Introduction

The selection of technically throttle computer mice that want to be brought as a potent player tools to the man, has adopted in recent years impressive dimensions. For almost any spirit and form handling, one sees once from adequate left-handed conversions, renowned manufacturers presented now suitable animals. Nevertheless they succeed from time to time, to draw attention to herself with surprising realizations. Such a moment recently secured tradition manufacturer Razer for themselves, because with the Naga was extended the own range of products to a mouse to role players, which is to raise the MMO gaming to new levels of speed with a twelve-button block in thumb position specifically. Away from extravagant Nieschenprodukte of the established mouse models, newcomers in the segment again trying to catch a small piece of the great gaming action. A prominent example of this provides Coolermaster with its current gaming brand CM storm, under whose banner the Stentinel gaming mouse is her debut. We have brought the CM storm Sentinel to the short view in the House as well as the Razer Naga us, to present their concepts.

Technical key points

Price, both models typically maneuver in the upscale area of player mouse. While the Razer Naga is required well 70 euro, storm Sentinel changes hands the CM already for almost €60.

Razer Naga

Mouse in detail

With the Naga, Razer gaming specialist presents its first mouse, explicitly aimed at a special group of gamers away from the usual shooter subject. For this reason, also no speed limits to the debate, but special ergonomic aspects in terms of hardware and software are to meet the high demands of the emerging community of RPG in the vein of world of Warcraft and co..

The scope of the Naga is Razer typically accompanied by plenty of more or less meaningful paper inserts, for example, in the form of a certificate of authenticity, the operating instructions or a Razer product catalog. In addition, there are a range of only small adhesive sticker of Razer coach known as the glued in any arrangement to the formation of relief on the side Nummernpad are can, to get used to the Tastenposition to.

Ergonomically, Razer enters a quite pleasing, comfortable long term right-handed new land. Based on a short compact body of the mouse, which fills the small side, with his distinctive back buckle support to medium-sized hand, all fingers find a clearly defined destination. So a slight Sidecut accompanied the ideal Edition in the thumb region, while on the other hand, ring and small fingers find a lush foothills to stay. The well-coordinated design has a swinging and in one piece with the typical Razer smile of the arched main buttons. The design on MMO games, Pro-griffigkeit edges are only very sparsely available to meet of about 140 grams heavy investment – the Razer Naga is primarily one of the gliders PC mouse.

Besides creative specialties, the Naga is clear in the key equipment their unique selling point. Away from the two perfectly coordinated, bears the uniform cover main buttons, which score points through the successful combination of controlled print pattern, dull crunchy operating noise and precise stop way, the Naga, a unusual Setup offers with their twelve-key number pad. Here are the keys to this on the back row (“10-11-12″) quite easily accessible and can be resolved despite initial skepticism from the sentient thumb differencing, for which the chosen distance, the light angle of attack, as well as the surface of the keys responsible stand out. Prior to unwanted actuation a relatively vigorous Auslösewiderstand also protects effectively. Our Naga model has likely to unfortunately a slightly knartschendes compressed sound of the digit keys “1″ and “4″ due to too close spacing of the material, while the remaining buttons pleasantly dull one slip. Unfortunately, the twelve keys of the numeric keypad can be freely assigned. Only by switch on the bottom of the mouse, you can determine whether the assignment of the illuminated printing “1-12″ (number pad) or the keyboard point on the bar “1-9,0,ß, ´” to match. The navigation buttons to be found usually at the thumb position had to give way at Naga in the front area of the left mouse button. There you can be managed attitudes but no longer to pressing buttons of the thumb, so that the index finger in the initially somewhat unusual balancing act is entrusted with this task. Is rounded out the lush range of controls of the Central 2-D scroll-wheel (about 22 mm diameter), which fundamentally positive stands out by its clear, but not too heavy course grid, as well as the consistent pressure point as a middle mouse button, but tarnishes this impression by a very unpleasant rumpel-noise at the Heraufscrollen due to minimal shaky mechanics.

High, the good 70 euro expensive development of Razer leaves a largely solid, visually as technically finely tuned picture. Only the mentioned peculiarities of our model on the scroll wheel mechanism, as well as on the creaking keys of the number block are not acceptable for a topping product in this price range and should be claimed under real conditions. The feel of the Naga is primarily determined by two impressions. First of all, the cover has a pleasantly flattering and schweißbildungs-inhibiting function with their Matt, soft-cold, hot applied coating. In contrast, the smooth, reflective tray shows with their handy sticky response to touch. The combination of the two upper surfaces shall Valley do gene has established itself in Razer mice over the years.

Visually, the Naga is equivalent to the usual type of Razer. The all-black body is set by the pulsating illuminated manufacturer back logo in scene. In addition, the optical package complements the stylish mouse wheel lighting, as well as the accompanying numeric keypad illumination.

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Agility and floating assets has always been among the plus points of Razer mice, which remain not deprived also of Naga. So convinced the MMO rodents by low-friction gliding over any surfaces equipped with a rotating Teflon feet (textile: very good, hard plastic: very well, wood: good, glass: well). The sampling is darting based of Razer of known and proven 3,5G-Lasertechnik on this very accurately, reliably, and if necessary.

Software meeting

After the installation of approximately 14 megabytes of light Naga driver rub is Razer connoisseur while looking at the three manageable designed rider surprised eyes. Contrary to the usual flood of sliding controller and the Setup options you confined at the Naga to a minimum of options. Only the sampling rate of the mouse from 100 up to 5600 dpi (in increments of 100) can thus be on the menu of “power adjustment” axle separately, as well as customize the USB transfer from 125 to 1,000 Hz. Under “Lighting and maintenance”, the user can disable the blue mouse wheel or number block music, as well as the pulsating illuminated Razer logo and per-click Search online for driver updates. In the last menu item “Add-Ons”, the user is also referenced on the Razer website and can download from the manufacturer-provided driver extensions for supported role-play. Add-Ons for “World of Warcraft” and “Warhammer online” were available at the time of the test. They are as erweiterndes interface in the game, so the commands the individual keys can be distributed. In combination with control, shift or ALT keys, so that users have a hardly exhaustible resource available. Diehard players but will need a while to switch their habits to the new opportunities.

In particular the inability to prove the many buttons of the Naga away from the Add-On support games, with functions or macros is in our view very hard in the stomach. Because with such an implementation Razer would have been able to establish the Naga also as potent everyday tool. Unfortunately, this is not planned for future drivers.

CM storm Sentinel

Mouse in detail

Which of the Coolermaster this year in the life of PC Accessories giant launched player Mark CM storm wants to with uncompromising developments at the highest technical level of the competition issue and thus inspire the PC gamers. With the CM storm sniper we could already convinced us in the form of a very extravagant housing of which, what is the creative Department of the new label “uncompromising”. With the “Sentinel advance”, the storm Department now sends its next major project in the race to win the favor of the player.

The included of mouse differs fundamentally from the Razer counterpart, because you are looking for Dokumentatives in the form of printed instructions and certificates in vain. For this, the buyer receives a mini-CD with appropriate driver software, as well as a slot with special cut-outs, the so-called StormGuard”", to protect the rodents and of course also keyboard and co. by gefädelten interface on a LAN-party theft.

The CM power Sentinel has an ergonomic right-handed design. The relatively flat and very long stretched mouse body doing favors low pad wölbungen and still adequately supports large hands. The mouse has a fairly typical basic shape with pronounced hole in thumb position, which makes this a laid-back indwelling store under the navigation buttons. On the other hand ring finger and little finger to a swinging steep lines can seek relatively freely their ideal place. Also the main buttons have no vorgebenden holes, so that no exact positions are on hand and you can take even longer game seasons without painful symptoms of fatigue. The CM storm Sentinel weighs nearly 140 grams without additives and can be increased with weights to 161.5 grams. Due to the strong Sidecut and the catchy edges on the cover can be easily hecklastig balanced mouse very well raise and implement.

Overall, the Sentinel offers seven programmable buttons plus a scroll wheel. The two main buttons have separately been cut out and have a very tight Auslösemechanik which accompanied the powerful click with crisp bright operating noise. The two page elements defined as navigation buttons by default is located in well accessible, medium-sized thumb knolls location. They also have a very strong resistance, feeling but also a very precise. Something wackeliger bordered present themselves both dpi toggle behind the wheel. With these small buttons, the user in the operation between four dpi levels configured in the driver can choose. The similarly unique choice of graded it immediately via the walled OLED display on the back of the mouse. Before the mouse wheel, CM storm dpi-placed the profile button, with the help of those five mouse internally stored profiles including key settings, and lighting settings, as well as logo output can be selected. Is rounded out the setup of the very high grip 2-D-rubber mouse wheel (approximately 21 mm diameter), which allows smooth and quiet Scrollvorgänge with a soft grid. However, the robust mechanics as a middle mouse button is slightly too tight set, so that the force power for our taste too high goes down.

The CM storm Sentinel makes a very mature impression quality. All material transitions are designed very precisely, all gaps. The construction works in spite of many implemented technology and lowest possible weight very stable and stiff. The mechanics of the keys and the mouse wheel are very stiff and precisely set and therefore far from unloved, but nevertheless often observable Klapprigkeiten. The Sentinel haptically offers little variety and explore possibilities for the bottom hand. It is dominated by a single plastic surface that satin-finish and slightly rough but still leaves a pleasantly enhancing sense. This unit is interrupted only by the rear view window for the display, as well as by the back-lit, umrandende mesh metal grille surround.

Visually, the CM storm development presents itself quite versatile. So, the matte black rodents on request with up to seven color settings in the front and back can be illuminated. The appropriate settings to reside in the extensive driver software. In addition, the back display next to the dpi display offers the possibility, through its own 32 x further customizations to make 32-pixel logo.

The Sentinel of the Razer Naga can range not all the water in terms of floating assets. With their four Teflon feet harmonises the gaming mouse still very well with the usual documents from textiles, hard plastic or glass. Our model has however with a slight bump of the left floating base to fight, so specifically on textile surfaces sometimes occurs a minimal scraping. No complaints can be found in the meantime in terms of the sampling. Sovereign acts of up to 5600 dpi strong twin lasers of the Sentinel and digitized fast as slow movements exactly and precisely pixel precision.

Softwarebesprechnung

In complete contrast to the narrow Naga software, the 200 megabytes is powerful program works to the CM storm Sentinel. All possibilities are offered here in more or less clear way the users of the key settings on the macro management up to lighting adjustment. It is in the “main control” the free allocation of all mouse buttons (up on the profile shift) with standard functions, macros, or any additional options available. In addition, can the five selectable dpi levels set axle separately, set mouse acceleration, double-click speed, and transfer rate. In the entire “CM storm tactical” menu is defining and editing of the five profiles stored on the mouse’s internal 64-KB memory also possible (a standard and four user profiles). These contain all the information for the individualization of the mouse (keys, dpi settings, lighting, logo etc.). Should these five profiles is not sufficient, an export/import on the hard drive is provided.

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Vivid color can be implemented, as indicated on our photos in the “color control”. Overall the Sentinel offers seven colors of light, with front and back of the mouse separately can be controlled, so that a huge combinations. In addition, two effects are possible: “Breathing” is front and back lighting in pulsating intensity, during “rapid fire” for a short-term Fabrwechsel provides with the click of a mouse. Naturally, the lighting can be permanently enabled or disabled. Under the “Macro” and “Script” menu items, the user of any key or click combinations can record and store, ready to have recurring sequences with a click in the game. In the macro area, 125 items, in the script are can even 256 sequences at a time. The “library” is the sorting and organization of the various pre-programmed macros and scripts final, while you can search with the update tab for new software for the Sentinel.

Review

In our, just as seen addition to the written judgment, be point ends review we present the two test specimens as wide capped, objectively predictable criteria against so far tested references. It should be noted, that the scoring as only a gross, comparison-forming target cannot be seen and would be weighted differently depending on the individual sense.

Therefore, both rodents position very promisingly in the upper field of the top mice. Real failures not afford both. In Naga the scarce driver tarnishes the whole image of something, while the Sentinel in all areas to shine white.

Conclusion

With the Razer Naga and the CM storm Sentinel, we could look at two very different player mice. Both representatives of the gnawing Guild are seen as a luxury products away from personal preferences like little criticism must be.

With the Naga, Razer realized a daring, but very interesting concept as frequent buttons mouse, the page to make a similarly potent tool MMO players. While the manufacturer has created a completely new mouse body, which invites with quite pleasing, largely long-term bequemer, stocky right-handed ergonomic to the slide. The availability of a total of 17 controls is not always optimal, but still surprisingly well resolved due to the conditions of the arrangement. High has you improved greatly at Razer over the years and is now a successful interaction of suitable materials, pleasant to the touch, ruggedness and clean processing. That our model two of the twelve number block buttons at the impressions sometimes easily scratch, indicates however still existing manufacturing tolerances, which can sometimes reduce the gaming experience. Away of which we would have liked a slightly larger driver, which makes sense in scene set the Nummerpad in the operation, as already is the case by the successful Add-Ons at a surely still strongly expandable range of role-playing games.

Also the CM storm Sentinel pioneer mouse leaves a shining impression. In the style of a well-established manufacturer, implemented the targets and teething problems, as one often encounters them while Erstlingswerken, completely marginalised. So, the buyer receives a finely processed, robust gaming mouse with elongated Ambidextrous ergonomics, pleasant surface texture and good key setup. The floating capacity on all common mouse surfaces is neat, the speed and sampling precision beyond doubt sublime. The appearance of the mouse is very variable – based on a comprehensive lighting concept – to design, the fine adjustment tag options leave no wishes unfulfilled thanks to the lush driver software and are hard to beat. Only the very high Auslösewiderstände the controls, the mouse wheel as a middle button could above all according to personal preferences slightly uncomfortable notice.

Overall, both rodents can record a very positive outcome for themselves, which is why both the taste may be accessed. The Razer Naga is somewhat more expensive than the Sentinel, which changes hands for just under 60 euros with a lush cost of over 70 euros.

Update – February
Razer has now responded to the many requests and with a new driver (v2. 0 for Windows and Mac – to take on the Razer website) added which allows the user to take advantage of the numerous hotkeys of the Naga also in Windows operation. Thus, a main point of criticism on the mouse that is optimized for operations has been corrected.

Everyday prices and availability (price):

• CM storm Sentinel
• Razer Naga