Gigabyte Aivia Uranium Wireless Gaming Mouse
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2014-05-07
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1,552 words · ~7 min read
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with its Factory tuning and data center DNA an Intel 730 series SSD is an
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amazing choice for gamers and performance enthusiasts now Gigabyte
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never really caught my attention with their peripherals in the past and that's
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the reason we haven't covered them much but this one right here is a little bit
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different this is the Avia uranium wireless gaming mouse with ghost macro
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station and there are some things about it that are moderately interesting so
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the mouse itself has a 6,500 DPI twin
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eye gaming laser sensor it can handle a th000 HZ pulling rate the maximum that
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you can do with USB 2 it can handle 50 hours of continuous battery life with
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its two doublea batteries mean you can easily swap them out in an emergency or
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whatever else the case may be but you don't even have to do that in an emergency because it's got a nice
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lightweight cord here that you can go ahead and run to the mouse and you can actually use it as a Wired Mouse while
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it charges none of these things are really groundbreaking but the
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groundbreaking thing is is the ghost macro station right here that actually
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has a full-on OLED display that you can use to navigate the uh onboard menus and
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make a ton of changes to the mouse itself without even firing up the
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software but first let's take a bit of a visual tour of the mouse itself so at
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the front we've got the charging port that plugs into that nice lightweight
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cable I talked about before on the right hand side we find not a whole lot of
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anything other than a slightly textured but still a little bit more slippery
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than I'd like plastic finish at the back we find its butt so to speak okay and
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then on the left hand side we've got four G buttons to which are bound to
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forward and back by default two of which are completely Unbound but any of which
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you can bind to whatever you could possibly want on the bottom we find a
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couple of slippy pads for to be precise there are some extra ones in the Box
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should you so require as well as that 6500 DPI Twi ey laser sensor we've also
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got a connect button which you probably won't even need to use unless something disastrous happens and onoff switch and
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those two nickel metal hydride rechargeable batteries that are included
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with the mouse a very nice touch on the top we find a scroll wheel that also
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supports tilt functionality something I'm not a huge fan of because my lazy
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Mouse posture causes me to accidentally hit it all the time but lots of people
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really like it as well as a rocker switch right here that's you can use for
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on the-fly DPI adjustments or whatever you want a wheel controller lock that
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you can use to control the wheel lock
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that changes it from being a mouse wheel to being navig for this right here and
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finally a profile switching button what I have to say about the ergonomics are a
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couple of things on the side and these ones to the left of your index finger
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they're all surprisingly easy to reach I particularly like the layout of G4 it's
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a very large button and you can either press it with the tip of your thumb or
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just roll onto it with the base of your thumb pretty much anyone should be able
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to access it to however the buttons under the Palm do continue to baffle me
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these ones make a little bit more sense cuz it's just a profile switcher and
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then like a navigation lck here so presumably you're not gaming while you're like configuring your mouse or
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whatever else so it's better than usual but I still don't particularly like them
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and then on the right hand side the thing that bothered me here was that the
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mouse is just too heavy to claw grip and
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then unfortunately even with my small hands my pinky hangs off the side of the
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mouse if I try to Palm it so I really just had a hard time gripping the mouse
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in a way that was that comfortable and it's unfortunate that it had has that
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particular drawback because there are some other things about it that are
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really cool many of which pertain to the
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uh ghost macro station itself so moving
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on to that it has an extremely bright easyto read OLED display that can have a
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ghost logo on it or your own creation
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whether it's a bit map or even handrawn on with the mouse itself something that
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I spent more of the time you know while I was working on this review doing than
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I probably should have it's got on board memory for macros and Gigabyte claims
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and it's like a patent pending technology for flawless performance
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speaking of performance I had absolutely no complaints about it I didn't notice
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any lag or any jumping even on a high resolution 2560 X 1440 monitor uh it's
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got a live editing mode this is cool no software required all you have to do is
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press that wheel lock button and then you can use the mouse wheel as a d-pad
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to navigate forward back up and down to
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the menus then you click to confirm your changes and you can change all kinds of
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stuff like DPI values you can edit profiles switch profile well you can do
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that through the mouse but you can could switch profiles if you wanted to you can assign basic remapped functionality
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keymapping functionality so you can bind keyboard functions to your mouse and you
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can even assign macros and all that kind of stuff so software is available and
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includes more functionalities such as more granular DPI control and a pretty
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robust macro editor as well as the aforementioned drawing utility for the
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screen saver uh but if you you don't actually
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need to use the software to have really good control of the mouse all the time
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if you don't want to I did mention before the nice lightweight charging
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cord I can't emphasize this enough that's a really good feature to have for
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a mouse that's supposed to be Wireless most of the time and then finally the
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little Ava logo on the bottom has five different colors which indicate which
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profile you're operating in this is kind of cool as much as I might have
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complained about the ergonomics of the mouse for myself on their website they
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actually have a hand Comfort guide and do recommend a hand size so um I usually
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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
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know what just head over to their website see if it's a if it's a good fit
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for you and on their website also what I noticed is there's a lot of marketing
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around the 4K Readiness of this Mouse um
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something that I thought was a little bit weird but it's actually a very interesting point when I finally
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upgraded from my MX Duo I only did it
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because I went from my CRT monitor which I ran at uh 1280 by 1024 or 960 or
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whatever it was to maintain the proper aspect ratio I went from that to a 1920
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by 1200 Monitor and I was like oh the DPI is not high enough so that is an
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argument for higher DPI mice however this one isn't particularly more 4K
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ready than other high DPI mice and I just want to make sure I clarify that
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also included in the box is a cleaning cloth the extra Mouse feet that I
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mentioned before an Ava you know Club an
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AA club membership card there's Mouse as well as a user's guide and then the
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rechargeable batteries that I have in the mouse already guys thank you for
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