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NVIDIA welcome to my unboxing and first look at the Corsair Vengeance M65 it
uses the same overall shell as the M60
which they released quite a while ago as one of their first foray into the
peripheral world so the M60 and the M90 were Corsair's first gaming mice and
they've basically taken what was already good about the existing models and
improved on them in a couple of subtle ways so well actually the first way
they've improved on them really isn't that subtle at all and it's now available in three colors as opposed to
one so we've actually got all three of them here today the one I'll be unboxing is a military green whereas it's also
available in the traditional black as well as kind of like a sweet
Stormtrooper white and it looks like what Corsair's going for here is no
matter what Corsair case you have you can pretty much get yourself a Vengeance
M65 to match it packaging is pretty straightforward so it's just got a
plastic shell within a cardboard exterior so there you go it's just just
a molded shaped thing you pull out the mouse and that's pretty much all that's
included in here so there's a little bit of documentation that's going to tell
you about your 2-year warranty as well
as how to go to Corsair.com and download
the latest drivers which is like Yay don't bother including a disc what's the
point and let's have a look at the mouse
itself so I'm probably going to get slick to come join me here in a minute
no no not yet not yet sorry I'm just giving you prior warning I know usually
I say that and I mean like immedi ah okay so we've got a braided cable that
terminates in a USB so there you go it's labeled so you know it's a mouse you
know it's Corsair assuming you can see both sides of it at the same time nice
high quality braiding so you can't see any of the uh cords through there it's
about it's about an entire Linus
wingspan in length so that's actually it's probably a 6ot cord based on how uh
how long that is compared to my arms and let's have a look at the ergonomics if
you haven't already seen an M16 then this will be new if not considered
a refresher so down here we've got three adjustable weight zones so you can
customize not only the overall weight of the mouse but you can actually customize
also the uh the weight distribution of the mouse so I'm going to run and grab a
screwdriver here I'm just going to give go across one of the cameras with a
crotch shot hopefully they don't switch to that one while we're in the editing
process so inside each of these ones you can decide okay oh I want it more heavy
at the back or I want it more heavy at the front so each of them has a little
weight inside of it that you can either remove or keep in there all right we've
also got poly Tetra fluoroethylene I
think is what the actual name for it is but Teflon slippy pads all over the
bottom of the mouse I love seeing nice big slippy pads I don't think anyone but
me calls them slippy pads but whatever because they it just means they're going
to be less likely to wear out over time it doesn't actually affect how slippery
the mouse is is on your mousing surface it just affects how long it takes for
them to wear out so there's actually five of those on the bottom as well as
check this out so there's a solid aluminum house uh aluminum body to the
mouse that makes it extremely rigid in the hand and actually also contributes a
little bit of weight to it as well another big Improvement they've made over the M60 is that the laser has been
replaced with an avago adns 9800 sensor
so that's capable of up to 88,200 DPI
which let's face it guys is only really going to be useful for you if you're
running like a surround monitor setup or very high resolution monitor because
other than that you're probably going to turn that sensor down and uh yeah you
probably won't use it to it to its full potential but it does have other cool
features as well so you can adjust things like your lift distance you can
adjust um angle snapping you can do surface testing with it it actually can
uh can adapt to different surfaces quite
easily so I mean yeah there's still advantages to having a high-end laser
it's not necess necessarily all about DPI it just happens that a high-end
laser tends to have high DPI because
people want more better numbers and all that good stuff so now let's get into
the actual ergonomics of it it is pretty much an optimal shape for someone with
smaller to midsize hands to Palm grip however I think someone with larger
hands who I'm going to have just kind of lean over here and there you go thanks
lick would probably be more comfortable with a claw grip on a mouse like this
whereas a palm grip is going to be a bit a of a challenge for him because he's
got baseball midsize hands so this gives you some perspective of everything from
petite hands to large ones you've got back and forward buttons in there I
would consider optimal locations a little bit offset from where your thumb
would normally actually rest on this lip right here but still within easy
reaching distance and you're not going to lose control of the mouse or be unable to lift it if you want to
activate those buttons if anything if I had to complain about something with
respect to the positioning of the buttons here it's with my small hands if
I'm not claw gripping I might have a little bit of trouble reaching the aim
button here which is uh a DPI changer so
if you're zooming into snipe or whatever else you want to adjust your DPI on the
Fly you just press that button and you're ready to go so moving up to the
top of the mouse we've got our DPI adjustment buttons as well as indicator
LEDs and a solid metal scroll wheel that actually feels quite nice it has a fair
bit of heft to it so Corsair's also
updated their software they've got a second generation control panel that they've added now the early software for
the M60 and the M90 was not very strong but it's actually improved a lot over
the last little while so if you have an M60 or an M90 that you've shelved uh
might be time to bring it back out and give it another crack because the
overall build quality of the mouse is solid and as long as the software is up
to Snuff then it does give a very good gaming experience so thank you for
checking out my unboxing and first look at the Vengeance M65 from Corsair don't
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