Epic Gear Morpha X Modular Gaming Mouse Review

Software

The software for the Morpha X is extremely user-friendly and easy to pick up. The ease of use in our opinion is on par with Corsair’s CUE software.

When you open the program your main screen will be where the majority of the work is done. A quick look around this main page and you can catch your bearings fairly quickly if you’ve ever used gaming peripheral software before. The top showcases three tabs; Main, which we are on, Performance, and Macro.

Running the left side you’ll see the seven buttons and all but one is completely programmable. The one you can’t alter is the Profile Select button. Along the right hand side you’ll see the four DPI levels. Since we have the laser sensor in you can see it displayed at the top and the DPI bar stretches to 8200. At the bottom of the page you’ll see the five Profiles these stay static no matter what tab you enter. Each profile has four individual DPI settings, this is good as we have seen before where all profiles had to have the same DPI settings and could just customize different buttons, good job EG.

Now we are gonna move on to the Performance Page. Here you will be able to adjust USB report rate, scroll wheel and double click speed as well as adjust some other options like lift off distance and angle snapping.

One thing we picked up on here out of all the settings that are changeable as per your profile, Scroll wheel & Double click speed as well as Pointer acceleration are not profile specific. Not a major issue but definitely interesting to see. One option you may be itching your head over is the AFM Ambient Lighting. This is just an idle option if you will. So after 20 or 60 seconds your mouse will no longer stay the colour of the profile you’re in but cycle through the RGB spectrum.

The final page is to gamers probably of the most importance and that’s getting to program those macros.

Very straight forward and easy to use, won’t take you but a few minutes to grab the hang of it and move back to the Main screen to input them.

The software is great, easy to use and will satisfy the beginner as much as the expert in our opinion. One thing we were a little disappointed with was the lighting options. The only options you get are solid colours for the profile setting, no individual zones for lighting such as the scroll wheel, logo, or DPI levels. No wave, pulse or anything really. So, in the lighting aspect the software is very bland.

One thing that only after some experimenting did we find out, was that there are actually up to TEN profiles! Now you may be confused but it seems the profiles are saved within the sensors. We tested this by setting a few profiles on the laser sensor and then swapping it with the optical and bam we could now set five more, when switched back, the other five were back. This makes sense obviously as if you go above the 8200 in settings on the optical and switch to the laser it wouldn’t work and would probably crash the program. But sure enough you have up to 10 profiles.

Final Thoughts & Analysis

Overall the use of the Morpha X was good. Not a fan of the generic shape as it really doesn’t give the mouse and personality and starts you off feeling quite “meh” about it. The two thumb buttons on the side are almost completely flush with the body which makes finding and differentiating between them slightly more time-consuming than if they had texture or stand out figures.

The interchangeable sensors is a great idea and the fact they double the profiles you can have is great but in reality a 8200 DPI laser sensor is usually more than enough for the majority of gamers. After a week or so of use with the switches on the buttons, we didn’t notice any drastic difference, in sound, actuation or anything for that matter. I think what we are getting at is, the concept of having a modular mouse is great and all, but the practicality of it isn’t really there for us. customizable shells, sure that’s cool. Improving on some better lighting options to would be beneficial. With an MSRP of $129.99, this is a extremely high price to be paying for a mouse especially since you could probably get a laser and an optical mouse with more options for that combined price. At the time of this review Amazon had the Morpha X up for $89.99, which still is pretty high for a mouse, even though it comes with all these options and the modularity is cool, it’s a steep price we can’t seem to get over. This is the first of its kind that we have gotten to see though and it may be the ice breaker for better things to come. Today the Morpha X gets our Innovation Award for introducing us to mouse modularity.

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