Customer Ratings & Reviews

The Dark Core is an awesome wireless mouse. Completely programmable with icue software. Holds charge for long periods of time and with complete optimization. High speed 1 ms connection a great gaming mouse. Well worth the purchase a great addition to your gaming setup.

This mouse is great. I like the way it feels as it is pretty ergonomic. The weight of the mouse is not too heavy but also doesn't feel like nothing. The battery lasts fairly long and it doesn't take long to charge it. The mouse also works in wired mode while it is charging.

I bought this mouse to try and compare it vs Logitech G Pro and Logitech G502 Wireless, and it doesn't even come close. Big, bulky, very heavy. I felt a little input lag when I hooked it up to my system and I didn't experience that with the Logitech products. Wouldn't recommend this product if you are looking for a wireless gaming mouse. The only cool thing I thought was you could change out the right side of the mouse with a different plate for grip/feel. Overall 3 out of 5 Stars.

The weight is great, the customization is great, and the RGB is great as is normal with Corsair products. The software can be a pain as always but not impossible to work with.

Was in the market for a gaming mouse. Wanted something that is wireless so got this. Word of warning though. The wifi mode on this messes with wifi on devices next to it

I have been using this mouse since 1/6/2019. After six months of constant use, the scroll wheel will only read a button press when I put a lot of pressure on it. If I just depend on the audible click of the scroll wheel it will not register the press. I use this mouse mainly for FPS games such as Rainbow Six Siege so I constantly use the scroll wheel. Other than that, the battery life gets me through the week with the rgb lights on. (I play at most 2 hours a day).

This was purchased as a replacement to a wired mouse. It is easy to use and we love the different functions. Attempting to setup the Bluetooth hasn’t quite worked yet, but we are still working on that. We are happy with the purchase so far.

I’ve long been a fan of Corsair’s hardware for my gaming PC builds, but I’ve never really checked out anything that goes outside of the case. I’m happy to say that their reputation for quality remains intact. The Dark Core RGB is a tastefully understated (by RGB standards) design which doesn’t boast overly aggressive styling or massive arrays of macro buttons, but still manages to squeeze everything that a gamer really needs into a highly versatile and extremely accurate optical mouse. Your choice in mouse is ultimately going to come down to personal preference more than anything else though, and if you can’t try one out yourself it can be difficult to tell how much one person’s preferences line up with your own. So I’ve done my best to compile a list of pros and cons as I see them so you can hopefully figure out how it does in the areas you feel are most important. Pros: The mouse manages to find that sweet spot between heft and lightness. You can zip this around your desk nearly effortlessly, but never feel like you don’t have control over it. Tons of options to fine tune and customize the performance within the Cue software allows you to switch quickly between speed and precision modes, a boon not only for gamers, but also artists, designers, and anyone else who needs to engage in high precision work with their mouse. The RGB effects are cool without being bright enough to light up a room, and very customizable. The optical sensor really does seem to work on just about anything. Even dachshunds (though the wiener dog in my test case was less impressed by this feature than I was.) Tons of options for connectivity and remarkably good wireless response with virtually no lag, even over Bluetooth. The exchangeable side grips can be used to keep the mouse’s profile small or provide a more solid base for added control and comfort. Overall build quality just feels solid and it’s very comfortable to hold. The RF receiver comes with an adapter that allows you to plug it into the braided USB cord intended to be used for wireless mode. Not only does this help get the receiver out in the open where you’re least likely to get interference, but it makes it very convenient to switch between wireless and wired modes on the fly depending on what you need at the time. Onboard memory allows you to store macros and settings within the mouse and bring it with you rather than needing to set things up on each computer. Cons: As far as I can tell, the only way to get the most advanced features out of the mouse is if you use it in wired or 2.4 ghz wireless modes. Which is somewhat disappointing if you’re planning to use this for a laptop and don’t want to bring the dongle with you. In that vein, no internal storage space for the dongle like you get with some other models of mice. Again, very useful if you plan to use this with a gaming laptop. Your hand ends up covering most of the RGB lighting effect areas during normal use, so there’s some question as to how much anyone’s ever going to see the cool lighting profile you whipped up for it. The forward and back buttons are a little awkwardly placed around the sniper button. It’s very easy to miss the forward button thanks to the concave shape of the buttons, which leaves you only a small sliver to press down on. No support for horizontal scrolling. I missed this feature very early on when using the mouse for non-gaming tasks. While it does have 9 buttons, half of those go to controlling the mouse rather than being usable in game. While they can be remapped, you will end up losing some of those features. One final note: I’ve seen a lot of other reviews for this product mention bad experiences with the Cue software. I kind of lucked out in this regard, as just a day before I got the mouse they released an updated version on their website. While I wouldn’t call it perfect, it does seem to be a noticeable improvement and I haven’t run across problems with stability or adjusting the settings. It still does require some basic knowledge about what you’re adjusting, but I didn’t see anything in the latest revision that I’d call a deal breaker.

Lot of the time I have to reset it for rgb effects but overall love this mouse still new to pc gaming but definitely a good rgb mouse

My son said that this mouse was easy to use. He’s a novice at gaming so this mouse was a great value for the stage in gaming he is at.

Mouse is pretty big, found I had to adjust my grip to have proper placement of my thumb to use the side buttons.

Great mouse, I just had problems because it's decently bigger in size than the harpoon. Going from small to large hurts with fps games.

Purchased this for my son for his new pc. He loves it and has no problem programming the RGB lighting himself (8yrs old). Not to big for his and he really appreciates the rubber grip areas, so his mouse isn't slipping out of his hand.

So far I'm really liking my DarkCore mouse. You can program the mouse through the I-cue software. It nice and weighty and doesn't feel cheap, I like the way if feels in my palm. The wireless functionality feels quick and responsive

This mouse Is used for school and gaming. So it spends a lot of time traveling from place to place. It keeps a good charge and has had zero problems with all the stray signals at school,

Love everything about this mouse, it is the best one that I have found. Love the corsair brand in general, as far as the colors, and etc, but this mouse moves seamlessly, and performs exactly the way I would want it to. Highly recommend.

I used this mouse a lot for gaming and online work almost every day til I had a problem with it I will upgrade

Love the color schemes. Love the options (corded, 2.4 Ghz cordless, or Bluetooth). Love the macroable thumb button. The only part that isn't great is the scroll wheel, but that's only because I'm used to the infinite spin models.

My first Gaming mouse, went from a Track ball for the last 20 years, and kicked butt on my FPS. took a little getting use to a new device. but over all, love it. rechargeable, lights up, plenty of buttons.

Very easy to use and set up. Annoyingly the speed the cursor moves is different when wired or wireless