Cyber Snipa Stinger Gaming Mouse Author:  Artiom Bell Date:  2008.05.29 Topic:  Gaming Provider:  Cyber Snipa Manufacturer:  Cyber Snipa

Cyber Snipa Stinger Gaming Mouse

Design:

Stinger fit my hand perfectly and kept it in a relaxed position even after five continuous hours of use. In terms of buttons, this mouse has plenty of them, and the best thing is that they are all programmable. As I looked over the Stinger’s button configurations I noticed the DPI button. With it you can adjust the pre-set DPI of the mouse between 400, 800, 1200, and 1600 DPI. I also noticed that the mouse changes colors as you change the DPI; the colors are as follows Blank (No LED), Red LED, Green LED, and Blue LED respectively. If you want to select a particular DPI and do not want the color that goes with it, you can always install the software that came with the mouse that lets you to completely customize your mouse to any DPI or color setting that you like.

Under the DPI Button there is and “M” button which flashes RED, GREEN, and BLUE. That is your profile button. If you were playing Crysis, for example, and then switched to Internet Explorer all you have to do is click the “M” button and all your shortcuts are literally at your fingertips. The mouse also came with 7 20 gram weights which despite being so small did present me with a new level of control especially when I used the mouse in the high DPI range.

Software and Macros:

A macro, by definition, is “an abstraction that defines how a certain input pattern is replaced by an output pattern according to a defined set of rules.”(Wikipedia) There is actually a very good reason that the guys over at Cyber Snipa called the Stinger “master of macro”. Let’s do the math, the mouse has 6 customizable buttons if you include the tilts on the scroll wheel and there are 3 different profiles giving us the grand total of 18 macros. These macros are stored onto the Stinger’s onboard memory so even if the program that you used is erased, the mouse will still remember the commands you input.

The way I configured the mouse was that I had browsing commands suck as “CTRL+P, BACK, FORWARD, etc.” on one profile, while having the gaming commands on another profile. This set up proved to be very hand when surfing the internet as well as Crysis. The software generally is very intuitive and easy to use. All I had to do to enter a new macro was to select which button to input into. Record the new macro and upload it into the mouse.

The control menu let me decide which buttons were configurable to and which ones were not. I also snooped around the DPI settings which are also configurable from this window. Just as I talked about in the previous page, using this windows you can select which profile will have which DPI setting, thereby allowing you to select which color you want your mouse to be.

Conclusion:

Selecting a mouse can be a very tedious process. One can look over the features, the macros, the amounts of buttons, the software, but ultimately what decides whether the mouse is good is its design. The Cyber Snipa Stinger's design was to my liking as were its many features which were very hand in the games I play as well as in overall use of the computer. In my opinion the mouse is definitely worth the $38.99 (crazypc.com) since it is a very reasonably priced mouse packed with a lot of features.

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