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ESReality test out the first benchmarking system for mice

by Steven Williamson on 11 December 2006, 10:47

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Sujoy Roy, from ESReality,has tested out the world's first benchmarking system on seventeen different gaming mouse, from the Razer Diamondback to the Creative Fatal1ty 2020!

Having decided to benchmark mice, there was several ways of going about it. The simplest method was to plot a graph of mouse response vs movement speed. Mouse response would be measured in counts per second (from Windows DirectInput) and movement speed would be measured in metres per second. DirectInput is easy to access so measuring the response of a mouse is fairly simple to do, and can be done very accurately. The tough part is measuring how fast the mouse is physically moving at the same time. After considering and discarding various options, I decided in the end to create a test setup where the mouse would be held stationary and the mousepad would be moved at a constant speed.


Check out Sujoy's comprehensive findings as he examines and dissects some of the most popular gaming mice.



Source : ESReality


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Posted by kalniel - Mon 11 Dec 2006 11:40
*mutters* It's like just talking about a car's top speed and not it's acceleration.

Far more important to me would be a response time test, but oh well - top marks for effort :p
Posted by Andrzej - Tue 12 Dec 2006 10:46
Cracking test !

I have heard loads of gamers complaining about ‘skips’ when playing with some of the latest mice in stiff competition…

…and the graphs in this test tell the tail (pun intended)

Also backs up the annecdotal stories about ‘…that cracking Logitech mouse from 2003’ etc

Hardcore metrics for something as crucial to the human-machine-interface is a great step

:woowoo:
Posted by Merlin4458 - Tue 12 Dec 2006 12:29
they seem to slightly rinse the G5, although ive had a mx700 mx510 and mx518 and the G5 is in a different league. And i do play semi pro, so i have had quite alot of experience in stiff competition
Think the test was a bit lame tbh
Posted by chuckskull - Tue 12 Dec 2006 13:01
Good idea, though theres a lot more to buying a mouse than that, I love my MX1000 purely for having 2 weapon keys under my thumb for example, will make a nice addition to reviews I guess.

Notice the logitech perform well across the board as usual, shame theres no MX1000 as thats what I have to compare.
Posted by Blademrk - Tue 12 Dec 2006 13:13
^^ That's what I was thinking. I use an MX 1000 and love it, I've also got the bluetooth mouse from the De novo keyboard combo, which I hate (the mouse that is, the keyboard is great) and 2 (wired) MS Explorers' (v1 and v3) which I've always found to be good back-ups.

The review concentrates on wired mice (at least i don't think I saw any w/l versions) and I know some gamers think w/l introduces lag, so I would like to see a few benchies to validate that.

I would also like to know what program was used to overclock the USB port.

Other than that seems a really solid idea.

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