Cooler Master CM Storm Recon Review

Those who check out my gaming rig invariably ask me the exact same question: why use an entry-level gaming mouse such as the Razer DeathAdder when you've spent Rs 7,000 on a mechanical keyboard and another 1500 bucks to mod it? This brand of ignorance is the bane of a large chunk of gamers, whose perception of quality and performance solely depends upon the price of a product. If that logic had any merit, guns and knives would have been fashioned out of gold and not steel. Good engineering, you see, aims for the simplest and the most efficient solution possible. In the world of gaming-grade mice, the best solution also happens to be the cheapest—optical sensors.The smart money's on opticalAlthough every single gaming hardware manufacturer pimps laser sensors, I have yet to find a single laser mouse that's fit for gaming. From the catastrophically bad Philips Twin-Eye (PTE) sensors used in high-end Razer mice to the inherent tracking inaccuracy of the Avago A60XX/S60XX sensors found in Logitech GX series of laser mice, they all have serious flaws. Even everyone's favourite laser sensor the Avago ADNS 9500 is plagued with negative/positive acceleration that kills low-sensitivity precision.

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