With Asus' ROG brand turning 20 years old this year, it has announced a whole pile of fancy black and gold gaming gear at Computex. Its new 82 g mouse is just as fancy as you'd expect and comes with some truly outrageous specs.
Called the ROG Harpe II Extreme Edition 20, Asus's new gaming mouse has "Authentic 24K gold-plated detailing", as well as a black translucent shell. The first time I saw it, I thought it looked a bit like it had cardboard internals (because gold under black certainly muted the colour palette a tad), but I don't think it looks bad by any stretch.
With it, you get a max 8,000 Hz polling rate (both wired and wireless), along with Asus's own ROG 100M optical micro switches, and a 65K DPI sensor. Those are truly absurdly high specs. The Razer Viper V4 Pro, our pick for the best gaming mouse, also goes up to 8,000 Hz polling but only 50,000 DPI. However, the max polling and max DPI of both of these gaming mice are arguably too much for 99% of players, and 8k polling often isn't worth the ...
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