HyperX Pulsefire Surge RGB Overview
HyperX has joined the gaming mice manufacturing world by making HyperX Pulsefire FPS which I've made an overview of it. You can check the overview before reading this. Both perform well in FPS field but Surge has better accuracy, more DPI, less ergonomic and more weight than the Pulsefire FPS. This is Mashhud Hasan from Frenzyweb360 and today I'm going to give my thoughts and overview over HyperX Pulsefire Surge and going to give a slight comparison with Pulsefire FPS.
Body And Shape
Pulsefire Surge's shape is ambidextrous, it's body is made of smooth plastic and the side is covered with a thin layer of rubberized finishing. It's FPS version has some errors while gripping. It's thumb-rest is textured with mat-rubberized layer but it's shape causes the mouse to slip off from the hand during lift-off. But Surge has a pretty decent shape. It has a significant comfort groove and side-shapes are handy for lifting off. FPS version's hump is on the middle side of the body while Surge's hump is placed somewhere between the middle and back. This makes it good for palm and fingertip gripping. It has a length of 120.24mm and a width of 62.85mm. So the ratio of length and width is almost 2:1 and can be called as the perfect dimension. A good side of the Surge is, it has two wide shaped gliding pads at the top and the bottom of the feet. This makes the mouse to halt on the surface with balance and wide shape helps to glide smoothly. It's 1.8m USB 2.0 cable is braided and causes no friction with the surface. It doesn't really have any noticeable thumb-rest but both of the sides are comfortable for laying fingers.
Buttons
Pulsefire Surge has a total of 6 buttons including left & right buttons, a scroll wheel, two side buttons for typical forward and backward browsing and a DPI button. Scroll wheel has a jagged rubberized texture on it that might be handy for scrolling it smoothly. Side buttons are comparably big shaped and are placed in correct positions for reaching it by thumb. It has Omron switches for left and right clicking and they have 50 million clicking endurance. But it's left and right clicks have an issue. They are positioned very near to each other and have no gap between them. This causes friction during clicking period and it might affect at it's response speed. Previously on Pulsefire FPS, it's button slopes were a bit steep and hard to claw grip by small fingers. On the other hand, Surge's button slope is quite flat and easy to claw grip even if you have comparably smaller fingers. In latency test, Surge performs as same as Logitech G900 and it's buttons have good response speed. The DPI button is positioned on the comfortable place and can be reached by short travel length from the left/right buttons.
Sensor
Surge contains PMW3389 sensor. No doubt this is one of the top class sensors out there. Razer Deathadder Elite contains the same sensor. This optical sensor competes with PMW3366/3360 and AM010 in accuracy tests.This sensor has a tracking speed of 450 IPS and gravitational acceleration of 50G. Tracking speed is high enough for avoiding deceleration at snappy movements. This sensor has a native DPI of 16,000 and it's original sensitivity is 16,000 DPI as well. Which means, manufacturers didn't have to cut the matrix to increase the sensitivity rather the sensor is representing it's own native DPI. This will be handy for the sensor to perform comparably more accurate and less "high-sensitivity" issues (pixel skipping and stuttering) at higher DPI scales. But there might be an issue at high DPI. Since the acceleration of this sensor is 50G which is comparably higher than usual, so the sensor might jump pixels during jerky movements at high DPI settings. However, it handles snappy movements pretty well since it has high tracking speed to detect jerky movements accurately. It doesn't spin out at horizontal movements and there's no noticeable acceleration. It's completely prevented from stuttering and angle snapping.
Others
This mouse has an excellent polling rate of 1kHz. Basically there's no noticeable difference of responsiveness between 1kHz and 500Hz but this mouse has more than enough frequency rate to transfer pixel movements (according to DPI settings) to the PC for getting a snappy response from the cursor. Surge has an onboard profile saving options where you can save a specific profile containing DPI settings, programmed keys, lighting effects and many. HyperX has a dedicating software named NGenuity to customize these settings. It has a streamline of lighting effects which has covered the entire body spinning up. Now let's take a look at the pros and cons of this mouse.
Pros :
Hope this article will be helpful for you guys to decide whether you should buy this mouse at 69$ or not. Thanks for reading.
