Corsair M60 FPS Gaming Mouse Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2012-05-07
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1,969 words · ~9 min read
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welcome to my much demanded unboxing of the Vengeance M60 so this actually is
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not my first encounter with Corsair's new gaming series mice although it is
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one of my first encounters with what looks like a horrible difficult to
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openen package that actually oh I broke
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it is not difficult to open or horrible
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at all so Corsair has in their Infinite
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Wisdom figured out a way to do a clamshell plastic
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package where the product just comes out
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like that like that's easier than like removing Darth Vader's mask that's
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awesome incredible okay so now okay I'm
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I'm done talking about how great the packaging is now let's move on to the
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product so this is Corsair's first real entry into the uh gaming peripheral well
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okay I shouldn't say it's their first real entry into the gaming peripheral space because they do have their their
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very successful headsets and very successful speakers under their belts
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already but this is their first crack at
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a human interface device so a mouse or keyboard so the M60 k60 M90 and k90 are
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two series of products so the 60 series products are more Geared for FPS and a
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little bit more about why the M60 is for FPS and the 90 series are more for MMO
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now in terms of some of the specs they're quite similar so both the m M60
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which we have here and the K and the M90
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have a full unibody aluminum construction so you can see it does add
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some weight to the mouse but personally I prefer a heavier Mouse anyway I use a
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fully loaded G9 with all of the weight uh the weight packs in it at work and I
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really do like that um so it does make it a little bit heavy but not
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unreasonably so and then you also have adjustable weights here on the bottom so
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you can actually adjust not only the overall weight of the mouse but also
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where the weight is located in the mouse uh so they both have the same 5700 DPI
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sensor unibody design they've also got
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the same overall kind of ergonomic design and feel so the difference is
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that the M90 has a ton of buttons over here whereas the k60 goes for more of a
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um more of an optimized sort of layout you don't need a ton of buttons for FPS
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but what you do need is your back and forward whether you want to bind it to
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grenade throwing or whatever else the case may be you need your sensitivity
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adjustments which are up here here you need a oh that's nice Russian was
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telling me that this mouse features a heavy duty scroll wheel and I can I can
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definitely see what he means by that because it has a very distinct click it
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has a very good click when you're actually pressing on it as well so it is
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very comfortable to use and then what they've also added is a dedicated sniper
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button so what that does is allows you to figure out a DPI that you're more
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comfortable with when you're zoomed in really close up to something so as soon
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as you Scope in you're going to want to go ahead press that button and that's
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going to dramatically reduce your sensitivity so you have more control
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when you are zoomed in all the way so as we've come to expect with Corsair this
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mouse has hold on I'm just going to put it down kind of gently somewhere so that
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I don't scratch the uh nonslip or non-slip I always call them nonslip no
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no intentionally slippery feet on the bottom of the mouse uh in terms of
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length the cable is just over one Linus
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armband and has a USB termination which
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we pretty much uh we take for granted these days as we've come to expect from
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Corsair we've got a nice rugged braided
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cable so that should be more difficult to get caught on things than a
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non-braided cable um hold on a
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second what else we got on here so I just want to make sure I didn't miss
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anything here's something that's cool it actually has uh besides an advanced
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sensor and I've already used uh both the M60 and the M90 in a real world scenario
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really like the way it tracks some mice regardless of what kind of a DPI they're
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spec for sort of feel better than others some feel more accurate than others I've
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actually tried the M90 already on a variety of different surfaces including
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a cloth pad a hard pad uh a more textured hard PAD as well as just on the
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tech tips table over there on a tablecloth and I didn't have any
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difficulty with it on any of those surfaces some in particular you go and
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you use it on a cloth pad it feels great you go and you throw it on a hard pad
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like something like I've got an old steel series SX that's a discontinued
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mouse pad now but it's my personal favorite and I've taken mice that
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perform great on cloth I've thrown them on there and it it Glides great uh you
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know great aluminum mouse pad but the tracking feels funny like it'll it'll
