Archive for July 2010

Profile for Saitek Cyborg v3.0 Mouse

I have been looking for a new mouse for several weeks now and recently bought the Saitek Cyborg v3.0 Mouse. Unless you did not know, I love the Saitek Cyborg kit to bits, more for thier profiling software than anything else.

I have bought a couple of keyboards specifically for gaming but never a mouse. My main requirement for the mouse was to have very good movement tracking (acceleration, dpi etc) and a dynamic DPI setting and I settled on the Saitek mouse after looking through many other models of mouse highly recommended by gamers.

This mouse has 7 buttons:

  • Left, right and middle
  • Forwards and backwards
  • An extra thumb button
  • And a mode selector button

There are 3 modes on the mouse, which means you can profile up any button on the mouse to do something other than its default action. The other nice thing is that you can specify the desired DPI that you wish in each mode.

I have a profile that represents High, Medium and Low DPI and I use that extra thumb button as an additional shift state to allow me to boost the mouse senstivity should I need. The nice thing is that I can run around with high sensitivity then look down a scope and hold the thumb button to increase my accuracy.

The wire is nice and long but it does feel a little light and slightly cheap (it wasn’t cheap). This might be because I am more used to a wireless with batteries in it.

Grab my profile here and here’s a preview: