#What are the best wired mice out there (wireless mice are overhyped)?

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wind tendon
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What are the best wired mice out there? In terms of quality, specifications and performance. I have noticed that my old wired Razer DeathAdder V2 is noticeably more responsive compared to my recently acquired Darmoshark M3S Pro (unwired with 1K polling rate). I think wired gaming mice are not only more budget friendly than wireless mice, but they are actually better than wireless mice in terms of performance!

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The XM1 appears to be a fierce contender!

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@warped walrus sorry to @ you, interested on your take.

warped walrus
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the deathadder v3 pro has incredible specs

wind tendon
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What are the best wired mice out there (wireless mice are overhyped)?

warped walrus
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and your experience with wireless mice is weird

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because the m3s pro has very low latency

wind tendon
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@warped walrus how so? The difference is ridiculously noticeable to me.

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Makes me want to sell my Darmoshark ASAP.

warped walrus
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yours has gotta be faulty or something

wind tendon
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@warped walrus do a test, use a wired versus wireless gaming mouse for one day, you may never switch back!

warped walrus
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I have, wireless is no different for me

wind tendon
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@warped walrus it's just physics, electricity travels much faster through a conductor, rather than radio waves going through air, I believe, could be wrong

warped walrus
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what are the settings on your m3s pro?

wind tendon
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I dunno, just put on 1K polling rate

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And DPI on slowest setting

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Response of wired mouse is instant

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Wireless mouse feels sloppy and lags behind

warped walrus
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make sure the m3s is on HP mode

wind tendon
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What's that?

warped walrus
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maybe darmoshark calls it game mode or esports mode in their software?

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it makes the sensor perform better

wind tendon
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Pretty sure it is

warped walrus
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that's weird as fuck

wind tendon
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@warped walrus the difference to a inexperienced person is minimal

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but to me it's like milliseconds but it feels huge

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Like I am telling you try a wired gaming mouse for a day if it is not an inconvenience @warped walrus

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I don't think it's unique to my M3S

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hmmm

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genuinely curious

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Surprised wired verse wireless has not been tested out rigrouressly or discussed here before

warped walrus
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@raven bolt sorry for the ping but you know a lot about this topic, what are your thoughts on this?

warped walrus
wind tendon
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What a name 😂

raven bolt
wind tendon
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@warped walrus I was told unpolitely that 4K is barely diff to 1K

warped walrus
wind tendon
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Yes

raven bolt
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at least on 1000hz high power mode is genuinely more inconsequential than motionsync

wind tendon
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Optimum is cringe as hell

warped walrus
wind tendon
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Signal needs to be transmitted through the air, and transduced

raven bolt
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fuckin idk wireless has like 349857349857349 variables

wind tendon
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I do not think it is an issue but a matter of physics

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personally

raven bolt
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(it's not)

warped walrus
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he is saying that wireless mice in general are worse

wind tendon
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plus i am pretty sure that's generally accepted

warped walrus
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people have experimented

wind tendon
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not trynna be a douche or anything

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Hmmm

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but you could be right

raven bolt
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wired vs wireless latency on almost every single wireless mouse is <1ms difference

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lol

wind tendon
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tomorrow i will use my brother's darmoshark

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and see how it feels

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on his computer

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maybe it's my laptops usb socket or sum shiet

raven bolt
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main issue you run into with wireless is how the firmware handles lost data packets

warped walrus
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is your dongle close to your mouse?

wind tendon
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Very close

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I'll double check the esports mode tomorrow

warped walrus
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if you still don't notice a difference when using your brother's then maybe buy the 4k dongle and give it a try

wind tendon
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@warped walrus @raven bolt thanks 4 the advice fellas

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@warped walrus probs won't be able to afford it

raven bolt
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as close to mouse as possible

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as far away from system as possible

wind tendon
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My m3s pro didn't come with a receiver

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a 4k receiver

wind tendon
warped walrus
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yeah its separate, he is talking about your dongle

warped walrus
wind tendon
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So you are saying plug in the wire to my laptop

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Unravel it extend it as far as possible from my laptop

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then put wireless 'dongle' on wire adapter thingo

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then put that closest to darmoshark

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i presume

warped walrus
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yes

wind tendon
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If i unravel the wire fully the mouse will be too far from my laptop won't it?

