Pulsar Susanto-X Gaming Mouse Review – Hot Pink Design, Fiery Performance

The Susanto-X is portion of Pulsar's Pro series, which collaborates with nonrecreational players to plan mice. It has the high-end specs you'd expect from a competitory gaming mouse, including an 8000Hz polling complaint – and a matching $130 terms tag. This lightweight rodent is designed for the Susanto brothers, Valorant pros f0rsakeN and Xccurate, and Pulsar says it's "meticulously tailored to their idiosyncratic manus sizes and grip styles." But volition it enactment for maine and you?

Pulsar Susanto-X – Design and Shape

I person to commencement by mentioning the Susanto-X's blistery pinkish colour scheme. I personally privation manufacturers to instrumentality large swings connected plan and for me, the pinkish accents connected the broadside buttons, the substance connected the close rodent button, and the zig-zag connected the scroll instrumentality work. It's distinctive and fun, and keeping achromatic arsenic the basal colour means it ne'er looks excessively loud. I don't travel the Susanto brothers truthful I could bash without their signatures, 1 connected each broadside of the mouse, but they're subtle capable to ignore.

The USB dongle and accompanying cablegram are louder. The dongle is translucent truthful you tin spot the outline of its guts, and the packaged cablegram is pinkish each the mode down. I hated seeing it connected my table astatine first, but my stance softened implicit clip – the colour differentiates it from each the achromatic leads I person plugged in, which is useful erstwhile switching devices. And portion I wouldn't beryllium taking this peculiar rodent connected the go, it is simply a competitory gaming rodent to usage astatine location oregon tournaments, not for a casual workday astatine the cafe.

I besides similar its customizable DPI indicator light, which not each rodent has. The light, adjacent to the broadside buttons, volition alteration colour erstwhile you power DPI, but you tin besides tally it constantly. That's utile if you power DPI often betwixt gaming and moving oregon if, similar me, you conscionable privation an other pinkish LED to lucifer the colour scheme.

The Sustano-X's symmetrical signifier feels similar a crowd-pleaser. It's not rather arsenic miniature arsenic the HyperX Pulsefire Haste 2 Mini I precocious reviewed (currently my favourite compact gaming mouse), but it's decidedly smaller, flatter, and lighter than the mean mouse, and it glided effortlessly crossed my mousepad, requiring precise small effort to flick oregon whip successful a wide arc. The wider rear tapers arsenic you determination forward, fitting the curve of my fingers, and determination are nary antithetic bumps oregon grooves to interest about.

If you person larger hands, this is not a rodent for thenar gripping: erstwhile I tried, I could property each of the buttons but my ringing and pinky fingers drooped disconnected the side, hitting my mousemat. I had a akin occupation with the Haste 2 Mini, and similar that mouse, I could modify my thenar grip with the Susanto-X to marque it work, but it wasn't ideal.

Pulsar says this is designed specifically for claw grip. It took maine immoderate clip to get utilized to: erstwhile I claw grip, my thumb usually slants ever-so-slightly downwards, and the shallow sides of the rodent meant my thumb extremity sometimes grazed my rodent pad, which was distracting. I could, however, easy close it by flattening my thumb and erstwhile I got utilized to it, I recovered it comfy for agelong sessions.

Fingertip grip was arsenic comfy: the concave near and close rodent buttons kept my fingers successful the close place. It helps that the mouse's creaseless coating is incredibly sticky, truthful you tin determination it with precise small pressure, and determination is nary accidental of it slipping from your grip. The downside is that it attracts fingerprints and grime much than different mice I've tested recently, – it's casual to cleanable by occasionally wiping it down, and it didn't fuss me, but if your hands are peculiarly sweaty it's astatine slightest worthy keeping successful mind.

The rodent buttons are each sturdy and tactile and I liked the crispness and curve of the broadside buttons successful particular. The main near and close clicks, moving connected optical switches, had immoderate pre-travel – the region you tin property them without registering a click – but that was lone noticeable erstwhile I was purposefully pushing lightly. During gameplay, they ever clicked erstwhile I wanted, and I could spam them easily. They dependable comparatively quiet, but inactive cleanable and snappy.

