Vaxee XE Wireless Mouse Review

The Vaxee XE Wireless looks identical to its wired counterpart, the Vaxee XE. It has a logo-free matte plastic finish with a black plastic baseplate, side buttons, a CPI button, and a black rubber scroll wheel. It doesn't have RGB lighting apart from 2 status LEDs behind the CPI button, which indicate battery level, and a few more underneath the mouse that indicate the current CPI, polling rate, and debounce settings. The mouse comes in various colors, including black, white, orange, pink, and blue, in addition to our unit's yellow.

This mouse doesn't have great portability. It's too large to fit into most laptop bags easily, and it doesn't have anywhere to store the wireless receiver inside the mouse.

This mouse has decent build quality overall. The matte finish on the plastic outer shell feels comfortable and smooth. There's some flex when you apply considerable pressure to the sides of the mouse, and it's possible to actuate the side buttons by applying pressure under them, but this isn't noticeable when using the mouse normally. The left and right-click buttons have a little side-to-side play, and it's possible to activate the scroll wheel click by applying pressure to the right. That said, there isn't any rattling when you shake the mouse, which we encountered when testing the wired Vaxee XE.

This mouse is fairly lightweight, but it's noticeably heavier than some FPS-focused gaming mice.

The shape of this mouse is identical to its wired predecessor, the Vaxee XE. It has a symmetrical, rounded shape similar to the Logitech G PRO X SUPERLIGHT 2 but noticeably smaller. Its sides slope gently outwards to a flared bottom, resulting in a fairly wide, flat shape better suited to a palm or claw grip for those with medium or large hands. Some users with small hands may have trouble reaching the front side button. If you want an option with a larger symmetrical shape, check out the Corsair M75 AIR.

You can connect to this mouse wirelessly with its included 2.4 GHz USB receiver. It has a rechargeable battery that Vaxee claims has up to 100 hours of charge in standard mode and up to 55 hours in competitive mode.

This mouse has a high-quality, flexible paracord-like charging cable that easily glides across desks and mousepads without much drag. However, it does retain some kinks from its packaging.

The Vaxee XE Wireless has excellent feet. It has two large, virgin-grade PTFE feet that glide smoothly across most mousepads but are somewhat thin and slightly scratchy when gliding across harder surfaces. Third-party replacement feet are also available.

• Vaxee XE Wireless
• USB-A to USB-C charging cable
• USB receiver
• USB receiver extender
• QR code for user manual

This mouse's left- and right-click buttons use Huano 70g mechanical switches.

You can't reprogram any of the buttons on this mouse without third-party software. There are three buttons underneath the mouse that control the CPI, the polling rate, and the debounce delay. They also allow you to adjust lift-off distance, toggle motion sync, and toggle competitive mode. The function button underneath the scroll wheel displays the battery life and activates the page-down key. You can find more information and a full list of button combinations on Vaxee's website.

This mouse has excellent click latency, providing a highly responsive gaming experience for any genre. Vaxee released a firmware update that adds a "Competitive Mode," which they say optimizes the mouse to achieve the highest possible performance. We tested this mouse in competitive mode, as well as in standard mode at 1000Hz with motion sync turned on and the lowest debounce setting of 2ms, but we found the results to be the same.

We also tested this mouse in standard mode with motion sync turned off, and again the results were the same.

Note: We purchased Vaxee's VXDO2 receiver separately. This receiver increases the maximum polling rate to 4000Hz.

As expected, using a 4000Hz polling rate produces better click latency results, which you can see here.

Note: The improved 4k results don't affect scoring as the receiver is a separate purchase, and, according to our methodology, its performance benefit isn't factored.

This mouse has remarkable CPI performance overall. It delivers extremely good tracking accuracy that translates the physical movements you make with your mouse closely to your cursor movements on-screen.

This test was conducted with a polling rate of 1000Hz.

The Vaxee XE Wireless has outstanding sensor latency performance. It reacts very quickly to your physical movements with the mouse, and you won't notice any delay. Vaxee released a firmware update that adds a "Competitive Mode," which they say optimizes the mouse to achieve the highest possible performance. We tested this mouse in competitive mode, in standard mode with motion sync turned on, and in standard mode with motion sync turned off, all at a polling rate of 1000Hz.

In competitive mode, we found that the sensor latency was almost identical to standard mode. Sensor latency was slightly better in standard mode, with motion sync turned off. The delay at half movement was 2.4 ms, and the delay to end movement was 1.8 ms.

Note: We purchased Vaxee's VXDO2 receiver separately. This receiver increases the maximum polling rate to 4000Hz.

Typically, using higher polling rate settings results in a small but measurable sensor latency improvement. Unexpectedly, the Sensor Latency results for the Vaxee XE Wireless are slightly worse using a 4000Hz polling rate compared to the original 1000Hz polling rate.

For reference, you can see our results with 4000Hz polling here.

This unexpected result may be due to issues with the most recent firmware version, but we can't say for sure. If you have this mouse and want to share your experience with sensor performance, we encourage you to reach out to us in the Comments.

Note: The 4k results haven't affected our scoring as the receiver is a separate purchase, and, according to our methodology, its performance impact isn't factored.

The available polling rate options are 125Hz, 500Hz, and 1000Hz.

This mouse features motion sync, which is a sensor setting that synchronizes sensor data with polling events. It can improve how closely your mouse movements are matched on-screen but usually adds around 1 ms of latency. It also features competitive mode, which Vaxee claims provides the best wireless performance.

Since we reviewed this mouse, Vaxee has released a VXD02 receiver that increases the maximum polling rate to 4K. We bought and tested this receiver separately, but given that it was an additional purchase, it doesn't factor into the maximum polling rate results listed here. Note that if you buy this mouse now, Vaxee includes this upgraded 4k receiver in the box.

The Vaxee XE Wireless has a grippy rubberized scroll wheel that operates quietly and precisely with well-defined steps. Unfortunately, you can actuate the scroll click by applying pressure to the right, as mentioned in the Build Quality section of the review.

This mouse has relatively quiet left- and right-clicks, side buttons, and scroll wheel operation that won't bother those around you.

It's a driverless mouse with no associated software.

All default button functions work in Windows and macOS.