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Put I am basically doing that minus the away from system part

warped walrus
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you don't need to unravel it fully really, the dongle just should be closer to your mouse than your system always

wind tendon
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Ah ok

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I am pretty sure that was the case anyway, I will try again tomorrow

warped walrus
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btw you could try the m3s in wired mode and test if that fixes your issue

wind tendon
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It did

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From what I remember

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Much more responsive

warped walrus
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ok gn

wind tendon
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GN

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Curious to see if i will get wired mouse suggestions tomorrow never heard of any good ones

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ceya

bleak glade
wind tendon
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@bleak glade and just like the speed of light it depends on the medium it is travelling in, but I would be curious to know more

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Plus the signal needs to be transduced in wireless mouse

bleak glade
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you know that even in water the speed of light is 0.999c?

wind tendon
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Just because radio waves are a type of electromagnetic radiation doesn’t mean electricity being conducted nearly instantaneously along a wire isn’t faster!

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But point noted radio waves are fricken fast

bleak glade
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it's lightspeed, radio waves are literally the fastest thing in the world

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motion delay of the M3S Varun vs G403 wired

wind tendon
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So I know it’s not as simple as wireless faster because radio waves

bleak glade
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no, you said electrons in a wired are faster than radio waves which is not true. That's what I wanted to clarify

wind tendon
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What’s that graph btw?

bleak glade
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motion delay

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from TPU

wind tendon
bleak glade
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wired vs wireless is not about the speed of the signal

wind tendon
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I am speaking out my bum, I do not have a degree in the physical sciences

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@bleak glade that is what Google seems to be suggesting how quickly the signal goes from a to b and how quickly is is interpreted or transmitted

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@bleak glade also Google says wired mice are faster as a general rule

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No idea why though

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Signal transduction does make sense

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Doesn’t occur in wired mice whereas signal must be transmitted from air into electrical signal in wireless mice

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That’s all I can understand tbh

sweet obsidian
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ur tripping lol

bleak glade
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okay I think you're just using the wrong vocab w/ transduction and transmitting

sweet obsidian
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i use both wired and wireless mice interchangably

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never had an issue

wind tendon
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Nah it’s called signal transduction in engineering and science I am almost certain

wind tendon
bleak glade
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in science sure for biology

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want to point out that the M3S Pro at 2khz and 4khz are faster than wired 1khz mice

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the M3 4k results at 2khz

wind tendon
bleak glade
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yes

wind tendon
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Definitely not my experience

bleak glade
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almost the entire point of 4khz polling rate is to get the wireless mice faster than the wired one

wind tendon
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I am using 1K version though

bleak glade
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not all wired mice are faster than wireless anyways

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if you have some motion delay there might be signal interference

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which plays more into latency because the signal packets are getting lost

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like other wireless devices, microwaves, too much wifi, bluetooth, etc.

wind tendon
bleak glade
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yes

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the price we pay for cordless

wind tendon
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It seems that wired mice are king and underrated

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Not in general but in this server

bleak glade
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not underrated

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fastest mouse on the market is the Deathadder V3

wind tendon
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Yeah not underrated in general

bleak glade
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Viper 8k

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even in this server

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there are m2k users

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the fastest mechanical mouse

wind tendon
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@bleak glade really I couldn’t find a single thread about wired mice

bleak glade
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thread?

wind tendon
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Especially third party ones

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@bleak glade in Q&A

bleak glade
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like what?

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those are new users trying to find recommendations

wind tendon
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About which ones are the best

bleak glade
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? make one then

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There are so many wired Viper Mini and Deathadder users in this server...

warped walrus
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most people want wireless these days

bleak glade
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it's like asking why people use wireless headphones

wind tendon
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@bleak glade that’s what this thread is lol

bleak glade
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when wired is better

wind tendon
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Latency doesn’t matter nearly as much

warped walrus
wind tendon
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Yeah it’s so diff

bleak glade
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wireless headphone latency is far worse than mice

wind tendon
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No disrespect

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Yeah but that’s cause no one cares

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Song is continuous signal

bleak glade
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people still use it because it gives you freedom of movement

wind tendon
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Not about reaction time

bleak glade
wind tendon
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Yes I see that

bleak glade
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wireless mice is about freedom of movement

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that's it

wind tendon
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But my death adder is so much better

bleak glade
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and in 2023 we have $30 wireless mice that are just as fast as wired versions

wind tendon
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Even with wire

warped walrus
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I think its in your head tbh

wind tendon
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Not in Australia

wind tendon
warped walrus
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or you have a legitimate interference issue

wind tendon
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But I genuinely and unfortunately don’t think so

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I think it’s a real issue

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Or you guys have become acclimated to wireless

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But my aim is way more consistent with wired and tracking feels significantly easier

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With wireless mouse I have delay so I have to predict my own movement ahead of time 😭😭😭

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I genuinely want wireless to be good without this annoying af wire in the way

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But at the moment wireless is looking flawed atm but my experience doesn’t necessarily extrapolate to everyone else’s

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Maybe we need actually rigorous statistical tests on this shiet!!!!

