Review on CORSAIR Harpoon RGB Wireless - Rechargeable Gaming 🖱️ Mouse - 10,000 DPI Optical Sensor (Renewed) for Enhanced Gameplay by Yuan Ming ᠌

Name: CORSAIR Harpoon RGB Wireless - Rechargeable Gaming 🖱️ Mouse - 10,000 DPI Optical Sensor (Renewed) for Enhanced Gameplay
Item: CORSAIR Harpoon RGB Wireless - Rechargeable Gaming 🖱️ Mouse - 10,000 DPI Optical Sensor (Renewed) for Enhanced Gameplay
Rating: 2

March 29, 2023

Dissatisfied with this product, bad to use.

The mouse looks expensive, no frills, rather strict. In fact, an absolute trinket. High DPI in it makes absolutely no sense. On the contrary, here it is worse than 1600 of the same A4Tech. The Pixart 3320 sensor itself has the right to life, but Corsair spoiled its work with crooked software. If you now thought that just reduce the DPI and get a clear sensor performance, alas, this is not the case! Corsair calculated that from a sensor with a resolution of 3500, they can squeeze 6000 with wonderful magic, and interpolate not only what is above 3500, but everything in general, even 250dpi is not 250 in the end.

Pros

Design, customization

Cons

Curve work in a combination of firmware / software and sensor. With the declared 6000 dpi (on they generally wrote 16000), real only 3500 (the datasheet of the sensor is on the Internet), and then with an interference fit (losing the smoothness and clarity of work). Noisy, catches a bunch of phantom left moves. (do not confuse with cursor jerking in idle time). It also breaks easily. And the DPI settings in the software, the numbers are different from the real ones. For example, when setting 3500DPI in an attempt to avoid interpolation, we end up with something around 4200DPI, at 2022DPI = 2500, etc. That is, it’s stupid not to get real DPI without interpolation on this mouse. Firstly, it does not allow you to set up/calculate the sensa normally. Secondly, getting used to such false numbers, then it will not be clear why on another mouse with the same DPI and sens, everything is different. It is also worth adding to everything else that proprietary software for backlight control, DPI settings, etc. very gluttonous even in the background. It takes a little more than 250 MB of RAM and 1% of CPU time (on a 16 stream processor), while, for example, Steam in the background loads the processor by 0.05%. It is worth adding here that, in principle, all settings can be saved to the mouse and used without software, including color / brightness binding to DPI (backlit effects will not work without software).