Review mouse playing SteelSeries Rival 710 game

SteelSeries Rival 700 gaming mouse quickly became one of the company's most remarkable products, when it launched in 2016, thanks to its high performance and attractive feature set. SteelSeries is currently trying to rely on Rival 700's success to build new Rival 710 gaming mice, but this new product does not seem to outperform its predecessor.

Design of SteelSeries Rival 710

SteelSeries Rival 710 is essentially the same as Rival 700, with an OLED screen on the side of the mouse. This unique feature is one of the features of the product and makes this mouse stand out from other competitors in the market. Rival 710's small OLED dashboard can display any image you want, providing a special sense of customization.

Many people who own and regularly use SteelSeries Sensei mouse also have a small integrated screen, saying they love these small screens. If you're a tech enthusiast and hardware reviewer, you probably have a lot of different mice to use, but there's a peripheral device like Rival 710, with a screen that displays abbreviations in style. ASCII Art is a great feature and that will make you continue to use this device for years.

Another important feature of Rival 710 is that it is removable and some parts of it are capable of replacing with other suitable components. Featured optional components can be purchased separately from SteelSeries, including more powerful optical sensors, as well as an external cover.

Features of SteelSeries Rival 710

The only significant difference between Rival 700 and Rival 710 is the optical sensor, transferred from Pixart PMW 3360 in Rival 700 to one of SteelSeries's TrueMove3 sensors in Rival 710. This sensor is made for Rival 710 Becoming a better mouse, because it's more accurate than Pixart PMW3360, but TrueMove3 only has 12,000CPI ratings, lower than Pixart's 16,000DPI. Steelseries prefers to use CPI (counts per inch) more than DPI (dots per inch). Rival 710 can operate at 16,000CPI, using software to guess the difference, but, according to Mike Epstein from PCMag, mice become significantly less accurate when operating at over 12,000CPI.

The SteelSeries Rival 710 creates a rather bizarre situation, in which a new, successful product does not completely overcome its predecessor. In his review on PCMag, Mike noted that Rival 710 seems to be extremely accurate, but if you want to run with DPI / CPI at more than 12,000, in fact, the old Rival 700 might be a good solution. more (due to its higher DPI rating). Unfortunately, SteelSeries has stopped producing Rival 700, but many of Corsair's competitive Aorus M5 and Corsair's Ironclaw RGB products have a DPI rating of 16,000 or more and these options cost a little less than Rival 710.

However, that does not mean that these products are superior to Rival 710, but simply that they bring strong competition to Rival 710 and its 12,000CPI sensor. But after combining all of the above information together and looking at the features carefully, the article still suggests choosing Rival 710. Rival 710's current reference price is about $ 80 (1,862. 000VND).