Build Quality

Overall build quality is solid. When shaking the mouse, a rattle comes from an indeterminable location. When applying lateral pressure, no creaking or flexing of the shell can be observed. Lastly, accidental clicks when slamming down the mouse do not occur unless Button Response Optimization is disabled within iCUE.

Buttons

Main buttons on the Scimitar Elite Wireless are very good. There is some pre-travel, but post-travel is low on the left and moderate on the right button. Button response is sharp and fairly snappy, and the buttons are reasonably easy to spam. Despite being visually separated from the shell, button movement is fairly low even when provoked. Button stiffness is medium. A pair of TTC optical switches are used.


Side buttons are good. Pre-travel is low across the board, but most buttons can be pressed in a decent bit past actuation, and several of them aren't exactly firm or stable. Distinguishing the buttons from each other by feel is quite easy, as every other row has a riffled texture.

At the top of the mouse is a single button for cycling through the set CPI steps, which works just fine. A 2-pin switch from TTC (black plunger) is used for this one. At the bottom of the mouse is an additional button which is hard-mapped to cycling through the available hardware profiles, which also works fine. A seemingly unbranded tactile switch is used for this one. The slider at the bottom switches between 2.4 GHz mode, Bluetooth, and off-state, and also works just fine.

Scroll Wheel

The scroll wheel is decent. Noise levels are high, especially when scrolling up, and tactility is at most average, as the individual steps lack separation. That said, the resulting light scrolling may be desirable for MMOs or MOBAs. The encoder comes from TTC (gray) and has a height of 7 mm. Actuating the middle (scroll wheel) click requires medium force. A seemingly unbranded tactile switch is used here.

Surface

The Scimitar Elite Wireless has a smooth matte surface all over, with the exception of the ring finger/pinky rest on the right side, which consists of textured, hardened rubber. The coating is pleasingly soft to the touch, but does attract fingerprints, dirt, or the likes quite a bit. It is easy to clean, and there are hardly any signs of wear left after doing so. All in all, good materials.

Button Sound Test

Disassembly

Disassembling the Scimitar Elite Wireless is fairly easy. First, all skates and the screws beneath them need to be removed. Separating the top and bottom shell may require some extra effort, possibly by wedging a credit card or something similar in between.

The internal design is relatively straightforward. The CPI button sits on its own PCB, screwed to the top shell and connected through a ribbon cable to the main PCB. The scroll wheel encoder likewise has its own PCB, which is encased in a plastic shell and screwed to the top shell, and connected through a 3-pin connector. The side buttons also have their own PCB, which is connected through an FFC to the main PCB. The battery sits on a plastic assembly mounted above the main PCB. Everything else sits on the main PCB, which is affixed to the bottom by three screws. The MCU is a rear-mounted Nordic nRF52840, whose datasheet can be found here.


As for the soldering and general quality of the PCBs, I'm unable to find any noteworthy flaws.