Originally posted by: hytek369
is this better than microsoft explorer 4.0?
I use an MX 500 as my main gaming mouse right now, and I bought an IE 4.0 because I liked the IE 3.0 so much (but the feel on the MX eye won me over). I was hoping for an IE 3.0 with just a better eye on it. Man was I disappointed. Eye for Eye the IE 4.0 and the mx500 feel identical to me. It might be that the IE 4.0 is better, but I didn't notice a major difference. As for the feel of the mouse itself, the mx500 just feels better on my hand, and the side buttons are easier to use, but that's a personal preference thing. My major beef with the IE 4.0 is that when you install the correct drivers for it, the mouse 3 defaults to being mapped to alt-tab, and you can only re-map any of the extra buttons to a single keyboard key, enter. With the IE 3.0 I was able to remap mouse 3, and both side buttons to keyboard keys, and use all of them in any game if I just mapped a function to that key. With the IE 4.0 you can only remap the buttons to windows functions (copy, paste, alt-tab, etc.) with the exception of Enter, and that went to mouse 3. When I went to play quake, I have my LG bound to mouse 3, and when you press the button, it has a lag to it. It takes about a half-second for mouse 3 to do it's action after you press it. A lot of time in a heated game.
I dont use the mousewheel for much in games, but when I do, I prefer it to tick when I roll it. I just got used to how many ticks it took to switch to plasma gun when I had rocket launcher out. The wheel of the IE 4.0 doesn't tick when you roll it, it's smooth. So when I was using it, I had to take time out of what I was doing, and actually look down at the weapon selection to see what weapon I was picking. The mousewheel tilt functions are completely useless to me as they don't map in games either, and since I run 1600x1200 I rarely need to 'side scroll' anything.
As far as mouse weight, the IE 4.0 is about the same weight as the IE 3.0, which both are slightly heavier than the mx500 after the weight is removed.
I hope that answers your question well enough, I hate the IE 4.0 as a gaming mouse. I use it at work just because every mouse there is a ball mouse.
If the main difference between the mx500 and the 510 is just eye dpi, it might be worth checking out, but I tend to agree with other's postings that it probably isn't noticable to the average user.
Side note: Those of you who own an mx500 and are thinking about getting an mx510, but don't like the way the marble looks, I bet you can take the silver shell off an mx500 and put it on the 510, they look like they are the exact same mouse shell. I was planning on doing that if I made the jump to a 510
Edit:
Originally posted by: deepinya
They are BOTH 800dpi. The scanning rate is based upon how fast you can move the mouse without it skipping.
The MX510 runs at 800dpi natively, but unless they changed it in recent drivers, you have to do some registry hacking to get an MX500 to run at 800dpi. They boast how it's able to, but it won't run that way unless you make it so.