Corsair Sabre V2 Pro Gaming Mouse Review

Corsair strips the Sabre V2 Pro ultralight wireless rodent backmost to the precise basics; you get nary Bluetooth connection, a comparatively tiny battery, nary DPI fastener and tiny skates connected the bottommost – each those value savings means it's a specified 36g, lighter than astir immoderate different gaming mouse. But lighter doesn't needfully mean better, truthful are the compromises worthy it? If show is what you're looking for, it precise overmuch tin be.

Corsair Sabre V2 Pro – Design and Shape

The Corsair Sabre V2 is simply a simple, sensible, symmetrical signifier and volition acceptable astir hands. It's smaller than astir gaming mice, and my hands are somewhat larger than average, but I could clasp it successful a afloat thenar grip and easy click each the buttons, without immoderate of my fingers spilling disconnected of its surface. That's astir apt owed to the signifier of its hump, which reaches rather acold guardant connected the rodent earlier tapering off, and it truthful fills my thenar well.

The matte coating is grippy and comfortable, though it does pull sweat much than astir mice, and it's besides harder to cleanable due to the fact that it grabs tiny bits of particulate and cleaning cloth fibre and doesn't fto go. You mightiness announcement tiny dots of achromatic successful immoderate of these pictures: those aren't scratches, they're conscionable tiny bits of particulate that are astir intolerable to region without fundamentally scratching them disconnected with your nail. It doesn't impact the mouse's performance, but it's annoying.

The large selling constituent is the mouse's value and astatine 36g it is absurdly, wonderfully light. There is an unmistakable joyousness to the Sabre V2 Pro and erstwhile you clasp it for the archetypal time, you can't assistance but grin astatine however weightless it is. You'll find galore "lightweight" mice astatine 50g oregon above: for illustration the HyperX Pulsefire Haste 2 Mini, which I reviewed precocious and loved, is 59g, astir treble the Sabre V2 Pro, and switching betwixt the 2 I instantly felt the difference. Lighter doesn't mean better, of course. Some radical similar heavier mice – I similar lighter, and truthful loved utilizing the Sabre V2 Pro, which feels similar a existent hold of my hand.

The rodent feet are comparatively tiny and are made from Ultra-High Molecular Weight Polyethylene, aka UPE, alternatively than the modular Teflon (PTFE). UPE tends to glide slower but lasts longer, and portion the feet were possibly a smidge little slide-y than different feet, swishing this rodent crossed my cloth pad was inactive effortless. It comes with grip portion and larger replacement skates, if you consciousness you request it.

Lighter mice sometimes consciousness flimsy but the Sabre V2 Pro feels, generally, sturdy. When I compression the sides it doesn't springiness oregon creak, and there's nary rattling erstwhile I shingle it. There is, however, a spot connected the apical of the rodent wherever you marque an indent if you property down hard. It's a spot alarming, and not thing I've experienced with different mice, but it ever returned to its archetypal presumption and I can't ideate a script wherever you'd enactment that overmuch unit connected a rodent erstwhile you were really utilizing it.

The broadside buttons – specifically the further backmost of the 2 – feels similar the cheapest portion of the mouse. It clicks fine, but erstwhile pressed it travels rather acold into the shell, to the constituent wherever it feels similar your thumb is going wrong the mouse. But it wasn't a immense issue: it ever returned to the close place, my clicks ever registered, and the different broadside fastener was much solid. The main near and close rodent clicks are responsive and dependable crisp. When I was investigating them extracurricular of a game, their pre-travel (the region you tin propulsion the fastener without a click registering) was noticeable, and they felt a spot soft. But successful games, they ne'er fto maine down, and I could spam them with zero issues.

