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2.0 out of 5 starsOkay mouse NOT great.
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 12, 2022
I've owned this mouse since Nov. 3rd 2021, it's now Jan 12th 2022. The mouse scroll wheel gave out today. Note: I am not an aggressive user of that in any way. My primary use for it is in word docs...to scroll between documents with hundreds of thousands (yes that number is correct) of words. Meaning documents in hundreds of pages of text.
So, you can imagine it's important to me and allows more control than clicking the wheel in to snap page scroll. I don't know why it gave out today, but I first noticed the spinning of it lacked all resistance. Not great build quality for it to give out like that.
Ergonomically, it's comfortable. I'll give them that. 4/5 in that regard.
But the build itself feels lousy/cheap, and the left/right click have felt prone to giving out (they haven't ...yet), but are light/floaty, and after a scroll wheel just died on me (which has NEVER happened in over 20 years of being a pc/mouse user), that's making me a little uncomfortable with what I've bought here.
Other issues, the dpi management. I get a switch to have you switch through your settings, great. But why have the whole profile switch button right above it...where many people have their index finger go over?
A quick dpi switch can be fixed...by reclicking, but having my whole profile change? Then have to guess which I'm in? That's nutty. I haven't found a way to unbind that because I do not need 5 whole custom profiles - which leads to the software. It's a little clunky, honestly unnecessary, and if it's going to have the measure of control it does have, then you may as well allow a user (who has bought this piece) to have FULL control and shut off extra profiles altogether, as I feel the user owning the mouse can decide for themselves if they need 1 or 5.
I only need one. This now moves to gaming.
The profile switching of this mouse has NOT been helpful, in fact, led to a lot of in game aim issues in FPS titles. The sniper button is useless and I really wish they would allow you to reprogram that, but for whatever reason, it's functionality seems locked by the mouse software. It doesn't even register in most FPS titles a button I have access to. So...that's weird.
I've never met a player who uses a sniper button. Most just have their fixed dpi and use an in game ads reduction setting for when they're zoomed in.
So for all its supposed functionality...it's rather limited because you aren't in total control of all that? Not great.
But, my biggest gripe so far is build quality. It hasn't completely crapped out in 3 months, but not being able to use a scroll wheel SEVERELY hurts my day job productivity for how much I need to mini scroll up a few paragraphs, or down just five lines onto to the next page to track changes, annotate, and so on.
Edit: Upon further research, you can google this specific mouse and scroll wheel problems. KNOWN DEFECT that fails/falls apart within the same timeline I just had mine go out...and includes with minimal duress.
So this is a known build quality issue evga has not remedied in new mouses. Yeah, NOT OKAY. I got this on a discount, and thought it'd be worth it.
I'm being proven wrong.
