Testseek.com have collected 117 expert reviews of the SteelSeries Rival and the average rating is 84%. Scroll down and see all reviews for SteelSeries Rival.
January 2014
(84%)
117 Reviews
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The editors liked
Illumination
Soft Anti-Sweat coating
Rubber Grips
Ergonomic design
Overall Build Quality
Design
Grip (Anti-Sweat Coating/Rubber Grips)
6500 CPI Avago ADNS-3310 IR-LED Optical Sensor
Custom SteelSeries Switches (30m Clicks)
6 Programmable Buttons
SteelSeries Engine 3/CloudSync Software
Illumination Control (2 Diffe
Comfortable design with excellent grip
Smart button layou
Comprehensive software
Understated design
Tons of lighting options
Comfortable design (for righties)
Solid ergonomic design
Inexpensive
Angle snapping
Acceleration
And deceleration
Excellent optical sensor
Stores profiles for each application and game
Great palmgrip fit
Great interior buildquality
Exhaustive software package
Excellent sensor
The editors didn't like
Does not work so well on some surfaces like wood
Maybe difficult to use for people with small hands
Final Words
The Steelseries Rival mouse is pretty aggressively priced to compete with other gaming mice
The Rival is available for around 50 Euros wha
Right Hand Use (For Some)
Soft Rubber Coated Cable
No DPI indicato
Weak illuminatio
Nothing to set it apart from other mice
Only six buttons
6500CPI sensor might not be high enough for your needs
Thumb buttons too far forward for claw- and fingertip grippers
Although the Sensei 310 and Rival 310 have slight differences - number of buttons and shape - in a lot of ways they are the same.They both have the same materials for the main body of the mouse, a nicely textured matte plastic, whilst the sides of both ha...
It's been a while since SteelSeries created a right-hand only mouse, and it did so marvellously. Featuring a simple, modest design, it's a mouse that just works.For starters, the Rival brings excellent performance to the table. The Pixart PWM 3310 Sensor...
Solid ergonomic design, Inexpensive, Angle snapping, acceleration, and deceleration, Excellent optical sensor, Stores profiles for each application and game
Only switches between two dpi settings, No lift-distance control, Macro creation lacks depth, No sleep control when mouse not in use
This right-handed FPS mouse is ergonomically sound, with a strong optical sensor, great precision, and separate profiles for each game or application you run. Read More…...
Abstract: I'm not usually a fan of glossy mice. In addition to tracking fingerprints faster than a doorknob, they do a poor job of dissipating palm sweat, making them uncomfortably slippy. This has several downsides, most pressing of which is losing control of your...
Great palmgrip fit, Great interior buildquality, Exhaustive software package, Excellent sensor;
Scroll wheel gets stuck;
Rival is an apt name for this mouse. It is a simple, yet interesting rodent, with one of those "perfect sensors," and a build that's unmatched for its price. I have one small gripe with it and that's the scroll wheel getting stuck when scrolling back. It ...
Abstract: "It's beautifully designed, takes seconds to install, it's extremely comfortable and most importantly, it's flawlessly responsive." The two main features I want from a mouse are comfort and responsiveness. Most of my workdays consist of switching back and...
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Published: 2014-07-11, Author: Ian , review by: gameranx.com
Abstract: I've been using SteelSeries mice for as long as they've been around. And if the SteelSeries Rival is any indication of how far they come and how far they're going to go, I'm going to keep using them as long as technology will allow.At first glance, the St...
Right Hand Use (For Some), Soft Rubber Coated Cable,
To date the only mouse that has sat on my primary desk for longer than 1 full year has been the SENSEI MLG again by SteelSeries so when they announced the RIVAL roughly 6 months ago i couldn't wait to see if this was the mouse to replace it. The answer is...
