MSI Clutch GM41 Wireless Mouse Review

Hot on the heels of the popular Clutch GM41 Light-weight gaming mouse, MSI removes the final barrier for limitless gaming and cuts the cord. The first mouse meant for wireless FPS players, MSI’s new Clutch GM41 Wireless weighs a scant 74g, only 9 grams more than the wired GM41 but offers up to 80 hours of battery life. Never worry about running out of battery, onboard RGB lighting gives you constant updates and a full charge from completely dead to 100% takes just 90 minutes. If you need a quick top-up between rounds, 10 minutes on the charger gets you up to 9 hours of playtime. If for some reason you can’t stop for days on end, the included ‘FRIXIONFREE’ cable powering your dock can also directly power the GM41 wireless mouse meaning zero downtime and zero missed points. On top of an impressive battery and charging system, this new lightweight heavy-hitter packs a serious punch under the hood as well. Every click goes through genuine Omron switches rated for 60 million clicks headshots. Every movement is tracked with PixArt’s PAW 3370 at up to 20,000 DPI and 400 Inches Per second tracking speed. The asymmetrical design gives righties and lefties the same grip although the side buttons are only on the left side for right-hand thumb use. It sounds pretty promising, so let’s go check it out! PC Test Bench would like to thank MSI for sending over the Clutch GM41 Wireless for us to check out! MSI’s take on the Clutch GM41 Wireless: Following the launch of CLUTCH GM41 LIGHTWEIGHT in February 2021, MSI is releasing its first LIGHTWEIGHT WIRELESS Mouse for FPS PLAYERS. This mouse shares the same shape with the wired GM41 LIGHTWEIGHT, praised by review media all around the world. Designed for advanced FPS players, the new GM41 LIGHTWEIGHT WIRELESS is based on a straightforward symmetrical design for grip, comfort, and hygiene (vs. honeycomb design that traps debris) while weighing only 74g. Features: EXTREME ACCURACY AND SPEED Get pin-point accuracy thanks to the PixArt PAW 3370 optical sensor with up to 20.000 DPI sensitivity and 400 IPS movement tracking. RELIABLE AND DURABLE for EXTREME GAMING OMRON switches are rated up to 60 million clicks. These crisp, reliable mechanical switches register every click register with deadly precision. ULTRA-LOW LATENCY! Built with the latest 2.4G RF wireless technology, latency is reduced to just 1ms resulting in responsiveness almost 10x faster than the typical wireless mouse on the market. GLIDE LIKE NEVER BEFORE Pure PTFE skates provide a near frictionless glide for accurate high-speed mouse movements. The skates have a single-directional surface texture and double-cut edges to reduce friction. CHARGING DOCK & USB DONGLE INCLUDED! Charge the GM41 Wireless from 0% to 100% in just 90 minutes, for up to 80 hours* of usage on a full charge. Need to keep playing? 10 minutes of charging time can recharge up to 9 hours of battery life. The USB dongle can be stored in the mouse for traveling. MSI FRIXIONFREE CABLE The detachable MSI FriXionFree cable can be connected to the charging dock or directly on the mouse, allowing you to keep fighting if your battery ever runs low. RGB MYSTIC LIGHT Light up the battlefield with millions of colors or approach with stealth with the lights turned off. Choose from predefined effects or synchronize lighting with the rest of your RGB setup. DRAGON CENTER Access an array of settings such as lighting control, button remapping, precise DPI changes, and macro recording in MSI Dragon Center OPTIMAL PRICE/PERFORMANCE RATIO With a $79.99 MSRP, GM41 LIGHTWEIGHT WIRELESS currently offers one of the best price/performance values for a lightweight wireless mouse with a dock included! Quick Specs: Sensor: PixArt PAW 3370 Sensor Type: Optical Maximum resolution: 20,000 DPI Maximum acceleration: 400 IPS Switch Type: Omron Switch Lifespan: 60M Clicks Wireless Type: low latency 2.4GHz RF Weight: 74g Charging: Dock (included) and Cable Cable Type: USB 2.0 Micro B Run Time: Gaming: Up to 80 hours General Use: up to 200 hours Charge Time: 1.5 hours Skate Type: PTFE A Closer Look MSI’s GM41 Lightweight Wireless Mouse comes in a fairly thin white box with a picture of the mouse, dock, and cable on the front, and features and specs on the back. Inside, a black box holds a large block of foam with cutouts of the GM41 Wireless, dock, and cable. The mouse has a pull tab attached to help get it out of the foam block, but the cradle actually took a few minutes to get out since it narrows at the top and fits in the cut out tight enough to not come out when inverted. The wireless receiver comes installed in the charging dock. The dock has a scratch sticker around the USB port you can remove. Two spring-loaded gold plated contacts handle the actual charging connection. On the bottom of the dock, you find a standard USB 2.0 Micro Type B connection. Since everything is migrating to Type C, we’ll guess you have several older charge cords laying around if you need a spare. Speaking of cables, the included charging cable is gold plated with the Type A plug a pink color interior. The rubber boots are nicely molded. The GM41 Wireless looks rather unassuming at first glance. Two large primary buttons, scroll wheel, long body with a subtle MSI Dragon logo in the palm area, and two standard side buttons. The side areas are a textured rubber and provide a good grip. The bottom has two PTFE Skates near the nose, three around the perimeter of the palm area, and one entirely encircling the optical sensor window. The recessed crescent moon area sits