Review on 🖱️ Perixx Perimice-517 Trackball Mouse - Wired USB, 7 Buttons, 1.34 Inch Built-in Trackball with Pointing Function by Sean Pere

I'm trying my best to write this review and I'm tempted to keep it secret, but I feel obligated to spare others the time and money I've spent searching for a Search "worthy game". "Trackball mouse. In addition to comfort and design, LEDs and other bells and whistles, most "professional" mice have two important settings for performance and accuracy: polling rate (the rate at which the mouse position is sampled) and DPI (the resolution at which the sample is taken.) Some trackballs offer adjustable DPI values, and none offer higher sample rates, rendering the DPI settings pretty much useless in most cases.) It is sometimes possible to overclock USB ports with drivers 3rd party "hack" (although I do NOT recommend it!), but that's the way it is; hack. I've used trackball mice as my "secret weapon" "Ever since the original Doom/Quake and the birth of esports (were) much better in terms of both comfort and control However for some reason, possibly influenced by esports company/s sponsors, trackballs are lagging behind in terms of performance I have about a dozen trackball mice; Including Elecom, Sanwa and Logitech including the original Logitech Trackman (still the best of them all). Even the latest and greatest "high performance" trackballs lack core performance, and some seem to try to make up for this by offering extra bells and whistles that detract from the simplistic design (just try playing around with the MX Ergo by adding you lightly press the right mouse button). It's too difficult to zoom in and accidentally tilt the mouse from zero to twenty degrees and your thumb slips off the trackball and pushes the DPI switch from Normal to Super DPI). It's the difference between "frag or be a frag" in the heat of battle. When it comes to weapons that require precision (like the Lightning Gun or Rail Gun in Quake), polling rate is a critical parameter to ensure your mouse polls fast enough to keep up with the in-game FPS (frames per second). Keep up. , which depends on your GPU and monitor refresh rate and DPI. It's a delicate balance, and the last thing you want are input devices with latency. If you're serious about gaming, these settings are nothing new. Again, trackballs have lagged behind for some reason, and companies have yet to deliver the same performance options for their trackball mouse offerings as they do for their "gaming" mouse offerings. so far. When I plugged in the Perixx, the operating system (Windows 10 Pro x64) immediately recognized it as a full-speed USB mouse. This means that at 256 Hz I get almost twice the polling rate. It's still a long way off from professional gaming mice at 500-2000Hz, but this seemingly small change in polling rate makes a _big_ difference in gaming in terms of fluidity and accuracy. The Perixx trackball is flatter and wider than Logitech's offerings (which I like for comfort). However, the flatness seems to straighten the wrist, while the width provides extra support for the pinky. I've played tournaments for 6-8 hours with little to no fatigue and am very happy with the comfortable design. The Perixx trackball has a smaller trackball surface area/extension than either the Logitech M570 or the original Trackman, but about the same as the MX Ergo. . I prefer more surface as it allows for more precise "full turns" (0-180 degrees) in game. Likewise. It seems that the ball bearings (which the trackball sits on and spins inside) are too flush with the trackball's inner plastic case. Sometimes I squeeze the trackball lightly and it gets hard in the socket. This is my only complaint and the only reason I can't give five stars. I bought an extra "frosted" trackball so I might try different balls in the mouse to see if this problem goes away, but this is a relatively minor issue and may go away (mouse "breaks") with some use. The Perixx is still the most accurate trackball mouse I've ever used, and I saw an immediate improvement when using certain weapons in games. feedback. It has the usual wheel and forward/back buttons, but they've done the mouse a great favor by keeping it simple and not bloating it with too many buttons or weird positions or bells and whistles. The mouse also has a 400/1000 DPI switch, which I probably won't be using in-game, but it's much better balanced than the drastic change from 512/2048 in the MX Ergo, and could potentially (with practice) work for zoom or precision can be used. Goal. And the default DPI switch position (behind the steering wheel) means there's no accidental in-game DPI resolution switching. I've hoped and prayed (and even pleaded with companies like Logitech and Razer) for a decent pro/gaming trackball mouse, but no answers. until this mouse landed on my doorstep. As a seasoned software and hardware engineer, I've even offered my services to these companies to fix these problems or create new solutions for them, but they don't seem to think anything is broken. with full-speed USB firmware (which just takes the time to implement) for better polling rate and performance, puts this "valuable" trackball well above the vast majority of more expensive "performance" trackballs (that even exist are not really the same).