Arctic Cooling Arctic M551 Laser Gaming Mouse Review

September 29, 2010

I have to be honest, when I agreed to review two mice for Bob the thought never occurred to me that they would be from Arctic Cooling, a company known for, well cooling products. I have owned several of their cooling products over the years and have never been disappointed, so I was looking forward to see how they would translate that experience into a mouse. They have released two mice that are geared to “professional gamers and experienced users”, the Artic M551 and Artic M571. Today we will be putting the Artic M551 through its paces.

Special thanks to Arctic Cooling for providing the Arctic M551 Laser Gaming Mouse to review.

Features
We will start with looking at what Arctic Cooling has to say about their product:

Laser Gaming mouse giving you a highly precise tool to control your PC

A mouse works like a computer user’s fingertips, so it should be quick, precise, comfortable and high-quality to help them slide freely on screen. ARCTIC M551 that incorporates all these attributes along with highly functional features..

Main features

Laser engine for absolute accuracy – even on glass
Ultra-high sensitivity – 800 / 1600 / 2400 dpi
Ergonomic design maximizes comfort for a long game play
Smooth, low resistance movements by slick gliding feet
Back and forth thumb buttons for easy navigation
Coated cord eliminates line clustering

The ARCTIC M551 has a resistant surface coating to protect the mouse from wearing out. This helps to maintain the mouse at top-notch quality from day-to-day use. This mouse operates with laser optical sensor; thus, it has ultra-high sensitivity levels that offers ideal precision and speed. The sensitivity levels can be adjusted from 800, 1,600 to 2,400 dpi by simply pressing the ‘dpi’ button. The current sensitivity level is displayed by a LED light on the mouse as well.

The ARCTIC M551 also has the basic features that any computer user is looking for – backward and forward button on the side and the scrolling key on the mouse. All these features are targeted to serve users to surf and play online more conveniently. The quiet scrolling wheel gives highest comfort to users when they need to view slides, zoom in and out, and navigate content on computer screen..

Specifications

Sensitivity		800 / 1,600 / 2,400 dpi
Tracking Engine		Laser
Connector		USB
Typical power input		0.15 W
Cable		1.8 m Ø 2.8 mm
Dimensions		119 (L) x 80 (W) x 41 (H) mm
Weight		160 g

Packaging
The M551 arrived in a nice simple package that showed off the mouse with a clear front cover and had the specifications on the back. Inside the box there is the mouse, an AC case badge, and a small one page “manual” that shows you have to connect the mouse and the features.

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byRich Neves

Published September 29, 2010

7 comments

MixMaster says:

September 30, 2010 at 5:27 pm

Nice write up…Good stuff!
MattWendt says:

September 30, 2010 at 5:41 pm

Nice to see your words again….size wise..whats this compare to the mx1100?
Rich Neves says:

October 5, 2010 at 5:53 pm

At the top it is about the same size as my MX518, but the bottom flares out where the finger rest is.
Mold Removal Hialeah says:

October 12, 2010 at 9:07 am

Good stuff! I really like this. I want mine also like this.
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Andrej Yudin says:

March 11, 2014 at 6:36 am

Such crap. Mouse is labeled as a gamer mouse, yet when sensitivity is set to gamer standards it just crashes- when mouse is moved “to fast” the pointer starts lagging and glitching. And if we’re talking about games this makes it impossible to play.
This is not just with my model.