Cooler Master's CM Storm Spawn germinates in the lab - Software and Extras



01Cooler Mater is a company that is certainly moving up. It was not that many years ago that they were not well thought of. This was until they released a lineup of cases and coolers that showed they were serious about their business. We saw products like the HAF932, the CM storm series cases and mice, the V8 cooler and others. While this was going on their more consumer based products were benefiting as well. We saw the Hiper 212+ become a favorite of many air cooling aficionados. We used them exclusively for over a year in our labs. Back in January we saw some nice new designs from Cooler Master in their suite at the Bellagio, today we have one of these in the lab and are eager to tell you how it performed. This is the CM Storm Spawn Gaming mouse. Let’s see if it has increased our frag rate.

 

Software and Extras -

We mentioned earlier that there was not installation CD or DVD included with our Spawn. That is ok as you can grab the software from Cooler Master’s website. It is a very small installer and once done you get some decent options for configuring your mouse.
storm-config-01The first page gives you all of the options for controlling what the buttons actually do. This is while in Windows, most modern games will let you configure commands after you are in the game so this is sort of useless for gaming. Still you can setup the speed of the scroll, the speed of the double click, mouse acceleration, and also the way the mouse responds to sudden angle changes.
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Page two lets you create macros (like ghost mouse does). You can record a series of mouse movements and clicks into a single function and then execute them with a single command. It is hand for some, personally I have never used mouse macros, and most other people I know do not see their value.
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The Third page is the custom page; here you can adjust the DPI level settings, the pointer speed and also the polling rate between 125Hz and 1000Hz. The faster the polling rate the more responsive the mouse. It is important to note that not all USB ports can maintain a 1000Hz polling rate. They may allow you to set it this high, but you will not see any performance gain from it.
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The last page is just the support and update page, here is where you go to try and find answers to issues or to just make sure your software is up to date.

 

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