The scroll instrumentality is little impressive, however. The existent scroll is fine, though I would've liked clearer, much defined increments betwixt scrolls, but that's nitpicking. My main occupation is that the instrumentality shifts near to close with a airy push, and it would really enactment off-centre aft I pushed it to the right. There are nary near and close scroll instrumentality presses, conscionable the regular cardinal click, but bizarrely, pushing the instrumentality to the close besides registered arsenic a click, but not to the left. None of this seemed to substance for the wheel's halfway function, and it scrolled reliably, but it doesn't capable maine with confidence. It is, thankfully, the lone misstep successful the mouse's design, and it's a comparatively tiny one.

Pulsar Susanto-X – Performance, Gaming, and Battery Life

I person zero complaints astir however the Susanto-X performed – Pulsar's XS-1 sensor is fast, responsive and accurate. I tested it successful Fortnite for third-person movement, Counter-Strike 2 for precise snaps, and the caller puzzle crippled Strange Antiquities for slower point-and-clicks. It moved precisely arsenic I wanted successful each situation; I had nary hiccups oregon stutters, nary errors oregon dropped connections, and I felt assured that my input was being matched precisely connected screen.

One of the large selling points of the Susanto-X arsenic a competitory gaming rodent is that its polling complaint goes up to 8000Hz: this means the rodent is reporting its presumption to your machine 8000 times a second, and successful mentation giving you much responsive, much close question by virtuousness of tracking astatine a higher frequency. Most gaming mice are 1000Hz by default, but 8000Hz has dilatory go the benchmark for high-end competitory mice.

As I've said successful different reviews – including for the fantabulous Razer Deathadder V4 Pro – 1000Hz is good for astir people. To instrumentality vantage of higher polling rates you'll request a precocious refresh complaint show of astatine slightest 120Hz, but ideally 240Hz oregon above, and a beefy GPU and CPU to guarantee a precocious in-game framework rate. With those boxes ticked, you mightiness consciousness a quality arsenic you nudge the polling complaint up to 2000Hz oregon 4000Hz, though cognition volition travel down to the user.

I personally conflict to archer a quality supra 1000Hz – but past again, I'm not a nonrecreational FPS player. With the Susanto-X, I usually played astatine 2000Hz, conscionable successful lawsuit I was getting a payment I couldn’t definitively calculate. One happening I tin accidental is that with the Deathadder V4 Pro, my framework complaint dropped successful immoderate games, including Fortnite, erstwhile I played astatine 8000Hz, presumably due to the fact that it was taxing my CPU. (I didn't get that with the Susanto-X, though it's hard to property that to the rodent unsocial due to the fact that of updates to the game, GPU drivers, and much – conscionable beryllium alert that this could happen.)

Not each gaming rodent gives you 4000Hz oregon 8000Hz polling complaint and if that's thing you request past the Sustanto-X is worthy considering. It has a fewer different tricks that acceptable it apart, namely a toggle for some "motion sync" and "turbo mode." Motion sync, which Razer mice see by default, matches the timing of your sensor information and your USB polling, giving you a smoother purpose that amended matches your rodent movements connected paper. I didn't announcement a quality with it connected – but I besides didn't announcement the downsides you sometimes get with question sync, which would beryllium a flimsy input delay.

Pulsar states turbo mode gives you a "consistent 20,000 FPS sensor scanning complaint for smoother, much responsive, and precise aiming." This refers to the mode the mouse's optical sensor scans the aboveground it's on, and has thing to bash with polling rate. It usually varies depending connected DPI, polling complaint and question speed. Locking it to 20,000 could, theoretically, amended performance, but I noticed nary quality different than my artillery draining somewhat faster. Some disregard it arsenic a selling gimmick, and it's improbable to beryllium the limiting origin successful performance.

While I didn’t acquisition a tangible payment from either setting, I can't begrudge them being determination arsenic options. Some users assertion question sync makes their purpose smoother, others accidental turbo mode feels snappier, particularly astatine little DPIs. Not each shaper gives you the flexibility with these kinds of performance-based options, truthful it astatine slightest makes the Susanto-X basal retired successful a crowded field.

As for battery, Pulsar claims it'll past 100 hours astatine 1000Hz polling rate, which was successful enactment with my testing, and coagulated for a rodent successful this terms range. You volition find longer-lasting mice, specified arsenic that Deathadder V4 Pro, but for maine 100 hours is much than capable foodstuff for 2 weeks betwixt charges. The artillery beingness falls noticeably astatine higher polling rates, dropping to 20 hours astatine 8000Hz, but that comes with the territory.

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