PowerColor Alphyn Am10 Wireless Gaming Mouse Review

Do you know how long it has passed since we saw the arrival of a modest game mouse for the first time? 26 years. Then Razer first introduced strange -looking Boomslang for all of us. After returning to the world of ball mice and PS/2 connections, Microsoft Intellimouse Designs and Cruddy Free Deskpads, the very concept of the game mouse was practically non -existent. The idea that not two decades later you will end up with all strange and wonderful pixel indicators, with the absurd life of batteries and sensors that can capture data consistently to a speed of about 37 miles per hour, was a blunt dream.

But here, in the peripheral ecosystem, now so much nailed, it gives you reflection if there is something else that you can do to develop mice for games. Apart from, of course, this venerable marketing trick, or “Make Sensor Number Got”.

From those days there was development, well, wild. This is to calculate what the combustion engine for cars is. It has been sophisticated, improved and improved to such an extent that it is almost impossible to stand out from the crowd. Do something else. This is homogeneous. The market, which is more based on the brand, sensor and loyalty than anything else.

It should therefore be absolutely on the back foot thanks to this start. This is not exactly a brand that can be associated with high specification game mice. Better known from AMD graphics cards than anything else, when the opportunity for the Alphyn Am10 sample crossed my desk, I knew I had to jump. I was intrigued, how exactly he predicted that PowerColor would break into the peripheral sector. How, or maybe it is better to say, even “could” build one of the best mice for wireless games of all time? Is it even possible?

Alphyn AM10 has all the traps of a good state-of-the-art wireless mouse. It has this Pixart Paw3395 sensor, which Razer Basilisk project built of right -handed hands and claws has in mind, has basic and elegant communication options, lots of PTFE, so that their feet move on your surface, and a beautifully lit cable to separate it.

Your highest statistics are almost consistent with what can be expected in the case of any mouse with this sensor: 26,000 in terms of sensitivity, maximum acceleration 50 GI 650 IPS before tracking cohesion falls from the cliff. There is no artificial smoothing or inclusion (not so that she needed it), and the availability of surveys speed covers from 125 Hz up to 8,000 Hz depending on your preferences (with different limits of different connection standards). In addition, you also have a symmetrical distance control from 1 to 2 mm respectively, but this is not a Razer sensor, so do not expect that you will be able to adapt them independently.

Paw3395 is particularly versatile, because the manufacturer can actually configure it in four separate configurations depending on how he creates firmware. It has a high -performance game mode, low power mode, wired mode and office mode, depending on the battery level and other factors. This effectively allows you to work on various currents, with high performance mode knocking in 1.7 mA and low power mode at 1.3 mA. Then additional corrections are made through the indicators of surveys and frames of the frames per second, at the back of this. However, this is not a flawless sensor; According to its own acceptance, Pixart has a resolution error of about 0.4%.

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Interestingly, it is also not the most advanced wireless sensor in the Pixart arsenal; This is reserved for a much more nourishing PAW3399 power (the same basic design found in Focus+ Sensor Razer became celebrated for the Basilisk V3 line in the former, when, though in wired format).

Choose any mouse for wireless games today using pixart paw3395, and you will see exactly the same statistics and exactly the same “problems”. This is a company that has dominated the sensor space over the past decade and to be straightforward, you will have difficulty finding better quality.

Apart from the sensor, using Alpyn is generally a fairly solid experience. The first touch, certainly, if you are not used to the OMRONA optical switches, is unique. This tactile feedback to the left and right is immediate and phenomenally gentle, with incredibly low starting distance. This makes the click seriously keen and joy. If you are great in your first person’s shooters, this immediate answer will be changing the game. The feedback from these clicks is also polished, without wrong pings or twangs anywhere. Other switches are perhaps more customary, but this is not surprising. Oh, and the scroll wheel is also polished enough.

For a hand nasty like me, with smaller -size hands, it is extremely convenient to utilize; This ergonomic shape of the wing was absolutely established in the industry for a reason, and Alphyn fully uses it. This is not a great airy, unfortunately weighing a total mass of 96 g, but to be straightforward, it can be positive, depending on your point of view (actually I prefer a heavier mouse myself).

It has a gentle plastic finish on the frame, which is convenient enough, and there is no gentle, rubberized material within the sight. The only aesthetic minus has the form of a black belt gloss, which is particularly susceptible to fingerprints and adhesion to fat.

Software, however, I am a massive fan. It is not effective in any way; I do not go into this, thinking about it, and the start-up can be a bit defective, but what is basic, direct and to the point. There is an basic configuration of sensitivity here, election speed, reference distance and ecological mode options, as well as within a few clicks, as well as RGB control. Without nonsense, without a tedious menu, to try to go, without different “Funny name of the brand’s marketing here for RGB “ Profile layers or other, and more importantly, there are no super long files for download or installation of processes trying to scalp personal data and e-mail address. It’s basic and just performs the task. In the case of the program you will spend all five minutes, this is how it should be.

So disadvantages. The battery life is much below pairs. I expected more for the weight of this thing; At 96 g there is 500 mAh capacity, but it is only possible to survive for about 50 hours in max, even in the case of these ecological modes (although in the case of RGB). When competition much more contributes to a much smaller weight, it makes you question where this power leak occurs.

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Prices also, although better than at the time of launch, are still not as aggressive as it should. In such an aggressive landscape as peripheral, you must be radical in your approach. If you want to get to the best mouse lists for games and give yourself a brand in a community filled with sensor enthusiasts, reality is a producer you need to lose for the first few years.

Take, for example, Hyperx. His headphone set of games in the cloud was the next level; It brought it quite quickly in the importance of the market. High -quality headset and incredibly accessible. Many do not know that Hyperx (or Kingston at the time) licensed the cloud project from a miniature company called QPAD, and then sold it with a loss. Only for market credibility, before he moved to his own projects and research and development.

Alphyn had to be the same if he had a dent. It must be cheaper to compete. At the moment, in the current state, it simply does not make sense, and although it is a fantastically well -rounded mouse, which works well with little confusion, it is simply not enough to tempt people away from tried tested brands selling cheaper mice with similar designs and identical sensors.