April 16th, 2008 by Wolfwood & Varg
A hard look at gaming mice
For whatever reason you use a computer, you will almost always be using a mouse to move a pointer on the screen, scroll through the pages of a document or simply to target the next enemy to shoot at. For all practical purposes, the mouse is your main tool for interacting with most programs that you use. All other interfaces that are used to replace mice, such as touchpads and all sorts of gimmicky devices that are supposed to be ergonomically superior in office work, lose to a simple mouse when it comes to speed and ease of interfacing with a computer.
It is no wonder then that there are so many different types of mice waiting for you in any electronics shop. You get mice with infrared and laser sensors, they come both wired as well as wireless, big and small, equipped with two buttons or as many as 9 user-configurable buttons.
We at HG, specifically Wolfwood and Varg, decided to take a look at some of the so-called gaming mice that are available to the gamers at the moment. Thus, we contacted a few manufacturers and asked them to send us a couple of their mice for testing. Many manufacturers, such as Razer, would have had a lot more mice to send to us, but we decided to keep it at two per manufacturer for simplicity's sake. Furthermore, we focussed on wired mice because we still think that a USB cable is more trustworthy companion in hectic gaming situations than a wireless connection might be. Five of the six mice that we received were equipped with a laser sensor, but the single exception was no worse off with the 3rd generation infrared sensor which provided almost as good DPI as the laser sensors.
But we are getting ahead of ourselves. Please, click on to read our special review and find out whether you agree or disagree with our opinions!
The Great Mouse Showdown!
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