SteelSeries Rival 650

[Vanir]

A flagship without wires—the top SteelSeries mouse is back in a wireless form as the Rival 650. Featuring an exceptional dual-sensor system, main buttons rated for 60 million clicks, a robust and durable shell, and, of course, highly customizable RGB lighting, it's surely a premium product, which its pricing reflects as well.

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[Joss]

Thanks, thorough as usual.
Not my cup of tea this mouse. As you said it's heavy and expensive. I dislike the looks too.

edit @Vanir I too a look at your Rival 600 review and you say in the comments:

I would probably go for a vertical mouse, as they tend to relax the wrists miles better than the average ergonomical mice

Any plans to test one of these vertical mice?

 

[dj-electric]

Unless SteelSeries has done something with the rubber sides - its going to peel off, unavoidably.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

any form of lighting on a mouse apart from the ones that show which DPi profile youre on is always a waste of time... Once you put your palm on it, the flashy lights are hidden. im not going to leave it on my desk and gawk at it while it does its fancy light show and not use it.

 

[Alexandrus]

The button switches look like Omrom 50M blue ones, just with the SS logo on them.

 

[Gungar]

Unless SteelSeries has done something with the rubber sides - its going to peel off, unavoidably.

Rubber in a mouse is completely stupid anyway, totally non durable.

 

[ShurikN]

Unless SteelSeries has done something with the rubber sides - its going to peel off, unavoidably.

Can confirm. Rival 300, left rubber side has no texture after a year or so.
Also all 3 main buttons (SS branded switches) started double or even triple clicking. Had to open it twice to spray some contact cleaner into them...
As soon as I get home (where I have a soldering iron), I'm putting Omrons inside.

 

[PLAfiller]

I've always liked my Kinzu Pro V2 edition. I know it super basic mouse, but my hand feels good and I like shiny plastics. If they make wireless version of it, I'd get one.

 

[Vanir]

Thanks, thorough as usual.
Not my cup of tea this mouse. As you said it's heavy and expensive. I dislike the looks too.

edit @Vanir I too a look at your Rival 600 review and you say in the comments:
Any plans to test one of these vertical mice?

I'll look around, and try to do my best, but not many of these are available with acceptable specs so far, pity really.

Unless SteelSeries has done something with the rubber sides - its going to peel off, unavoidably.

I really do hope they did fix this, albeit I cannot say for sure.

any form of lighting on a mouse apart from the ones that show which DPi profile youre on is always a waste of time... Once you put your palm on it, the flashy lights are hidden. im not going to leave it on my desk and gawk at it while it does its fancy light show and not use it.

I hear you, I'm against the RGB-mania as well.

The button switches look like Omrom 50M blue ones, just with the SS logo on them.

They feel vastly different though, these are most probably made by TTC. The Omrons feel better tbh.

I've always liked my Kinzu Pro V2 edition. I know it super basic mouse, but my hand feels good and I like shiny plastics. If they make wireless version of it, I'd get one.

You have no idea how much people would rejoice a wireless Kinzu with a proper sensor... I don't know why SteelSeries doesn't want to remake that series.

 

[Vayra86]

This is WAY too expensive for a mouse. No matter the featureset. At half price it would already be on the upper end. 40 ~ 70 bucks gets you 100% similar mice, and even better ones.

 

[PLAfiller]

This is WAY too expensive for a mouse. No matter the featureset. At half price it would already be on the upper end. 40 ~ 70 bucks gets you 100% similar mice, and even better ones.

That's what SS has always been about: Danish design+made in Taiwan. I realized this when I bought my first mouse from them. There really isn't much under the hood of their stuff.

 

[lev]

Dear friends,

I'm thinking to maybe replace current encoder in my Rival 650 to be more "stiff?", more pronounced feeling.... Can someone tell me what kind of encoder is used there so I'll find some replacement?

Thanks!!!!