Corsair Sabre V2 Professional Ultralight Wi-fi overview

The Corsair Sabre V2 Professional Ultralight Wi-fi is a shock entry from Corsair, as the corporate has typically been fairly gradual to embrace the pattern for very gentle gaming mice. It caught as much as the competitors with the M75 Air, however the Sabre V2 Professional Ultralight Wi-fi takes issues to a different degree, almost halving the burden of that mouse and creating one of many lightest mice on this planet.

The results of this weight saving is definitely top-of-the-line gaming mouse choices round, if low weight is your high precedence. There’s loads of competitors from extra boutique/area of interest manufacturers on this ultra-light area, however for those who’re in search of a big-name model to belief, Corsair stands other than the likes of Logitech, Razer, and SteelSeries – none of their finest is wherever close to as gentle. All that and it is comparatively low cost, too. Nevertheless, there are just a few components that take the shine off this mouse.

Specs

Options

Like many ultra-light gaming mice, the Sabre V2 Professional Ultralight Wi-fi does not have a lot in the way in which of options. It has simply 5 buttons with three on high – left, proper, center/scroll – and the 2 aspect buttons for again and ahead. There aren’t any buttons on the underside or elsewhere for altering DPI ranges (or some other options of the mouse) on the fly or triggering some other actions. There’s only a slide swap on the underside for the facility.

Up entrance is a USB-C port for charging and connecting to your PC for as much as 8kHz polling price play, and contained in the mouse, there may be an LED that glows pink momentarily whenever you energy the mouse on and briefly reveals inexperienced when it is linked.

Additionally inside is Corsair’s Marksman S sensor, which may ship as much as 33,000 DPI and preserve monitoring at as much as 750 inches per second with as much as 50g of acceleration. Corsair does not specify the switches used on this mouse, and does not present quick access for me to verify – not like the Endgame Gear OP1, the screws to dismantle this mouse are hidden beneath its skates. Corsair does say they’re “custom-tuned mechanical switches rated for 100 million clicks.”

Extra spectacular, in terms of options, is what you get within the field with this mouse. It has a normal cable and USB-C dongle (although not an adapter to transform the USB-C socketed dongle to be used immediately in a laptop computer – you may must plug within the cable) however Corsair additionally throws in a second set of glide skates (which can be bigger than the skinny ones put in by default) together with some textured, rubber grips you could follow the again and sides of the mouse. The corporate even throws in a bit of disposable alcohol wipe to make sure the surfaces of your mouse are clear earlier than attempting to suit the grips or skates.

Design and luxury

Corsair has lastly realized from the remainder of the market and moved away from the likes of the terrible M65 to a mouse design that’s really comfy and versatile, with the Sabre V2 Professional Ultralight Wi-fi. It’s totally paying homage to the newest Razer Viper, with a symmetrical form, barely flared entrance, and a reasonably low-angled again. That is versus the marginally extra rounded general form and fuller again of the Logitech G Professional X Superlight vary. No matter its similarities, it is merely an incredible form that works for all kinds of grip types and hand sizes.

Speaking of grip, Corsair hasn’t employed a soft-touch coating to assist grip, like on the Be Quiet! Darkish Perk, as an illustration, so it is not fairly as instantly grippy to carry. Nevertheless, that is the place the extremely gentle weight of this mouse actually reveals its worth. Neglect slapping on these further aspect grips. The sheer incontrovertible fact that this mouse weighs almost half that of among the different choices talked about above means it is extremely straightforward to select up and fling round, even regardless of its modest grippiness.

What’s extra, this lightness does not come at the price of compromised construct high quality. The physique of the mouse does not creak or flex in any respect, and, whether or not you want them or not, Corsair hasn’t needed to resort to drilling holes within the outer case to get it this gentle.

Efficiency

General sensor efficiency of the Sabre V2 Professional Ultralight Wi-fi is superb, with correct monitoring and the flexibility to maintain up with essentially the most excessive actions I might present, all with none sense of it lacking a beat or erroneously correcting my actions.

Likewise, the wi-fi efficiency was incredible, and the flexibility to crank up the polling price to 8kHz meant that excessive motion with very quick refresh price displays supplied a easy consequence. As ever, I would not essentially advocate operating the mouse at 8kHz that usually, because it places further pressure in your CPU and kills battery life, which means you may run this mouse dry in simply 16 hours.

At 1kHz, although, which is solely enough for all desktop use and most gaming, battery life lived as much as Corsair’s claimed 70 hours. That is not unimaginable longevity, but it surely ought to get you per week between costs.

