SteelSeries Rival 110, Optical Gaming Mouse, RGB Illumination, 6 Buttons, PC / Mac, Black

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One thing that does make the Rival 110 stand out, however, is the fact you can both accelerate and decelerate its sensitivity to reflect your own natural hand movements, allowing it to reach up to twice or half its current CPI speed depending on how fast or slow you typically move it around your mouse mat.

On most budget mice I've tested only the logo has a lighting effect, but the Rival 110 adds a bit of flair by also including lighting for the scroll wheel. Though it's technically "two zone" lighting, the color is linked between the two of them, so there's no way to set them up with two different colors. This is the first mouse equipped with the SteelSeries TrueMove1 sensor, but it certainly won't be the last. It is a cheap, yet effective sensor model that may be featured in upcoming budget models made by the manufacturer. The only con I could find was the lift-off distance being a bit too high, which isn't a fatal problem as it can be fixed with some DIY methods. The sensor's position, however, is pretty low, so you may have to adjust your sensitivity settings if you come from a sensor that is placed in a more central position. We’ve used a number of SteelSeries gaming mice in the past, so we're used to how they feel. But even if you’ve never held a SteelSeries mouse before, you’ll likely find it very comfortable to use from the get-go. Unlike some gaming mice with their futuristic angular edges and edgy designs, the Rival 110 is smooth and well-rounded, creating a very comfortable device.

SteelSeries Rival 110 - Technical Overview

Thanks to the exclusive collaboration with PixArt, the TrueMove1 is the first sensor of its kind, second in the TrueMove line and is only available in the Rival 110. Rival 110 The SteelSeries Rival 110 will have you mousing about as soon as you plug it in, but you’ll need to install the SteelSeries Engine 3 software to customize the mouse. The software is well designed and easy to navigate, with most settings laid out on a single panel -- only the lighting options are in a separate window. On the left, you can reassign any of the mouse’s six buttons as well as what scrolling up and down do in case you're a rebel. The sensor is really impressive for such a compact mouse, I definitely recommend this mouse for its impressive and accurate performance too. One thing I feel that lets the mouse down a smidge is for people like myself, with hands on the larger side, it feels quite small in the hand but this doesn’t affect how well it performs! It handles well in the usual day to day tasks as you’d expect but when the games come out it doesn’t have any trouble keeping up with the fast moments gaming usually brings. Design This includes keyboard buttons, macros and media keys, as well as the ability to launch specific applications, OS shortcuts, configuration options for other Steelseries products you might own as well as Engine apps for CS:GO, Dota 2, Discord and Steelseries' PrismSync lighting software to name just a few available options. You can also deactivate any button you please and record your own macros.

The driver software for the Rival 110 is Steelseries’ Engine 3 which accommodates most of the new products from the brand. The software is very user-friendly and intuitive making optimization very simple but ultimately no simpler than the other branded software out there. The RGB settings are relatively simple but do have both a breathing and colour scheme function which looks kind of nice. You can customize the polling rate, CPI and angle snapping settings with the minimum of fuss but we would highly recommend against that if you want to be competitive. Buttons can be bound easily via the configuration tool and once you have established your favourite setup you have the ability to save the profile to the on-board memory for on the fly usage. At LAN’s for example. Meaning you only need to set the mouse config up once then you can uninstall the software if you wish. Our Verdict On the right, you’ll find two boxes for setting DPI levels. Other budget mice let you set five or six DPI levels, which you can cycle through to change on the fly. The Rival 110 simplifies things and provides only two. I wouldn’t necessarily view this limitation as a negative. I don’t like having to cycle through multiple DPI settings, so I usually keep only two DPI settings active: one for general action in a game and then another for precise targeting and sniping. Then again, mice like the Corsair Harpoon RGB let you have your cake and snipe it, too, by providing five DPI setting plus the option to set a separate sniper control button. On the RGB front, the Rival 110 has basic customisation that can be done through Steelseries Engine 3. You can have your choice of colour on the Steelseries logo on the body of the mouse and the colour of the lights on the scroll wheel. This is a great touch as you can personalise your mouse to match the colour scheme of your rig, although note that you can’t have different colours for each area – they will be the same colour.

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You can switch the CPI sensitivity from 100 to 7,200 in increments of 100 by pressing the CPI switch button beneath the scroll wheel. This gives you a decent level of control over how the Steelseries Rival 110 feels, and there’s a noticeable difference in speed as you reach the higher CPI levels. Onboard memory allows the user to save settings, so gamers don’t need to reconfigure their settings for the mouse on different computers. The mouse is also compatible with SteelSeries Engine Apps like Discord, PrismSync and GameSense lighting to provide synchronized lighting effects across SteelSeries devices and display reactive illumination responses to in-game events. After using the jumbo Roccat Kone Aimo for a couple of weeks at the end of last year, Steelseries' Rival 110 comes as quite a relief. Not only is it a much more petite kind of mouse that's infinitely better suited to the overall size of my hand, but it's also significantly lighter and easier to move around a mouse mat, weighing just 87.5g as opposed to 130g.

The durable texture on both sides of the Rival 110 provides maximum grip. It was built with lightweight and ultra-durable materials to reduce the weight of the mouse to 87.5 г, allowing for fast and natural hand movement. The Rival 110 also features RGB illuminated on the scroll wheel and logo with incredible lighting options as well as settings customization through SteelSeries Engine. SteelSeries Engine Software title=More%20Expert%20Tech%20Roundups&type=articles%2Cvideos&tags=tech-roundup&count=6&columnCount=6&theme=articleThe SteelSeries Engine 3 software also lets you configure different profiles for the Rival 110, which you can set to auto-launch with an application or game. The mouse also features onboard memory, which lets you take your current settings with you to another PC. And if you have the SteelSeries software installed on that other PC, then you can access your various profiles, too. If not for the pair of buttons on the left side, it would be an ambidextrous mouse. The symmetrical shape features sculpted sides that create natural resting spots for your thumb and fingers. The textured plastic on the side grips helps you maintain a firm grasp of the mouse, but they aren’t as grippy as the textured rubber grips you get with the Corsair Harpoon RGB or the Razer Abyssus V2. Meanwhile, the Rival 110's polling rate (how often your mouse tells your PC what it's doing) is pretty typical for a wired mouse, ranging from 125-1000Hz. Again, not something you'd probably notice in daily use unless you're a high-level esports-er (in which case you're probably not looking for an entry-level gaming mouse), but good to have nonetheless.