For the Kana it's best to use either the 400 or 800 step because the tracking quality drops off significantly after 800. (click the image)

 

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Originally Posted by Derp

For the Kana it's best to use either the 400 or 800 step because the tracking quality drops off significantly after 800. (click the image)

Dat 3200DPI interpolation/jitter... 1600DPI is marginally acceptable depending on the use, and 400/800DPI seems perfect.

On which mousepad is this tested though?

 

Those pictures look so foreign to me haha. So you guys are saying stick with 800CPI for games? 800 is too slow for the desktop, and too slow with my current ingame sensitivities so I guess I should crank them up and use 1600 only for desktop.

 

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Originally Posted by venomblade

Those pictures look so foreign to me haha. So you guys are saying stick with 800CPI for games? 800 is too slow for the desktop, and too slow with my current ingame sensitivities so I guess I should crank them up and use 1600 only for desktop.

Yea that's what I would do. I play with a 400 dpi mouse in mw2 and I just adjust the in-game sensitivity (not that I can change my DPI anyway

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Originally Posted by Bentz

Yea that's what I would do. I play with a 400 dpi mouse in mw2 and I just adjust the in-game sensitivity (not that I can change my DPI anyway

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Alright sounds good. That's what I've been doing all day, and I'm having an easier time adjusting to 800CPI. How much CPI do normal mouses go up to? I just don't want to be "wasting" my mouses extra features by having it at a setting that's slightly higher than what a normal mouse could do.

 

Your not wasting anything. Have a look at the image derp provided. Your mouse tracks best at 400/800 dpi. The other dpi steps are not so good (1600) and terrible (3200). Marketing says more dpi better, we say more dpi faster (and often more jittery).

 

CPI is more or less only how fast your mouse is. And faster doesn't mean better. So you are actually not wasting anything, you are more being limited by the bad sensor performance in the higher cpi-steps

 

Ah I see. Now you've got me curious. So what makes my mouse better than a regular? Besides being able to change CPI speeds? My mouse is undoubtedly more accurate even at faster speeds and the mouse delay I had with my standard Dell mouse is gone now, but I'm wondering, when on paper, what specs should I look at in a gaming mouse(in the future). Also, so since CPI is just speed, how does it differ from DPI and which is better?

 

As ergonomics are quite subjective, I'd say it comes down to build quality (usually ok with steelseries mouse) and the sensor. Kana seems to be average sensor wise, so you mostly pay for better quality and marketing. This is the common case, as there are very few perfect mouse around and except the G400 none of them is a bargain.

Your Kana is still lightyears ahead of your old dell just because the dell sucks so hard. If your looking for "the best mouse (TM)" then this forum is the right place. Usually it boils down to the g400 and deathadder and zowie ones for low sense players while high sensers will also be happy with sensors with lower perfect control speed as the kana or kinzu v2.

If you ask me, the G400v2 is the perfect non symmetrical mouse while the Kinzuadder (selfmade Kinzu with Deathadder internals) is the best ambidextrous one. Your mileage may vary.

 

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Originally Posted by venomblade

Ah I see. Now you've got me curious. So what makes my mouse better than a regular? Besides being able to change CPI speeds? My mouse is undoubtedly more accurate even at faster speeds and the mouse delay I had with my standard Dell mouse is gone now, but I'm wondering, when on paper, what specs should I look at in a gaming mouse(in the future). Also, so since CPI is just speed, how does it differ from DPI and which is better?

CPI and DPI are the same. Just different ways to describe it CPI(Counts per inch), DPI(Dots per inch). On paper you can hardly see anything of the mouse real performance as the true performance boils down to how the sensor and pollingrate behaves. If the sensor has things like acceleration, prediction, smoothness and LOD(lift of distance) is normally not stated in the spec. The pollingrate is normally just stated in numbers like 125, 500, 1000Hz. But in reality the pollingrate can be both stable and unstable. Some "1000hz" mice only reaches about 800Hz, and others aren't stable at their specified pollingrate and might switch between 500 and 1000Hz irl. The it comes to the parts of the mouse, what kind of switches are used to for the buttons, how the scroll it built, how the shell is build and how the cable behaves. Lets just say that there's a lot of things taking into consideration

 

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Originally Posted by MrFerrari

CPI and DPI are the same. Just different ways to describe it CPI(Counts per inch), DPI(Dots per inch). On paper you can hardly see anything of the mouse real performance as the true performance boils down to how the sensor and pollingrate behaves. If the sensor has things like acceleration, prediction, smoothness and LOD(lift of distance) is normally not stated in the spec. The pollingrate is normally just stated in numbers like 125, 500, 1000Hz. But in reality the pollingrate can be both stable and unstable. Some "1000hz" mice only reaches about 800Hz, and others aren't stable at their specified pollingrate and might switch between 500 and 1000Hz irl. The it comes to the parts of the mouse, what kind of switches are used to for the buttons, how the scroll it built, how the shell is build and how the cable behaves. Lets just say that there's a lot of things taking into consideration

Wow, that is alot to consider. Thanks for the info. Welp my mouse may not be perfect but I'm very satisfied with it. A good introduction to the gaming mouse world. It was a tad of an impulse buy haha, was on sale and last one in the store. I would've gotten the deathadder, but they didn't have the lefty version in stock. Now time for a keyboard

Will +rep all that helped when I get home, can't do it on itouch for some reason.