What is Reddit's opinion of SteelSeries Rival 3 Gaming Mouse - 8,500 CPI TrueMove Core Optical Sensor - 6 Programmable Buttons - Split Trigger Buttons - Brilliant Prism RGB Lighting?

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SteelSeries Rival 3 Gaming Mouse - 8, 500 CPI Truemove Core Optical Sensor - 6 Programmable Buttons - Split Trigger Buttons - Brilliant Prism RGB Lighting

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SteelSeries Rival 3

https://www.rtings.com/mouse/reviews/steelseries/rival-3

https://www.amazon.com/SteelSeries-Rival-Gaming-Mouse-Programmable/dp/B08176SM7C

I have bad experience with Logitech due to cheap switches they used. Google: Logitech double click problem.

Also friend of mine had Logitech headset and one day, left speaker went mute.
Anyway I have logitech speakers Z623 and everything is problem free for 7 years.
Another person, who I personally know, has Logitech X-230 for 10 years and it is also working fine.
Personally: stay away from Logitech mouses.

 

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A perhaps intrusive assumption I will make is that if you're specifically asking for them for Christmas, we're talking Christmas gift money and not disposable income money. Not that there's anything wrong with that, it just means that there is a high likelihood that showing a $60 mouse to whoever is buying this for you will prompt them to immediately find the first $20 gaming mouse on Amazon because it's cheaper. I've been there, and by the time I learned the art of negotiating Christmas gifts with my family, I was old enough that I was no longer receiving Christmas gifts.

For the mouse, the Rival 3 and G203 are both decent picks for $30. If you can stretch to $50 the Model O is probably pretty close to the price-performance sweetspot.

Monitors are a bit tougher. The cheapest you can go on a 144hz monitor is around $200, which encroaches dangerously upon "beggars can't be choosers" territory as far as Christmas gifts go. If you just need 144hz, here's a parametric search for any monitor that matches 1080p 144hz TN and you're free to scroll as you please. All of those cheap 144hz monitors perform similarly iirc.

For $230 (usually around $300 or so) you can get the VG258QM right now, which is only $30 more expensive than cheap 144hz models but it's 280hz with a stupidly fast response time.

Don't get 75hz if you can help it, it's the monitor equivalent to buying a membrane gaming keyboard. It's functionally not dissimilar enough to what you're stuck with on a Dell OEM keyboard to be worth anyone's money. Just use a crappy monitor until you can get 144hz would be my advice.

Deal link: Amazon

https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B08176SM7C?tag=pcppau-22&linkCode=ogi&th=1

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/m2bHvW

You can build this for around $600, but I would advise you to wait for the new-gen of ryzen processors to come out in November and by December they should be back in stock so a new build will be available that's cheaper and faster. I don't recommend buying windows 10 since you can just download it for free and have a watermark which is also removable if you watch some YT videos. If you want to, it'll be an extra $100 which will really hurt your performance.

As for the mouse, https://www.amazon.com/SteelSeries-Rival-Gaming-Mouse-Programmable/dp/B08176SM7C/ref=psdc_402052011_t3_B07Y693ND1

This is a good name brand mouse from SteelSeries for around $30. If you don't really care about getting a name brand (I've had my cheap gaming mouse ($20) for 1.5 years it still works) then go with the reddragon one. They also have really nice, cheap mechanical keyboards which I would highly recommend.

https://www.amazon.com/Redragon-M602-Ergonomic-High-Precision-Programmable/dp/B011HMDZ0Q/ref=psdc_402052011_t4_B08176SM7C ($20)

not a mouse expert, but the steelseries rival 3 seems like a much higher quality option https://www.amazon.com/SteelSeries-Rival-Gaming-Mouse-Programmable/dp/B08176SM7C

the wired version with a solid shell is now listed on amazon :D

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08176SM7C/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER