PC Gaming Mouse Buyers Guide

Having a good Desktop PC is important to having a great time playing. You may have a beast of a gaming machine, but do you have the mouse to partner with it? Did you know, you can upgrade your PC mouse and improve your gaming skills. Wonder why some mouses cost $5 and some cost $60? Don’t get me wrong. You can have a good old fashion Microsoft optical mouse, which is perfectly fine. How about stepping it up a gear.

First off, ball mouses are dead. Throw them away. Once you’ve played with a optical mouse, you’ll never want to even see a ball mouse ever again. Wireless mouses may look cool and you can control your computer from the other side of the room, but wireless mouses have a big problem with them. They have a small lag. You may not even notice it, but when gaming this lag can destroy your game. Even split second is the difference between winning and losing. So, what should you look for in your wired mouse? It all depends on what you are personally looking for.

You want it to be comfortable, even after 8 hours of non stop gaming. You want it to be accurate, good dpi and polling rate. Buttons, how may do you want and the placement of them. Scrolling wheel, do you want it to be clickable. So what is DPI, DPI is Dots Per Inch, the higher your DPI is the less movement you will have to make for your mouse cursor to move across the screen. You really want to keep your dpi at anywhere from 400 to 2000, anything more and you can be too hard to control your mouse. Having a mouse with the option to a higher dpi is always a good thing. Allowing you to choice the setting you feel comfortable with.

Having added buttons to a mouse can be a joy for some people and a annoying feature to others. It depends on your personal taste, but you can get mouse that have buttons which can help you do in game actions quicker like casting a certain spell or reloading your gun. Be aware what looked like a good idea to have 8 added buttons to your mouse, can be hell in trying to use. You mouse will most likely come with a scrolling wheel, but the only option here is if you want it to be clickable. I personally, don’t like having it clickable incase I press it when I don’t mean to, however it can come in handy for some people. Most mouses being released today have there own software. Allowing you to reconfigure your mouse to your settings. This can include what the buttons do to changing the dpi.