{"video_id":"ghawYhsGdug","title":"They fixed it! But at what cost? - Corsair Sabre V2 Pro","channel":"ShortCircuit","show":"ShortCircuit","published_at":"2026-02-03T14:58:16Z","duration_s":615,"segments":[{"start_s":0.16,"end_s":5.52,"text":"I love it when a big company falls behind in a product category because it","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":4.0,"end_s":10.0,"text":"means they have to release a good product at a good price in order to","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":7.52,"end_s":15.36,"text":"catch up. And that's exactly what the Corsair Saber V2 Pro looks like it's","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":12.719,"end_s":20.0,"text":"going to be. It's finally a high-end gaming mouse uh with some really","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":17.359,"end_s":24.96,"text":"impressive specs at a price that doesn't make me want to launch a Tuxio into the","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":22.0,"end_s":30.8,"text":"sun. 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And when I looked into the issue, it seems to be actually a","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":434.4,"end_s":442.0,"text":"Corsair uh defined one where basically they were having double click issues. Uh","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":439.28,"end_s":446.8,"text":"and so they made them debounce time 8 milliseconds to prevent double clicking","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":444.4,"end_s":452.0,"text":"or smash clicking. Uh but that means that there's 9 milliseconds of click","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":449.12,"end_s":456.319,"text":"latency, which is pretty much a fail in my opinion on, you know, quote unquote","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":453.759,"end_s":459.68,"text":"high-end gaming mice. Apparently, they are aware of the issue and they are","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":457.84,"end_s":462.4,"text":"going to add a firmware update where you can turn down the debounce time. 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When you're buying a gaming","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":508.479,"end_s":514.24,"text":"peripheral that's supposed to help you be as good as you can be at gaming,","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":512.159,"end_s":518.24,"text":"there is already a built-in disadvantage to this one. And it's especially a","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":516.159,"end_s":521.519,"text":"bummer because this mouse comes in at $99.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":520.08,"end_s":525.279,"text":"That's a little bit more than mid-range mice. And I'm often been recommending","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":523.12,"end_s":529.2,"text":"the Keyron M series, which is cheaper than this mouse. But for a big","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":526.64,"end_s":534.56,"text":"corporation with a mouse at this weight category, with this feature set, 100","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":531.519,"end_s":536.399,"text":"bucks is not such a bad deal. But until","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":534.56,"end_s":539.6,"text":"they fix that input latency problem, I don't think this is something I can I","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":538.08,"end_s":544.08,"text":"can recommend. I think it feels good in the hand. Pretty similar to the Logitech","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":541.6,"end_s":548.16,"text":"Superlite 2C. A little bit smaller than kind of the most flagship gaming mice.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":546.56,"end_s":554.959,"text":"The build quality is good. The buttons feel pretty good outside of the side buttons with that glossy mushy click,","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":552.16,"end_s":559.76,"text":"but that responsiveness is is is enough to make this not the mouse you should","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":557.12,"end_s":563.6,"text":"spend 100 bucks on. Uh at least not until Corsair fixes it. if they do, and","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":561.839,"end_s":568.48,"text":"you can't buy stuff on the promise that it might be fixed one day. One thing I","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":565.92,"end_s":572.8,"text":"found in my research, uh, thanks to Tech PowerUp, is there is a mouse that is","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":570.88,"end_s":577.12,"text":"very similar to this. It's 15 bucks cheaper than this and doesn't have that","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":574.959,"end_s":582.32,"text":"8 milliseconds added input latency from the debounce setting, and that is the","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":578.88,"end_s":585.36,"text":"Dare you A950 Wing. Very similar shapes,","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":582.32,"end_s":588.8,"text":"high-end PixArt sensor, 8000Hz polling","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":585.36,"end_s":590.24,"text":"rate. Uh, but it's actually going to be","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":588.8,"end_s":593.2,"text":"good. Uh, which is kind of nice when you're spending any amount of money on","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":591.839,"end_s":597.12,"text":"anything. You kind of want that thing to be good, just like you want my","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":595.6,"end_s":600.24,"text":"conclusions to be good, the ones that lead you to their next video. If you","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":1},{"start_s":598.72,"end_s":606.24,"text":"like mice, why don't you check out the time I unbox the Keyron M5. It is a","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":1},{"start_s":603.04,"end_s":608.24,"text":"vertical mouse uh with all these gaming","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":1},{"start_s":606.24,"end_s":612.399,"text":"features, but it'll give you an idea of how good the rest of the Keyron lineup","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":1},{"start_s":610.16,"end_s":615.6,"text":"is. For the price, I don't think it can be me right now.