In the future, when I look back on 2014, one of the main things I will remember
will be the inclusion of 16.8 million color RGB lighting on nearly every tech
product imaginable. And before the year is over, we will be reviewing at least
one more. Also, I got grilled pretty hard for teasing whole room water
cooling video in my last review, but then OP delivered, so I'm going to tease
you again. Whole room water cooling part two coming soon.
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from select retailers. Click now to learn more. First off, we will explore
the physical features of the mouse, except for the lighting, which we will
go into more depth later on. It comes with a slightly longer than my wingspan
nicely sleeved cable which ends in an unusually large USB plug which has the
benefit of being delightfully easy to identify in a mess of other cables. On
the other end of the cable is the body of the mouse itself which is fairly
light at just under 100 g, but unfortunately cannot be adjusted due to
the lack of an included adjustable weighting system. The Saber Optical RGB
has eight programmable buttons, including by default left, middle, right
click, DPI, up and down, forward, and back, and an unbound button just behind
the scroll wheel. While the finish on the mouse didn't really stand out
necessarily, it also didn't leave much to be desired. I had no problem gripping
the mouse, however, I tried to hold it. I held this mouse predominantly in a
claw grip, however, as I do that with nearly every mouse I have because they
all seem to be too small for me to be able to actually palm. I asked Lionus
how it felt in a palm grip, and he assured me that it was a great fit for
his hand size. Under the hood, the mouse features dual Omnron switches for your
left and right click, along with a Pixart S3988 sensor, which I'm happy to
say doesn't seem to have any of that acceleration or any junk like that. You
may be familiar with this sensor as it has been used before in recent versions
of the extremely popular Razer Death Adder. One thing that I must point out
before moving on to the software and lighting modes is a little OCD pet peeve
of mine. This is a neutral toned looking mouse with customizable lighting modes
so that you can make it match almost any color setup you have. But then the
Corsair logo has yellow on it. It's not the worst case of this since my hand
would be on it most of the time so I wouldn't be able to see it. And Corsair
is not the only brand guilty of putting unchangeable colors on a product
designed to be color adjusted by the user. But it's frustrating nonetheless
because if I was buying it to color match everything in my setup down to the
mouse even, I would be driven crazy by the fact that there's a little random
patch of yellow sitting there and I couldn't easily change it. It's just
frustrating. Moving on, we of course there's Q software. Changing the mouse's
performance is a breeze. It comes with a whopping five custom DPI levels, which
you can quick swap on the DPI up and down buttons while you're gaming. Five
lift height settings and four pulling rate settings are also included for
those of you that wish to tune their mouse just a little bit further. Also,
just as a quick note, leave enhanced pointer precision and angle snapping
unchecked, especially if you're a gamer or a human. All eight of the
programmable mouse buttons are easy to take advantage of in the actions tab.
You're able to get these buttons to do basically anything from input macros,
text inputs, single keystrokes, shortcuts, DPI changes, timers, media
control, and even mouse input for whatever reason. All of this in the
software is very powerful and gives you a huge amount of granularity to your
options, especially once you get to the RGB settings. But this is also where
things got a little weird. That whole easy to take advantage of thing that I
brought up earlier doesn't really apply to the RGB lighting functionality.
Corsair knows this and so do you if you've watched Lionus' video on the K70
RGB keyboard and Corsair is working on making improvements to their software,
but as of right now it's kind of a mess. They have something like nine videos on
their channel alone just to help people set this up and all coming from an HCI
or human computer interaction standpoint. It's ugly. I mean,
aesthetically, sure, it looks great, but in forms of usability, it's pretty
rough. Having tabs in different places with the same name doing drastically
different things, and having options hidden away in right-click menus that
should really just be buttons are just
the tip of the iceberg. If you manage to read the massive 140 pageish manual and
trudge through their forums for a while, you can get the hang of it and do some
really cool stuff. But for people wanting a super quick setup, your
options will probably be limited to the quick select modes. Even just the
inclusion of being able to click on a lighting zone and have an RGB color
wheel pop up and allowing you to select a color manually or even put in a custom
RGB code would have been a huge
redeeming point, but alas, no dice. The
Saber wasn't made for board games, though, so we don't need dice. And this
conclusion is pretty straightforward. If you're a PC gamer, not a tabletop gamer,
the mouse is physically quite standard and with a reputable sensor and
switches. The setup is then augmented by an extremely powerful software package
hampered by an attractive but also
limited UI. It still needs its usability
tweaks, but Corsair seems to be building an extremely powerful RGB ecosystem for
a consumer base that obviously wants it.
It's just unfortunately not quite there yet. That being said,
thankfully none of these problems will affect the raw performance and since
they are all softwarebased, they could be there. They could be there and fixed
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Don't forget water cooling day part two will be coming soon. Part two, day two.
I don't remember exactly what it is. It will be good. I actually really liked
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