Amazon’s Choice – Best Selling Cheap Gaming Mouse ( Logitech G203 LIGHTSYNC Review )

This cost me just £12.59, and yet is, at least for me anyway, just as good as mice that cost five times as much. This is the Logitech G203 LIGHTSYNC, and if you are looking for a super-cheap gaming mouse, this is it. Let me give you a rundown. In the box you get just the mouse and a pretty large Logitech G sticker. The USB cable is honestly worryingly thin – but I suppose they had to save some money somewhere! It’s still a nice quality though with a soft rubber feel, a USB A connector on the end and strain relief on the mouse side.

The G203 is technically ambidextrous as its shape is symmetrical, although you only get the pretty tiny side buttons on the left side making it much more right-hand oriented. It’s also pretty flat and relatively small which makes it surprisingly versatile for the different types of grip. Larger hands may struggle to palm grip it comfortably, but I’m pretty impressed with how well it fits most hand sizes and most grip types. I can’t say I found it the most comfortable personally, I’m definitely in the larger camp for hand size and the flat shape didn’t work too well for me personally, although it really wasn’t too bad, only from a long term usage perspective would I have any issues.

Build quality is also surprisingly good for this insane price tag. The matte finish is nice, albeit pretty slippy which combined with its small size can make it difficult to hold onto, an issue you can counteract with a deathgrip on the thing. Happily that deathgrip won’t make it feel like it’s ready to collapse in on itself, nor do the miniscule side buttons feel like they want to snap off inwards when you use them. The scroll wheel is plastic and does feel a little cheap, but I wouldn’t mark it down too hard for that.

What about the sensor? Well that’s an optical sensor – good start – with up to 8,000 DPI sensitivity. That’s plenty, although being such a budget mouse it isn’t the absolute best sensor on the market. With that said, I had no trouble gaming with it. While it should be painfully obvious I’m no pro, odds are you aren’t either, and I can say that the mouse wasn’t exactly my limitation in how well I played. There wasn’t any noticeable latency on the clicks – it runs at the standard 1000Hz polling rate so you can expect something like 2 ms from the click registering with the mouse to your system registering it which is pretty standard. The sensor’s tracking felt fairly smooth, although it did take some tweaking to get the DPI setting feeling right for me.

Happily you both have a dedicated button behind the scroll wheel to switch what DPI you are using, and use the Logitech G Hub software to adjust them to anything you like from 200 to 8000. You can also map their “G SHIFT” function to one of the buttons to have it temporarily switch DPI like a sniper mode. Of course you can remap any of the buttons if you like, even drop the polling rate – I guess for compatibility if you need it – and naturally you can control the RGB lighting. While RGB on a mouse seems a little pointless since it’s going to be under your hand while in use, I must admit I rather like the style. The light bar around the back of the mouse looks pretty nice with the colours shifting around, and of course the Logitech G logo illuminates too.

In terms of downsides, it isn’t the absolute lightest, coming in at around 88 grams, although that’s still lighter than most and honestly feels perfectly fine for the average gamer. But, really, for £12 any complaints I could have seem utterly pointless. For that price tag as long as you aren’t comfortable spending considerably more to get a better equipped sensor and less weighted mouse, this is a no-brainer. Even for its “non-deal price” at £18 it really isn’t bad, so if you want to pick one up I’ll leave a global Amazon affiliate link in the description below for you to check out.