A Closer Look
The mouse comes hard-wired with a lightweight and flexible paracord sleeving that looks stunning, it’s a brilliant white so may be hard to keep clean, but it does look pretty nice.
There’s a Velcro strap to keep it bundled, and a small USB header also finished in white.
NZXT always kills it when it comes to aesthetics, and the SYMM is no exception, with a brilliant matte white finish, all-white buttons and a white scroll wheel, it looks pretty striking. There’s no RGB or anything here, just a strictly white finish that looks very professional.
The NZXT logo is pressed into the plastic on the nose of the mouse, keeping the branding stylish and minimal.
Down the left side, the side buttons are nice and pronounced, and there’s a textured side panel offering some additional grip, not that you need much grip given the mouse is so light, you can pick it up with a feather touch.
Down the right side, there’s a little more texture to add even more grip, but weirdly for a symmetrical mouse design, it’s still only right-handed, so it’s just a preferred ergonomic shape rather than a truly symmetrical mouse.
I do like the shape though, it feels very comfortable in your hand, and that’s largely due to the extremely lightweight design. It’s one of the lightest gaming mice on the market, so it takes virtually no effort to move it around while working or gaming. Even on my textured wool mouse mat, it offers up pretty much no resistance, and you can blow on it and it’ll move over your desk, it’s that light.
The mouse wheel is heavily recessed into the body but features a cool circle texture that we see through the NZXT product range, it’s on their motherboards, keyboards, and everything else, and it’s little details like this that I like, as they all compliment each other visually.
Up on the top of the mouse, you’ll find a glossy white NZXT logo, just a subtle bit of branding, and again no RGB here, which is a breath of fresh air in an RGB-riddled market. The mouse features a profile button on the top, which is programmable, but the default setting is that it cycles through the DPI levels.
The ultralight design is impressive, as the top shell of the mouse feels rigid despite being so lightweight, but as you can see, there’s been some significant weight shedding on the bottom, by… well, removing the bottom.
This does mean that dust and debris could find their way into the bottom of the mouse, but that shouldn’t be an issue, as the PCB, sensor and switches are all protected or raised out of the way.
The sensor is a 26000 DPI PixArt PMW3395, which we know to be an amazing sensor, and it provides flawless tracking throughout the DPI range, with 50G acceleration and up to 650 IPS. Combined with the lightweight of the mouse, smooth, fast and accurate tracking isn’t going to be an issue, ever.
There are three PTFE feet on the mouse, with a large pad at the front and back, and a ring of it surrounding the sensor too, giving you as much low friction contact as possible.
Overall, this mouse is an absolute weapon, being so light and with that brilliant sensor, it’s extremely responsive for twitchy fast-paced shooters. The LBM and RMB are each mounted with their own panel, directly mounted to the switches, so the click response is instant, with no pre or post-travel, and a very fast return, so if you like to click away like a machine gun, no problem.