Body And Shape
Pulsefire Surge's shape is ambidextrous, it's body is made of smooth plastic and the side is covered with a thin layer of rubberized finishing. It's FPS version has some errors while gripping. It's thumb-rest is textured with mat-rubberized layer but it's shape causes the mouse to slip off from the hand during lift-off. But Surge has a pretty decent shape. It has a significant comfort groove and side-shapes are handy for lifting off. FPS version's hump is on the middle side of the body while Surge's hump is placed somewhere between the middle and back. This makes it good for palm and fingertip gripping. It has a length of 120.24mm and a width of 62.85mm. So the ratio of length and width is almost 2:1 and can be called as the perfect dimension. A good side of the Surge is, it has two wide shaped gliding pads at the top and the bottom of the feet. This makes the mouse to halt on the surface with balance and wide shape helps to glide smoothly. It's 1.8m USB 2.0 cable is braided and causes no friction with the surface. It doesn't really have any noticeable thumb-rest but both of the sides are comfortable for laying fingers.
Buttons
Pulsefire Surge has a total of 6 buttons including left & right buttons, a scroll wheel, two side buttons for typical forward and backward browsing and a DPI button. Scroll wheel has a jagged rubberized texture on it that might be handy for scrolling it smoothly. Side buttons are comparably big shaped and are placed in correct positions for reaching it by thumb. It has Omron switches for left and right clicking and they have 50 million clicking endurance. But it's left and right clicks have an issue. They are positioned very near to each other and have no gap between them. This causes friction during clicking period and it might affect at it's response speed. Previously on Pulsefire FPS, it's button slopes were a bit steep and hard to claw grip by small fingers. On the other hand, Surge's button slope is quite flat and easy to claw grip even if you have comparably smaller fingers. In latency test, Surge performs as same as Logitech G900 and it's buttons have good response speed. The DPI button is positioned on the comfortable place and can be reached by short travel length from the left/right buttons.
Sensor
Surge contains PMW3389 sensor. No doubt this is one of the top class sensors out there. Razer Deathadder Elite contains the same sensor. This optical sensor competes with PMW3366/3360 and AM010 in accuracy tests.This sensor has a tracking speed of 450 IPS and gravitational acceleration of 50G. Tracking speed is high enough for avoiding deceleration at snappy movements. This sensor has a native DPI of 16,000 and it's original sensitivity is 16,000 DPI as well. Which means, manufacturers didn't have to cut the matrix to increase the sensitivity rather the sensor is representing it's own native DPI. This will be handy for the sensor to perform comparably more accurate and less "high-sensitivity" issues (pixel skipping and stuttering) at higher DPI scales. But there might be an issue at high DPI. Since the acceleration of this sensor is 50G which is comparably higher than usual, so the sensor might jump pixels during jerky movements at high DPI settings. However, it handles snappy movements pretty well since it has high tracking speed to detect jerky movements accurately. It doesn't spin out at horizontal movements and there's no noticeable acceleration. It's completely prevented from stuttering and angle snapping.
Others
This mouse has an excellent polling rate of 1kHz. Basically there's no noticeable difference of responsiveness between 1kHz and 500Hz but this mouse has more than enough frequency rate to transfer pixel movements (according to DPI settings) to the PC for getting a snappy response from the cursor. Surge has an onboard profile saving options where you can save a specific profile containing DPI settings, programmed keys, lighting effects and many. HyperX has a dedicating software named NGenuity to customize these settings. It has a streamline of lighting effects which has covered the entire body spinning up. Now let's take a look at the pros and cons of this mouse.
Pros :
- excellent sensor (PMW3389) that delivers accuracy, high DPI (16k), high tracking speed (450IPS)
- high polling rate (1kHz)
- ambidextrous shape that has nearly 2:1 length-width ratio and compatible for almost all types of grips
- weight is balanced and good for FPS gamers (95gm)
- high-end buttons and positioned well (except left & right buttons)
- on-board profile setting
- RGB lighting effects
- no space between the positions of left & right button
- sensor has higher gravitational acceleration that might enhance cursor jumping (50G)
Hope this article will be helpful for you guys to decide whether you should buy this mouse at 69$ or not. Thanks for reading.
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