CM Storm's Gaming Mouse Is Simple And Effective
Cooler Master's new gaming mouse is simple but offers enough features for most folks.
Cooler Master is known primarily for making cooling products and cases, although the company also makes peripherals. These fall under the company's CM Storm branding, and today the company added a new gaming mouse to its arsenal with the Mizar. This mouse aims to bring a simple but functional design to the table.
The mouse is designed with a total of seven buttons, including the standard left and right buttons, middle mouse click, forward and backward navigation and two DPI switchers. It is a right-handed mouse and weighs in at 121 grams. It does not come with a weight system, although some customization is offered in the form of adjustable colors for the CM Storm logo.
Being a gaming mouse, it also comes with a gaming grade sensor: the Avago 9800. On this mouse, the sensor provides a DPI rating of up to 8200, which by default is adjustable to four different levels. The mouse also comes with a braided cable, although some folks dislike this recent trend, as braided cables are stiffer and can get caught easily, which impedes your gaming accuracy.
What are your experiences with braided cables? Do you like them, or would you prefer to see gaming mice go back to using standard rubber cables?
Pricing for the mouse is set at $59.99, and it is available immediately.
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They can become very stubborn and hard to manage, as they like to tangle in on themselves and twist in odd ways. I'll pull out one tangle, and a few inches down, the cord will tie itself into knots that boy scouts have trouble learning.
As a cord it's terrible, but I definitely think braided cables have potential in survival training demonstrations involving knots.
This, a hundred times. Very happy with a Xornet, after coming from a CM Storm Inferno and a Logitech G9. The only downside was the crappy plastic aroind the dpi buttons, but I fixed it with a little tape.
Also I am surprised by the negative feedback towards braided cables. I have 0 issues with mine and find it makes everything better as rubber has a far higher friction coefficient that the fabric of the braid. Also it looks nice in my opinion and helps strengthen the cable.
Different strokes for different folks I suppose.
Also I am surprised by the negative feedback towards braided cables. I have 0 issues with mine and find it makes everything better as rubber has a far higher friction coefficient that the fabric of the braid. Also it looks nice in my opinion and helps strengthen the cable.
Different strokes for different folks I suppose.
That's true. The reason I stick with optical is because most of the time they don't have acceleration issues. Particularly when you go with the quality Pixart/Avago ones.
I don't have an issue with braided cables either. They might be a bit heavier and create drag but mouse bungees are cheap and completely eliminate that problem.
As for the people getting knots in your braided mouse cable...what are you doing with your mouse to cause that? Seriously, unless you're always mobile that should never be an issue. And if you're always mobile just switch to a wireless mouse with a slim USB receiver you can always leave plugged in.
Maybe some people just want to use a premium mouse for a change. I have the $80 Roccat Kone[+] and I'm very happy with it. Many people report scroll wheel issues with this mouse but I fixed it with a few drops of WD40. A while later There was a problem with the click buttons and I also fixed them using a drop of WD 40 on each of the little buttons inside the mouse. I've had this mouse for years and it has always performed well. Once I saw their Easy Shift [+] featrue, I was sold. To this day, I don't feel the need to buy another mouse or switch to another brand.