Mad Catz R.A.T. Pro X3 Supreme Edition Gaming Mouse Review

Performance

As I said before, much of this mouse is customisable. It comes with these stunning ceramic pads as standard. However, you can pull them off thanks to the (surprisingly strong) magnetic mounts.

Then you can grab the optional PTFE pads from in the box.

Snap them in place, and you’re good to go!

The palm rest is interesting. It has a heavy spring mount under it, so it adapts to your hand; here’s the default position.

Apply a lot of weight to it and it rocks to better fit your hand shape.

You can also slide it inwards and outwards to suit the length of your hands. But wait, there’s more!

Two more actually, with a range of panels of varying shape, size, length, height, that can all just be slid on to suit your needs.

Don’t like the side panel? No problem, pull it off and replace it with a new one!

Because of this, you can easily convert the mouse to the shape that best fits your hand and play style while also adapting the overall button layout.

Something I’ve never seen before, however, is swappable mouse wheel rings. The stock one is black aluminium with a set of small ridges.

There’s a soft rubber one for added grip.

Plus a silver aluminium one with much more aggressive grooves.

I like this one the best, and damn, doesn’t that look cool!

As for performance, the mouse is up there with the best. They’ve taken an already award-winning combination of R.A.T. products and made this something of a greatest hits collection. What I really like, however, is that the Chameleon RGB Lighting system isn’t overdone. There are a few indicator lights here and there to let you know about profiles and a small lightbar, but they’re not intrusive and not the focus of the design. The design of the mouse is really left to speak for its self, not the LED colours.

The Pixart PWM 3389 Pro Optical Sensor is one of the best on the market today, and I doubt even the most enthusiast eSports pro will find fault with it. It tracks perfectly throughout the massive DPI range. Plus, you can set four DPI levels to the hot-swap button or lock it down to one or two to suit your needs.

What really makes this mouse rock, though, are the ergonomics. I’ve found myself swapping panels all night and having rather mixed results. However, when I settled on the panels I like, this thing fits like a glove. I guess once it’s set up, I’ve no need to tinker with it again, which suits me nicely.

The mouse buttons are really responsive and tightly fitted. Despite the weird disconnected design of this mouse, it feels rigid throughout and nothing wobbles and rattles; the Exoframe works perfectly!

Remember I said there’s something hidden down here? That red switch allows you to cycle through ten different profiles from the onboard memory. Of course, the button is out of the way so that you don’t strike it mid-game.

You can save multiple button and DPI configurations for various games and assign them to a button. This means you won’t need your desktop software to take your settings with you, making this mouse tournament compliant.