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Noxen Shadowfang

PAW3950 Gaming Mouse — Flagship Optical Tracking

The PixArt PAW3950 is the current flagship gaming sensor — 26,000+ DPI, 650 inches-per-second tracking, 50 G acceleration tolerance, and zero smoothing or prediction. Noxen builds the Shadowfang Pro around it.

  • PixArt PAW3950 optical sensor
  • 26,000+ DPI
  • 650 IPS tracking
  • 50G acceleration
  • Zero smoothing, zero prediction
  • Wireless, ultralight, optical switches
Noxen Shadowfang ultralight wireless gaming mouse with PAW3950 sensor

PAW3950 sensor advantages

The PAW3950 reads surface texture cleanly at extreme speeds — past 6 m/s of hand motion. It tracks consistently on both cloth and hard mousepads. And it has no built-in smoothing, so every micro-correction you make goes straight to the screen unfiltered.

Why sensor matters more than DPI

DPI numbers above ~3,200 are marketing — no esports player uses them. The real difference between a cheap gaming mouse with PAW3950 and a flagship is sensor stability: no jitter at low DPI, no acceleration at high speed, no angle snapping, no prediction.

Pairing PAW3950 with the right hardware

A flagship sensor needs a flagship body. The Noxen Shadowfang pairs PAW3950 with a sub-60g shell, optical switches, 100% PTFE skates and a tri-mode wireless module — so nothing else in the chain bottlenecks the tracking.

Sensor — PixArt PAW3950

The flagship optical sensor, decoded.

The PAW3950 reads surface texture cleanly past 6 m/s of hand motion, with zero smoothing and zero prediction. That means every micro-correction your hand makes lands on screen unfiltered — no acceleration, no angle snapping, no input mush.

DPI
26,000+
Tracking
650 IPS
Acceleration
50 G
Lift-off
1 mm

Polling rate

1000Hz · 4000Hz · 8000Hz — what changes.

Polling rate is how often your mouse tells the PC where it is. Higher polling rate means smaller gaps between input reports and lower input latency. Noxen supports all three so you can match the rate to your monitor and CPU.

RateIntervalNotes
1000 Hz1.000 msBaseline. Safe for every CPU, every monitor.
4000 Hz0.250 msSweet spot for 240–360 Hz monitors.
8000 Hz0.125 msLowest input interval. Pair with 360 Hz+ and a strong CPU.

All Noxen wireless polling rates run over the 2.4 GHz link — no cable required.

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