Wireless gaming mouse for £100

ThomBassmonkey · 26 Dec 2011 at 23:43

I'm after something that's going to be accurate, has a few buttons on the side (not hundreds, I don't like the idea of the naga, though obviously that's wired anyway) and is sturdy enough to fall off my desk the odd time.

I've been looking around for a while, the Logitech ones don't feel very comfy to me and the buttons feel cheap.

I like the look of the Mamba, it has the side buttons but they feel cheap and I'm not 100% sure about the size/weight/feel of it and I've never got to try it plugged in.

I had a RAT9 that was faulty, when it worked it was excellent, but I didn't get a proper chance to have a look around last time (mainly because I had to buy with vouchers and the shop I was buying at had very limited mice). It's since been returned and I have another chance to look around before I get anything. Also being able to switch out the batteries on the fly was a brilliant advantage for me. I play on the sofa so wired isn't really an option and if I had a mamba (for example) and the batteries ran out, I'd be stuffed.

I have a MS X5 and it's alright but it feels clunky. It feels like it was made by Land Rover and those classic clunks that LRs make when you put on the handbrake for example are transferred to the feel on hte mouse wheel. It puts me off getting the X8 because I tried one briefly and it felt very similar.

At the moment I'm swaying towards getting another RAT9 but I thought I'd check my options. I don't have a min budget per se, but I want something good quality.

Thanks!

firthy15 · 27 Dec 2011 at 00:01

There is a wireless version of the naga, I'm thinking of grabbing myself one and use my ageing deathadder for FPS

HangTime · 27 Dec 2011 at 00:07

Not a terribly helpful answer but if you are playing on the sofa I'd question whether you really need a 'premium' mouse costing £100 - when you start getting that serious I'd want to be optimising other conditions as well (in arbritary terms, a £50 wired mouse on a desk is likely to give a better experience than a £100 wireless mouse on a sofa).

Of course, your question is still a valid one but I'll leave that to others to answer

G-MAN2004 · 27 Dec 2011 at 00:09

Are £100 mouses really that much better than a, let's say, £40 mouse? I'm sceptical.

ThomBassmonkey · 27 Dec 2011 at 00:39

Filthy, I'm not really interested in the naga, I've seen the wireless version of it but I sometimes grip my mouse quite tightly and with big hands, I'd be likely to press buttons by mistake. I have a G13 macro keyboard anyway so I don't need to worry about keys (I know that's wired but my PC tower is that side of my sofa, I'm using a wired mouse atm and the wire gets in the way and if I move my legs or normal keyboard, on my lap, it can tug the mouse).

I'm set up on the sofa with a hard raised surface on my right with a steelseries surface on it (usually, for some reason my X5 doesn't like it), so I don't think I'm at any disadvantage. If I was playing with it directly on the sofa though (apart from screwing up my wrist), I'd agree with you, HangTime.

G-MAN, if I was getting a wired mouse, it'd be a lot easier to pick up a good one for cheaper. There's not a lot of nice wireless gaming mice around though and there's a big premium for things like good response on the wireless. I've recently spent a fair bit on my computer though, there's no point having good graphics if my mouse is off doing it's own thing and I don't find the game controllable.

Just spotted the Gigabyte Aivia M8600, does anyone have any experience with that? It seems like it has a nice amount of buttons without any getting in the way and all the perks of some of the others I've mentioned.

Cliste · 27 Dec 2011 at 00:53

Wireless mouse and games? Eeeew.

Can't even use them when playing FPS games.

ThomBassmonkey · 27 Dec 2011 at 00:58

I'm the same with wired mouses.

I found the cable always gets in the way. If I have anything on my desk the cable is garuanteed to get caught in it, if I don't have anything it'll somehow manage to get caught on the edge of the mouse mat (i don't even know how, it's happened a few times though). I ended up using a crap packard bell wireless mouse (that came with my PC) over the Microsoft X5 for just that reason.

Now I'm used to a decent mouse though, I'd rather deal with the cable than use a crap one again though, but I'd still take a wireless over a wired any day, even if I'm sat at my desk.