Corsair M65 FPS Gaming Mouse Unboxing & First Look
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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NVIDIA welcome to my unboxing and first look at the Corsair Vengeance M65 it
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uses the same overall shell as the M60
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which they released quite a while ago as one of their first foray into the
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peripheral world so the M60 and the M90 were Corsair's first gaming mice and
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they've basically taken what was already good about the existing models and
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improved on them in a couple of subtle ways so well actually the first way
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they've improved on them really isn't that subtle at all and it's now available in three colors as opposed to
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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
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available in the traditional black as well as kind of like a sweet
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Stormtrooper white and it looks like what Corsair's going for here is no
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matter what Corsair case you have you can pretty much get yourself a Vengeance
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M65 to match it packaging is pretty straightforward so it's just got a
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plastic shell within a cardboard exterior so there you go it's just just
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a molded shaped thing you pull out the mouse and that's pretty much all that's
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included in here so there's a little bit of documentation that's going to tell
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you about your 2-year warranty as well
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as how to go to Corsair.com and download
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the latest drivers which is like Yay don't bother including a disc what's the
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point and let's have a look at the mouse
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itself so I'm probably going to get slick to come join me here in a minute
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no no not yet not yet sorry I'm just giving you prior warning I know usually
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I say that and I mean like immedi ah okay so we've got a braided cable that
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terminates in a USB so there you go it's labeled so you know it's a mouse you
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know it's Corsair assuming you can see both sides of it at the same time nice
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high quality braiding so you can't see any of the uh cords through there it's
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about it's about an entire Linus
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wingspan in length so that's actually it's probably a 6ot cord based on how uh
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how long that is compared to my arms and let's have a look at the ergonomics if
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you haven't already seen an M16 then this will be new if not considered
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a refresher so down here we've got three adjustable weight zones so you can
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customize not only the overall weight of the mouse but you can actually customize
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also the uh the weight distribution of the mouse so I'm going to run and grab a
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screwdriver here I'm just going to give go across one of the cameras with a
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crotch shot hopefully they don't switch to that one while we're in the editing
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process so inside each of these ones you can decide okay oh I want it more heavy
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at the back or I want it more heavy at the front so each of them has a little
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weight inside of it that you can either remove or keep in there all right we've
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also got poly Tetra fluoroethylene I
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think is what the actual name for it is but Teflon slippy pads all over the
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bottom of the mouse I love seeing nice big slippy pads I don't think anyone but
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me calls them slippy pads but whatever because they it just means they're going
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to be less likely to wear out over time it doesn't actually affect how slippery
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the mouse is is on your mousing surface it just affects how long it takes for
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them to wear out so there's actually five of those on the bottom as well as
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check this out so there's a solid aluminum house uh aluminum body to the
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mouse that makes it extremely rigid in the hand and actually also contributes a
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little bit of weight to it as well another big Improvement they've made over the M60 is that the laser has been
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replaced with an avago adns 9800 sensor
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so that's capable of up to 88,200 DPI
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which let's face it guys is only really going to be useful for you if you're
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running like a surround monitor setup or very high resolution monitor because
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other than that you're probably going to turn that sensor down and uh yeah you
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probably won't use it to it to its full potential but it does have other cool
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features as well so you can adjust things like your lift distance you can
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adjust um angle snapping you can do surface testing with it it actually can
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uh can adapt to different surfaces quite
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easily so I mean yeah there's still advantages to having a high-end laser
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it's not necess necessarily all about DPI it just happens that a high-end
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laser tends to have high DPI because
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people want more better numbers and all that good stuff so now let's get into
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the actual ergonomics of it it is pretty much an optimal shape for someone with
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smaller to midsize hands to Palm grip however I think someone with larger
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hands who I'm going to have just kind of lean over here and there you go thanks
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lick would probably be more comfortable with a claw grip on a mouse like this
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whereas a palm grip is going to be a bit a of a challenge for him because he's
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got baseball midsize hands so this gives you some perspective of everything from
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petite hands to large ones you've got back and forward buttons in there I
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would consider optimal locations a little bit offset from where your thumb
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would normally actually rest on this lip right here but still within easy
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reaching distance and you're not going to lose control of the mouse or be unable to lift it if you want to
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activate those buttons if anything if I had to complain about something with
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respect to the positioning of the buttons here it's with my small hands if
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I'm not claw gripping I might have a little bit of trouble reaching the aim
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button here which is uh a DPI changer so
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if you're zooming into snipe or whatever else you want to adjust your DPI on the
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Fly you just press that button and you're ready to go so moving up to the
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top of the mouse we've got our DPI adjustment buttons as well as indicator
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LEDs and a solid metal scroll wheel that actually feels quite nice it has a fair
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bit of heft to it so Corsair's also
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updated their software they've got a second generation control panel that they've added now the early software for
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the M60 and the M90 was not very strong but it's actually improved a lot over
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the last little while so if you have an M60 or an M90 that you've shelved uh
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might be time to bring it back out and give it another crack because the
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overall build quality of the mouse is solid and as long as the software is up
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to Snuff then it does give a very good gaming experience so thank you for
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