Cooler Master Sentinel III Review 0

Cooler Master Sentinel III Review

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You will find the driver software on Cooler Master's product page for the Sentinel III. As you can see, the driver is extensive, offering options to rebind every button on the mouse, set different colors, and record macros. Any key on the mouse can be bound to any function, be it a simple key press or a macro. The only thing it does not support is binding different programs you might want to launch to these buttons. Speaking of macros, the macro manager does not support lowering delays as you can only increase them. I'm sure this will be patched in a later release, but creating macros with Cooler Master's manager is a little awkward for now since you can't reduce any delays you might come across.

You can't control the Sentinel III's lighting zones separately, which has the whole mouse glow in one color. For special effects, you get the usual static and breathing lighting options for which you can set whatever color and brightness you want via sliders. There is also Spectrum mode—it will cycle through all the colors in order, from red to purple, and Rapid Fire mode will make the mouse flash in white every time you press its left or right buttons. This flash supersedes whatever LED color you have set, so your mouse will glow or not glow until you press these buttons. If you set the color to white, there won't be a flash since the mouse is already glowing in white.

The software's sensor settings are some of the most advanced I have ever seen. You can adjust the four different DPI settings available in each profile by increments of 50, and the DPI ranges from 50-6400. You can also set angle snapping, lift-off distance, and angle tuning. Angle snapping converts diagonal movements along the X or Y axis into straight lines and can be useful if you need very straight vertical or horizontal mouse movements. Angle tuning just rotates mouse movements by the number of degrees you picked—move the mouse horizontally to the right with angle tuning set to 30° and the cursor will move to the bottom-right corner of your screen since its movement gets rotated by 30° clockwise.
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