Regarding the design, Trust has opted for something very conventional: a symmetrical design (except for the side buttons, which we only have on the left side and therefore this mouse is only suitable for right-handed users) and rounded, tested to give super comfort to all types and sizes of hands and grip shapes, although it is true that this type of mouse greatly favors users who hold the mouse in hot shoe mode.
Unboxing and external analysis
To pack this GXT 980 REDEX, Trust has chosen a polychrome flexible cardboard box on the front of which we find an image of the mouse accompanied by its main characteristics, leaving a new summary of these but more extensive for the back.
Inside we find the mouse simply protected by a piece of hard cardboard, and the truth is that this is completely improvable because if the packaging receives a blow on its two main faces there will be nothing for cushion the impact for the mouse. As well as the device itself, Trust includes a brochure with legal and compliance information and a quick start guide.
Interestingly, there is no reference to the name “GXT 980” on the packaging, but it can be seen in the legal information brochure and on their website. It is as if they had regretted at the last moment to add this slogan.
In addition to the above, a cable with a USB-A 2.0 connector on one end and USB-C on the other is also included, which will be used to charge the battery of the mouse or to use it with a cable. This one is 1.80 meters long, it is extremely fragile and handy, and it is meshed with nylon thread. It also incorporates, as you can see in the image, an EMI filter to avoid interference, something that we consider almost useless considering the use that the cable is going to have, but it doesn’t hurt either .
Here you can see the Trust GXT 980 REDEX from three quarters, with its comfortable rounded contours.
You can see that the two main buttons are extremely oversized, and that’s one of the reasons it’s ideal for claw grips. Also in this area we find the scroll wheel with RGB lighting and 2D operation, as well as a configurable button but which is factory programmed to rotate between sensitivity profiles.
In the palm area, nothing to highlight except the “GX Trust” logo that will light up in RGB colors when the device is turned on. The lower area, as we will see later, also lights up to give it an extra splash of color.
The sides don’t have rubber inserts to improve grip, but are simply smooth plastic; As we mentioned before, we have two side navigation buttons (they are configurable) on the left side, but the right side is completely empty.
We go to the lower area, where two large teflon feet have been installed at the upper and lower ends to ensure smooth sliding on any surface. The optical sensor is in the center, and at the bottom we can see two switches: the one on the left is used to manually change the polling frequency between 125, 500 and 1000 Hz, while the one on the right of the image is used to switch on and off the mouse.
A fact that seemed curious to us: the mouse came to us with the switch on, and of course this completely drained the battery. This is something inconceivable, and not only because we had to charge the mouse before we could use it, but also because this battery, completely empty, has already deteriorated from the factory.
You might be wondering where the wireless receiver is, right? The palm area of this mouse can be removed by pulling it backwards (it has a mechanical anchor on the front and a magnetic one on the back, so it’s easy and comfortable to use, as well as safe during play). ‘use), giving us access to the USB dongle.
After seeing the mouse, we proceed to leave it for a few hours charging its battery and we are going to connect it to a PC to see how it works. When connecting, the two dots that were seen in the center of the palm will light up red to indicate that the battery is charging.
How does the REDEX Trust behave?
As we mentioned earlier, this mouse has individual configuration software, so you will have to go to the manufacturer’s site to download it (note to Trust: it’s time for you to program a unified software, if it please, we are in 2022 and almost all manufacturers already have it).
In the first tab of the configuration software, we can configure the mouse button assignment, as well as save and load up to 5 profiles. You can also see in the central area a warning that the mouse is in a suspended state, and we wanted to remove it this way on purpose so you can see it because the mouse automatically enters this mode after 1 minute of idle (to save battery), and this is something that is not configurable.
In the second tab we will be able to configure the sensitivity levels, between 200 and 10,000 and in 7 different jumps that we can activate and deactivate, as well as assign a color so that the mouse lights up indicating which jump it is acts in.
The third tab is the one we can use to configure the mouse lighting. A handful of preconfigured effects come out of the box, but we can modify them -relatively- all of them to adjust them to our preferences.
Finally, the fourth tab of the software will allow us to record and save macros (which we can then assign in the first tab).
After seeing the software, the time has come to test this Trust GXT 980 REDEX, but first of all it is essential to show you what its lighting looks like. In this case (since the mouse came to us without a battery from the factory and we had to keep charging it) we didn’t take any shots in the studio, where we have lighting conditions that no one has usually on his desk, but we shot directly on the desk and in normal lighting conditions.
The photos were taken around 11:00 a.m., with the window blind up and about 1.5 meters from the mouse, but with no direct sunlight on the window. The light in the room was off and it must also be said that the images have not been retouched in terms of lighting, ie what you see is what is really there.
We can see that the lighting is really very good, especially in the case of a wireless mouse that “draws” the battery for it.
Considering the lighting, now let’s see how it works. To do this, we configured the mouse with a sensitivity of 2,200 DPI, which we always use, with the polling rate at 1,000 Hz and in wireless mode.
Podemos ver en este benchmark par ratones que en términos de resolution, because más o menos funciona bien pero queda un poco corto en realidad, lo que nos da que pensar que la configuration de sensibilidad a través de s’aceleración, y we do not like. The polling rate is set to 954Hz, decent for wireless communication, while the accuracy, as you can see, is excellent.
Of course, when it comes to the softness test, in this mouse the software was not able to run it; It kept telling us that the mouse speed was too slow despite our best efforts to move the mouse quickly in circles, and in fact, we even tried higher resolutions with no success. This again makes us suspect that software mouse acceleration is enabled.
In use, the mouse was comfortable for us from the first moment, partly because, as we warned at the beginning, we are right-handed users with a claw-type grip and this type of mouse is ideal for it. Yes, we will tell you that for a wireless mouse it has been very light, which is appreciated because it reduces fatigue in use and, in addition, avoids inertia during very fast and/or aggressive movements with the mouse.
In terms of performance and accuracy, we’ve been using the device for several days for all sorts of tasks, from work to gaming, and at all times it performed like a charm, we couldn’t fault it except that ‘maybe it enters sleep mode too frequently to save battery power, and sometimes you want to pick up the mouse and move it around and it takes a while to respond; This won’t happen to you when gaming because you move the mouse around all the time, but for work it gets uncomfortable at times.
Finally, regarding the battery, our tests gave us the following result with a full charge, with mixed use (games and work) for about 14 hours a day:
- RGB on: 7 p.m.
- RGB off: 42 hours.
We note that the RGB effectively penalizes the battery life enormously, not to mention that as we suspected at the start, this gaffe that the mouse arrives on it and with the battery dry has deteriorated the product quite a bit (namely the time that would take the completely empty battery).
Conclusion and judgment
The Trust GXT 980 REDEX is a wireless mouse designed for gaming which, for a fairly contained price, offers excellent performance across the board, with a comfortable design and fairly decent configurable RGB lighting.
The mouse has been very reliable in all the tests to which we have subjected it, although it is true that it has some disadvantages: on the one hand, it seems that it has software acceleration activated and cannot be suppressed, which on the contrary cannot be It is not at all noticeable when using it. On the other hand, it goes to sleep too quickly, and it can’t be configured either, so it can be a bit annoying if you don’t constantly move the mouse (for example, to write this paragraph logically I have both hands on the keyboard and the mouse has already automatically gone into sleep mode).
In any case, we think this mouse deserves our gold medal, as well as our recommendation for its excellent performance/price ratio.
