SteelSeries Arctis Nova Elite Evaluation: Gaming Overkill?

The bottom station has one other neat trick; it could actually cost and home a second battery. I bought nearly 30 hours of use on a single cost, simply wanting SteelSeries’ quoted life, however so long as you’re close to the bottom station, you basically have infinite battery life. When the battery will get low, simply swap the spare and the lifeless battery, and your headset will routinely flip again on and reconnect inside a number of seconds. The spare battery costs in lower than two hours, and there’s a sneaky USB-C port on the left ear cup simply in case you’re away from dwelling for too lengthy.

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Match and end could be my different large motive to decide on these over the Arctis Professional or BlackShark V3 Professional. The Arctis Elite are tremendous sturdy, with an upgraded steel headband that feels actually critical. Whilst you may get them in black, you need to as a substitute go for the sage and gold colour. It is immediately eye-catching and stylish, notably amongst gaming headsets, which are typically both darkish and drab or excessively gamer-coded. Sadly, this feature-packed headset can also be the heaviest I’ve examined but at 380 grams, nearly 10 grams heavier than the Razer. SteelSeries headbands are essentially the most comfy round, due to the “goggle band” suspension strap that helps unfold the burden throughout the highest of your head, however it could actually solely achieve this a lot.

In the meantime, the ear cups are comprised of fake leather-based that will get a bit of sweaty, particularly over lengthy gaming classes. Razer has managed to crack the code on breathable ear cups and ANC, however the noise discount within the SteelSeries is healthier in consequence. The distinction in consolation between these two can be a matter of choice, however I would not suggest both if you do not have sturdy neck muscle groups.

If the value tag right here offers you any pause in any respect, I believe you need to have a look at different choices, together with the wonderful Nova Professional, which has an identical base station and app help. The $250-$350 hole between the Nova Elite and some other gaming headset is sufficient for a bounce to a extra highly effective GPU, or to make quite a lot of smaller efficiency enhancements throughout your system.

In the end, past the flexibility to attach extra consoles, the upgrades are largely significant for listening to music, and fewer impactful for gaming. For multi-console homeowners with deep pockets and an expansive music library, this can be a feature-packed headset with no actual opponents, however I do know I might have hassle discovering room for them in my new PC finances.