Razer Mantis Control Mouse Pad
Makaveli - April 24, 2007Testing:
Testing System:
- Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 Processor
- ASUS P5N32-SLi SE Deluxe Motherboard
- OCZ Gold 1GB (2 x 512MB) DDR2 800 Memory
- eVGA 7950GT KO Video Card
- XG Vortec 600watt Power Supply
- Western Digital 250GB IDE Hard Drive
- Western Digital 160GB SATA 3.0GB/s Hard Drive
- Seagate 80GB IDE Hard Drive
- LG DVD-R DL Burner
- Windows XP Media Center 2005
- Audigy 2 Sound Card
- Enermax Uber Chakra ATX Full Tower Case
- Razer DeathAdder Gaming Mouse
Testing this mouse pad is going to be extremely hard. I’m going to have to play video games for hours and hours, until I can’t stand the games any more. But really, this is by far my favorite section of the review. I’m going to be playing World of Warcraft, Counter-Strike: Source and Battlefield: 2 for a few hours each, to test speed and comfort. All marks are out of a possible 100 (perfect) points, all the way down to a 1 (terrible); higher is better in all tests. Also, I’m comparing this mouse pad to my old generic Kensington mouse pad.
The Razer Mantis Control mouse pad feels like denim, so I had apprehensions that this would cause the mouse to move slower. This is simply not the case; the mouse glides very smoothly on the surface. On the Kensington mouse pad, I felt like it was pulling my mouse down and obstructing its path of movement. I definitely had better control with this mouse pad over the Kensington and it was a notable difference. I had three other friends play with the mouse pad for a while and they all said that they could tell the difference in control too
