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Good Gaming Mouse Suggestions
krapst78
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The scroll wheel on my cheap-ass Samsung mouse broke, so I've decided I might as well jump in and get a decent gaming mouse. I'm looking to spend around $50 to $100 for a mouse that will last me quite a while. The only requirements for me is that the mouse should be fairly lightweight (so this means that it should probably be corded unless wireless mice in the last two years have gotten significantly lighter).
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it's the wireless version of the G5, basically. i mean, it's not heavy by any means, unless you want a paper light mouse or something.
like i said before, the G5 is basically the corded version of the G7, and the mouse comes with these little weights you slide into a slot, to adjust how heavy you want the mouse according to your needs. that should give you an idea of how light you can expect the mouse to be (so that they actually include weights to weigh it down).
but i guess i'd just hold one before buying it. i have no qualms with it, and i use my mouse a lot.
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That said the 518 is my recommendation.
The biggest names in this field are Logitech and Razer and both make very different shapes of mice suited to different hands/ways of holding mice. I find Razer mice more comfortable than Logitech mice, as do many PAers. Lot's like Logitech mice as well. Neither will really steer you wrong as long as you do your homework.
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I can't use other mouses properly now, not responsive enough and feel weird.
Also you can adjusting the sensitivity on the fly, which can be very useful.
For example, to speed up slow turrets in games, jack it up. to maintain better control, put it down a bit.
I now have a Razer Diamondback and I'm a lot happier with it, I feel like its more comfortable and I really like the extra buttons. I'd recommend the Diamondback.
I currently have an MX Laser (OMG first laser mouse ever, from logitech) and it has served me very well, but I found a nice deal for a Razer Copperhead, as in 20 bucks cheaper. Should I go for it? My only reservation really is that it seems kinda short compared to my laser mouse.
Second that. I've had both a G7 and a G5. I really only got the G7 over the G5 because I saw it for 40 bucks on buy.com, but it failed on me in about a year or so, and I needed a replacement pronto, so the G5 it was. I personally don't like my mice too light, and the G7's weight was pretty good. Even with the G5, I ended up adjusting its weight to just about the same as the G7's (with battery in, of course).
Setpoint's actually never given any problems - I like being able to change the sidescrolling to my forward and back buttons for browsing. And it (Setpoint) works pretty well along with my Logitech keyboard, too.
as far as razers are concerned... it's just like, there's not enough mouse there. i prefer to have something to put my hand on, not rest two god damn fingers.
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The only problem I can see with it if you are into all the custom sensitivity you may have to map that to a the second mouse wheel of something but really, if you haven't used two mice wheels you haven't truly lived. Clutchless scrolling is a godsend also.
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Also, they're about $20-30. Spend the extra on a nice new mouse pad. Or invest in soybean futures.
Honestly though, you should go to a Best Buy and see what feels comfortable, and look at the features each mouse has. Me personally, I HAVE to have forward and back buttons on the side of my mouse, as the only way I can play FPS with crouching and going prone is to assign them to those buttons, respectively.
If you do end up getting a Logitech though, don't bother with the official drivers. They're awful. Just use the default windows drivers.