on the dock and two gold plated contacts handle charging. Near the sensor is the Wireless on/off switch, and a DPI switch push button. It seems weird to have a DPI switch on the bottom, but this is dedicated. Every other button can be remapped if you prefer this function to also be more readily accessible in-game. Under the nose, you find a recessed USB Micro B port. This area can hold the USB receiver for travel. You can also connect the included USB cord and run in wired mode while charging for uninterrupted gaming. The MSI Dragon logo on the palm area of the GM41 Lightweight Wireless is controllable from MSI’s Dragon Center to your taste. Out of the box, the light only comes on when the mouse is moving, and turns off again a few moments later to conserve battery. The color and pattern indicate battery level remains. Software MSI’s Dragon Center has absorbed the Mystic Light RGB control. There are a few adjustable Lighting profiles and you can assign one to each of the three profiles. If you want to adjust DPI and other functional settings, you’ll have to connect over wired USB the first time. Once inside, you can adjust the functions of each button. Beyond swapping things around you can set buttons as multi-media hotkeys, DPI switching, and even record macros. If you feel the need, you can adjust the Polling rate and you can adjust DPI per profile, tweak the lift-off distance. You can also check the battery level here as well. Motion Sync is one setting you may want to play with and find your desired setting. Think of it like V-Sync for your mouse. When off (default) the Pixart sensor adjusts its read rate based on its need. This may or may not align with the polling of the mouse of USB meaning inconsistent reads. When enabled, the sensor will scan, process, and present the latest data synced with poll rate meaning you always receive the very latest tracking information. Macro recording is pretty straightforward. Our only real complaint here is superficial and could easily be fixed with a Dragon Center Update. For time delay between macro steps, you can either choose to mimic the real world, or set a static delay between every step. We wish each step could have a manual delay. You might fire off commands to enter a menu and switch weapon loadouts in a few milliseconds, but need to wait maybe half a second for the gun to load before you can continue your macro steps. I personally use the Macro feature for editing pictures. My current peripherals allow me to set manual delay times, so flipping through the menus is all done in 5ms increments, but applying a filter and a white balance to a picture takes several hundred milliseconds each, before a few more rapid-fire commands to save and close. Testing Test Platform: CPU – Intel Core i9-11900K Mobo – ASRock Z590 Taichi RAM – 16GB (2x8GB) Corsair Dominator Platinum 3200MHz C14 GPU – Nvidia RTX 2080 Founders Edition SSD – Corsair MP600 2TB PSU – Thermaltake Toughpower Grand RGB Gold 750W Chassis – Open BenchTable Cooling – Custom Liquid Loop (EKWB Velocity CPU Block, EKWB PE240 Rad, 1x DDC Pump) Mouse Rate Checker Mouse Rate Checker is a lightweight piece of software that can tell you how often the position of your mouse is sent to the other applications. This parameter is quite important when you are using tools or games with high frame rates. There isn’t much to test on a mouse that is objective. Mouse Rate Checker shows a 1000Hz polling rate which aligns with MSI’s claims of 1ms latency. We don’t have the equipment to test wireless latency, but we can tell you subjectively the GM41 Wireless is incredibly responsive and this is coming from someone who runs a higher-end gaming mouse set to 1000Hz polling as a daily driver. Game Testing: Quake Champions The fast, skill-based arena-style competition that turned the original Quake games into multiplayer legends is making a triumphant return with Quake Champions. Having grown up with titles like Quake 3 Arena and Unreal, Quake Champions is one of my favorite titles to pull up when I feel the need to frag. Quake Champions offers that lightening paced shooter that can set lesser peripherals apart and here MSI’s Clutch GM41 Wireless lets me come out of the gate swinging and land a kill streak in the first minute of the game. Final Thoughts & Conclusion It’s not hard to see why MSI’s wired GM41 lightweight mouse was so popular. The new Wireless version is quite spectacular. I’m not going to lie, I don’t play competitively very often, and have never been a fan of the Ultralight mice but MSI has really made me rethink that the last few days while reviewing this. My daily driver is a ‘gaming’ mouse that runs a quality optical sensor and a 1000Hz polling rate, but the GM41 Wireless just feels more responsive overall. It’s hard to quantify, but the perceivable difference between the two is quite noticeable. I have larger hands and favor a palm grip, and the GM41 Wireless is very comfortable and feels natural to me. It’s long enough that my palm rests comfortably on the rear of the mouse as well which is a surprise as most ‘ultra light’ mice are typically very small. The charging dock is very small but dropping the mouse onto it correctly is pretty easy. Charging is fast, but the battery life is long enough you will likely get used to not charging it until it’s dead, so we’re glad it can run from the cord while charging. The cable is also extremely slick and very thin and lightweight and doesn’t affect your aim. Awesome Job MSI!

MSI Clutch GM41 Wireless Mouse Review

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