Glorious Model O Eternal Mouse Review: Close To Budget Perfection

Glorious' long-running Model O bid expanded again successful 2025 with the Model O Eternal, a cheaper, lighter mentation of the beloved archetypal that ranked arsenic 1 of the champion gaming mice of its day. I had precocious hopes: it's a decently lightweight (55g) fund rodent with coagulated specs, agleam customizable RGB and an fantabulous reputation, each for $40/£35 – oregon cheaper if you store around.

It has, thankfully, lived up to those expectations, and is present my go-to proposal for anyone connected a fund looking for 1 of the champion lightweight mice to usage successful a fingertip-style grip.

But it's not cleanable and it won't suit everyone. Let maine explain.

Design and Shape

The Model O Eternal's honeycomb holes connected its apical and bottommost are divisive. I don't similar them – I peculiarly dislike however those holes agelong and distort towards the basal which, combined with the RGB lighting strips, marque the rodent look messy to my eyes.

But the constituent of them is to chopped weight. It's conscionable 55g, and the haphazard looks are truthful worthy it: this is 1 of the lightest mice connected the market. Very fewer fund mice get beneath 60g, and it feels wonderfully nippy erstwhile I'm whipping it astir my mousepad. The rodent feet are astir alarmingly tiny but that didn't impact the glide, and it slid arsenic elegantly arsenic the galore high-end mice I've tested implicit the past year.

I was disquieted that its holes would irritate my palm, but I couldn't adjacent consciousness them. I wouldn't urge it successful thenar grip – I'll explicate wherefore successful a 2nd – but I could usage this rodent for respective hours astatine a clip without it feeling uncomfortable. Its coating is little grippy than astir mice, but it ne'er slipped oregon shifted successful my hand.

Despite the plan and weight, this rodent is not flimsy. Over the years, immoderate Glorious users person reported problems with physique prime and sturdiness with different models, but the rodent I tested felt solid. I squeezed it and pushed it harder than you ever would portion utilizing it, and it didn't truthful overmuch arsenic creak. There is, of course, an inherent delicacy to having holes each implicit the rodent and you'll request to beryllium cautious not to spill thing inside, but the existent ammunition won't fto you down (and a mates of blasts of compressed aerial volition beryllium capable to region immoderate dust).

I besides emotion its main rodent clicks and scroll wheel. The buttons are responsive, casual to spam, and they dependable satisfyingly crisp without being excessively loud. The scroll instrumentality feels genuinely luxurious – I usually similar stiffer wheels but I loved however creaseless this felt. Its ample ridges marque it much tactile than astir wheels, and you get a definite bump betwixt each increment. I'd beryllium blessed if this was connected a rodent 3 times the price.

So far, truthful overwhelmingly good. But determination are 2 things I don't like.

First, the broadside buttons. Their shiny coating has nary grip, there's zero spread betwixt them, and they are smaller than they person immoderate concern being – acold smaller than, for example, the broadside buttons connected the ultra-compact Logitech Pro X Superlight 2c I precocious reviewed. I misclicked, oregon missed a click, acold much often than I usually do.

Those buttons besides enactment maine disconnected utilizing thenar grip entirely. The existent assemblage of the rodent feels beauteous successful my palm, but hitting the backmost broadside fastener with your thumb becomes impossible. It feels similar Glorious person changeable themselves successful the ft here. Fingertip and claw grip felt comfy, with fingertip somewhat easier due to the fact that of the mode your scale and pinky fingers beryllium connected the close of the mouse.

And the different misstep is the cable. It's not the worst I've tried, but it kinks precise easy and perpetually concertinas together. It ne'er affected maine successful game, but having it clump up connected my table and mousemat successful a seemingly unavoidable mode was annoying.

Still, for maine to person truthful fewer complaints astir a rodent this inexpensive is an fantabulous sign.

Performance and Gaming

I tested the Model O Eternal successful a wide assortment of genres. I played Arc Raiders and Counter-Strike 2 to trial its flicks, fastener spamming and aiming consistency, Hades 2 for its precision, and Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 for thing slower.

Its sensor lags down mean and high-end mice erstwhile it comes to maximum DPI (12K), max tracking velocity (300 inches per second), and max acceleration (35G), but, arsenic I perpetually find myself writing, those numbers are partially selling material. The cardinal questions are whether it feels bully and whether it tracks your movements accurately and consistently.

In each the games I played, it's a resounding yes. I felt I could afloat spot the Model O Eternal to bash what I wanted. I noticed nary skips, hitches, oregon different errors successful its tracking, and nary issues with immoderate of its fastener clicks – prevention for the occasional broadside fastener fumble.

Its lightness made maine bask careening backmost and distant crossed my mousepad successful hectic shooters, and it's creaseless capable for much placid games, too.

Its polling complaint – the fig of times it reports its presumption to your machine – caps astatine 1,000Hz. Many mid- and high-end mice volition spell beyond that to 2,000Hz, 4,000Hz, oregon 8,000Hz, which should springiness you a smoother, much responsive ride. I tin consciousness a quality betwixt 1,000Hz and 4,000Hz, but it's small, and going up to 8,000Hz does thing for me.

All that's to say: 1,000Hz is perfectly good for astir people, including immoderate pro FPS players. If you're utilized to higher polling rate, oregon you privation to effort higher, you'll person to walk much money. For the terms 1,000Hz is what you tin expect, and the Model O Eternal performs arsenic good arsenic immoderate different rodent astatine this price.

Software and RGB

Glorious' Core lacks immoderate of features I've travel to expect, specified arsenic adjusting the lift-off region and scroll instrumentality speed, but if each you privation is to tweak the polling rate, sensitivity, and DPI increments, it volition consciousness intuitive. It's neatly laid retired and elemental to use, with nary distractions.

Glorious Core is besides wherever you personalize the RGB of this mouse. Two strips down the broadside are agleam and due to the fact that of the holes successful the design, the airy seeps each done the assemblage of the mouse, afloat saturating it. The effect is simply a satisfying lavation of colour beneath your hand.

You tin prime betwixt 9 lightning presets, and I enjoyed the variety. There's the accustomed gentler options, specified arsenic breathing and an always-on azygous color, arsenic good arsenic whackier modes including a "rave" enactment that gives maine a headache. If you similar RGB, you're good catered for.

Samuel is simply a freelance newsman and exertion specializing successful longform journalism and hardware reviews. You tin work his enactment astatine his website.