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Poll: Brand Name Gaming Products (144 member(s) have cast votes)

What Brand Gaming Mouse Are You Using Right Now?

  1. Logitech (50 votes [34.72%])

    Percentage of vote: 34.72%

  2. Razer (35 votes [24.31%])

    Percentage of vote: 24.31%

  3. Steelseries (7 votes [4.86%])

    Percentage of vote: 4.86%

  4. Corsair (6 votes [4.17%])

    Percentage of vote: 4.17%

  5. Microsoft (5 votes [3.47%])

    Percentage of vote: 3.47%

  6. CM Storm (2 votes [1.39%])

    Percentage of vote: 1.39%

  7. Rosewill (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  8. Asus (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  9. Perixx (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  10. Cooler Master (1 votes [0.69%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.69%

  11. Roccat (4 votes [2.78%])

    Percentage of vote: 2.78%

  12. A4Tech (2 votes [1.39%])

    Percentage of vote: 1.39%

  13. E-3lue (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  14. Mionix (2 votes [1.39%])

    Percentage of vote: 1.39%

  15. Mad Catz (8 votes [5.56%])

    Percentage of vote: 5.56%

  16. Gamdias (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  17. Etekcity (1 votes [0.69%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.69%

  18. Gigabyte (1 votes [0.69%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.69%

  19. Tt eSPORTS (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  20. some other brand we don't have room to list (20 votes [13.89%])

    Percentage of vote: 13.89%

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#1 DEATHL0K

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Posted April 05 2014 - 07:32 AM

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This mouse? It's the Etekcity M555. It looks like a Razer DeathAdder or something, right? You can get those for $50-60. The mouse you see up above, it's $14. So you can buy four of them for the price of the DeathAdder. And get a better mouse. Go read the reviews. They are off the chain. Seriously, whatever overpriced rat you're driving now is going to break at any moment and you will need a backup until you can order another overpriced rat. Do yourself a favor and get one of these while you can.

That aside, I'm interested in what BRAND mouse other gamers are using. Knowing the model is nice, too, but I am making an informal study of brand names.

I've recently stumbled upon foreign-branded mice and keyboards. It's a big world out there, and not everyone uses the same products we use in the United States. I am learning that our nation's greatest weakness is its cultural and market isolation, at least from a consumer's point of view.

We pay more for the same products than do consumers on the other side of the globe. That's the evil of marketing: Make them pay as much as you can get away with.

There are a lot of fantastic products out there you have never heard of.

A4Tech
Ajazz
aLLreli
Anker
ASUS
Aula
Azend
Azio
Bazalias
CM Storm
Corsair
E-3lue
Etekcity
Gamdias
Genius
Gigabyte
Mad Catz
Microsoft
Mionix
Monoprice
OCZ
Perixx
Razer
Redragon
Roccat
Rosewill
Sharkoon
Steelseries
Tt eSPORTS
UtechSmart

I just swapped my Logitech G400 for an Etekcity M555. I've Logitech mice for years. You've never heard of Etekcity. Neither had I, until a few days ago. But there was this mouse with fantastic reviews and priced at just $14. Fourteen. Dollars. I spend that on lunch each day. Turns out to be the most comfortable mouse I ever put my hands on. It looks similar to many Razer products, but is far more ergonomic than anything they've ever made. Where other designs focus on extending the ring and pinkie fingers, making it more difficult to lift the mouse quickly, the M555 brings those fingers in tighter toward the center of gravity.

I remember buying a Microsoft Habu (a Razer design) years ago for $70-80. It lasted less than two weeks before the signal wires shorted together in the cord. Switches give out in my Logitech mice after a year or so, and they've never been cheap mice. Never again. Never again will I pay top dollar for brand name mice and keyboards that aren't any better than the products made by other companies no one has ever heard of.

I also have a Redragon Mammoth and Aula Ghost Shark (yeah, seriously), which are high-end mice for folks with larger hands. The Mammoth has a unique anti-slip texture and is extremely comfortable. The Ghost Shark is insanely comfortable under my large-size hand. If either was branded Razer or Logitech, they'd run north of $100, but they're $40 and $27 at Amazon.

I never knew any of these things existed. I thought the only mice and keyboards made in the world were Logitech, Microsoft, Razer, Steelseries, and other large brands common to American store shelves. If not for an accident, I would have continued thinking that way until the day I died. Now, I want to share this stuff with my friends. I would appreciate anyone doing the same for me.

Would love to hear about other brands you may know, that they may be added to my list, above.

Edited by DEATHL0K, April 13 2014 - 09:17 AM.


#2 Hijinks_The_Turtle

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Posted April 05 2014 - 07:35 AM

I'm just using a normal everyday mouse.  It's a lenovo by the way, I don't even know what the heck it's called. xD

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Posted April 05 2014 - 08:05 AM

I got a logitech g500s only because it was the cheapest wired mouse with side buttons.  They straight up don't make basic wired mice with side buttons available at Best Buy anymore.  I ran an MX300 for something like 10 damn years before the LMB failed and the wheel only spun half the time.

Funny story:  The guy at the store kept trying to push different things on me and I kept saying, no this is all I need, no thank you I don't need to spend over 100$, please stop showing me things when I've already made my selection, etc.  Then he tries to sell me the 2 year warrantee?  It's only 9 bucks!  And I'm like, nah, that's 9 bucks that can buy me breakfast.  Well, what if it breaks? he says.  To which I respond, your warrantee is a joke because the last logitech product I purchased lasted me a decade.  Finally got him to shut up!

Edited by comic_sans, April 05 2014 - 08:05 AM.


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Posted April 05 2014 - 08:33 AM

Razer deathadder baby! Yeah! (insert Austin powers gif)
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Posted April 05 2014 - 08:36 AM

Logitech M310, it's like a $10 mouse, but it does its job as far as I can tell.

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Posted April 05 2014 - 08:40 AM

View Postcomic_sans, on April 05 2014 - 08:05 AM, said:

I got a logitech g500s only because it was the cheapest wired mouse with side buttons.  They straight up don't make basic wired mice with side buttons available at Best Buy anymore.  I ran an MX300 for something like 10 damn years before the LMB failed and the wheel only spun half the time.

Funny story:  The guy at the store kept trying to push different things on me and I kept saying, no this is all I need, no thank you I don't need to spend over 100$, please stop showing me things when I've already made my selection, etc.  Then he tries to sell me the 2 year warrantee?  It's only 9 bucks!  And I'm like, nah, that's 9 bucks that can buy me breakfast.  Well, what if it breaks? he says.  To which I respond, your warrantee is a joke because the last logitech product I purchased lasted me a decade.  Finally got him to shut up!

Y  U NO ONLINE SHOP??!!

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Edited by shosca, April 05 2014 - 08:40 AM.


#7 V_ExorcisT

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Posted April 05 2014 - 08:42 AM

Logitech Gaming Mouse G400 Black USB Mouse - I always use Logitech mouses, if this will ever break, I'll buy Logitech again.
Why? Because they live forever and have outstanding functionality (of course I use wired mouse for that reason)! :D
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#8 comic_sans

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Posted April 05 2014 - 08:43 AM

View Postshosca, on April 05 2014 - 08:40 AM, said:

View Postcomic_sans, on April 05 2014 - 08:05 AM, said:

I got a logitech g500s only because it was the cheapest wired mouse with side buttons.  They straight up don't make basic wired mice with side buttons available at Best Buy anymore.  I ran an MX300 for something like 10 damn years before the LMB failed and the wheel only spun half the time.

Funny story:  The guy at the store kept trying to push different things on me and I kept saying, no this is all I need, no thank you I don't need to spend over 100$, please stop showing me things when I've already made my selection, etc.  Then he tries to sell me the 2 year warrantee?  It's only 9 bucks!  And I'm like, nah, that's 9 bucks that can buy me breakfast.  Well, what if it breaks? he says.  To which I respond, your warrantee is a joke because the last logitech product I purchased lasted me a decade.  Finally got him to shut up!

Y  U NO ONLINE SHOP??!!

Roccat Savu

Cuz I wanted it right the hell then!  I was riding the old mx310 (that's which one it was, same as silverfire's) a good day past the LMB becoming responsive only 30%ish of the time, and I just ragequit the siege match I was in and drove 20 minutes to get a mouse.  I AM AMERICAN, INSTANT GRATIFICATE ME

#9 spo0n

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Posted April 05 2014 - 08:44 AM

I have a razer mamba.  Woo wireless mice.

Most of the time I play hawken, its plugged in though.  Battery runs out at inconvenient times and I'm too lazy to disconnect the cord once it is charged.

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Posted April 05 2014 - 08:47 AM

Mad catz R.A.T. 7 works very good with my big hands.

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Posted April 05 2014 - 08:53 AM

where is Genius brand?
my mouse is:
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oh, i find more correct image, on first image wrong logo
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because i don't know how it called. if i turn around mouse, i see "Net Scroll+" and "Made in China"
i think it's "Genius Net scroll+" :D

Edited by nepacaka, April 05 2014 - 08:56 AM.


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Posted April 05 2014 - 11:11 AM

Had a Silverstone Raven (their only mouse) before my CM Storm. Loved that mouse to death but I don't see it around too often.

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Posted April 05 2014 - 12:08 PM

Looks like it's got a nuclear tumor growing out the side. What the heck is that for?

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Posted April 05 2014 - 01:14 PM

Logitech G602 Wireless...I repeat: WIRELESS. ;-)

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Posted April 05 2014 - 01:26 PM

Roccat Savu.

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Posted April 05 2014 - 01:29 PM

At one point in my life I thought I'd be the coolest kid on the block for playing games with a microsoft Trackball explorer... these days the razer deathadder (2013-edition) is more than enough for what I need.
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Posted April 05 2014 - 01:30 PM

Logitech G9X, the best mouse I have ever used.  Why Logitech keeps discontinuing the good stuff in favor of plastic fuzzy bunny I will never know.

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Posted April 05 2014 - 01:39 PM

View Postnepacaka, on April 05 2014 - 08:53 AM, said:

where is Genius brand?
my mouse is:
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oh, i find more correct image, on first image wrong logo
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because i don't know how it called. if i turn around mouse, i see "Net Scroll+" and "Made in China"
i think it's "Genius Net scroll+" :D

I was cleaning out my mother's garage yesterday and found one of this exact mouse :)

I've been using an MS Intellimouse Explorer since forever.

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Posted April 05 2014 - 01:52 PM

Roccat kone+ ... and when i need extra glide....Nova Slider X600...ceramic gliding ftw!

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Posted April 05 2014 - 01:54 PM

After Captain America: The Winter Soldier, I updated the post with a list of brands I've discovered. Check them out!




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