Corsair M65 RGB Ultra Wireless

[pzogel]

With the M65 RGB Ultra Wireless, Corsair cuts the cord on one of their most popular models. Sporting a durable aluminium frame, Marksman sensor capable of 26,000 CPI, optical switches, weight-tuning system, alleged 2000 Hz wireless polling, and up to 120 hours of battery life using Bluetooth, the M65 is exceptionally rich on features.

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[AnarchoPrimitiv]

I own the M65 Elite wired...and within a month or two the left mouse button stopped functioning properly....and if you go on Amazon, there's tons of reviews saying the same... just a heads up

 

[CGLBESE]

Chinese Omron switches again... Roccat had the same and I had to replace them with the Japanese versions on my Kone Aimo (left click started to be less responsive, change done almost 3 years ago and they're still snappy!).

At 1$ retail price for the Japanese switches (and considering that OEMs have heavy discounts), this kind of "economy" is unacceptable in this price range, IMHO

 

[Assimilator]

Chinese Omron switches again... Roccat had the same and I had to replace them with the Japanese versions on my Kone Aimo (left click started to be less responsive, change done almost 3 years ago and they're still snappy!).

At 1$ retail price for the Japanese switches (and considering that OEMs have heavy discounts), this kind of "economy" is unacceptable in this price range, IMHO

But if they don't cut costs by using cheap Chinese switches, how will they afford to add more bloat to iCUE?

 

[AnarchoPrimitiv]

Chinese Omron switches again... Roccat had the same and I had to replace them with the Japanese versions on my Kone Aimo (left click started to be less responsive, change done almost 3 years ago and they're still snappy!).

At 1$ retail price for the Japanese switches (and considering that OEMs have heavy discounts), this kind of "economy" is unacceptable in this price range, IMHO

Was that a difficult replacement? Involved soldering right?

 

[CGLBESE]

Was that a difficult replacement? Involved soldering right?

It wasn't that difficult. A bit of soldering tin, a bit of caution to avoid burning the surrounding PCB and "tada". It took me 5-10 minutes to replace the switches.

But still, I find it awful that, when you pay for a premium product, you still have to compensate for design flaws or bad commercial decisions

And now, I have still 3 spare Omron Japanese switches... I'm ready for the next mouse

 

[Chrispy_]

Expensive, dubious switches, short warranty, HEAVY AF, and Corsair's bloated software.

That'll be a no, again.

 

[InhaleOblivion]

Solid review. Hard pass at that price point. Though I am a fan of Corsair's products in general.

 

[TheSoaringPatatoes]

Same experiences here, two times. It's a shame cause the form-factor and shape fit my hand. Interesting to learn that you can replace switch, i will explore this way

...and yes, iCUE is such a non-sense software XD

 

[fb020997]

Unfortunately a friend has an Harpoon pro mouse, which its DPI profiles switch is customizable only on the MFing iCue. I don’t know if it’s worse or on par with the awful (cr)A(p)sus counterpart, but it’s a resource hog and slow AF. Thankfully on some friends’ corsair AIOs all the custom fan curves can be saved in hardware.

 

[TrevorX]

It's got to be years since I read a mouse review, the standout from me was seeing that everyone else seems to feel the same way about iCue - I've made numerous complaints to Corsair over the years about it, it's such a disgusting resource hog and as the article mentions, 90% of it is for devices I don't own and don't have plugged in. Why can't it have a base agent that's sole job is to interrogate the registry for a list of hardware id's, and install drivers and software appropriate to what's actually connected? I mean, how much effort has been put into 'gaming optimisations' by companies, enthusiast communities and journalists over the past 25 years? The basic rule of thumb is to ensure you have as little as possible running on top of the OS. So WTH is a company that's been neck deep in gaming products for two plus decades doing forcing their customers to put up with such abominable bloatware?!

Honestly, if it wasn't for the fact that I'll need to be buried with my K95 with the 18 macro keys 'cause I'll die with that thing clutched to my chest, I'd have been done with iCUE (and Corsair generally) years ago. Bear in mind, this comes from someone who first purchased Corsair RAM when it was 128MB of SD back in 2000, imported from the other side of the planet at great expense because there was nothing else like it in Auatralia. I've built several hundred PCs using Corsair PSUs, sadly about 40% of which ended up failing a few years later, which is why I won't touch their PSU line. I've owned two headsets, both of which totally fell to pieces due to poor material selection, so I won't go near those again. I've sold a few dozen mice, many of which either failed within or soon after warranty expiration. About the only thing they've made that's reliable are keyboards and RAM (and honestly most of the ram I've bought in the last decade has been for servers, so I'm a little out of touch there). And then they go and ruin their keyboards with iCUE. FFS.

I'm now so far removed from consumer IT I haven't recommended or sold such products in a long time, but as a customer - I just bought and built an $8k PC, a $4k PC for my son, and two $3.5k PCs for other rooms in the house (not including monitors and periperherals). Not a dollar was spent on Corsair products. I wonder why that is, Corsair?

Great article pzogel

 

[Chrispy_]

Why can't it have a base agent that's sole job is to interrogate the registry for a list of hardware id's, and install drivers and software appropriate to what's actually connected? I mean, how much effort has been put into 'gaming optimisations' by companies, enthusiast communities and journalists over the past 25 years? The basic rule of thumb is to ensure you have as little as possible running on top of the OS. So WTH is a company that's been neck deep in gaming products for two plus decades doing forcing their customers to put up with such abominable bloatware?!

Get out of here with your sensible ideas and common sense!

More seriously though, companies that make peripherals are not software developers and most of them outsource the job at minimum cost, or hire a couple of software developers and try to integrate them into a company that has no idea about software development.

I wish we had better-accepted open standards for RGBLED and then software companies could compete to make the best RGBLED software, rather than this proprietary, vendor-locked nonsense we have at the moment. I used OpenRGB for a while but decided the best answer was to just turn off all the lights completely and then uninstall all the bloated shitware that tries to pass itself off as RGB Software.