ASUS Gladius III Wired Gaming Mouse

glides smoothly across the mousemat, lovely RGB effects and tidy nicely placed DPI mode button thats not easy to accidentally catch whilst mid game. Really comfortable mouse to hold for those with larger hand sizes. Great value for money

My Logitech mouse started double clicking and I wanted a high quality replacement, so I went with this one due to the ability to swap switches on a whim. As a custom mechanical keyboard enthusiast, this is a HUGE deal for me, as I enjoy tinkering with switches and being able to replace faulty ones without soldering. Ironically, I don’t actually use this mouse for gaming since I use a controller to play RPGs. I simply wanted a high quality mouse with the ability to replace switches, and this was it. All of the sensor / LOD mumbo jumbo doesn’t really matter to me, but it’s nice to know that it’s a good product under the hood.

The software is fine for me. Setting my DPI / RGB up was easy and worked as intended. Best part is that you don’t have to make an account for the software like Razer forces you to do.

My only downside is that as someone with massive hands, this mouse feels a little small and lacking in the “pinky support” category. Some mice feel nice and thicc in the back but narrow towards the front, such as the Deathadder, and this one is like that. The actual clicks themselves are wide enough to rest your fingers on, but there is very little support for your pinky on the right side. As a result, I don’t know if I’ll be keeping the mouse, but I am still rating it five stars since it’s a solid product with no gamebreaking issues as far as I can tell.

I’ve been using this mouse for a couple of months now and haven’t faced any issue regarding any mouse button or mouse wheel also i use it every now and then and hard sometimes as I’m a gamer, and look wise and build wise it is OK OK, sensor tracking is very accurate and 400iPS really helps making those insane flicks but I’ll update regarding all the warranty and everything after problems. Till date nothing major, the only thing i would add for brand is to make a diffuser for left side led light where engravings are present. There is a single light and it feels very cheap when a specifics portion glows hard and other portions are left faded.

This is a good mouse and performance well in games. The only game I had problem in was Minecraft as when I was trying to click fast it didn’t register it sometimes. Its design is good and the color I got was black and the rgb looks really good.

Edit: 1.5 years later I put in my Omron Optical switches, and they feel great. I think the others were not bad still but starting to feel a little more worn out. In reality, the feel of the plastic wears out before the switches at this point in time. I use a bit of sandpaper to lightly sand the top of the most used area to try and make it feel a bit less smooth, but you can only do so much for any mouse. So far this is the best mouse I have ever owned. I would only upgrade the durability of the plastic.

ASUS has the right idea in letting people change their switches. This mouse feels better than the Corsair RGB Sabre to me personally, and that mouse will last no more than a year with my use. Honestly, it crapped out at around 8 or 9 months. Not good if you can’t switch things out in a modular way like the Gladius III.

The plastic feels ever so slightly cheaper than the Sabre, which had a bit more of a sticky rubber feel, so that is the only real worry here; if the plastic becomes too shiny and loses its grip it kind of defeats the purpose of being modular. I’ll have to buy another one to keep the plastic in good shape, so we will have to see if this thing actually lasts.

The weight of thing is about right for my uses. I feel it sits a bit taller and slightly thinner than the Sabre, and it fits my somewhat large hands better as a result.

Software was more or less on par with iCUE. I actually found the Armoury Crate to be better, and after negating services, tracking down a few background processes in the ASUS directory, and deleting task scheduler issues, I have my mouse without RGB lights and it stays that way on resets with zero ASUS processes running. I only had to switch the services to manual, unlike Corsair where they need to be disabled and leave you with a mouse that can have some issues.

So kudos to ASUS there. I hate these bloated software systems, and this one was slightly easier to work around. All the features you need are in the software, and you can tune all of your components easily with the ASUS program. Even more so than Corsair as ASUS specializes in everything.

In the future I will stick with ASUS, but I think they may need to make the coating on this one a better type of rubberized grip. Those don’t always work after a year either, but the Sabre did seem to have an improved one that lasted better than its switches did. We’ll see how long the Gladius III lasts in the plastic department. Will report back. Otherwise, more than a solid mouse on sale.