The Korean manufacturer of gaming equipment Pulsar, in collaboration with the fan specialist Noctua, has presented a version of their elegant Feinmann F01 gaming mouse with an integrated fan. Noctua’s 40-millimeter fan is designed to cool the player’s palm through the mouse’s heavily perforated casing when it gets too hot. Like the basic version of the mouse, the Feinmann F01 Noctua Edition has a housing with many holes. The Feinmann F01, which weighs just 46 grams, is made of a magnesium alloy. The Noctua Edition has a carbon composite housing that is decorated in Noctua’s typical brown and beige colors. Despite the additional fan and 500 mAh battery, the Noctua Edition only weighs 73 grams.
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In addition, Pulsar has given the Noctua Edition of the Feinmann F01 an improved sensor: a modified PAW 3955, which Pulsar calls XS-2. It manages up to 42,000 cpi and a scanning speed of 800 ips. This corresponds to about 20.3 meters per second or 73 km/h. As befits a high-quality gaming mouse, the F01 Noctua Edition delivers up to 8000 data per second via radio dongle to the USB interface (8000 Hz polling rate). The dongle has two buttons that you can use to switch the resolution in the game and control the fan. This can also be done directly on the mouse using key combinations. Pulsar does not specify battery life because it depends heavily on the polling rate and of course the fan operation.
The mouse buttons are also high-end
The mouse buttons are also the finest: very fast-switching optical KAILH buttons with a durability of 100 million clicks. Like the magnesium version of the Feinmann F01, the housing shape is ergonomically slightly curved and therefore optimized for right-handers. However, the Noctua Edition is around three millimeters longer and is therefore slightly more suitable for medium to large hands.
The case of the Feinmann F01 Noctua Edition is also heavily broken on the underside. This saves weight and improves the effectiveness of the fan (easily visible below the sensor in the housing).
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Unlike manufacturers like Logitech and Razer, which require extensive software packages to configure gaming mice, Pulsar relies on a web application to set resolution, polling rate, lift-off distance and other parameters, including the fan curve for the Noctua Edition. This means that the Pulsar mice can be easily configured not only under Windows and macOS, but also by Linux gamers. In addition, you don’t clutter up your gaming computer with resource-consuming and often spying background programs.
The gaming comfort is not cheap: the Pulsar Feinmann F1 Noctua Edition costs around 200 euros. This makes it slightly cheaper than the magnesium version of the F1, which costs around 220 euros.
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