Corsair M75 Wireless review – a fantastic, but short-sighted mouse

Corsair is including to its M75 gaming mouse line with the M75 Wi-fi, a mid-tier gaming mouse that’s designed to be mild, responsive, and accessible. I’ve discovered that it’s actually one of many higher gaming mice launched lately however wanting on the slate of upcoming mice in 2024, its face-value options are behind the traits.

Just a few years in the past, the Corsair M75 Wi-fi could be a straightforward choose as the most effective gaming mouse choices in the marketplace, however in 2024, when players demand a sub-65g weight and polling charges are rising quickly regardless of their presently restricted enchantment, I worry the M75 Wi-fi could get misplaced within the shuffle, regardless of its high quality.

Corsair M75 Wi-fi options

As the center youngster of the Corsair M75 line of mice, you may assume the M75 Wi-fi merely lacks the options of its costlier counterpart, the M75 Air. This, nonetheless, isn’t the case, and to a sure diploma, the M75 Wi-fi provides some options that make it extra interesting, even when they aren’t intrinsically linked to efficiency. 

Sporting a 2,000Hz slipstream wi-fi polling price and Corsair Marksman 26K optical sensor, the M75 Wi-fi is constructed with responsiveness in thoughts, but it surely doesn’t go the additional mile to future-proof itself in opposition to the potential upcoming relevancy of excessive polling charges like latest Razer, MSI, and Cherry mice have carried out. It additionally has a most 1KHz polling price when it’s linked with a wire or Bluetooth.

On polling charges, this quantity denotes the variety of instances per second that the mouse updates your PC on its place and clicks which have taken place. The upper the quantity, the extra instances per second the mouse is reporting and theoretically, the much less probably you might be to see a missed motion.

Nevertheless, in its present state, increased polling charges are a draw on CPU energy, that means enabling an 8KHz polling price may negatively impression your gaming expertise except you will have the most effective gaming CPUs in your rig. Throughout the mouse, utilizing the next polling price additionally dramatically reduces the anticipated battery life, with 8KHz generally being able to halving the anticipated life per cost.

Three connection modes make sure you’re all the time getting the very best out of the M75 Wi-fi, this contains 2.4GHz slipstream wi-fi, Bluetooth, and wired through USB-C. For the wi-fi modes, the M75 Wi-fi packs a built-in lithium-polymer battery, able to operating for as much as 120 hours with RGB enabled through Bluetooth. Enabling the RGB lighting and elevated polling price do convey this determine right down to 65 hours should you’re utilizing slipstream wi-fi, nonetheless.

At 89g, Corsair claims the M75 Wi-fi is light-weight, however I’d argue that the barrier for light-weight sits someplace across the 70g mark, particularly with some ultra-light mice now pushing sub-60g weights.

Like all Corsair peripherals, the M75 Wi-fi has entry to iCue, the place you’ll be able to customise the DPI and RGB settings. That is the place you’ll additionally activate the left-handed mode, do you have to be utilizing it as such.

In comparison with software program like Razer Synapse, which borders on bloatware because of its Swiss military knife strategy of wanting to watch each side of your PC and peripherals, iCue is a really clear and easy strategy to handle every thing in a single app. Whether or not it’s your first time tinkering with mouse settings or you will have a button format dedicated to reminiscence, iCue permits you to get essentially the most out of your equipment.

The tutorial course of is useful and may be referred again to at any time do you have to want a refresher. Enjoying round with settings is straightforward and there’s no consequence of constructing a incorrect transfer as you’ll be able to all the time revert to default settings with only one click on. 

Corsair M75 Wi-fi design

In contrast to the M75 Air and wired M75 the Corsair M75 Wi-fi is available in both black or white and has a tasteful quantity of RGB lighting presiding on the rear and underside of the mouse. Your complete mouse is matte-coated with no extra textured areas, lending itself to ambidextrous utilization nicely, however should you’re susceptible to clammy fingers, it can trigger issues along with your grip.

The M75 Wi-fi sits in a palm grip extraordinarily nicely and could be very snug to make use of. It doesn’t have the cruel angles related to claw grip mice, however I couldn’t discover a single holding place that felt unnatural or uncomfortable. 

The DPI and wi-fi mode switches are positioned beneath the mouse, and whereas I can perceive the connection button being there, the DPI change wants to be someplace accessible. This is identical downside that I had with the M75 Air and every other mouse that doesn’t have this change inside attain.

I don’t see the purpose in providing as much as 5 DPI profiles to be saved on the mouse while you can not simply change between them throughout gameplay. Regardless of this, the slipstream wi-fi receiver additionally has a storage slot beneath the mouse, and this can be a useful function should you’re taking your M75 Wi-fi on the go. 

Now for the elephant within the room, the 89g weight. I discover it actually onerous to name the M75 Wi-fi a lightweight mouse as a result of 89g, when wanting on the present market pattern, is heavy. Having med over from testing mice which can be sub-65g lately, the added weight right here is undeniably noticeable. Not dangerous, however noticeable. 

This shall be an actual problem for anybody who wants a lightweight mouse, however I can’t ignore that there are heavy mouse fanatics on the market too, and that is the perfect go-between as a result of it’s removed from cumbersome, however you by no means really feel like you will get absolutely the quickest response velocity with the added heft. 

Trying on the finer factors of the M75 Wi-fi, the scroll wheel is a little bit stiff and loud but it surely’s the one fault I can attribute to the mouse from a design perspective. Eradicating and changing the facet buttons is straightforward, however you might want some tweezers or a keyboard change puller should you don’t have nails lengthy sufficient to seize onto them. 

