Corsair Scimitar Elite Wireless Review

Verdict

Although the worth may appear bewilderingly excessive for a mouse, the price of the Corsair Scimitar Elite Wi-fi sits between top-tier FPS clickers and competing dozen MMO gaming mice. And, compete it does. A fantastic match, really feel and adjustable the place it counts, it’s good for lengthy classes of grinding gear and working raids. It’s just a bit under-engineered in comparison with the competitors proper now.

Introduction

As somebody who’s been placing MMO gaming mice by way of their paces since round 2007, I’ve seen one of the best manufacturers put out the worst iterations, and relative newcomers justifiably take the throne from the strains that pioneered the entire thought. The Corsair Scimitar Elite Wi-fi is intimately near kissing that lofty place.

On the core of the MMO gaming mouse is a straightforward concept that rapidly bewilders anybody who hasn’t tunnel-visioned an motion bar earlier than. Proper the place your thumb goes, an MMO gaming mouse situates an array of buttons. The very best use 12, mimicking the numpad of a keyboard. Manufacturers have tried again and again to combine this up below the guise of undesirable ergonomics, with most nonetheless preferring to switch their drained clicker with an up to date mannequin relatively than on the lookout for one thing higher.

Actually, Corsair did this itself when the area of interest mouse market kicked off within the late noughties. Trying to compete with the Razer Naga’s numpad array, it “intelligently positioned” the thumb buttons of its Corsair VENGEANCE M95 to swimsuit rolling your thickest digit round it. It was ergonomic, however it wasn’t pure. Corsair realized its lesson and commenced iterating on its Scimitar line as an alternative. Actually, this can be a spruced-up (and wi-fi) model of the Corsair Scimitar RGB Elite mouse from just a few years again.

Design

• Smooth-touch end
• Giant, curvy dimension
• Shifting aspect panel

On first inspection, the Corsair Scimitar Wi-fi Elite is as bulbous as a gaming mouse can fairly get. Designed for lengthy classes by advantage of the addictive nature of the style it’s constructed round, its heavy curves encourage a palm grip versus the sunshine and speedy claw or hybrid types, however any will work simply effective.

For those who’re going to be at your desk mashing buttons all day, you need your wrist on the mat and your palm correctly supported. Is it good to your skeleton? No, I don’t suppose so. However neither is sitting in a chair for 12 hours. The mind needs what the physique doesn’t.

Whenever you take it out of the simply recycled packaging, you’ll be extra targeted on the soft-touch end of its black plastic chassis than a lot else. Textures are an exquisite factor. It’ll mark up with fingerprints simply, so greasy fingers aren’t really helpful, however it’s a pleasant contact regardless.

To enrich its moveable potential, there’s even a hiding house for the tiny 2.4 GHz wi-fi receiver on the underside. You’ll discover the change to allow snappy Bluetooth 4.2 for rapidly switching to different gadgets there as nicely.

One other factor that solidifies it as an MMO gaming mouse is the considerate inclusion of a roughly textured pinky relaxation — an choice that shouldn’t put on down over a brief time frame like rubber non-slip grips utilized within the manufacturing unit. Every odd column of quantity keys on the aspect is bumpy to the contact, too.

The principle two buttons lack indentation or curvature to information and maintain your digits in place, however the entire package deal is sufficiently big to make it tough to fall off them within the first place. Positive, they’re more likely to be slippery in intense moments, however I had no subject maintaining them within the recreation, and in maintaining smooth, they encapsulate an nearly robotic look to the mice as a complete.

With a shifting aspect panel (that’s annoyingly adjusted by way of an included key), its gargantuan physique, and different inclusions, the Corsair Scimitar Elite Wi-fi ought to show snug for the overwhelming majority of grinding avid gamers on the market. And with it not being particularly heavy just like the AGON AGM600, there’s little cause to swap it out for one thing like one other Razer DeathAdder or a budget and cheerful HyperX Pulsefire Haste II when enjoying fast-paced shooters on the odd event.

Efficiency

• Excessive DPI ceiling and low flooring
• 2000Hz polling (wired or wi-fi)
• 16 buttons with optical-mechanical foremost two

Working a customized Corsair sensor, it’s onerous to check this side of the Scimitar Elite Wi-fi towards the competitors. As of late, nonetheless, it’s a lot tougher to discover a mouse that merely doesn’t work nicely. A saturated market means it’s a must to hit the vital elements onerous to have even the slightest probability of standing out. What which means is that the customized sensor right here works simply effective.

I had no points with hitching, and the asymmetrical PTFE ft didn’t have any points sliding round my thick mouse pad. All good on that entrance. Coming from an analogous (however stumpy) Aerox 9 Wi-fi, it didn’t take lengthy in any respect to readjust to a chunkier clicker. Proper out of the field, I used to be capable of win my first aggressive Overwatch 2 match in at the least half a 12 months, and I didn’t must fiddle round in any respect to heal a dungeon run in Last Fantasy XIV with the aspect buttons as my crutch.

However the sensor isn’t simply there to make sure your cursor or crosshair doesn’t skip a beat. It powers the varied metrics like polling price, DPI, and raise — most of that are little greater than advertising fluff for the typical participant at this level. Simply take a look at the settings of seasoned veterans. You’ll wrestle to search out anybody getting remotely near the five-figure sensitivity settings corporations are flaunting on the packaging. They’re simply attempting to distinguish and finest their rivals. Noble.

The sensor on the Corsair Scimitar Elite Wi-fi can drop all the best way right down to 100 DPI. That’s excellent news for low-res retro avid gamers. We gained’t fixate on the 26,000 highs. One vital factor as refresh charges proceed to climb, nonetheless, is the 2000Hz polling price ceiling that applies not solely on a wired connection when enabled, however by default when utilizing the miniature 2.4Ghz wi-fi dongle. For those who’re not climbing excessive above 144Hz with one thing just like the Alienware AW2523HF, it can save you some juice by turning it right down to 1000Hz. There’s a professional tip.

In use, the dizzying variety of buttons on provide is a pleasure. Although solely the primary left and proper paddles use clicky mechanical buttons with a fast-as-light optical sensor, the aspect buttons are punchy, pronounced, and dependable as nicely. There’s a little bit of wobble to them, however in the event you prefer to fidget, that’s one way or the other a bonus.

Sticking to the Numpad grid design, there’s quick familiarity in the event you’re coming over from a Razer Naga or older Logitech G600. And in contrast to the Steelseries Aerox 9, the grid really zigzags slightly horizontally, which makes it slightly simpler to rock your thumb forwards and backwards. Hitting buttons along with your inside joint is a extra superior ability for certain, however the cradled design does gently encourage the speed-enhancing follow.

Software program and Lighting

• Intuitive and feature-rich software program
• Restricted RGB zones
• {Hardware}-level lighting with loads of profiles

I’ll admit proper now that RGB lighting on a mouse isn’t an enormous focus of mine. There are outliers, like with underside lighting on a reflective floor, or notably vibrant arrays on a white mouse, however paired lighting on a black clicker isn’t an enormous promoting level personally. The Corsair Scimitar Elite Wi-fi doesn’t do a lot to alter my thoughts. However it would possibly change yours.

By means of the iCUE software program suite, you’re capable of synchronise the lights below your palm with that of your different iCUE gadgets. Video reactive lighting like that’s doable on the LS100 and LT100 line gained’t actually apply right here, however you possibly can nonetheless set the brand on the butt of the system and the big selection of buttons to shine in any which manner you need.

As all the time, lighting will dramatically scale back battery life: one thing assist for add-ons just like the Razer Naga V2 Professional charging cradle may have rectified. If a totally illuminated setup is your aim, you’ll must take the hit. The ‘mural’ visualizer within the software program helps the usually nonsensical RGB peripheral presets make sense and instantly apply to different relevant {hardware} for individuals who need fast desktop illumination efforts.

Past lighting, the iCUE software program is what you’ll must tweak important settings like DPI phases, raise, floor calibration, and standby time. Toggles permit you to change wired and wi-fi behaviour independently, and the mouse’s onboard profiles can retailer lighting decisions as nicely, that means iCUE gained’t must be put in on each machine you flit between.

Your preferences are protected and safe, and it is best to have sufficient onboard reminiscence to swimsuit nearly any recreation you’re more likely to play on the go. As of late, it’s good for connecting as much as one thing like a Steam Deck or one other system with drastically completely different specs to your foremost PC. Useful.

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UK RRP

Producer

Measurement (Dimensions)

Weight

Launch Date

Mannequin Quantity

Cable Size

Battery Size

DPI vary

Variety of Buttons

Corsair Scimitar Elite Wi-fi

£130

Corsair

73.48 x 119.23 x 42.17 MM

114 G

2023

RGPO145

1.8 Meter

150 hrs

100 26000

16

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