Review on 🖱️ EVGA X17 Gaming Mouse: Wired, Black | Customizable, 16,000 DPI | 5 Profiles, 10 Buttons | Ergonomic 903-W1-17BK-KR by Dave Baker

X15 is one of the very few mice with a third main button for the ring finger, and the G600 is the only such option. I was happy to see the X15 as a possible alternative as I have been using the G600 exclusively for at least 5 years and wanted to try something different as the G-Hub kept giving me all sorts of problems. The side buttons are more tactile and responsive than the G600. It appears to use direct tactile switches, while the G600 uses rubber domes on smaller surface mount domes. The third main button is awesome and I don't know why most mice don't have this feature. If you don't like it and don't want to accidentally press it, there's a physical switch that's no longer pressed. It looks like the programming is entirely hardware based and the software essentially just loads the configuration into the hardware and also shows the current profile when it works. Once you've set up the mouse to your liking, you don't need to run the software anymore, which is great and very welcome, especially if you also use Linux or just hate memory hogs. However, it would be nice if there was programmatic automatic switching of profiles depending on the game loaded. PIXART 3389 is a good sensor. No problems to report. The RGB lighting can be switched off completely. Hooray! - DPI appears to be configurable in increments of 1 DPI. Fur: - The side buttons have a rather strange configuration. Most MMO mice group them as close together as possible in a 3x4 configuration, and it's definitely weird to omit the center button here as it certainly doesn't improve ergonomics. Instead, they could have added a little spike to the middle button. Anyway, it's a 3x4 mouse retraining and remapping curve. Two of the aforementioned buttons are oddly too far apart to be easily found with the thumb. The software does not allow full backup/restore of the entire configuration and only macros can be saved and loaded from a file. Also means that it is not possible to copy from profile to profile. - Remapping is pretty iffy as there is no way to find or type in the key you want to match and instead you have to look for it in the drop down list. - The eShift function (which takes you to an additional display level with a click) can apparently only be assigned to the third primary button. This button can be mapped to any other button or function mapping, but it's a bit odd that eshift seems to be limited to just one button. I don't use this feature anyway, so it's not a big problem for me. It seems that the sniper DPI setting has no mapping for it. There is an indicator of DPI shift, but it's clearly not related to sniper dpi, but to a different step in the DPI setting. Not what I usually use and the DPI offset is adequate, but it's quite odd. The Bad: - Again, the side cluster really needs better ergonomics. I think the G600 and similar mice handled this very well thanks to the dual protrusion and indentation solution so you can easily see where your thumb is at the moment. Here the buttons are all flat and have a tactile feel, so even when launching a (sadly) empty middle stylus it's sometimes hard to tell which button is being pressed. I'm sure it can get used to it over time, but there's no reason it couldn't be better. The scroll wheel feels somehow soft and not very comfortable, especially at higher speeds. The G600 definitely has an advantage here. In general, at the current price, this is a great alternative to the previous venerable options on the market. Let's hope EVGA can improve their software a bit and eventually release an updated version with more ergonomic side buttons. I will continue to update this review as I continue to use this mouse.