 This video is brought to you by our trusted graphics partner, NVIDIA. Welcome to my unboxing and first look at the Corsair Vengeance M65. It uses the same overall shell as the M60, which they released quite a while ago as one of their first forays into the peripheral world. So the M60 and the M90 were Corsair's first gaming mice, and they've basically taken what was already good about the existing models and improved on them in a couple of subtle ways. So, well actually, the first way they've improved on them really isn't that subtle at all, and it's now available in three colors as opposed to one. So we've actually got all three of them here today. The one I'll be unboxing is a military green, whereas it's also available in the traditional black, as well as kind of like a sweet stormtrooper white. And it looks like what Corsair is going for here is no matter what Corsair case you have, you can pretty much get yourself a Vengeance M65 to match it. Packaging is pretty straightforward, so it's just got a plastic shell within a cardboard exterior. So there you go, it's just a molded shape thing. You pull out the mouse, and that's pretty much all that's included in here. So there's a little bit of documentation that's going to tell you about your two-year warranty, as well as how to go to corsair.com and download the latest drivers, which is like, yay, don't bother including a disc, what's the point? And let's have a look at the mouse itself. So I'm probably going to get Slick to come join me here in a minute. No, not yet, not yet. Sorry, I'm just giving you prior warning. I know usually I say that, and I mean like immediately, ah! Okay, so we've got a braided cable that terminates in a USB. So there you go, it's labeled. So you know it's a mouse, you know it's Corsair, assuming you can see both sides of it at the same time. Nice high-quality braiding, so you can't see any of the cord through there. It's about, ah, it's about an entire Linus wingspan in length. So that's actually, it's probably a six-foot cord based on how long that is compared to my arms. And let's have a look at the ergonomics. If you haven't already seen an M60, then this will be new, if not, consider it a refresher. So down here we've got three adjustable weight zones, so you can customize not only the overall weight of the mouse, but you can actually customize also the weight distribution of the mouse. So I'm going to run and grab a screwdriver here. I'm just going to go across one of the cameras with a crotch shot. Hopefully they don't switch to that one while we're in the editing process. So inside each of these ones, you can decide, okay, I want it more heavy at the back, or I want it more heavy at the front. So each of them has a little weight inside of it that you can either remove or keep in there. All right. We've also got polytetrafluoroethylene, I think is what the actual name for it is, but Teflon Slippy Pads all over the bottom of the mouse. I love seeing nice big slippy pads. I don't think anyone but me calls them slippy pads, but whatever, because it just means they're going to be less likely to wear out over time. It doesn't actually affect how slippery the mouse is on your mousing surface, it just affects how long it takes for them to wear out. So there's actually five of those on the bottom as well as check this out. So there's a solid aluminum body to the mouse that makes it extremely rigid in the hand and actually also contributes a little bit of weight to it as well. Another big improvement they've made over the M60 is that the laser has been replaced with an Avago ADNS 9800 sensor. So that's capable of up to 8200 DPI, which let's face it guys, is only really going to be useful for you if you're running like a surround monitor setup or very high resolution monitor because other than that, you're probably going to turn that sensor down and yeah, you probably won't use it to its full potential, but it does have other cool features as well. So you can adjust things like your lift distance, you can adjust angle snapping, you can do surface testing with it. It actually can adapt to different surfaces quite easily. So I mean, yeah, there's still advantages to having a high-end laser. It's not necessarily all about DPI. It just happens that a high-end laser tends to have high DPI because people want more better numbers and all that good stuff. So now let's get into the actual ergonomics of it. It is pretty much an optimal shape for someone with smaller to mid-size hands to palm grip. However, I think someone with larger hands, who I'm going to have just kind of lean over here and there you go. Thanks, Lick. Would probably be more comfortable with a claw grip on a mouse like this, whereas a palm grip is going to be a bit of a challenge for him because he's got baseball mid-size hands. So this gives you some perspective of everything from petite hands to large ones. You've got back and forward buttons in there. I would consider optimal locations a little bit offset from where your thumb would normally actually rest on this lip right here, but still within easy reaching distance. And you're not going to lose control of the mouse or be unable to lift it if you want to activate those buttons. If anything, if I had to complain about something with respect to the positioning of the buttons here, it's with my small hands. If I'm not claw gripping, I might have a little bit of trouble reaching the aim button here, which is a DPI changer. So if you're zooming into Snipe or whatever else you want to adjust your DPI on the fly, you just press that button and you're ready to go. So moving up to the top of the mouse, we've got our DPI adjustment buttons as well as indicator LEDs and a solid metal scroll wheel that actually feels quite nice. It has a fair bit of heft to it. So Corsair has also updated their software. They've got a second generation control panel that they've added now. The early software for the M60 and the M90 was not very strong, but it's actually improved a lot over the last little while. So if you have an M60 or an M90 that you've shelved, it might be time to bring it back out and give it another crack because the overall build quality of the mouse is solid, and as long as the software is up to snuff, then it does give a very good gaming experience. So thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the Vengeance M65 from Corsair. 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