HyperX Pulsefire Haste gaming mouse review: Lightweight but not lacking

(Pocket-lint) - The Pulsefire Haste is HyperX's reply to the inclination of superlight honeycomb gaming mice retired there. It ticks a fig of boxes excessively - unless you emotion RGB lighting by the bucket load.

We've been happily working, surfing, and gaming distant with the Pulsefire Haste to bring you our thoughts connected however this lightweight rodent stacks up against the competition. 

Lightweight plan and an agile frame

• Honeycomb plan with 59g lightweight shell 
• Hyperflex USB cable
• Dustproof TTC Golden Micro dustproof switches
• Virgin-grade PTFE feet

When we started utilizing the HyperX Pulsefire Haste we noticed a fewer striking things astir it. First up, it's 1 of the lightest gaming mice we've used, weighing conscionable 59 grams.

However, it is wired - which detracts from that consciousness of freedom. That said, the floppy Hyperflex cablegram ensures that the USB transportation doesn't measurement you down oregon get successful the mode portion gaming. 

Although the Pulsefire Haste mightiness not beryllium the best-looking gaming rodent we've seen, it's inactive a satisfying rodent to usage with plentifulness of features that marque it appealing for the price. 

Its assemblage verges connected being a bully acceptable for mean to tiny hands - we fishy that large-handed gamers mightiness conflict with it - and we recovered it comfy to usage during our play sessions. 

If you're disquieted astir the honeycomb ammunition presenting a occupation for particulate and ungraded ingress, you don't request to fret arsenic the Pulsefire Haste sports dust-proof switches. We're besides reasonably assured a spray of compressed aerial would soon benignant the insides out. But we wouldn't urge spilling a portion connected it. 

The outer ammunition besides has a bully PBT-esque decorativeness to it, making it casual to grip, and there's not overmuch information of it slipping astir successful the hand. A bully summation to this is the included textured grip portion which tin beryllium applied to the main rodent buttons and either broadside of the mouse. This portion is casual to apply, without the annoyance of bubbles, and maintains the wide honeycomb decorativeness too. 

In the box, you besides get immoderate replacement PTFE skates, truthful if and erstwhile those deterioration retired you tin regenerate them and rejuvenate the rodent without overmuch hassle.  

One country the Pulsefire Haste lacks is successful RGB lighting. We've seen overmuch nicer-looking lightweight mice with snazzier appeal. The SteelSeries Aerox 3, for example, sports immoderate bully RGB lighting that glows from wrong the honeycomb shell, but that's sadly lacking connected the Pulsefire Haste. 

The Pulsefire Haste lone has RGB connected the rodent wheel, which is customisable wrong the software. Where happening this does radiance though is the mode it changes erstwhile you alteration DPI level. The rodent instrumentality lights up with antithetic colours showing concisely arsenic you alteration levels, truthful you cognize astatine a glimpse what you're in. 

Capable gaming setup

• 1000Hz polling rate, Up to 16000dpi
• Speed: 450ips / Acceleration: 40G
• 6 programmable buttons

When it comes to gaming, we recovered the Pulsefire Haste to beryllium a comparative joyousness to use. Like different lightweight gaming mice, it's casual to flick astir the table which makes it cleanable for fast-paced first-person shooters and conflict royale games. 

With 450ips and 40G acceleration, it's much than susceptible too. We privation the PTFE feet were a spot bigger, arsenic we've surely seen larger ones connected different mice, but generally, the HyperX rodent is casual to grip and adjacent easier to move. 

The DPI switching fastener connected apical besides makes it casual to acceptable and power betwixt assorted antithetic DPI levels wrong the HyperX Ngenuity software. From determination you tin besides programme macros, reprogramme keys, and set different settings. 

The bundle is simply a spot barebones compared to the likes of Razer's Synapse bundle oregon Corsair's iCue, but it's casual to usage and allows you acceptable up and tweak astir things with ease. We recovered macros casual to grounds and set, with the casual accommodation of delays and tweaking a doddle also. Macros don't look arsenic accelerated to activate arsenic with different mice though.

Since we reviewed the HyperX Pulsefire Haste it has been updated to enactment Nvidia's Reflex Latency Analyser. This means if you hap to person 1 of the precise best, G-Sync compatible 360Hz displays past you tin instrumentality vantage of this strategy to show latency and heighten your gaming experience. If you privation the competitory edge, past the Pulsefire Haste whitethorn good present beryllium a large choice. 

Writing by Adrian Willings. Originally published connected 29 April 2021.