You'll forget it uses BATTERIES! - SteelSeries Rival 3 Wireless Mouse
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·ShortCircuit
·2021-05-05
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1,461 words · ~7 min read
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- This mouse battery can last 400 hours.
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Do you know what you can do in 400 hours? You can walk around Manhattan, the entire Island,
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more than 16 times. That's insane, if you were running at 3.5 miles an hour
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for that entire 400 hours, you could eat 369 junior chickens
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and come out calorie neutral. That's how long 400 hours is.
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SteelSeries sponsored us to unbox the SteelSeries Rival 3 Wireless,
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which is the wireless uptake to their very successful Rival 3 mouse.
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I actually don't have that much experience with SteelSeries mice.
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I know that there's lots of pro gamers that use the Rival 310, like
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secretly in renewals on Chaos for Rainbow Six
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and they love it. And I've heard only good things about these mice.
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So inside the box, it's pretty standard.
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It's just a little cardboard holder, you get the mouse. And I love that.
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That's why they can offer this mouse at 49.99. That's an insane price for a good gaming mouse.
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It's got less than a millisecond delay, 1,000 Hertz polling rate,
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all the stuff you need from a gaming mouse. It's got the TrueMove Air Sensor,
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which is a variant on a PixArt 3369, I believe.
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So it's considered a flawless sensor, so you'll never have any problems.
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Oh, there's already batteries. As you can see, it's a pretty small mouse.
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I'd say it's comparable to like a 305,
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kind of a geo G-pro shape more than anything. You pull off this back plate,
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you get your two battery slots. This one can operate off, two triple A's or one.
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To get the 400 hours you need both. And they say that it's less than half with just one.
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But I'm concerned about weight. So I'm gonna operate it today with just one battery.
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Perfect, inside is the wireless dongle receiver
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for the proprietary Quantum 2.0 technology.
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That means that this mouse has 2.4 gigahertz technology
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so that it's basically the same as wired mouse. It's awesome, no delay.
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But it also has Bluetooth 5.0. So if you're traveling and you don't wanna bring the dongle,
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just connect it to any Bluetooth compliant device, you're good to go.
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So I really like that versatility, I think that's really nice. Sometimes mice that are ambidextrous don't really suit me.
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I find my palm just doesn't have a place to go. But these outward curves actually, I find very comfortable.
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I like to kinda have like a sorta palm sort of clog grip.
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So this works for me. I actually like this better than I thought I would.
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These buttons feel good. They're rated for 60 million clicks, which is really high.
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Often mice are rated for 20 million, so. They have little indentations on the buttons
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to kinda have your finger set in, but it never feels too much.
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Kind of can move around the mouse pretty easily. The buttons feel nice.
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The texture feels pretty good. If I have anything bad to say about these buttons,
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the sideburns are just a little bit small but that's just a preference thing. I like big chunky buttons for my big chunky thumb.
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These are, they're not too bad. You can, tell which one you're pressing.
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You can hit both at the same time if you need to. But I like the top buttons a little bit more.
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They have more play than on other mice I've used but
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nothing that would get in the way of getting your shots off.
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There's the little DPI indicator, there's the mouse wheel buttons, side buttons.
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This pleasant, comfortable shape that often doesn't work for me,
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but this one's actually doing pretty good. On the bottom is the glide pads.
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They're fairly big, doing their job. And then there's the switch.
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So you have your Bluetooth off and your 2.5 gigahertz. We're gonna be gaming.
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So we're going right to 2.4 gigahertz. For the 400 rated hours, you need both batteries.
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And you also need to turn on the power saving mode. So that means that
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your polling rate goes from a thousand to 125. That's not great for gaming,
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but for everything else, for your work, for most games that aren't kind of reflex, that's fine.
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And 400 hours is pretty insane for a AAA battery.
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So now that the mouse is plugged in, you can see that there's the RGB on the scroll wheel.
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I think that's a smart choice for keeping the battery life good.
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You can have RGB everywhere, but that's obviously gonna eat away at your battery life.
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So let's see how much it weighs. So according to them, just the mouse is 84 grams, with a battery 95,
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and with two batteries, 101. But we're gonna test that for ourselves.
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Let's go zero batteries first, 82.
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It's lighter than they said. I'm into it, I'm into it.
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- [Jono] Dongle's not in there. - You don't want the dongle when you're operating it.
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92, why would they wait with the dongle? Don't they wanna make it seem
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the lightest it could possibly to be? - [Jono] They wanna be honest.
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- And then 102. So, that's a pretty light wireless gaming mouse.
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At this price point, that's pretty untouchable 'cause even a 305,
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is more expensive than this. And so if it performs well,
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if I have no issues with it, I like the shape. Good sensor, good buttons.
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Let's take a look at what this mouse looks like inside of the SteelSeries engine software.
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Wow, there is so many more settings than I expected.
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This is awesome. Man, this is like a tinker's dream.
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Very impressed. You can customize all the buttons, very nice.
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You can turn on Bluetooth mode if you want.
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You have your different profiles. You can save up to five profiles on the mice.
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You can switch between computers and have that saved, which is just a lifesaver sometimes.
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You can adjust in increments of 100 DPI.
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You have a sleep timer. I found it really aggressive.
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So I'm gonna raise it a little bit. You can turn on high efficiency mode,
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which would lower the polling rate and
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give you that 400 hours of battery life. But, I'm a gamer. I want to live life hard.
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Live, and die hard. So you have your polling rates.
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I'm gonna keep it at a thousand. You can change your acceleration and deceleration but,
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if you're a true gamer, you turn all that off. You want that raw input.
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Feels smooth, feels like a modern mouse.
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I like the feel of it.
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Yeah, this feels pretty good. When I lift and slide,
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it doesn't feel like I'm having any issues.
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It's like one of those mice you just put it in your hand and you're like, "Yeah, that feels good." And then you start going and it goes.
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I'm a pretty pleased with the feeling of this.
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Huh, so far I'm getting a pretty good game feel for this.
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Snapping onto heads, I'm not hating this at all.
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Overall, I really like this mouse, it feels good in the hand,
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I like the buttons. It moves the way I want. The sensor's good.
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If the price is extremely right, if I was making a roundup of mice,
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this would definitely be a contender for a great value proposition.
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And if you need a big mouse, you have huge hands, this might not be the right fit for you.
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But if you want a smaller mouse, something that's portable that you can take with you for work for gaming,
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has smart design, pretty darn light, this is a really good mouse.
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I would definitely recommend it. So thanks to SteelSeries for sponsoring this ShortCircuit.
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You can check out this mouse at the link below, or check out any of the other Short Circuits
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that I've covered mice on,
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and goodbye. - [Jono] Bye bye, beard. - Oh, I don't have a beard.
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I forgot about that. Yeah, I shaved it this weekend. Here's the thing, I know that at some point
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Linus is gonna have to shave it. And if I shaved it after Linus,
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people will be like, "you're just copying him." So getting ahead of the curve.