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But anyway hopefully you all can recommend some decent wired mice, their prices looking nice too

bleak glade
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all the really good wired mice aren't even that cheap

wind tendon
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I’m glad you all dislike YouTubers like Optimus too 🤣🤣

bleak glade
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Vaxee/Zowie are $70 USD MSRP

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Deathadder V3 is $80

wind tendon
bleak glade
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ofc wired is cheaper than wireless

wind tendon
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Looking dim for my Darmoshark 😭😭😭

bleak glade
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M3S was $40

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USD

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please

wind tendon
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$80 AUD

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And my dumb ass didn’t even get 4K

sweet obsidian
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oof

wind tendon
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So it’s looking like a huge L

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Plus for $40 USD which is like $70 here the wired mouse would smoke a wireless one by the looks of it

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But again I can’t talk cause haven’t tried $90 4K mice

bleak glade
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you're welcome to posit an example

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of wired mice

wind tendon
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An example of them in general or them outperforming wireless mice?

bleak glade
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cheaper and outperforming

wind tendon
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Well I did, the Razer death adder v2 an old one at that!

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Outperforming my brand new Darmoshark

bleak glade
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Deathadder V2 cost more than the Darmoshark M3S

wind tendon
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Not here man

sweet obsidian
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you got a bad copy

wind tendon
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M3S pro

sweet obsidian
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you dont know what ur talking about

wind tendon
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@sweet obsidian maybe I’m hoping so tbh

sweet obsidian
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qc isnt perfect

wind tendon
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But that just makes Darmoshark look bad

sweet obsidian
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but theres a reason most people use wireless

bleak glade
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V2 uses a 3399, a precusor to the 3395, literally just plug in the Darmoshark and it's the same speed

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look bad lol

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can't run the V2 wirelessly

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can't pick it up more than 3ft

wind tendon
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Yeah but then what’s the point of the Darmoshark it just becomes wired 🤣🤣

wind tendon
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Idk why they put so much damn wire in

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I’m not gonna use my mice 3 m apart from my laptop 🤣🤣🤣

bleak glade
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should have just bought the Deathadder V2 x hyperspeed or pro

wind tendon
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For 2x the price and potentially worse performance

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Plus the Darmoshark is better no?

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Yeah nah I think I’ll see what going on tomorrow

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And see if I was wrong

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I got to go to bed boys nice talking to ya

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Thanks a lot though

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I learned some stuff

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I’m routing for the Darmoshark, but she’s making it hard 4 me

bleak glade
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just sell it/return it

modest marsh
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Electricity does as well.

wind tendon
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At the end of the day, wired mice are faster in general and cheaper, hence some wired mice suggestion would be interesting

wind tendon
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@bleak glade is the Darmoshark wired going to contend with wired-only mice? Like the one I mentioned in the post?

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Cause if it is good wired I have a chance to keep it

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I’ve been told pulse fire haste is really good

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Final consensus: use Darmoshark wired

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Or next time but dedicated wired mouse

wind tendon
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Esports mode seemed to improve the performance

warped walrus
wind tendon
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but still worse than wired

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@warped walrus yo peppa if you have 4K receiver can you use it wired?

bleak glade
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Think about that statement

modest marsh
wind tendon
# bleak glade Think about that statement

Yeah lol now I know, but I was thinking that the mouse had an inbuilt 4K signal ‘emitter’ which if connected to the computer by a wire would need a receiver something along those lines

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If razer can do it so can darmo

fringe siren
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I love my wired dav3. Unfortunately finding a replacement that has a better fingertip grip shape has been tricky

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Viper v2 pro or m3k PCB/mod are my closest replacements I’ve been working with lately

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I don’t have the 4k dongle for the v2 pro yet (ordered but not received) and the m3k PCB won’t come out for a couple months.

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I always really enjoyed the wired nature of the dav3 cuz wire didn’t bother me (monitor stand is built in bungee) and never having it die, never having to plug in to charge, and ideal latency has always been enjoyable

bleak glade
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did you see the new Keychron M4

fringe siren
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Yeah lol

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I can’t imagine that things latency is anywhere close to proper gaming mice

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Maybe I’m tripping

bleak glade
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wym

fringe siren
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Shape looks nice tho

bleak glade
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4khz poling rate Pixart 3395 sensor...

fringe siren
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Are all 3395 perform equal?

