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It can be a bit bewildering trying to decipher Logitech's mouse lineup since it's so vast, but one thing is clear: the G502 Proteus Spectrum ($59 on Amazon) (£55.96 on Amazon UK) is its top-of-the-line wired gaming mouse for right handers, and it's got more features than most home appliances. It's a replacement for the G502 Proteus Core, with the word Core being ditched in favor of the word Spectrum since this version has RGB lighting (naturally). It also features the company's most accurate sensor, 11 programmable buttons, and you can customize its weight as well. It's expensive at around $60 but considering its dizzying list of features the price matches its performance.

Ergonomics

When I first laid my paw on the G502 my initial reaction was that it wasn't immediately comfortable. It fit into my hand well enough, but the far-right side, where my pinky rests, is textured for grip and it felt strange and distracting to me. There's a textured section there to keep the mouse from slipping, but my initial reaction was that felt too coarse. On the opposite side, the mouse is contoured for your thumb, which is actually quite nice. The way it is curved made my grip feel tighter on the mouse, but without having to exert any extra effort.

The rest of the mouse is smooth plastic without anything particularly noteworthy. It feels like it's a little on the smaller side, which made me wish there was a little more of an arc to the mid-section of the mouse where my palm rests.

The G502 has 11 programmable buttons and they're all easy to access. There's a sniping button just ahead of where your thumb rests that you hold down to change the DPI to its lowest setting, which is great for firing off a quick shot in Battlefield 1 (or Battlefield 1942). There are two buttons for back and forward just above the thumb rest. The forward button is easy to reach, but I found the back button just a smidge too far back to reach comfortably. I'd recommend programming it to perform a non-gaming function, or just ignoring it entirely.

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Adjacent to the left-click button are the up-and-down-DPI buttons. The G502 allows you to adjust mouse sensitivity on the fly, and the levels can be tweaked with Logitech's software (more on that later). These buttons are out of the way so it's tough to touch them accidentally, and there's a helpful light-up indicator to show you which setting is active. In the center of the G502 are two more buttons; one for switching game profiles and one that activates "hyper-fast scrolling," which is a very cool feature. Enabling it turns off the clicky nature of the scroll wheel, allowing it to be spun as fast or slow as you like without any stops or clicks. Even when the button is depressed to set the wheel to operate normally, a finger flick sets it spinning like the Showcase Showdown on The Price Is Right. It's really fun to see how quickly you can scroll through your weapons in CS:GO while you wait for the warm-up period to end. Using "free spin" does make it less accurate when scrolling, so it's not great for gaming, but it works perfectly for browsing the web, and it's easy to switch between the two modes.

Flipping the G502 over reveals an access panel that lets you add a few 3.6 gram weights. The vaguely boomerang-shaped weights can be placed inside the mouse's belly to help balance the mouse's weight to your liking. I dropped in two and was satisfied, but there's enough room for as many as five if you prefer a heavier mouse for less twitchy movement.

Software Solutions

Logitech's software for the G502 offers myriad options for tweaking and customizing the mouse to your liking. Configurations can be stored either on the mouse itself via its onboard memory, or per-game on your computer.

Though the amount of customization options in the software seemed overwhelming at first, I found they were actually extremely easy to adjust. Most people might just tweak one or two things, and the one setting that absolutely should be modified is the DPI range the mouse can use. This lets you change it on-the-fly from high to low depending on whether you're running and gunning or camping/sniping. You can set up to five values, with the highest being 12,000, and choosing these values is as easy as picking from a drop-down menu or adjusting a slider.

The software also searches your hard drive for games and sets up default button profiles for them. It's a cool touch, especially if you want to take advantage of the extra buttons but don't want to deal with the hassle of assigning each of them to a function.

Another feature of the Logitech software I really liked is called surface tuning, and it's a program that lets the mouse examine your surface and configure itself to work optimally regardless of whether it's a table or mousepad. There are presets for different Logitech mousepads, but it works with any brand or surface. It's really slick, and the configuration process is as easy as making a few figure-eights with the mouse to let the mouse examine the surface it's working with.

Finally there's the RGB lighting, which seems like a must-have for any peripheral sold in 2016. Though you'd be forgiven for thinking the mouse had perimeter lighting or lines around its curves or something, the only illuminated part is the large G on the palm rest and the DPI indicator, which was a disappointment. The color, brightness, and effects (flashing, breathing, etc.) can be tweaked and adjusted to your heart's content, and there's also lighting profiles the mouse can use based on what game you're playing. You can also sync the lighting to whatever is running on your Logitech keyboard if it's RGB as well. Overall the lighting on this mouse doesn't really add much to the experience, mostly because our hand is on it while we use it so it's kind of silly to make the main colorful thing be hidden most of the time.

Gaming

The software also searches your hard drive for games and sets up default button profiles for them.

Switching from my regular mouse to this one felt a bit like switching from a flashlight to a laser beam at first. Simple, ordinary tasks like highlighting text on a page or selecting the address bar in my browser were easier and my mousing more accurate, and the G502 felt incredibly responsive. It kind of felt like taking a Ferrari to the grocery store, but it's just an ancillary benefit to using a super sensitive mouse in that it makes even non-gaming tasks easier.

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For gaming the Logitech G502 is accurate and most of its array of buttons are convenient, but there are so many that it's awkward trying to use them all. Having all those extra buttons afforded me a great deal of customization. For example, the default press-to-use microphone button in CS:GO is 'K' on the keyboard, which is not exactly easy to access in the heat of battle. With the G502's extra buttons I was able to map it to the forward-thumb button, so talking smack was as easy as slightly adjusting the position of my thumb.

Having the extra weights installed also seemed to improve my game a bit. I don't know if they really helped or if I just imagined it, but I swear I started winning more matches once I had a bit more weight in my mouse. The only downside I experienced is the mouse didn't seem to fit my hand comfortably, which left my hand feeling fatigued after longer gaming sessions. The textured material on both left-and-right sides of the mouse improves grip, but made my fingers feel sore after a few hours of gaming death grip.

Purchasing Guide

The Logitech G502 Proteus Spectrum has an MSRP of $79.99, but like a lot of PC hardware it can generally be nabbed at a discount. Best Buy and a few other retailers regularly sell the mouse for $59, which is the same price it currently has on Amazon: