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January 2014
(84%)
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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
Comfortable design with excellent grip, Smart button layou, Comprehensive software
No DPI indicato, Weak illuminatio, Nothing to set it apart from other mice
The SteelSeries Rival gaming mouse is comfortable to use and comes with attractive software, but the device doesn't really stand out. The SteelSeries Rival optical gaming mouse ($59.99) is a perfectly good product, but it should have been bette...
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
The Steelseries Rival mouse is pretty aggressively priced to compete with other gaming mice, the Rival is available for around 50 Euros what is a decent price for a mouse. I do recommend getting a mouse pad if you work on a surface what is not really flat...
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Published: 2014-02-26, Author: David , review by: legitreviews.com
Our experience with the SteelSeries Rival mouse was very positive, but there are some minor concerns. Our first criticism is that the mouse nameplate is an unneeded gimmick. This usefulness of this feature is overstated for a multitude of reasons, most of...
When you put it all together, the Rival is a great mouse. SteelSeries did a nice job of creating a mouse design that takes in some of what has made the Siberia great while departing enough to make a unique design that will go well next to the Siberia in ...
"I was beginning to feel that this wasn't a precision engineered product and started wishing I could trade that 3D printable nameplate for some decent Teflon feet"...
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Published: 2014-04-11, Author: Jonathan , review by: aphnetworks.com
As it turns out, the SteelSeries Rival's biggest rival may all boil down to the firmware it runs on, and the software it runs with. Now don't get me wrong -- the SteelSeries Rival is undoubtedly excellent hardware -- there is not a whole lot of question a...
Abstract: Optical mice first hit the scene back in 1999, replacing ball mice and their fluff-stuffing rollers. The Optical sensor is basically a tiny camera, with a small LED bouncing red light off the mousing surface onto a CMOS sensor, thousands of times per seco...
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Published: 2014-03-07, Author: Michael , review by: cravingtech.com
The Rival may not have as many “bling blings” as the Sensei (which has an LCD display and a 32-bit ARM processor), but it gets back to the core of a great gaming mouse: design, performance, and comfort. Designed specifically for right handed gamers, the ...
