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Poland, Warsaw
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Review on πŸ–±οΈ Corsair Ironclaw RGB - Ultimate FPS and MOBA Gaming Mouse with 18,000 DPI Optical Sensor - Backlit RGB LED, Black by Vinay Kolluri

Revainrating 1 out of 5

Really disappointed in Corsair and what I used to think was a trustworthy brand.

Let's start with the shape of the mouse first. It says it's designed for palm grips and large hands, but still feels small and claw-like in my medium-sized hands. Sure it's a bit wider than my G502 but it just doesn't seem right, the hump maybe too far forward and not really in the palm area where it should be. While the iCUE software is a complete UI design disaster, it also causes weird system performance issues like monitor flickering, random CPU spikes, and mouse lag when open. A simple task like setting a keybinding for a button and saving it to the mouse hardware requires a really complicated and cumbersome workflow. Every time you want to make changes, you have to save the changes to the mouse, as if you were reflashing the firmware. Other modern programmable mouse programs don't require such a workflow and save their changes immediately, so I don't know why this mouse is stuck on early 2000's firmware technology. The software restricts which keys you can program. So the end result is that you are left with useless non-programmable keys because of course you never want to use a software profile and leave invasive iCUE software open on your system. The only good thing I can say about this mouse is that I love the button layout and really hope more people will start using similar layouts so I can trash this layout and get something else.

Pros
  • Omron Heavy Duty Switches: rated for more than 50 million clicks
Cons
  • No shape required