CM Storm Sentinel Advance Mouse Review

Configuring the Sentinel

Configuring a gaming mice usually gives us a headache due to poorly executed software. Great products overlook that important detail, but not the Sentinel. The graphical user interface is very good and user friendly. It supports up to 5 different profiles and the user configurations are stored on the mouse’s 64 KB internal memory, so you can switch computers and keep your preferences.

Figure 4: Configuration menu.

Eight buttons can be reassigned through the main configuration screen. The user can program simple commands, application launching, application controls and macros. Trigger-happy players can even apply the Rapid Fire function to a button. Configuration is a hassle-free deal. You can set the color of the light emanating from the Sentinel through the color scheme control screen and also set the light graphic image onto the OLED display, like, for instance, the symbol of your gaming clan (FPS players like to gather in virtual battalions called “clans”).

Figure 5: Color scheme control.

The user can set four sensitivity stages up to 5,600 DPI in the X/Y axis. There goes our usual tip: lower values are indicated for high precision moments within a gaming match, and upper values are good for high octane action. Cooler Master also suggests working with a simple formula: take the higher value of your monitor screen, multiply by 2.5 and there you have the medium DPI setting you should aim for. For instance, in a 1024 X 768 monitor, the Sentinel should be set around 2500 DPI (1024 x 2.5). But again there is no mathematical formula for personal taste and gaming preferences.