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OsC
Profile Joined October 2010
Canada542 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-12-03 20:56:59
December 03 2010 20:55 GMT
#1
It finally arrived. Been needing a new mouse for a while now. I have been using the old microsoft optical wheel for 5-6 years, and just lately the right button of the mouse broke.

Here are some quick pics I snapped. not good quality, took it with my iphone.

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Packing is really nice. Feel of the mouse is absolutely AMAZING. I haven't tried much other high end gaming mice but I have tried razer naga and razer deathadder. this one feels the best out of all of them imo. I love the larger buttons and my grip feels perfect on it.
mouse is also pretty light and i love the matte feel to the overall mouse, very high quality.

I haven't played a legit game with it yet, but I did go into a custom for a few mins to test out the mouse pointer speed, see if it skips and what not. also to see if the apm lighting works and if my macro worked.

mouse speed and everything is perfect, i have no problems with it so far. apm lighting is really sick even though i doubt ill be looking at my mouse. you can change the colours from like 0-50 apm as one colour, then 50-100 etc. you can also change the normal lights. as you can see from the last pic, the normal lights are blue, but i changed it to white to match the keyboard lights from my macbookpro.

my macro didnt work though i probably input it wrong. i was trying to make 1 of my side buttons as a shift key, so i can hold it then do right click and que up actions. anyone know how to make it like that?

i will play more actual ladder games later on and post up another quick summary of what the mouse is like.


One thing to note though is that when I do lift my mouse and put it back, the cursor does move/skip a little. Also packaging is retarded took me fucking forever to open the packaging with the instruction manuals. razer packing has always been nice, but this time it was way too hard for me to open it, i had no idea how and i accidently ripped a chuck off the box that contained the manual, oh well. and finally this is nit picking but i dont see a point in a 7 feet cord. i have a razer headset and the cord always pisses me off cause its so long.
OsC
Profile Joined October 2010
Canada542 Posts
December 03 2010 20:56 GMT
#2
Anyone know what polling rate and x-y sensitivty does?
eMbAh
Profile Joined September 2009
Denmark40 Posts
December 03 2010 21:03 GMT
#3
On December 04 2010 05:56 Oscatron wrote:
Anyone know what polling rate and x-y sensitivty does?


polling rate is how frequent the cursor is updated. The standard is 125 times a second (125 hz) but recently it has been commen to use 500 hz. 1000 is usually overkill. x y sensitivity is sens indepedantly set on the x and y axis
OsC
Profile Joined October 2010
Canada542 Posts
December 03 2010 21:05 GMT
#4
will it do any harm if i set it to 1000?
fuzzy_panda
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
New Zealand1681 Posts
December 03 2010 21:11 GMT
#5
waiting for the review of the razer marauder. need to ditch my old keyboard as its starting to break apart! however is it just my eyes or does the marauder seems to be MISSING DIRECTIONAL KEYS??
supernovamaniac
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
United States3046 Posts
December 03 2010 21:15 GMT
#6
On December 04 2010 06:11 fuzzy_panda wrote:
waiting for the review of the razer marauder. need to ditch my old keyboard as its starting to break apart! however is it just my eyes or does the marauder seems to be MISSING DIRECTIONAL KEYS??

You are correct sir.
ppp
Ropid
Profile Joined March 2009
Germany3557 Posts
December 03 2010 21:19 GMT
#7
On December 04 2010 06:05 Oscatron wrote:
will it do any harm if i set it to 1000?


There have been reports of occasional computer slowdowns, though I myself have a pretty old crappy PC but never noticed anything bad from 1000 Hz USB polling rate. So it may not do harm, but it doesn't do much good either, it only gets you 1 ms compared to 500 Hz. The big improvement is going from 125 Hz to 500 Hz (6 ms improvement).
"My goal is to replace my soul with coffee and become immortal."
OsC
Profile Joined October 2010
Canada542 Posts
December 04 2010 00:14 GMT
#8
played a couple of team ladder games. no problems at all. very smooth,precise and slick cursor movements. some people say the lights are gimicky, but they actually work, and its just a nice little bonus to have if you do want to get a sense of your general apm
Xapti
Profile Joined April 2010
Canada2473 Posts
December 04 2010 16:34 GMT
#9
AutoHotKey is a good free program to re-map buttons, such as shift key to mouse buttons, in case it's confusing or impossible to do it with razer's software.
"Then he told me to tell you that he wouldn't piss on you if you were on fire" — "Well, you tell him that I said that I wouldn't piss on him if he was on Jeopardy!"
Garnet
Profile Blog Joined February 2006
Vietnam9016 Posts
December 04 2010 17:01 GMT
#10
Very nice. More updates plz. And a video!.
pred470r
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Bulgaria3265 Posts
December 04 2010 17:32 GMT
#11
Can you upload some better quality pics?
snotboogie
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
Australia3550 Posts
December 04 2010 17:42 GMT
#12
Can you test the liftoff distance? Just lift the mouse up and measure approximately how far from the surface the mouse is when it stops tracking, and what surface you're using.

Thanks for the review btw =)
OsC
Profile Joined October 2010
Canada542 Posts
December 04 2010 19:41 GMT
#13
will try to get some more pics and a video later if i have time and can find the camera
OsC
Profile Joined October 2010
Canada542 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-12-04 19:55:16
December 04 2010 19:55 GMT
#14
misstype
Black Gun
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
Germany4482 Posts
December 04 2010 22:25 GMT
#15
does any1 know what kind of sensor this one is using? philips twin eye? avago adns-9500?
"What am I supposed to do against this?" - "Lose!" :-]
genra
Profile Joined August 2010
Germany42 Posts
December 04 2010 23:33 GMT
#16
that skipping of of it when you lift it up, please tell us exactly the affect in game, becuase this is the biggest critism it recieved.
narlock
Profile Joined December 2010
Canada4 Posts
December 06 2010 03:45 GMT
#17
yeah this mouse is failed with razer tweaked sensor, there is classic "razer high end" mouse problems, cursor moving when u click and all this things which u can find in mamba and other "razer high end"(tm) mouse=)
That is interesting, at logitech there can be a same sensor control as at new razer, but there is no these problems, while in razer they already are implied.

very happy hasn't made pre order of the spectre, and has bought g9x one month ago.
OsC
Profile Joined October 2010
Canada542 Posts
December 06 2010 20:54 GMT
#18
^hmm only problem i have is when i lift the mouse, and put it back down the mouse moves slightly. I just tested this in game and it happens as well, but when i play i dont lift up my mouse or find the need too.

never ever had a problem with the mouse moving when i spam click the button.

i use the razer destructor mousemat
genra
Profile Joined August 2010
Germany42 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-12-06 21:08:05
December 06 2010 21:06 GMT
#19
the philips twin eye laser... about its z-axis issue, i didn't know the cursor moves that much. but i love that the buttons need so low pressure to click.

and thanks for sharing your experience Oscatron
universalwill
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States654 Posts
December 06 2010 21:20 GMT
#20
On December 04 2010 06:05 Oscatron wrote:
will it do any harm if i set it to 1000?


nope. if the mouse is designed to run at that polling rate, it will work fine. it only does harm if you overclock a mouse that wasn't meant to handle it, like an intellimouse 3.0 or something.

cool review. i'm still happy with my salmosa so i won't be switching, but i'm glad that the mouse isn't shit quality. usually when razer is designing something around a gimmick it ends up being kinda bad.
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