ASUS ROG Chakram Wireless RGB Gaming Mouse

This mouse feels great in my hand, the buttons are all clicky and responsive, and I have had no delay on the wireless connection. Battery life is advertised at 79hours, and while I’m not sure how true that is, I got 4 night of solid gaming with RGB on before it needed to charge, and I didn’t turn the mouse off, just left it in sleep mode. I wasn’t sure how the analog would feel, but so far the adjustment has been smooth, and I have been using it in the 4 direction mode as 4 extra buttons for my fps games. It can be a tad awkward to reach for, but it’s also nice to be able to hold the mouse without being forced to rest your thumb on the analog, so overall I’d give the analog position a 9/10. The analog is not great for use as you would on a controller, as the positioning is too awkward if you want to make precise movements while moving the mouse, although I haven’t had any scenarios where I need to use the analog precisely, maybe it would be more viable in racing games and such, but for me I’d just say it’s not a controller analog, and it doesn’t have a click-down option like a controller either, but you can swap the analog for a longer analog (which I did) or for a smooth piece of you find you really don’t like/need it. The mouse could be a bit heavy for some, but that is actually my preference, and since it’s wireless it does give the impression that it’s lighter than a wired counterpart. ROG Armoury makes customizing the mouse a piece of cake, although my initial customization led to the analog bindings not working, but it turned out to be a software issue, as resetting to defaults in ROG Armoury solved all those issues. Overall it’s an awesome wireless gaming mouse with some cool RGB that although I don’t care much for, still adds a bit of flash to my setup, and the lack of having to deal with an annoying cable limiting my reach and manoeuvrability is an absolute godsend. I picked this up after having a Logitech G502 that had double clicking issues less than a year after owning it. I’m hoping this mouse will be more durable, and the addition of easily replaceable switches (extras are included)means if it ever starts acting up, a 5 minute swap out is all it will take to get the mouse back in working order. Overall I’d recommend it to anyone looking for a solid wireless gaming mouse, and if you don’t have a giant mouse pad, I’d recommend getting one of those too, as now that your reach isn’t limited by a cable, you won’t want it to be limited by a tiny mouse pad.

At first glance, this is an expensive asking price, BUT, its worth it, imo.

First of all, if you are pairing with other ROG products, it stitches in seamlessly with the Armoury app. I got it as a companion for my M16 Laptop, software immediately picked it up, and was good to go in seconds

Next, the freaking joystick on the side! So it has a few features, and these are changeable in the Armoury app as well, so it can act as a 4-way and be arrow keys (default) 6-way, or 8-way (I believe it was…). In playing MMORPGS like runescape, you can absolutely just one hand skilling with this thing. I put my laptop on the table, sit back on the couch and skill away while watching tv or something. Arrow keys are on the mouse. Plus you have your typical side buttons for like melee in FPS games and whatnot. I have heard word of being able to map the joystick directions to like MMO hotkeys – haven’t tried yet but that would be plain unfair and disrespectfully awesome.

Bluetooth AND 2.4ghz, so nice. And the bluetooth is really good too, no random disconnects yet. Coming from a hardcore Corsair fanboi, this is impressive.

Feel and build quality are exceptional, in my opinion. I know some other people were iffy on it, but this is far from my first $150+ mouse, its par or better than the razer/corsair/steelseries pricepoint competition. Its a medium weight mouse. For the size (kinda long), its light. I prefer a heavier mouse, and this is on the low end of what I would consider heavy. I have pretty large hands, and a regular mouse pretty much sits in my palm, end-to-end – so I have to like hike my hand up to use a mouse, like cage it in my fingers, move with my pinky and thumb… THIS one, however, is nice and spacious, and fits perfectly in my palm with ample space to actually rest my fingers on the buttons, for once. So nice to use a mouse like a normal person.

It does have wireless charging and quick charging. I just threw it on my phone dock, and it charged. Neato.

The mouse comes with a nice case, some spare parts/tools, quality sleeved cable, and it is usb-c (thank god).

ALSO, there is a small white disc that comes with it. DONT THROW IT AWAY. This is so you can add your own logo/name/whatever, and put it in the back of the mouse for the RGB to shine through. If that isnt the coolest sht ever. Find a friend with a cricut and get it made. The ROG plate comes off easily, and the mouse backing is magnetic. ALSO, in that compartment it has storage for the dongle.

I really wanted to like this mouse. But thanks to the awesome Asus software packages, it’s unusable.

First of all the mouse feels very cheap, and I mean VERY cheap. It’s hard plastic all over, no rubber or grips anywhere.

Secondly, the mouse wouldn’t even connect to the dongle before I installed the Armoury II software.

Thirdly, the software. I changed the DPI settings and colours, only to find that as soon as the mouse is disconnected, plugged in to charge or the software is closed, all the settings revert to default and I couldn’t find any way to stop this from happening. (And I mean ALL the settings. Literally everything.)
The Armoury software also endlessly badgers you to install the Armoury Crate, which is just more unnecessary bloatware. It will pop up the message over the Armoury software until you install it.

Whenever you plug the mouse in to charge, using the PROVIDED USB cable, it will whinge at you with popup messages that stack over each other endlessly, complaining that the mouse isn’t connected via the provided cable and it will only charge slowly (I got to 8 of the same messages stacked up before I unplugged and gave up on this mouse.)

Lastly, the amount of services and junk it installs is beyond absurd. I had to manually uninstall at least 8 different programs and services, force closing them in task manager because it wouldn’t automatically close anything, and then manually delete all the leftovers it didn’t remove in the Program Files, Program Data and Local appdata folders. After doing all this, I discovered they have the “Armoury Uninstall Tool” which just shows that they realise how wormy their software is.
I’m honestly disgusted at how atrocious the entire experience with this mouse was. It’s currently on it’s way back to Amazon because I refuse to keep a $185 (aud) paperweight.

TL;DR – Very cheap feeling mouse, abominable software, horrendous experience, had to return mouse internationally because it’s wholly unusable.

初めて1万円越えのマウスを使ったのですが、もう、マウスをカチカチするだけで楽しいです。流石って感じです。
動画は、ソフトウェアでの設定画面です。

・耐久性
　3か月ほどFPSで使っていますが故障はなく、替えの部品もあるので長く使えるのでは？

・電源
　昼間FPSを8時間くらいしても電池切れにはなりません。充電も1,２時間あればフル充電できます。また、自動スリープ機能もあるので使わないときは勝手にスリープに入ってくれます。

・遅延
　ないです。気にする人はtype‐C接続でいいんじゃないでしょうか？　Bluetooth接続は知りません。

・重さ
　結構あります。でも、私はこれくらいの方がいいです。

・ソフトウェア
　若干扱いずらいですが、許容範囲。問題ないです。

このくらいでしょうか？
問題点があるとすれば、高い。学生に13000円は高かったです。今年もう何も買えません…ですが、その値段に合うすごくいい製品だったので満足です。