| Corsair Vengeance M60 Laser Gaming Mouse |
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Reviews -
Featured Reviews: Input Devices
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| Written by Joey Peng |
| Monday, 09 April 2012 |
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Testing & Results
Testing Methodology
This mouse was used as the primary mouse over a period of 3 weeks. In addition to producitivty software and everyday browsing, the M60 was tested in several games including: Crysis, StarCraft 2, League of Legends, and Might & Magic VI.
Test System
- Processor Intel i7-920
- Video Card: Nvidia GTX 285
- RAM: 16GB DDR3
- Monitor resolution: 1920x1080 pixels
Test Software
- StarCraft II
- League of Legends
- Crysis
- Might & Magic VI
- Lunia
- MouseRate
Test Results
The Corsair Vengeance M60 has one of the most comfortable grips and surface material out there. The rough side pieces allow for a strong grip and prevents sweat. Sometimes the thumb piece will get sticky from usage but the M60 doesn't have that problem.
The Snipe button is also very practical in applications and games. For applications, photoshop is a great example of something that requires pixel perfection, and the sniper button can be activated to decrease DPI significantly for those fine adjustments. In games this is the same. You can keep an extremely high sensitivity for rapid turns and movement but when you need to settle down for aim the sniper button will allow you to do it instantly and get your aim pixel perfect.
Using Mouserate, we can accurately test the actual polling rate of any attached mouse. The results show a stable 1000Hz average when the mouse is in use, in line with the specifications.
The real only complaint I have for Corsair is the software. By the time most people buy this hopefully the final version will be out, but the current beta drivers really suffer some usability issues, and the functionality is also fairly limited. It would be nice to get some extra freebies, or give the auxiliary buttons some extra functionality other than forward and backward for web browsing.
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Comments
The Corsair M90 also has this feature, but it can be programmed into any of the thumb buttons.
Corsair's mouse hardware is quite good. They really know how to make great hardware. However, I agree that their weak spot is actually their software. When I first got the Corsair M90 (MMO mouse)I couldn't get the thumb buttons working at all (and I wasn't alone). It wasn't until about a month later that they released a new software version and an actual manual. The mouse comes with neither, and early adapters were mostly left to guess how the mouse was supposed to work.
Their new software finally works properly, and the instructions available from their website are actually pretty good. The M60 doesn't have many buttons to worry about, but the M90 has lots of buttons, and you have to basically do a little dance to get them working. A visit to the Corsair forums, reading the top post in the mouse forum, should get you up and running.
Personally I find it inexcusable for a company, especially a company like Corsair who is trying to convince people that they make superior products, to not include software and a manual (paper or file) in their packaging.
In my opinion, it being the 21st century and all, it's time to include some flash RAM in the devices that contains the drivers and software so, when plugged in, the mouse automatically installs the driver and software. We're talking expensive mice here (anything over $50). I don't see why, at those prices (and more) they cannot include such a simple feature. Of course, it helps if the software actually works out-of-the-box.