SteelSeries Rival 710 Gaming Mouse - 16,000 CPI TrueMove3 Optical Sensor - OLED Display - Tactile Alerts - RGB Lighting, Black

I was given a used one of these and it eventually wore out after a lot more use. Out of all the mice I have had, this is my favorite by far. It feels good in the hand and the weight is nice too. the dpi is amazing. i like my mouse to move quite fast. I have yet to find anything I don't like about it.

mouse gets a lot of hate for its gimmicks but i love it. its lasted me years now still no problems.

My previous mouse died after a 2.5 year stint (rather disappointing for a higher end mouse) so I decided to switch companies and try out something else. While I've used SteelSeries mousepads before, I've never purchased any of their peripherals so it was a bit of a leap of faith to put down money on a high end mouse. I don't really do much gaming anymore, but I tend to find that gaming mice have some of the best ergonomics for long sessions and this certainly holds true here. The build quality feels top notch right out of the box and the aesthetics are a bit on the understated side, which I prefer over some of the in-your-face models that look like some sort of stealth fighter with LED's everywhere. The software to control the lighting is simple enough to use and the mouse has plenty of buttons for my own use. There is one eyebrow raising feature, which is the LED panel on the side of the mouse which shows the SteelSeries logo by default, but can be customized with pixel art to show something else. I'm not entirely sure how many people are going to be staring at the inside of my mouse, but I suppose it can be a cool place to customize it with your team or sponsor logo if you're into eSports? Aside from that, it seems like a rather useless feature.Anyway, the important things are that the mouse feels extremely good in the hand, which makes it comfortable to use even if you're on the computer for hours at a time. It is extremely responsive and has a button that allows you to quickly toggle between two preset sensitivity settings, which is useful both in games and for applications such as Photoshop where you might want to reduce your mouse sensitivity for some tasks. Again, the software to set this up is incredibly intuitive and well-designed.I haven't owned the mouse for very long so these are initial impressions more than anything else. I cannot speak to the longevity of it, but out of the box, it's a wonderful mouse and one of the best I've ever used. My only real complaint is that it did not come with a SteelSeries sticker in the box which is irrelevant to anything other than my fetish for brand stickers.

I'm on my third steelseries mouse, and this is my 2nd of this line. Both this mouse and the previous model of the same line both have had the same issue, the rear mouse skate starts to detach (because it is not firmly seated and too shallow) and leak glue from the pressure of regular use, which in turn picks up dust and creates this sticky residue that gets pressed underneath the skate and start to unseat it as well as completely ruining the glide.The first time it happened, I had owned the mouse a few years so I was a little more forgiving, this time, it happened after only owning the mouse a few months. Whereas my $40 intellimouses 1.1 and 3.0 lasted me about 8 years a piece. This mouse costs more than twice that and doesn't last half the time?Another huge issue I had was the driver software would continually update itself to a newer model of their software that was evidently not supported by Windows 7, entirely breaking itself. Someone would expect a programmer to put some basic checks on the installer for compatibility before irreversibly "upgrading" my driver software into a state where it will not even launch.

I have used a lot of good mice in my days and i have always noticed that getting the right size for my hand was difficult to narrow down, even during the days that I actually left my home to shop. Some just had the wrong shape; some were just huge. This mouse is about as good as I have seen to fit my hand in the correct shape and size.Tons of options in the software for gaming profiles and reprogramming buttons. Although I have not a huge fan and certainly don't need the color change icons, they are pretty sweet looking. I have had this mouse for easily 3-4 weeks and I am STILL dialing it in. The acceleration and dpi were actually overwhelming in the beginning. When you are used to a little lag and "inaccuracy", pinpoint precision actually caused me some problems. I would point right at something "perceived" and I would be just off on the top side or something. This was consistent. I took the accel down a bit and the dpi down and I am good.I haven't noticed any real failures or anything not working and the piece is well made. When I "feel" quality and see it as well, I am good. My last mouse (Logitech G9) lasted me a very long time and I STILL use like 3 Logitech MX518's in other places, I hope this one does the same.Been quite some time since I paid this much for a mouse and I normally do not think long about buying something. I slept on this one a day because of the price, but I couldn't narrow down another mouse that fit what I wanted. I would buy this again.