Cooler Master MM712 Wireless Gaming Mouse Review
Peter Donnell / 2 years ago
Performance
Setting up this mouse is really easy, especially with three modes of connectivity. There’s a switch that allows you to toggle Bluetooth, USB or 2.4GHz wireless. However, in wireless modes, the USB position also acts as an off switch. With the pairing button, you can easy connect this to your mobile device, laptop, or whatever really.
There’s no DPI button up on the top, but a programmable button on the bottom can be used to do various tasks and change settings.
A good wireless mouse needs a good way to store the dongle safely.
Flip the lid off and the dongle springs up automatically, making it easy to remove.
The 2.4 GHz dongle is very small, so using it on your laptop isn’t going to be a burden. It also pairs virtually instantly, and the mouse wakes from sleep modes very quickly too.
The mouse has some RGB in the back, with that Cooler Master icon bit offering you some colour customisation. It’s handy for highlighting profiles, DPI levels and similar too, and it’s easily customised using the desktop software. However, there are some hidden combos on this mouse, if you hold down three of the buttons you can move the scroll wheel and adjust the DPI on-the-fly, among other things, which is really neat.
The overall size of the mouse is fairly average, and while I have larger hands, I can get a good fit with a hybrid grip or palm and fingertip.
Even in a lazy palm rest, it feels very comfortable and remains very nimble with the way it distributes the weight of my hand.
You can lift the mouse with a feather-light grip too, which I really like. It allows for low DPI gaming that uses a lift-off technique.
The mouse buttons are nice, but this far back they’re pretty much unclickable.
From the mid-point on, the click very easily, and have a nice tactile sound and feel that will please those who like to click fast.
The switches are mounted directly, so there’s no pre-travel, but a firm push will allow you to bend the plastic that extra 1mm, but this only makes the mouse have a more springy kickback, allowing for even faster clicking.
Overall, I can’t fault this mouse, the 19,000 DPI optical sensor is from PixArt and unsurprisingly, it’s absolutely flawless in its execution. Wireless, wired, Bluetooth, it doesn’t matter what you throw at it, the MM712 delivers effortless performance throughout.
