New mouse time.

[Gork]

I have a reeely cool mouse from pictek. I scored it off amazon a little before the start of this year because the red-dragon mouse that came with my computer died pretty impressively, and it was partially my fault. Its death involved me with a awful migrane, ride to the doctors, shoos, and a few sparks. Before that I accidently nocked it off the desk  where it hit a can of ginerale and to become good friends, because a mouse(the animal kind) was practicing for the 500 meter dash in the mouse limpics.

This picteck works...minus the scroll wheel. That stopped working out of the blue yesterday about midnight, and I tried any trick I can think of to get the wheel to work.

I'd prefer a mouse with RGB lighting. Both because it helps show it's working, and because I think RGB is cool AF.

I'd also prefer not to explode the bank on it. 

I the pictek was used, seller called it  'used for one day and got a real mouse. 30 OBO"  

I'm considering a track ball (to help with gamer wrist )

or just a dumb red-dragon corded 20 bucks good.

I am super curius what all are good value mice.

 

[OhioYJ]

Logitech G502.  Pretty classic gaming mouse at this point. Can catch them on sale pretty regularly for $30-40. Lots of parts and customization options for them as they are popular. I've had a couple, using one right now, so maybe I'm biased?

[Gork]

4 minutes ago, OhioYJ said:

Logitech G502.  Pretty classic gaming mouse at this point. Can catch them on sale pretty regularly for $30-40. Lots of parts and customization options for them as they are popular. I've had a couple, using one right now, so maybe I'm biased?

Cool! What's using it like? 

Is 'hero sensor' over rated?

[OhioYJ]

5 minutes ago, Gork said:

Is 'hero sensor' over rated?

 

Likely. Are you ever going to set your mouse to 25k DPI?  Personally I don't have mine set that high. Yes the Hero sensor does technically have better specs, but if you found a deal on a regular G502 I would pick it up. The "regular" sensor is still rated 12k DPI. I believe my "high" speed is set to 12k on my mouse IIRC, I typically leave it set on the middle setting which I think is 8k? The Hero sensor is supposedly slightly other ways, but I doubt I would ever notice it.

 

The only thing I will say about my G502 is the dreaded Logitech double click. My G500 went years, before it started double clicking (the finish was wearing off it was so old). My G502 started doing it at a year old. My son's G502 no problems a year in, and he uses his a lot more than me. Lots of mice do this as most use the same type of switches (so it's not just a 502 problem). Just the only thing I've really run into so far with mine. Replacement feet were easy to source for the 502, and replaced the switches in mine no problem. 

 

I like the ergonomics of the mouse personally.

[Gork]

2 hours ago, OhioYJ said:

 

Likely. Are you ever going to set your mouse to 25k DPI?  Personally I don't have mine set that high. Yes the Hero sensor does technically have better specs, but if you found a deal on a regular G502 I would pick it up. The "regular" sensor is still rated 12k DPI. I believe my "high" speed is set to 12k on my mouse IIRC, I typically leave it set on the middle setting which I think is 8k? The Hero sensor is supposedly slightly other ways, but I doubt I would ever notice it.

 

The only thing I will say about my G502 is the dreaded Logitech double click. My G500 went years, before it started double clicking (the finish was wearing off it was so old). My G502 started doing it at a year old. My son's G502 no problems a year in, and he uses his a lot more than me. Lots of mice do this as most use the same type of switches (so it's not just a 502 problem). Just the only thing I've really run into so far with mine. Replacement feet were easy to source for the 502, and replaced the switches in mine no problem. 

 

I like the ergonomics of the mouse personally.

lol funny you say that this G502 I found on amazon, the batch has a double click issue. they still sell a the m510 wired and wireless. the mouse that I was using till the scoll wheel went kerput could (in theory) get set to some stupid high DPI. why I'd 100k or what ever it reely is? id on't know. FPS games or something maybe? 

[IPD]

RGB as a discriminator--is a bad idea.  There's a lot of peripherals out there who use flashy RGB to disguise their tepid offerings.  Instead, you should be looking at features/qualities that are important to you.  What grip type do you use (Claw, Palm, Fingertip)?  How big are your hands?  How many buttons do you require?  Do you want macro functions?  Programmable functions?  How much DPI sensitivity do you need?  Maybe even G-acceleration max (if you are one of those who cares about it)?  And of course, wired or wireless?

 

Imho, the Interceptor DS100 is still one of the best value mice of all time, because of the ambidexterous design, multiple profiles you can have, and programmable + macro functionality.  I have yet to migrate back to optical, and I don't know that I want to.

[Gork]

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RGB as a discriminator--is a bad idea.

Just prefrence here. On the practical side either because of Windows being it. Or the computer that work got me. Sometimes something with USB will seem to work ok. As plugs in  and windows will start chatting with it. But when I actually go to use it. I get the middle finger. lol although a mouse doing the mouse-a-limplics and startling me to cause one to get dropped or nocked over is not nice to the mouse lol. But on the other extreme: android getting mounted but then: nope not actually. or my new new, least favorite this reeely nice fealing SN+ controller that  is supposed to have native support: no way to know if it's charge, and on etc because it doesn't have any lights

 

Sufficed to say I just though having lights on the mouse or cable could be a nice little QOL of life thing.

 

I use a resting my hand on the mouse grip. So. Palm? big hands. Definatly two buttons at least for right and left clicking. 

 

Duude that mouse  just looks hella dope. because I regularly get noob pwnd by gamer wrist? I high-key love  the idea of  one that'd be more vertical? 

[thekingofmonks]

On 11/8/2021 at 8:03 AM, Gork said:

Cool! What's using it like? 

Is 'hero sensor' over rated?

The G502's sensor is too good for such a heavy mouse (about 120g without the additional weights), but it certainly is a lot better than the entry level ones that Pictek uses. I haven't used mine much, but the ergonomics feel nice, other than it being a little too heavy, which is preference after all.

[Gork]

the piktek I had could be set  from Flinstones Car speed, all thway up to RocketPowered Hammy they Hyper Squiral and sonic combined. ie. Slow or twitchy lol.