SteelSeries Rival 600 Gaming Mouse – 12,000 CPI

Great mouse for the price. The feel is smooth and comfortable and it looks very nice. The clicking is solid and the scroll wheel and other buttons are high quality. The lighting looks good and the steelseries engine is perfect for customization. The only problem I have is that the third button on the left side of the mouse is pretty hard to reach. Other than that it is a great mouse.

Absoluetly obsessed on the quality. Amazingly comfortable and a nice sound when you click. The scroll wheel is quiet and smooth. Fast response time, gorgeus colors, and amazing price. Highly recommended!

Excellent mouse, feels good, no lag or issues. I use it for both work (engineering) and gaming. My only gripe is with the software; you can only toggle between two CPI settings.

Perfect mouse

This is a fantastic mouse, with issues.
The RGB lights are very bright and there are many lighting options on the SteelSeries Engine which is very easy to use. The mouse also tracks very well and has a very small liftoff distance as it advertises, the only problem I’ve come to realize, which might just be a problem with my mouse, is that putting the liftoff distance as low as possible seems to skip my mouse inputs. This effect is especially bad on hard surface mousepads, it seems.

Overall, I have no complaints with the mouse. If I had reviewed this mouse a few months ago, it would have been 5 stars. However, the grips on the side of the mouse are adhered to the mouse with glue. Glue that apparently doesn’t stick after countless hours of use, the pads come off and the glue makes your fingers sticky and it’s really irritating. I feel like this is only going to get worse, to the point where I’m going to need a new mouse. I wouldn’t complain if this happened 2 years or more later and if I had more use of the mouse, but paying $70 for this quality is quite disappointing. So, maybe me saying this is a fantastic mouse might not be true because of this. But I really enjoyed this mouse for the time it didn’t have any problems.

TLDR: Good mouse tracking, sub-par build quality, great lights, good software

I purchased the Rival 600 a few days ago, I’ve had it for a couple of days now and wow. I am using this mouse to play Overwatch, CSGO and Battle Field One — My in game accuracy has in-fact improved, (from 45% hit average to 52%) is an understatement. The tracking is smooth and accurate and the lift off distance sensor works great for me because I don’t have the desk space needed to play so I often have to lift my mouse to reposition.

I specifically bought this mouse because I have been using the Razer Naga for years now for all my gaming needs. Lately, I’ve been really into OW and playing Widow and McCree often — in most matches I did fine but when I faced other GOOD Widows I noticed I’d get beat to a shot by mere milliseconds and my ping is fairly low (30ms on average) and play on a 144hz monitor. I was beginning to think my reflexes just weren’t good enough.. Then a friend of mine suggested I get a mouse for FPS games — (like wth is the difference is what I thought) he teased me about using a MOBA mouse for FPS — long story short I figured I’d give it a shot. I looked at a ton of reviews on gaming mice and the Rival 600 caught my attention, so I bought. It is worth every cent — it just feels much more accurate. To be fair if you suck at FPS it won’t make you good via magic but it can help you improve a bit if you know what you are doing already, that is MY OPINION.

The only issues I’ve had with the mouse is that the lift off sensor is TOO sensitive. After calibrating the mouse to my pad, I simply set the liftoff sensor to the lowest lift distance possible — and low behold there are dips and bumps on my pad that I hadn’t even noticed before. When the sensor would hit these dips and bumps the mouse would stop responding. At first I thought the mouse was defective and was about to return it but after reading thru a few forum posts on this issue I simply increased the lift off distance a bit and the problem went way.

***EDIT***
This is the the third product every I buy from SteelSeries, the first product was a wired USB headset that sounded prettty decent, was cheap and broke within a few weeks. I tossed that and carried on. However, recently I found a review for their Artic PRO + DAC headset — I was sold by the aluminum design (as my previous headset was plastic and broke really easily). Plus I am a bit of an audiophile, meaning I can appreciate good sound equipment (like I hate hate sound bars) and this headset is one of the first HIFI certified “gaming” headset. So I bought it.. and feel in love with it — it was a bit pricey but I am enjoying it. And now the Rival 600 is my new favorite mouse for FPS (I still like the NAGA for FFXIV).

SteelSeries is on a roll with me atm with their products, if only they made a competitor to the Razer Tartarus.. I’d buy that in a heart beat — I recently purchased the Razer Tartarus v2 (I own two others) and it’s so buggy and their software sucks — problem is very few companies make these keypads and most of them are terrible. So SteelSeries make one.. please 😛