Review

Capability

The MX 510 is one of the best wired mouse's available. Its motion sensors are trully amazing capturing 5.8 mega pixels every second. This translates to very good responsiveness.

Gamers will enjoy this extra responsiveness and so will designers. However to other potential users the main change that will be noticed is the smoothness of movement around the screen and how the mouse always keeps up with your movements.

Design

Apart from great performance this mouse also has great looks and is very ergonomically designed with the end user in mind. It fits perfectly into your hand. All the buttons are easy to press and you quickly get used to the extra buttons though some are a little small for larger fingers.

Button Configuration

With 8 buttons you may be wandering what you can do with them. Well logically 1 and 2 are left and right click. Button 3 is the scroll wheel that can be pressed inwards. So that's 3 buttons out the way.

I might not be very good at maths but i am pretty sure that leaves 5 buttons.  so what to do with the rest of the buttons? Well that is largely up to you. The mx 510 comes with a configuration utility helping you set up the mouse to your own personal agenda.

The two buttons on the side (5, 4 - up and down arrows) are clearly very well suited for scrolling up and down. Though I decided to change that slightly so that it scrolled down less than it did by default. Again this is all up to individual preference.

Button 6 I use for "alt-tab" to switch between applications. Button 7 is to shut down a program and finally button 8 is to minimise to desktop.

Admittedly I reraly use these buttons as I have become too use to doing everything using the keyboard. But many people are likely to find this very useful.

Other than the functions I've listed you can also get the buttons to run a program, undo, cut, copy, paste, perform a keystroke and so on.

Ease of use

Simple set up. Turn off computer, plug it in, turn on computer and then install drivers.

Configuration was slightly harder simply because trying to decide what I wanted each button to do and how fast I wanted it to move.

Good points summary

• Precision
• Light weight
• Design - fits into hand big or small and looks great
• Good value for money
• Great for gaming, design.

Bad points summary

• Extra buttons largely pointless especially as they don't work in many games.
• Only for right handed people

Testing

A brilliant mouse requires an equally good two games to be tested on. So I chose Counter-strike source and Battlefield Vietnam.

If the mouse was successful then I should be able to pull off a few headshots on Counter Strike and snipe enemies at a distance in Battlefield Vietnam.

So I jumped straight into Counter Strike eager to get some kills. The performance was astounding no matter how much I would try and spin it around really fast it would always follow and precision kills where far easier than before. In my first round I managed 2 headshots on de_dust.

Next up, Battlefield Vietnam. Set up a quick game, got myself into a good sniping position and started waiting for my first victims. Bang bang, 1 down. I kept on going and managed to get hits with almost all my shots. Though these where only bots I was shooting its still a good indicator of the mouse capabilities.

I am not a very good gamer but this mouse truly did help me to get far better kills than I could before.

Conclusion

Score:
10/10

To conclude, this mouse is brilliant! If you want a higher frag count then this is what you are looking for. Not just for great looks, ergonomics but for the extra performance.

Buy it from...

Ebuyer: www.ebuyer.com (Around £28)

Amazon: www.amazon.co.uk (Around £30)

Links

PC Game world review: www.pcgameworld.com/article.php/id/171

Logitech: click here

Hardware pacers review: www.hardware-pacers.com/pages.php?pid=266&catType=r

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