The scroll instrumentality is conscionable fine. I personally similar a somewhat stiffer instrumentality than this, with much noticeable bumps for each increment, but again, it performed well, scrolling whenever I needed. The scroll instrumentality click, however, feels terrible. It needs a batch of unit to click and erstwhile it does, it hardly moves. You don't get a DPI button, but you tin close click and property the backmost broadside fastener to power DPI, with a coloured LED connected the scroll instrumentality changing colour. It's a neat mode of changing sensitivity without adding a button, truthful keeping the value down.

The rodent connects to your PC via a USB dongle with a stiff cable. The dongle has a built-in clip to link to your mousepad – a bully interaction – and allows for up to 8K polling complaint (more connected that later). Given however light, and truthful however inherently portable, this rodent is, I would've loved a smaller USB dongle for travelling, oregon Bluetooth connectivity. But similar with each the different caveats I've listed supra – and determination are rather a fewer – the drawbacks are worthy it to support the value down, which is the full constituent of this mouse.

Corsair Sabre V2 Pro – Performance, Gaming and Battery Life

I can't kick astir the Sabre V2 Pro's gaming performance. I tested it connected a assortment of games, mostly Arc Raiders and Fortnite, which some necessitate speedy flicks, but besides Anno 1800, which is much gentle, with tons of dilatory movement. Flick shots felt responsive, dilatory tracking felt accurate. It ne'er stuttered and it followed my each question precisely however I wanted. It does instrumentality immoderate getting utilized to a rodent this light, and immoderate of my flicks felt disconnected during my archetypal league with it, but I rapidly got utilized to it and aft a week, my different mice felt dense successful comparison.

It runs astatine a 1000Hz polling complaint (the fig of times the rodent reports its presumption to your PC) by default, which is good for astir players. You tin tally it astatine higher polling rates each the mode up to 8000Hz, which you won't find connected astir different mice astatine this price. Higher polling rates should, successful theory, amended accuracy and trim inconsistency. In reality, astir radical conflict to archer the quality supra 2000Hz, and to me, 2000Hz and 1000Hz consciousness very, precise similar. Going up to 8000Hz is overkill and I wouldn't urge it with this rodent due to the fact that it tanks the battery, dropping a 70-hour maximum artillery beingness to astir 16 hours.

Even astatine 1000Hz, artillery beingness is subpar. I got person to 50 hours than 70, which lags down different gaming mice (although I should say, respective factors spell into artillery beingness truthful your mileage whitethorn vary). It's yet different drawback but, for me, it's yet different compromise worthy having to prevention weight. Anything approaching 60 to 70 hours of artillery beingness means you're charging possibly erstwhile a week, and that's fine.

Corsair Sabre V2 Pro – Software

Hooray for online rodent software! The Sabre V2 Pro doesn't marque you instal a caller programme connected your PC. Instead, you power the rodent connected the Corsair's stripped-back Web Hub, and you tin instal it arsenic a browser app to scope it offline if, say, you're travelling and don't cognize what the WiFi concern volition be.

It does, admittedly, dilatory you down if you're mid-game and privation to tweak a setting. Usually you tin permission rodent bundle moving without taxing your PC but you don't, usually, privation to play with your browser moving successful the background, particularly if you unfastened tons of tabs oregon person a lower-end system. So you person to minimize the game, unfastened your browser, navigate to the Web Hub, click connected your device, and past adjust. (Also, if Corsair's servers were down, you mightiness person trouble adjusting your rodent settings.)

On the full I deliberation those drawbacks are worthy it to debar bloating your PC with adjacent much peripheral programs – though the champion of some worlds would beryllium giving radical the enactment to instal a program, should they prefer. The Web Hub itself is intuitive, with lone a fewer elemental tabs to scroll through, though I privation that the polling complaint wasn't hidden successful a abstracted settings menu, alternatively than being front-and-centre successful the menus alongside macros, cardinal binds, and DPI. And the drawback of the Hub's simplicity is that it lacks features you'll get from different mice software: you can't customize lift-off distances, for example, oregon set the axis of your sensor. I would've liked a fewer much settings to tweak.