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Seems like implementation matters almost as much as the sensor itself

bleak glade
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even the worst implementation of 4khz is better than most wired 1khz mice

fringe siren
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4k wired has been the nicest mouse experience I’ve had yet

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But my experience is also limited

bleak glade
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okay, wired 8khz is objectively the best experience but

fringe siren
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Yeah 8k I had some trouble in some games

bleak glade
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you're talking about 0.125ms difference

fringe siren
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So just bumped it down

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Yeah I’m over here watching the frames go by on 360hz

bleak glade
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the worst performance (Compx) is almost 0.9ms ahead in motion latency from a wired G403

fringe siren
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FWIW I’m not arguing wireless are obsolete

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They’re obviously very competitive

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I just enjoyed my wired dav3 experience

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And I haven’t noticed a marketed difference between 1k wireless/4k wired. But the 4k wired definitely felt slightly smoother/better. Albeit potentially placebo

fringe siren
bleak glade
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I don't think it's launched yet

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it's using a Nordic 52840 so same as all the rest of the wireless 4khz/8khz

fringe siren
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Boss

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That’s extreme

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Nice

wind tendon
fringe siren
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Wireless*

wind tendon
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Yeah that’s what I meant

wind tendon
# fringe siren Wireless*

I am willing to bet once I get a 4K receiver for the Darmoshark the wired mode will still be better

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I just have that feeing

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Spidey senses

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God I wish I had 4K polling on the Darmoshark wired

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Is the dav3 4K?

fringe siren
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DAV3 wired is 8k

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DAV3 wireless is 8k with firmware update and hyperpolling dongle

wind tendon
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Dammmm

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Tots jealous rn

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So is the razer v3

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What about the pulsar wired mouse

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Oh shit just realised the dav3 is the deathadder

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@fringe siren do you reckon I should sell a wired Darmoshark m3s pro with 1K polling for a dav3?

fringe siren
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Idk bro

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They’re pretty different sizes

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Shapes

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Just use what makes you happy

wind tendon
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@fringe siren I don’t have both of them so I dunno

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I’ve been told 4K or 8k really don’t make much of a difference

leaden fractal
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Also I was reading up on the thread and tbh you can look up the latency numbers, in some cases wireless is genuinely faster than wired

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You can have wired as a personal preference whether it be cheaper, or you don't have to charge it, but saying all wired mice are blanketly better than wireless for latency is objectively wrong. It could be the case for your specific system, if you've got outdated drivers, conflicting software or an overloaded CPU

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But unless u got a bad unit it's unlikely to be the mouse

wind tendon
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@leaden fractal "all wired mice are blanketly better than wireless for latency" never said this, I said in general

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Also, my darmoshark driver is newest one

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also cpu isn't overloaded

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i dont think

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the unit works fine

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it's just inheritently more latent compared to when it is wired

modest marsh
fringe siren
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Yeah quit making weird statements and just say “I prefer wired mice”. You don’t have to justify to anyone. That’s fine lol

wind tendon
wind tendon
fringe siren
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You’re taking opinions and stating them as fact. Weird.

modest marsh
wind tendon
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@modest marsh it's weird cause you have provided zer0 evidence

leaden fractal
# wind tendon <@960969099754758275> it's weird cause you have provided zer0 evidence

theres this test from 4 years ago that LTT did (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orhb7Njj3h8&ab_channel=LinusTechTips) which includes system latency proving that unless you're on bluetooth, 2.4ghz and wired have fuck all difference in latency

Check out Storyblocks Video at https://www.videoblocks.com/LinusTechTips

We tested five wired and wireless mice with the Phantom Flex 4K camera at 1000 FPS to see if wireless mice were faster than wired!

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Especially since the G703 on that picture has a reported latency of 1ms according to Logitech themselves

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assuming then, that the system latency is a maximum of 12.8 (round to 13ms just for ease of calculation), all of these mice bar the mx anywhere 2 have sub 3ms latency, bar corsair, but corsair is generally regarded as dogshit here

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additionally, there is a ton of straight data from rtings to use

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the fabled zaunkoenig m2k?

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1.6ms latency

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even the rvmse and gpx2

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first column is 2.4ghz, second is bt (both dont have that) and last column is wired

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if you tell me you can reliably tell the 0.2ms difference you're objectively wrong

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and actually, the difference between the wired and wireless is faster on wireless than for wired, for the rvmse

wind tendon
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Let's settle the debate

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If you buy a standard cheap wireless mouse

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and a cheap wired mouse

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which would you even consider for a second for gaming?