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":1}],"full_text":"I love it when a big company falls behind in a product category because it means they have to release a good product at a good price in order to catch up. And that's exactly what the Corsair Saber V2 Pro looks like it's going to be. It's finally a high-end gaming mouse uh with some really impressive specs at a price that doesn't make me want to launch a Tuxio into the sun. Inside this very small and light box, we have our mouse with a little sleeve. We have our dongle with a like a belt clip. I don't think I've ever seen this. We also have our 6 foot type A to C USB cable. It's a pretty nice quality cable braided. Even has the yellow USB uh connectors. You got to pay extra for that. Like Razer was paying extra to have green. Other than that, we have a warranty guide. We have a alcohol pad because you also get grip tape and extra size glide skates. That's actually kind of sick cuz the first thing that's going to wear out and maybe the only thing that's going to wear out uh is your glide skates on this bottom. And here's larger ones for extra smooth performance. Interesting that they don't have the larger ones pre-installed. I would guess that's because of weight. They're trying to keep this thing at 36 g. That's about as light as you can get for a regular retail gaming mouse, especially one without a honeycomb uh design. That's truly impressive, especially because it doesn't feel super flimsy. Um although it does feel exceptionally light. The nice thing is that on paper at least, it doesn't look like there was any major compromises in the performance of this mouse to get to that weight. This is an 8000Hz polling rate mouse uh with a fairly high class sensor with the Corsair Marksman Sensor up to 33,000 DPI, 750 IPS and 50gs of acceleration. So, a pretty high caliber of sensor. Since we're already on the bottom, you can see the glide pads around the sensor. On the top, uh I will be swapping out for these bigger, chunkier ones later once I have a desk pad. So, I don't want to scratch these, make them less good. On the side, we have two buttons. Oh, those feel bad. Those feel really bad. There's like mush and click at the same time. It's kind of impressive that they did that. There's also this little uh printed design. I think that's fine. Uh puts a little bit of personality on this mouse. On the top, we have our clicks. Medium travel. Uh not too loud. Those feel totally fine across the pressing spectrum. Our scroll wheel. It's pretty familiar to like a Logitech style clicky actual clicking of it. There's not much clicking to the mouse wheel, but I actually like that on a gaming mouse. I don't need a ton of tactility there. I just want to know I pressed it. And these switches, although there's not a ton of information, are rated for up to 100 million clicks, which is plenty. On the front, we have our type-C charging. This mouse works both in wired and wireless over the dongle, but there is no Bluetooth mode, which is fine. You probably shouldn't be using your gaming mice in a Bluetooth mode anyway, but sometimes it's nice to have that flexibility. Other than that, we have our off and presumably wired mode and then wireless on switch on the bottom and nothing else. This is a very bare bones mouse. But if you're buying a mouse for competitive FPS's, that's kind of what you want. You don't want a ton of buttons. You don't want a ton of features. Uh unless you're some kind of sicko uh that really wants that extra weight and features and stuff, but that's not what this category is. What it is is built for speed, not longevity. This has a 210 mAh battery, which Corsair claims is good for 70 hours at 1,000 Hz or 16 hours at 8,000 Hz. I'm not the biggest believer in uh going to 8,000 hertz yet. There's other limitations that I think are more important, especially because if you're using things at 8,000, you're actually requiring more of your CPU uh which could presumably, especially in an esports game, uh limit the performance you get in game. uh which would be more important than you know a sub 1 millisecond difference. And then there's other parts of a mouse that make your input latency much higher than a th000 hertz to 8,000 hz pulling rate. So we can test that out. See if you feel the difference. For now I'm going to install these glide skates while someone else tells you what our sponsor PIA. A VPN is used to hide your IP address and mask your location while browsing the web. And it can help you conceal your browsing from any third parties that may want your data. With PIA, you can set your IP address to match over 91 different countries, and that can help you watch content not available in your home country. Pretty neat. With just one PIA subscription, you get unlimited connections across your devices. It's available for