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For the last few years, the top tier of wireless gaming mice has looked the same: Razer, Logitech, and a handful of boutique brands trading blows at $150 and up, fighting over fractions of a gram and a few hundred extra hertz of polling rate. ATK, a peripherals company out of China that’s quietly become one of the more prolific names in budget esports gear, is making the case that none of that hardware should cost what it currently does. Its new F1 V3 Ultimate+ – sold under the Blazing Sky line and developed alongside the Valorant org LEVIATÁN – packs a flagship sensor, dual-mode 8,000Hz polling, and a sub-40-gram shell into a mouse that undercuts the competition by a wide margin. After going through the spec sheet in detail, it’s hard not to come away impressed. The F1 V3 isn’t just cheap for what it offers – it seems to have the shell design and firmware to actually back up the numbers on the box.
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Design
The F1 V3 ships in two versions, the Extreme+ and the Ultimate+, and both share the compact, symmetrical shape ATK carried over from the F1 V2. It’s a small mouse, built with fingertip and claw grips in mind, and ATK pitches the shape at small-to-medium hands rather than trying to be everything to everyone. The real change from the V2 is underneath: ATK moved the sensor to the center of the shell and widened the front and rear skates, a redesign the company says makes the glide across a mousepad noticeably smoother. It’s not a flashy upgrade, but it’s a real one – the tracking feels more balanced across the pad than the older bottom shell, rather than a change made for a spec sheet.
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Both versions use a hole-free shell instead of the perforated, honeycomb look that defined lightweight mice a few years back, so the F1 V3 looks and feels closer to a normal mouse than a piece of cheese. A new nano-coating covers the shell for grip, and the lineup comes in black, white, pearl blue, coral pink, and lake green, alongside a LEVIATÁN-branded edition done up in the team’s colors. ATK also throws in extra skates and grip tape in the box, along with a braided charging cable, so buyers can tune the feel without hunting down aftermarket parts.
Positioning
The F1 V3’s price is where the pitch really lands. The Ultimate+ lists at $89.98 but regularly sells for around $65 – comfortably underneath rivals like Razer’s Viper V3 Pro, which launched at $159.99, and Logitech’s G Pro X2 Superstrike, which debuted at $179.99, both of which lean on similar internals at a much steeper price. That’s the whole ATK playbook. The company is a sister brand to VXE and VGN, two other Chinese peripheral makers that built their names by putting flagship-grade internals into mice priced like mid-range ones. The LEVIATÁN tie-in fits a pattern ATK has leaned on elsewhere, too – the company has separately signed Valorant champions Aspas and Chronicle as brand ambassadors – borrowing the competitive credibility that Razer and Logitech spent two decades building, without the marketing budgets to match.
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The two-tier split is also a smart way of letting buyers choose which flagship trait matters more to them, rather than forcing a compromise. The Extreme+ trims a gram of weight and pairs Omron switches with a smaller battery built around fast top-ups. The Ultimate+ adds that gram back, swaps in ATK’s own optical switches, and stretches the battery dramatically. Neither one feels like the “budget” option next to the other – they’re just built around different priorities, which is a more mature way to segment a lineup than most companies at this price point bother with.
Performance
On paper, the internals read like a flagship checklist. The F1 V3 runs PixArt’s PAW3955 Master sensor, ATK’s newest, paired with a Nordic 54-series chip and the company’s self-developed ApexShark MAX firmware, which ATK says extracts extra responsiveness out of that hardware pairing. The headline spec is 8,000Hz polling in both wired and wireless modes, delivered wirelessly through ATK’s new GEM receiver – a feature that was reserved for mice twice this price until fairly recently.
ATK backs those numbers with real hardware choices rather than just a spec-sheet flex: the shell is built solid rather than hollow despite the low weight, and the sensor is rated for the acceleration- and smoothing-free tracking that high-end sensors are known for. Choosing between the two tiers comes down to what matters more day to day: the Extreme+ shaves off a gram and leans into a quicker charge, while the Ultimate+ trades that gram for a slightly crisper click feel from its custom optical switches and enough battery life to mostly stop thinking about charging at all.
Battery life splits along the same lines as everything else in the lineup. The Extreme+ is rated for around 80 hours, prioritizing low weight and quick charging over endurance, while the Ultimate+’s larger 300mAh cell stretches to roughly 300 hours, which is enough for weeks of regular play between charges.
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Specs
Strip away the branding and the numbers are straightforward. The F1 V3 comes in Extreme+ and Ultimate+ configurations, weighing 36 grams and 37 grams, both built around the PAW3955 Master sensor with an adjustable polling rate that tops out at 8,000Hz over the included USB-C cable and ATK’s 2.4GHz GEM receiver. The Extreme+ uses Omron optical switches and a smaller battery rated for roughly 80 hours, while the Ultimate+ uses ATK’s own optical switches and a 300mAh battery rated for around 300 hours. Dimensions land close to 118 by 62 by 39 millimeters, a shape built for fingertip and claw grips on small to medium hands. Every box includes a braided cable, spare skates, and grip tape, and street pricing runs from around $50 up toward $90 depending on tier and finish, with the Ultimate+ frequently discounted into the mid-$60s.
Verdict
It’s rare for a budget peripheral brand to make flagship-tier promises and actually deliver on them, but the F1 V3 mostly does. The sensor and polling rate match anything Razer or Logitech currently sells, the redesigned bottom shell fixes a real complaint from the V2, and the pricing undercuts the competition by enough that it’s genuinely hard to argue with. The tradeoffs are the ones you’d expect from a smaller brand: ATK is a much newer company than Razer or Logitech, with a thinner retail and support footprint outside its own store and Amazon, and the shape is right-handed only, so left-handed players are left out entirely.
None of that changes the bigger picture. For well under $65, the F1 V3 Ultimate+ delivers a sensor, polling rate, and shell that would have cost twice as much two years ago, without cutting the corners that usually come with a budget label. It’s not just a good value in a gaming mouse – it’s a genuinely good gaming mouse that happens to be cheap.
