pads, but on soft pads with more surface depth, they’re picking up too much useless information, which leads to discrepancies in how they track at different speeds. This is what most people call “acceleration,” but Morier calls it “resolution error versus speed.” (More on that in a second).
So how much difference is there between optical and laser-illuminated sensors, ultimately? According to Morier, laser-illuminated sensors have a 5-6 percent variation in tracking at different speeds. For the best optical sensors, that number is below 1 percent.
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SweetMrGibs 1,429 posts
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Registered 10 years agoMickey was pretty handy in Castle of Illusion. He gets my vote. -
Sharz 2,121 posts
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Registered 6 years agoAnyone buy the Asus stuff at EGX?
They had some stonking good deals on the Gladius and Claw and the keyboard but I have never used Asus for mice or keyboards. Would be tempted to leave my Logitech staples if the right deal came along. -
Rusty_M 7,172 posts
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Registered 14 years agoIt's more nuts looking in pictures than in person. I don't find it too overstated. -
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convz 1,240 posts
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Registered 10 years agoI want something that's really good value and based on Amazon reviews and price I'm considering the Sumvision Kata for £13. I also recently saw the Steelseries Rival 100 for £18 from Currys which I'd probably have already bought if it had free delivery.
Any thoughts on those two please? I'm pretty happy with my basic Microsoft mouse but it's only lasted a couple of years before the mouse wheel button has stopped working -
Fake_Blood 11,093 posts
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Registered 12 years agoWhy pay so little for a mouse when you'll be using it every day for a couple of years to come? -
convz 1,240 posts
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Registered 10 years agoGood point, I definitely want something comfortable - but not too fussed on features, unless I'm missing something obvious I can't see having lots of buttons being that helpful (in the games I play at least, mostly Dota & LoL)
Edit: also because frankly I'm a bit of a cheapskate.
Would the Razer Abyssus be an improvement on these? It's £30 which is about as much as I'd like to pay I think.
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Pay more and get something awesome:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B00KLVN2YO/ref=pd_aw_sbs_147_2?ie=UTF8&dpID=31pu80o2rAL&dpSrc=sims&preST=_AC_UL100_SR100%2C71_&refRID=Y1ZV8V2JPJDB2W6GQC56
Edited by Pinky_Floyd at 18:09:02 04-06-2016 -
christourlord 2,877 posts
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Registered 17 years agoBuy the Logitch G900 if you want to spend £LOL but get the nicest mouse you've ever held in your hand. -
THFourteen 54,987 posts
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Registered 16 years agoI had a perrix mouse which was decent for very little money.
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Just bought a G502 to replace my ancient G5 that I killed in a pint of stout related incident.
Very nice piece of design. Ergonomics feel just right for me, software support also seems good.
You're out of luck if you're left-handed though :/
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