So, general efficiency is stable, however there are just a few points that may very well be a deal breaker for some. The primary is that click on latency on this mouse is a bit of larger, at round 8ms. That is because of Corsair needing so as to add a bit of additional debounce delay to cease the switches unintentionally double-clicking. Corsair has created a software for adjusting this setting, but it surely’s not publicly out there but, and even when it had been, decreasing the latency might lead to these double-clicks. I did not discover this latency usually gaming, and wasn’t in a position to put into numbers the impact of this latency utilizing any purpose trainers or different mouse testing instruments, however in concept, there’s the possibility that a bit of bit further might throw off your click on timing, in comparison with different high mice with sub-3ms latencies.

Added to this, the left and proper buttons do not feel very tight. There’s numerous play (in comparison with different high gaming mice) to the buttons earlier than they set off the swap, making them really feel a contact unresponsive. Gently press the entrance fringe of the button plate down, and there is round 0.8mm of motion earlier than the swap is triggered (as finest as I might measure). This compares to round 0.5mm for the G Professional Superlight and successfully no perceptible motion from the MZ-1.

The buttons are additionally a bit of free on the upstroke, with round 0.7-1mm of upward motion in comparison with 0.5mm for the Superlight and no perceptible motion for the MZ-1. These may all sound like small numbers, however for those who’re delicate to those issues, you’ll be able to really feel the distinction. It does not assist that I am testing this mouse alongside the revolutionary adjustable-click Logitech G Professional X2 Superstrike, however the distinction in comparison with the opposite two mice talked about above is apparent, too.

For many gaming, this is not a lot of a problem, however for those who depend on quick clicking – equivalent to for taking part in League of Legends – it will probably disrupt your potential to click on and re-click in a short time. I put this into numbers through the use of the clicks-per-second take a look at on cpstest.org and, utilizing a two-fingered jitter clicking approach, I averaged 6.7cps on the Sabre V2 Professional Ultralight Wi-fi. That compares to 7.7cps for the Superlight and eight.5cps for the brand new Superstrike tech.

What’s extra, moments the place I felt just like the swap had obtained ‘caught’ in a down place and I needed to consciously elevate my finger up additional with a view to begin jittering once more had been extra frequent. Once more, we’re speaking superb margins right here, but when a excessive click on price is essential to you – otherwise you similar to mouse buttons to have a extremely exact, tight really feel – this may not be the mouse for you.

All that mentioned, enjoying the likes of CS2 and Apex Legends on this mouse, I totally loved utilizing it. Its extremely low weight, nice form, and stable sensor and wi-fi efficiency meant it felt easy and correct to make use of. Furthermore, when alternating between this and the Logitech G Professional Superstrike, there wasn’t a single time I wasn’t happy to be returning to the lighter Corsair mouse, for this fashion of fast-mouse-movement-focused sport. In distinction, for common desktop use and RTS video games, I most popular the Superstrike.

Nevertheless, there are a pair extra points to debate. The penultimate challenge is that Corsair has solely made this mouse appropriate with its new Internet Hub interface for adjusting settings, with its iCUE app not supporting the mannequin. This implies you need not load software program onto your system to regulate the mouse’s settings, but additionally means you’ll be able to’t rapidly alter these settings by way of a system tray app. Seeing because the mouse does not have any further buttons for adjusting options equivalent to DPI, this could really feel a bit of limiting.

Lastly, there’s the very fact that there’s a near-identical model of this mouse out there that’s reported to have the identical form, basically equivalent specs, is 1g lighter, has software program to regulate its debounce, and is $20 cheaper. Certainly, some individuals have speculated that the Sabre V2 Professional Ultralight Wi-fi is made by the identical firm as this different mouse. Referred to as the Dareu A950 Wing, it is not a mouse we have examined but, and we will not vouch for the corporate, however the similarities are putting, and its worth makes it a tempting various that I, for one, am very excited by attempting.

Worth

Among the finest options of this mouse is that the Corsair Sabre V2 Professional Ultralight Wi-fi worth is simply $99.99 / £89.99, and it is already discounted by Corsair to only $79.99 / £69.99. Even with sturdy competitors from that Dareu mouse, that is nonetheless a really affordable worth for the efficiency you get with this mouse. Actually, any slight quibbles in regards to the really feel of its buttons will be forgiven, assuming they are not a deal-breaker for you.

Verdict

The Corsair Sabre V2 Professional Ultralight Wi-fi was shaping as much as be a smash hit, 10/10 product, particularly at its present worth. For Corsair to immediately drop such a lightweight mouse that has an incredible form, features a few good equipment, and gives largely incredible efficiency is a really nice shock. So, for a lot of avid gamers who actually worth an ultra-light mouse above all else, it’s nonetheless purchase.

Nevertheless, the net interface, the debounce delay, and the truth that the buttons really feel a tad mushy are sufficient to take the shine off, particularly when there’s stiff competitors from an admittedly untested various from an additionally unfamiliar model. It is nonetheless possibility if motion and quick monitoring are your priorities for an incredible gaming mouse, but when click on velocity and really feel matter, you may discover a compromise on mouse weight is value it for better-feeling switches/buttons.