In the meantime, the 100% PTE toes are extremely slick, permitting the M75 Wi-fi to glide on nearly any floor. Additionally they don’t choose up mud/fluff from mouse mats, so there’s no awkward discoloration on the white mannequin that we’ve been testing. In the event that they do get worn, which shall be extra right down to your floor than the standard of the pads, they’re simply replaceable, though no spares are included with the mouse.

Corsair M75 Wi-fi efficiency

I’ve already alluded to the Corsair M75 sitting on the heavier facet of gaming mice in 2024, and this will impression efficiency should you’re used to zooming round surfaces with a 59g featherweight. That stated, that is an adjustment most gamers could make over time, however be cautious that the load of a mouse may be fairly disorienting should you’ve turn out to be used to ones in a drastically completely different weight class. 

Onto the precise efficiency, the M75 Wi-fi excels because of it sharing the Corsair Marksman optical sensor with the M75 Air. With its max DPI of 26K, 650 IPS monitoring, and 50g acceleration, it feels actually responsive, as if your mouse and hand are shifting in unison fairly than there being an ungainly delay. 

A go-to recreation that checks whether or not a gaming mouse can carry out below strain is Counter-Strike 2. After all, the caveat is that the human talent issue performs an enormous function in judging a mouse on gameplay outcomes, however the M75 Wi-fi precipitated me no grief when taking part in. A recreation that requires fast snappy motions, I by no means felt just like the M75 Wi-fi was lagging behind my bodily actions, briefly, the mouse did every thing I requested of it, that means poor efficiency was 100% a talent problem.

The positioning of the facet buttons is ideal as they continue to be nicely inside attain for a pure grip however aren’t protruding in a means that creates an obstruction or hazard for unintended clicks. Ought to it’s worthwhile to use the center click on, it requires fairly a heavy press to activate, so be sure to don’t assign an motion that could possibly be the distinction between a clutch play and letting your staff down. 

Past shooters, the Corsair M75 Wi-fi additionally excels in MOBAs like League of Legends. These video games can typically be very demanding on mice because of the quantity of fast clicks and darting motion that’s wanted. The M75 Wi-fi was a delight to make use of, once more monitoring my real-world hand actions right down to a tee with no awkward stuttering alongside the pathways.

Debounce is factored into the left and proper clicks, that means irrespective of how briskly you faucet away, the clicks will register. That is supported by a 2,000Hz polling price when used over slipstream wi-fi. It’s an uncommon transfer, particularly provided that the USB and Bluetooth polling charges are mounted at 1,000Hz. 

Polling charges have gotten a headline function in mice, however are nonetheless very misunderstood. All that’s necessary to notice proper now could be that even a 1,000Hz gaming mouse is reporting its place to your PC 1,000 instances a second, and that’s sufficient to take pleasure in all method of aggressive video games on the highest stage. 

The battery life may be impacted by the next polling price, and a non-adjustable 2,000Hz slipstream price did have me involved that the battery life would begin to wrestle in comparison with the 105 hours marketed over Bluetooth. Nevertheless, I discovered that I hardly ever wanted to cost the M75 Wi-fi in any respect, and the 65 hours promised over slipstream wi-fi was correct if not a little bit below the place my utilization was at. Granted, I did have the RGB at round 1 / 4 of the max brightness and energy saving modes turned on in order that the battery could be preserved after I wasn’t actively shifting. 

All in all, the responsiveness of the Corsair M75 Air is retained throughout the M75 Wi-fi, placing it on par with its costlier sibling, even when it might probably’t match the 4,000Hz polling price on paper. 

Corsair M75 Wi-fi conclusion

The Corsair M75 Wi-fi is a gaming mouse for a really particular gamer. One who’s searching for nice responsiveness, consolation, long-lasting battery life, a alternative between colours, and RGB lighting. The ambidextrous design can also be nice and never one thing that many mice provide, although it may be seen as a type of accessibility.

At $129.99 (£119.99), the Corsair M75 Wi-fi isn’t egregiously costly, however should you’re on a price range, then there are related choices obtainable for much less cash, though a number of design sacrifices must be made. 

Corsair M75 Wi-fi alternate options

In case you’re searching for a little bit extra out of your gaming mouse, and are keen to surrender some essential model factors, we’ve got two alternate options to the M75 Wi-fi.

Corsair M75 Air

The massive brother to the M75 Wi-fi, the Corsair M75 Air goes for a real ultra-light really feel with out sacrificing its battery life, though it does drop the RGB lighting and solely is available in black, simply in case that’s a giant deal to you.

The efficiency could be very related, and since its launch at $149.99, the M75 Air has since been diminished to costs as little as $79.99 in some gross sales. 

Razer Viper V3 Hyperspeed

We gave the Razer Viper V3 Hyperspeed a ten/10, and for good cause. It beats the bottom efficiency of the Corsair M75 Wi-fi but additionally helps as much as 8kHz polling. Higher nonetheless, should you purchase the Viper V3 and the hyperpolling dongle, you’ll nonetheless have money left over when in comparison with the $130 you’ll be able to spend on the M75 Wi-fi. 

The Viper V3 Hyperspeed has an MSRP of $69.99, with the hyperpolling dongle costing an additional $29.99. Sadly, it solely is available in black and has no RGB lighting, similar to the M75 Air.