The Pulsefire Saga Pro is a solid modular wireless gaming mouse, but it feels at least one step behind the rest of the competition.
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HyperX was all excited about the modularity of its Pulsefire Saga mouse lineup at CES 2025 — showing off not just modular parts that would come with the mouse, but a variety of colorful 3D-printed modular parts that it suggested users would be able to print at home.
(Of course, who wants to pay $120 for a gaming mouse, only to have to then print your own parts at home?)
Okay, well, you don't have to print your own parts at home, as the mouse does come with some parts in the box — an extra version of each modular part, which includes the shell, primary buttons, and individual thumb buttons. But the modular parts aren't particularly interesting on their own, so at the end of the day it's just a regular mouse with switchable parts unless you really plan on putting your 3D printer to use.
The HyperX Pulsefire Saga Pro is, at its core, a wireless gaming mouse with a right-handed shape, six buttons (five programmable), and up to a 4,000 Hz wireless polling rate. It's lightweight — but not that lightweight — and it features HyperX's 26K sensor, which is the same sensor we've seen in HyperX mice for the past couple of years. But it is modular — an uncommon trait among the best gaming mice — and the modularity is implemented nicely.
Design and Comfort of the HyperX Pulsefire Saga Pro
The Pulsefire Saga Pro Wireless has a pretty familiar shape — it looks a lot like the HyperX Pulsefire Haste 2 , albeit with a less ambidextrous shape. The mouse, in its default form, has a mildly contoured right-handed shape with flat primary buttons, a notched scroll wheel, and two thumb buttons that follow the chassis' side curve. It features a lightly textured matte black shell with HyperX's HX logo printed in silver on the palm rest. It's not the most exciting mouse design, but the angled separation of the buttons from the palm rest gives it a little HyperX flare. It has one customizable RGB lighting zone, in the scroll wheel.
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The notable thing about this mouse is that it's modular — though it's not nearly as much as the Orbitalworks Pathfinder . The modularity is implemented pretty well: the parts feel sturdy and are mostly connected magnetically. You can swap out the main shell (the palm rest and sides), the primary buttons, and the thumb buttons. HyperX includes two options for each in the box: two palm rests (one is slightly more contoured), two sets of primary buttons (one set has finger grooves), and two sets of thumb buttons, which can be used separately.
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