I would like to supply aditional information on the RAT 3 (the optical black mad catz non-glossy version). It has been bought in August 2015.
An enotus mouse test (without the smoothness part), along with some lines in paint to show you the lack of jittering.
The mouse does NOT have its drivers installed (they don't help with anything), nor the programming software (I can easily remap the buttons with something like autohotkey while the coloured toggle doesn't give me any advantages). Testing has been done at the 3rd tracking speed (1800 DPI) on a white sheet of paper (in a good but not perfect condition). No modding or other things.
P.S. The mouse goes in the PC through a belkin 3-meter usb 2.0 cable (because mouse is far away).
Conclusion:
Precision - ~ about 98.5%
Default Polling speed: 879 Hz
Max speed: 2.39 m/s (I had to artificially try to get that speed, I doubt anyone would ever reach it under any gaming circumstances)
(sorry, no smoothness, I don't have experience testing it properly
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P.S.2. If stuff breaks within it, I have 2 years to send it back to warranty or re-solder things myself. Some people were able to keep it for over 3 years, it depends on your luck (some guys got not-so-well-made units). Most of them seem to be ok though, and it's selling as fast as fresh&hot bread
Thank you for your time, Grim Fandango!!!
EDIT: It's not july for the picture - it's then when I started looking for a mouse and I have managed to find mine some time later
P.S.3. On the box it says ©2014 Mad Catz