Speedlink Decus Respec Gaming Mouse Review

Performance

The mouse is plug and play ready out of the box, but for all the advanced features, you’ll want to download the desktop software. Here you can see the software looks a little messy, but everything you need is on display. You can quickly reprogram any of the buttons to suit your needs, change the lighting colours and more with a few clicks.

There are multiple profiles on offer so you can save various configurations, and you can even set a profile key to quickly swap between them.

A few general performance tweaks here.

The sensor can be tweaked over four DPI levels, ranging from 400 up to 5000, giving you more than enough options to play around with to suit your tastes.

Funny story, I did the sensor testing before finding the software, I couldn’t find it on their site at all for a while. Low, Mid, High, and Max each represent 800, 1600, 2400 and 5000 DPI respectively. Speedlink are known to be an affordable brand and in the past, their sensors have been “ok” but nothing special. That seems to have changed with the Decus Respec, which tracks beautifully across the full DPI range, with no jitter or angle snapping at all, making it a great option for the FPS gamer that desires precision.

The RGB lighting is greatly improved over the original Decus, which leaked lighting through the red panel on the top, that isn’t an issue here and the extra lighting sections on the side look pretty cool too.

With the black and red giving a nice contrast, as well as the lighting effects, this is a great looking mouse. However, it’s not all about aesthetics, as the Decus Respec is a fantastic mouse to work and game with too. The LMB and RMB are light and responsive, making them perfect for fast clicking in games like LoL and DOTA 2, while the extra side button on the left front is great for deploying a macro or profile change.

The sensor performance is perfect and much better than I was expecting, so no issues there. If you miss a headshot in CS:GO with this sensor, you’ve really only got yourself to blame.