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Enough said

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Just because there are exceptions to a general rule, does not mean it is refuted

raven bolt
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I am using a cheap wireless mouse as my main mouse

modest marsh
wind tendon
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yeah but you are comparing top of the top wireless mice to like an average wired gaming mouse

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"I am using a cheap wireless mouse as my main mouse" define cheap, and again what I mean by cheap is like those really bad logitech offic mice

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not a darmoshark or some chinese niche gaming mouse

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an average wireless mouse

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is not as good as an average wired mouse

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that's just my experience

leaden fractal
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say what you want they're objectively cheap

wind tendon
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Yeah but your ordinary joe isn't buying those

leaden fractal
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just like with everything in life, if you do your research you can find everything for cheap

leaden fractal
wind tendon
leaden fractal
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probably your computer's drivers

wind tendon
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@leaden fractal but my argument in general, relies on the average

leaden fractal
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your argument is moot point

wind tendon
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Just like when you say in general computers are ... that doesn't mean gaming computers in particular

leaden fractal
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cuz the average person doesn't care that much about latency

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you care cuz you play games

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and you're pressed about a literally dirt cheap mouse

wind tendon
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At least i was partly right i think

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@leaden fractal was $80 aud

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not cheap really

leaden fractal
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compared to something else

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like the sl it is

wind tendon
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i would put money on it that a $40 wired gaming mouse from china would smoke this thing

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my old dav 2 has better performance and that thing is old

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Let's settle this argument with a COD 1v1

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😂

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whoever has better aim

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jk

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gn

leaden fractal
modest marsh
modest marsh
thorn kernel
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basically all the cheapo chinamice are wireless apart from ultra-budget no-name stuff

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it really sounds like there was an issue with your m3s for their to be such a difference

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do you have a video of this?

bleak glade
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@wind tendon if you take out the battery, you could probably drop the weight of the M3S to 45g

wind tendon
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@bleak glade so your saying turn it into a wired mouse? 🤣🤣

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Not a bad idea

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@modest marsh I am very sure it isn’t placebo I could confirm with double blinded ‘experiment’

wind tendon
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Otherwise you’ll just see a mouse moving

raven bolt
modest marsh
wind tendon
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@modest marsh I genuinely don’t think that’s the case

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My brother had another copy of the regular m3

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And I am pretty sure there are no differences

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So I might be wrong but there isn’t a high chance I am

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Still a chance though

modest marsh
leaden fractal
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I gave you plenty of proof and you've ignored all of it

wind tendon
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what

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you aren't at my house how can you be sure?

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@modest marsh what's up what's that?

leaden fractal
wind tendon
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I love you all guys just realise that but I am being dead honest not trying to through any shade

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@leaden fractal ?

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i don't get ya

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my bad

leaden fractal
wind tendon
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and?

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i am a bit slow how is this relevant

thorn kernel
thorn kernel
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better explanation:

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check what the debounce is set to in the mouse software

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they usually have a higher number by default

thorn kernel
wind tendon
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Dunno man maths is not the only thing at play here

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Interesting thoughts

bleak glade
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So they both support 2khz but the 2khz isn't much faster than 1khz. The Nordic 4k is faster than the Telink models

thorn kernel
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then there's the psychology of this possibly being placebo

stuck osprey
# thorn kernel then there's the psychology of this possibly being placebo

was gonna type this as i went through the thread, (wireless) mice these days are so advanced it's impossible for a human to detect a difference as long as mouse is working properly. i've used wireless for 5 years exclusively at this point and it's never crossed my mind that there's a delay. i cant stand wired mice as it adds something in the way that can get caught on something and add weight/friction.

wind tendon
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Key words: they say physics is applied maths, but that is a great oversimplification.

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Maths is abstract, the universe outside our brain is not.

wind tendon
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I’ll get my brother to attach the wire to my mouse under my desk and he will either leave it unattached or attach it so I won’t know

leaden fractal
wind tendon
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@leaden fractal no shiet brother, I am going to do my honours but I am not going to determine the stastical significance of this

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Either way if I do notice a difference, this will not be looking good for the 'placebo' hypothesis

thorn kernel
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@wind tendon have you even looked at the software yet?

wind tendon
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@thorn kernel ya what about it

modest marsh
wind tendon
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Idk what “debounce” is

modest marsh
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Do you have the mouse software installed?

bleak glade
wind tendon
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nah i can feel latency not click delay

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but idk how to change debounce

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@bleak glade Should I set debounce to 0ms

bleak glade
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debounce is click latency

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go as slow as you need

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that's why its there

wind tendon
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done deal