with its Factory tuning and data center DNA an Intel 730 series SSD is an
amazing choice for gamers and performance enthusiasts now Gigabyte
never really caught my attention with their peripherals in the past and that's
the reason we haven't covered them much but this one right here is a little bit
different this is the Avia uranium wireless gaming mouse with ghost macro
station and there are some things about it that are moderately interesting so
the mouse itself has a 6,500 DPI twin
eye gaming laser sensor it can handle a th000 HZ pulling rate the maximum that
you can do with USB 2 it can handle 50 hours of continuous battery life with
its two doublea batteries mean you can easily swap them out in an emergency or
whatever else the case may be but you don't even have to do that in an emergency because it's got a nice
lightweight cord here that you can go ahead and run to the mouse and you can actually use it as a Wired Mouse while
it charges none of these things are really groundbreaking but the
groundbreaking thing is is the ghost macro station right here that actually
has a full-on OLED display that you can use to navigate the uh onboard menus and
make a ton of changes to the mouse itself without even firing up the
software but first let's take a bit of a visual tour of the mouse itself so at
the front we've got the charging port that plugs into that nice lightweight
cable I talked about before on the right hand side we find not a whole lot of
anything other than a slightly textured but still a little bit more slippery
than I'd like plastic finish at the back we find its butt so to speak okay and
then on the left hand side we've got four G buttons to which are bound to
forward and back by default two of which are completely Unbound but any of which
you can bind to whatever you could possibly want on the bottom we find a
couple of slippy pads for to be precise there are some extra ones in the Box
should you so require as well as that 6500 DPI Twi ey laser sensor we've also
got a connect button which you probably won't even need to use unless something disastrous happens and onoff switch and
those two nickel metal hydride rechargeable batteries that are included
with the mouse a very nice touch on the top we find a scroll wheel that also
supports tilt functionality something I'm not a huge fan of because my lazy
Mouse posture causes me to accidentally hit it all the time but lots of people
really like it as well as a rocker switch right here that's you can use for
on the-fly DPI adjustments or whatever you want a wheel controller lock that
you can use to control the wheel lock
that changes it from being a mouse wheel to being navig for this right here and
finally a profile switching button what I have to say about the ergonomics are a
couple of things on the side and these ones to the left of your index finger
they're all surprisingly easy to reach I particularly like the layout of G4 it's
a very large button and you can either press it with the tip of your thumb or
just roll onto it with the base of your thumb pretty much anyone should be able
to access it to however the buttons under the Palm do continue to baffle me
these ones make a little bit more sense cuz it's just a profile switcher and
then like a navigation lck here so presumably you're not gaming while you're like configuring your mouse or
whatever else so it's better than usual but I still don't particularly like them
and then on the right hand side the thing that bothered me here was that the
mouse is just too heavy to claw grip and
then unfortunately even with my small hands my pinky hangs off the side of the
mouse if I try to Palm it so I really just had a hard time gripping the mouse
in a way that was that comfortable and it's unfortunate that it had has that
particular drawback because there are some other things about it that are
really cool many of which pertain to the
uh ghost macro station itself so moving
on to that it has an extremely bright easyto read OLED display that can have a
ghost logo on it or your own creation
whether it's a bit map or even handrawn on with the mouse itself something that
I spent more of the time you know while I was working on this review doing than
I probably should have it's got on board memory for macros and Gigabyte claims
and it's like a patent pending technology for flawless performance
speaking of performance I had absolutely no complaints about it I didn't notice
any lag or any jumping even on a high resolution 2560 X 1440 monitor uh it's
got a live editing mode this is cool no software required all you have to do is
press that wheel lock button and then you can use the mouse wheel as a d-pad
to navigate forward back up and down to
the menus then you click to confirm your changes and you can change all kinds of
stuff like DPI values you can edit profiles switch profile well you can do
that through the mouse but you can could switch profiles if you wanted to you can assign basic remapped functionality
keymapping functionality so you can bind keyboard functions to your mouse and you
can even assign macros and all that kind of stuff so software is available and
includes more functionalities such as more granular DPI control and a pretty
robust macro editor as well as the aforementioned drawing utility for the
screen saver uh but if you you don't actually
need to use the software to have really good control of the mouse all the time
if you don't want to I did mention before the nice lightweight charging
cord I can't emphasize this enough that's a really good feature to have for
a mouse that's supposed to be Wireless most of the time and then finally the
little Ava logo on the bottom has five different colors which indicate which
profile you're operating in this is kind of cool as much as I might have
complained about the ergonomics of the mouse for myself on their website they
actually have a hand Comfort guide and do recommend a hand size so um I usually
I'd call Luke down to be like yeah here's what his hand looks like on it here's what my hand looks like on it you
know what just head over to their website see if it's a if it's a good fit
for you and on their website also what I noticed is there's a lot of marketing
around the 4K Readiness of this Mouse um
something that I thought was a little bit weird but it's actually a very interesting point when I finally
upgraded from my MX Duo I only did it
because I went from my CRT monitor which I ran at uh 1280 by 1024 or 960 or
whatever it was to maintain the proper aspect ratio I went from that to a 1920
by 1200 Monitor and I was like oh the DPI is not high enough so that is an
argument for higher DPI mice however this one isn't particularly more 4K
ready than other high DPI mice and I just want to make sure I clarify that
also included in the box is a cleaning cloth the extra Mouse feet that I
mentioned before an Ava you know Club an
AA club membership card there's Mouse as well as a user's guide and then the
rechargeable batteries that I have in the mouse already guys thank you for
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