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jutter around or it'll uh it'll kind of not detect just right when I'm going in
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a straight line it'll move in not quite a straight line drives me absolutely crazy so this one seems to track very
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well on a variety of surfaces in terms of the slippy feet on the bottom of it
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we've got uh very very good coverage so
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at the back on the sides at the back on the sides at the front so you're pretty
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much going to be covered no matter how you rest on your mouse speaking of how
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you rest on your mouse this is what a lot of people ask me ever since we did
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that ergonomics guide on my ncixcom channel what a lot of people ask me is
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what kind of a mouse is it is it a palm Mouse is it a claw Mouse is it a
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fingertip Mouse and I'd say if I had to pick one for these guys this is more of
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a claw Mouse although what they've done here at the back you see this shape
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right here is they've created a way that
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you can actually kind of Palm this mouse if you have smaller hands like I do so
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you see the way that rests right in my palm there so I can either rest my palm
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there or I can lift up a little bit more and I can use it as more of a fingertip
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style of mouse the buttons have I'd say
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about an average uh travel distance before they actuate I've had mice that
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I've used in the past that um I find are
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more like a hair trigger I particularly find that on razor mice they tend to be
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quite sensitive so you put a little bit of too much pressure on the right side of the mouse boom you click all of a
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sudden uh I personally don't have that great fine control with my fingers uh
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for clicking so I prefer something with a little bit of a heavier Mouse button
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so bear that in mind you guys if you're going to go with the M60 I'd say it's
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about average um something that I could use comfortably but uh I wouldn't mind
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if it was a little bit heavier as well um let me see what else we got here I
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don't think we're missing too much ah yeah uh the Russians reminded me that um
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you know I'll talk about that after because other some other stuff here is cool so side mounted sniper button
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aluminum frame and base for improved rigidity and mass distribution tracking
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up to 165 in per second with up to 30 GS of acceleration and automatic frame rate
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control solid metal weighted scroll wheel with rubberized scroll surface
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Okay so we've got all of that stuff so far but what we haven't talked about is
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the adjustable lift distance with five selectable levels to fit your style of
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play and the fact that the mouse also detects when it's being lifted and is
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not going to move around once you've lifted it off the table which is a very
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cool feature and something that can be the Bane the killer of otherwise very
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legitimate very good gaming mice is if you run into that problem where oh I've
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gone over here I need to lift it up and it tracks you a little bit back to the
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right as you try to get back to Center so you shouldn't have that problem and I
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have not had that problem uh in using the M60 or rather the M90 which is the
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same sensor so in using the M90 so far
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so why don't we just turn s of have a bit of a closeup here so you can see
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it's uh what it looks like from the front there's that uh aluminum frame so
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this even though it doesn't really look like it's connected anything is actually part of the unibody design you can see
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it's joined right here and then it comes all the way out here folds up at the
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back and that is what supports the Palm rest at the back of the mouse right
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there it looks kind of bare bones but
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like I don't mean okay I don't mean Bare Bones it looks kind of like exposed and
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like you might sort of fall fall through the actual covering of the mouse and it
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might be uncomfortable but it's actually not because all the places where you
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would normally touch are covered with their kind of a
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nonslip uh rubberized grippy coating so it's actually a little bit more textured
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on the sides which is a very nice touch than it is on the top so on the top is
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quite smooth and on the sides it's got quite a lot of texture so what actually
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here you can you can see my skin actually rubbing off on the texture on
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the side so what that means is that when you go to lift the Mouse you have with
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very minimal pressure on the mouse due to the curvature of the mouse as well as
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due to the texture on the sides very minimal difficulty holding it up with a
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thumb and a pinky finger whereas it also isn't rough on the top so that's uh it's
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not rough on the top that's good so uh
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thank you for checking out my unboxing of the Vengeance M60 don't forget to
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videos and also don't forget it has user selectable reporting rate of 125 HZ 240
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HZ 500 HZ and 1,000 HZ which uh I pretty
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much assumed it had and I assumed you would know but since it's on the box I
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might as well mention it anyway