Windows, macOS, Android, Linux, iOS, practically any platform. So, go check it out at piaavvpn.com/lt, or by using our link in the description for a special deal with a risk-free 30-day money back guarantee. We've plugged our dongle in. Uh, we think we've discovered what it's for. It's so you can clip it onto your desk pad. Uh, don't know how I feel about that to be honest. Uh, if you have any cable tension, it's going to lift it up. I don't think I've ever really had the issue of my dongle going away from where I need it. And if I did, I could just like tape it to my desk. I don't I feel like this is a solution in search of a problem, but certainly not a dealbreaker. The good news is you don't need to download software. In fact, the IQ software will apparently not even work with this mouse. You got to go to the web hub, which is a great trend in gaming mice I fully support. I don't want to have stupid software on my desktop. I want to configure my mouse, get it all ready, and away we go. The one issue is that this mouse doesn't have like a DPI switch or a profile switch button. So, it's a little more complicated to switch between settings, which isn't a big deal for someone like me who gets it set and forgets. In our software, we can assign our different buttons. I like the way we are looking right now. We can change our DPI settings. I know I want 800 and I don't want to be able to switch between them. So, that's easy. We can also assign macros, which uh is not my thing. We can swap between our profiles as well as our other devices. And then enter device settings. We can change our polling rate. We're doing a ShortCircuit. 8,000 baby. Sleep time. Check our firmware. Firmware update. Oh, I do have a firmware update. It's a fairly bare bones amount of control, but for me, that's all I really need. Give it a pass. Let's play some freaking games. First impressions with the extra-large glide skates and the super lightweight. This is a very smooth experience. It feels very easy to whip around. Uh, fairly responsive. Um, this is where we get to the part of the video that might be a little bit of a bummer. Our Labs testing tested the latency of this mouse, both overwired and 2.4 GHz dongle, at around 9 milliseconds. And if you're not super into gaming mice, that might not sound that bad cuz that's faster than, you know, most Bluetooth mice at 12 milliseconds. But compared to sort of what is the gold standard of sub 1 millisecond uh input latency, that's uh not so good. And when I looked into the issue, it seems to be actually a Corsair uh defined one where basically they were having double click issues. Uh and so they made them debounce time 8 milliseconds to prevent double clicking or smash clicking. Uh but that means that there's 9 milliseconds of click latency, which is pretty much a fail in my opinion on, you know, quote unquote high-end gaming mice. Apparently, they are aware of the issue and they are going to add a firmware update where you can turn down the debounce time. But then I wonder if we're going to get double click issues. It just seems like a big flub on an otherwise pretty freaking sweet mouse. We shot a video recently on LT testing how much input latency affects gaming performance. And I expected it to be, you know, 10 to 50 milliseconds, somewhere in there. That's how much input latency you need to add before it's going to affect your gaming performance. What we found uh was that at above three milliseconds of added input latency, you're going to start to see a performance dip in above average gamers. So that means you go from, you know, your 1 millisecond gold standard to 9 milliseconds on this. That's 8 milliseconds above the gold standard. That's enough that it might genuinely affect your performance. So that's a huge bummer. When you're buying a gaming peripheral that's supposed to help you be as good as you can be at gaming, there is already a built-in disadvantage to this one. And it's especially a bummer because this mouse comes in at $99. That's a little bit more than mid-range mice. And I'm often been recommending the Keyron M series, which is cheaper than this mouse. But for a big corporation with a mouse at this weight category, with this feature set, 100 bucks is not such a bad deal. But until they fix that input latency problem, I don't think this is something I can I can recommend. I think it feels good in the hand. Pretty similar to the Logitech Superlite 2C. A little bit smaller than kind of the most flagship gaming mice. The build quality is good. The buttons feel pretty good outside of the side buttons with that glossy mushy click, but that responsiveness is is is enough to make this not the mouse you should spend 100 bucks on. Uh at least not until Corsair fixes it. if they do, and you can't buy stuff on the promise that it might be fixed one day. One thing I found in my research, uh, thanks to Tech PowerUp, is there is a mouse that is very similar to this. It's 15 bucks cheaper than this and doesn't have that 8 milliseconds added input latency from the debounce setting, and that is the Dare you A950 Wing. Very similar shapes, high-end PixArt sensor, 8000Hz polling rate. Uh, but it's actually going to be good. Uh, which is kind of nice when you're spending any amount of money on anything. You kind of want that thing to be good, just like you want my conclusions to be good, the ones that lead you to their next video. If you like mice, why don't you check out the time I unbox the Keyron M5. It is a vertical mouse uh with all these gaming features, but it'll give you an idea of how good the rest of the Keyron lineup is. For the price, I don't think it can be me right now."}