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What if it's a high DPI gaming mouse?
by p1mrx 8y ago
What if it's a high DPI gaming mouse?
- tempestn 8y agoEven if there were some hypothetical mouse that needed that kind of speed (there isn't[1]), it's irrelevant to your parent's actual point. [1] https://www.howtogeek.com/193866/are-there-any-benefits-from-plugging-your-mouse-into-a-usb-3.0-port/ https://www.howtogeek.com/193866/are-there-any-benefits-from...
- wongarsu 8y agoBack-of-the-envelope calculation: if you send a 100 byte status update 100,000 times per second, that's just 80 Mbits/s. To saturate a 40Gbit/s link you could send a 1kB update every 200 nanoseconds (that's 5MHz), assuming perfect efficiency.
- coldtea 8y agoEven then it could make do with much much much slower rates -- those are monitor rates, and we're talking about a mouse here (hi dpi or not).