SeekerCorsair DARKSTAR WIRELESS
The Corsair DARKSTAR is an excellent MMO or MOBA gaming mouse. Overall, it has impressive build quality and a comfortable right-handed shape suitable for medium and larger-sized hands. There's a programmable button cluster on the left with six large-sized buttons arranged in a semi-circular pattern around a grippy textured thumb rest. Performance-wise, it has superb click latency and remarkable sensor performance, providing a snappy and responsive-feeling in-game experience.
-- As reviewed by Rtings
Product details
- Six-Button Side Cluster and Strain-Reducing Design: The six-button side cluster is configured in a unique, easy-toreach layout, with an ideally placed textured thumb grip so you can play longer while reducing hand strain.
- 15 Fully Programmable Buttons: An array of programmable buttons, including scroll wheel tilt, ensure all your crucial shots and spells, commands, and abilities are just a click away.
- Hyper-Fast Wireless: Transmit every click in time via sub-1ms SLIPSTREAM WIRELESS or Bluetooth , with 2,000Hz hyper-polling.
- Customize your Play with iCUE: Powerful CORSAIR iCUE software enables dynamic seven-zone RGB lighting customiZation, DPI adjustments, button remapping, and more, all saved on up to five onboard profiles so you can take your custom mouse settings with you anywhere.
- CORSAIR MARKSMAN 26K DPI Optical Sensor: An astonishing native 26,000 DPI, 650 IPS, 50G CORSAIR MARKSMAN optical sensor captures even the most microscopic mouse movements, customisable in single DPI steps.
PROS
+ Impressive number of programmable side buttons.
+ Impressive build quality overall.
+ Superb click latency.
+ Remarkable sensor performance overall.
CONS
- Fewer programmable buttons than many dedicated MMO options.
- Some minor flexibility in the side panels.
- Unusual 2000Hz polling rate implementation that falls short of other mice tested at 2000Hz.
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Expert reviews and ratings
By Rtings on July 27, 2023
The Corsair DARKSTAR is an excellent MMO or MOBA gaming mouse. Overall, it has impressive build quality and a comfortable right-handed shape suitable for medium and larger-sized hands. There's a programmable button cluster on the left with six large-sized buttons arranged in a semi-circular pattern around a grippy textured thumb rest. Performance-wise, it has superb click latency and remarkable sensor performance, providing a snappy and responsive-feeling in-game experience.
88
By Tech4Gamers on August 01, 2023
The Darkstar is a highly
80
By IGN on June 30, 2023
Corsair has almost won the race with the Darkstar Wireless MOBA gaming mouse with its high-quality sensor, comfort, and unique RGB lighting layout. The response time is phenomenal, and each of the 15 buttons on the mouse feels fantastic while gaming. The quality of Corsair’s iCUE software left me surprised with how light it was on my system as well. However, the mouse fell just short of the finish line with sub-par battery life and awkwardly placed top buttons.
80