Steelseries Sensei mouse review

QueBert

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Jan 6, 2002
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I drove to BB to look at Razer mice to replace the wonderful Deathadder 3.5g I dropped and messed up They had this SS Sensei and it was only $10 more than online so I picked it up. I've never owned a SS product, but always see people raving about them. This is a damn good mouse. On the overkill side of things the DPI goes up to 11k. It has 2 settings in the drivers for low/high with a quick toggle button on the mouse. I'll say that 11k's worthless to me, the cursor moves like lighting and is unusable for me. Maybe I could grow accustomed to it, but it's just too sensitive. On the cool but ultimately useless side it has 3 different led backlight zones you can set Independently. The box says some junk about "16.8 million colors!" And while you can technically they're not liking because you can chose any RGB color. I tried white and it looked like a light purple, not white at all hummmm Also, at least my eyes can't differentiate much if any between similar shades of the same color. But it's still a cool feature. You can disable it if you wish, it doesn't pulsate like my Razer did.

The bottom has a small LCD you can upload a 128x28 pixel image to for your clan logo, you can also use it to select profiles, I think any ways. The mouse supports profiles, which you can set up different buttons or assign macros, pretty cool. But there's no macro switch button on the mouse, wtf? But like my Razer keyboard you can set it to switch to a profile when a certain apps launched, which is a nice feature. Another nice feature is it;s shaped so both left and right handed people can use it the same. It's size is nice and I don't find my hand getting cramped. Buttons have a nice click to them and the scroll wheel requires just the right amount of force to spin it. I also find the weight to be really good. It doesn't have removable weights like the Logitech N9 or some of the others. But it's a good middle weight with a very nice glide to it. I think I might even like it's feel better than my Deathadder which I was a big fan of.

I've only had the mouse for 5 days but I like it a lot, it's expensive but if it lasts I'm happy with spending $90 on a mouse.
 

deimos3428

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I vastly prefer my Sensei to my previous mice -- Deathadder Black and G5. It does take a while to get used to it. Higher DPI is more useful with multiple screens, when you have a lot of real estate to cover. It's nice to have the option, and of course you can drop it easily enough.

One of the more useful features, which they don't really highlight/explain very well IMO, is the ability to switch between profiles without software at all. It's in the mouse; turn it upside-down and press and hold the speed toggle button, and you can scroll through the menus. (It's a little awkward but you middle-click to select a menu item.)
 

QueBert

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I don't know how the hell I missed that! The manual's literally 1 page hummm lol. I'll make some profiles and try it out. I guess I have to assign bmp's to each so I know what's what.
 

QueBert

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Yeah, apparently the 4-5k dpi of other high end mice just wasn't enough. I can attest to it being A LOT faster than my Deathadder, which was 5.6k or something. The mouse is unusable to me anywhere close to 11k. You'd have to have a super steady hand and ninja like reflects to make use of it. I'd hate to play against a dude who fits that description in Counter Strike.

I remember when mice were 2k I thought "this has to be it" Now I'm waiting for Razer or Logitech to one up SS and put out a 50,000 dpi mouse.
 

johnney5

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I just watched a video called "Behind The Scenes: SteelSeries Sensei" on youtube and it really looks nice. I also watched a review and the person said the same thing about the white color looking pink --- they think it's because the colors you have set for other zones will bleed into the one set to white.

I'm seeing there is a "[RAW]" version which has less features, but is available with a rubberized "anti-sweat" grip... I would really like that, but wouldn't want to lose the other features.

I'm thinking of getting this mouse
 
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