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Mionix Avior 7000 gaming mouse review

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Sometimes, simplest is best. When it comes to gaming mice, manufacturers increasingly adding buttons, features, pivots, wheels and other bits and baubles that nobody really ever needs. What anybody ever really needs when it comes to games is a mouse that’s accurate, smooth and precise, with 3 buttons and a scroll wheel. Everything else is just gravy.

That’s not to say the gravy isn’t sometimes appreciated – especially left handed gamers, who’re often at the mercy of mouse manufacturers (and well, everything else manufacturers). Thankfully for them, there’s the ambidextrous sort. The Mionix Avior 7000 is just that sort of mouse; one that‘s suited for the left or right handed that nails the basics, but has a little added gravy to try and making it more compelling than the millions of other gaming grade mice available.

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This one has a fairy basic, utilitarian design, coming with 9 buttons, all of which are programmable to a degree. You’ve got your standard left and right clicks, your clickable scroll-wheel, two buttons below the scroll wheel for on-the-fly DPI adjusting and two buttons on either side of the device to make it as symmetrical as possible. That’s one of the first problems with the mouse, truth be told. Because I’m right handed and use a grip that sits somewhere between palm and claw, I found my right ring finger inadvertently bumping in to the superfluous buttons on the right – and I imagine a leftie might do the same on the reverse. That’s the only real design foible, and one that’s easily overlooked as it’s possible to disable them.

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The rest of it is designed rather nicely, with a nice thick layer of velvety rubber that both soft and firm covering the device, with large PTFE feet on the bottom. What that results in is a mouse that’s as smooth to touch as it glides over surfaces. It’s really hard to overstate just how smooth the mouse is. Like many other gaming mice of its ilk, it’s got programmable LED lights, giving you a choice of all 16.7 million colours to choose from. They’re independently configurable though, so you can set the scroll wheel to glow pink, while the one on the logo glows bright blue, making your input device look like Bubblegum ice cream, should that be your fancy (It just so happens to be mine).You can also set the lights to pulse, blink, breathe or shift through all of the colours of a million rainbows if that’s your wont.

466690-mionix-avior-7000Gaming mice are all about performance though, and the Avior 7000 really can’t be faulted here. Able to poll at 1000hz, and armed with the DNS-3310 gaming-grade optical sensor with dials right up to 7,000dpi sensitivity, the device has absolutely zero hardware acceleration – meaning it points precisely where you tell it to. It’s endlessly customisable (well, within its own physical limits, of course), with its built-in 32 bit arm processor and 128kb of memory giving you five customisable profiles. You can create macros and assign them to any of the buttons, though they’re limited through the software to a series of keyboard strokes. It works, but the software could definitely do with a bit of tweaking.

It does have some lesser-spotted features that will be appreciated by a certain subset of gamers. It allows you to adjust the angle tuning, to account for how you hold the mouse, handy for those who’ve become accustomed to mice with off-centre sensors or weird people who’re just unable to hold a mouse straight. It’s also got exceptional Z axis tracking, allowing you to adjust how far you can raise the mouse off of the surface before it stops tracking.

Because it’s an optical sensor and not a laser one, it doesn’t work on all surfaces, and tends to come to a stuttering halt on shiny desktops, so it’s a mouse you’ll prefer to use in conjunction with a decent mousepad. To that end, the software even comes with a Surface Quality Analyzer Tool which you can use to see how suited your mousepad, mat or desk is, and how well it tracks. The Gel mouse pad that keeps me from having carpal tunnel isn’t particularly good, says the tool, with just 70% of its motion being tracked, while a “gaming grade” mousemat I was given seems to be a better surface indeed, with 80%.

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Last Updated: August 9, 2021

23 Comments

  1. Grand Admiral Chief

    September 22, 2015 at 14:39

    R1000….Geoff……Are we sure of the price? Not R100 or R10000?

    Reply

    • Raptor Rants

      September 22, 2015 at 15:09

      huehuehue

      Reply

      • Grand Admiral Chief

        September 22, 2015 at 15:12

        Finally, someone gets it

        Reply

  2. Alien Emperor Trevor

    September 22, 2015 at 14:43

    The right-handed majority conspire against us. They’re jealous of our natural superior-handedness, so they try to undermine us every chance they get by making us look awkward when using every day objects. And they have the nerve to call us the sinister ones.

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    • Grand Admiral Chief

      September 22, 2015 at 14:45

      You have the wrong hand as well as the wrong way of eating meat. You have NO opinion that matters

      Reply

      • Alien Emperor Trevor

        September 22, 2015 at 14:49

        I see through your lies!

        Reply

        • Grand Admiral Chief

          September 22, 2015 at 14:57

          When it comes to delicious meat, I NEVER LIE!

          Reply

          • Alien Emperor Trevor

            September 22, 2015 at 15:26

            It tastes even more delicious once cooked.

          • Grand Admiral Chief

            September 22, 2015 at 15:45

            That is not cooked, the way you eat it is an offering to the fire gods

    • Brady miaau

      September 22, 2015 at 15:03

      My mom is completely ambidextrous, as a result of being in boarding school in the late 50’s and early sixties. They, at the government school, explained to her about the devil that made her use the left hand and then beat her (serious beating sometimes) every time she used her left hand when the right hand could do. Yay.

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      • Commander JJ of the Normandy

        September 22, 2015 at 15:10

        That’s damn impressive.
        The ambidextrous part. Not the other part.
        My sister was completely ambidextrous as a child, but the school also told her to only use her right hand, so she’s not quite as capable as she was back then. Though she still does mix up certain things simply because it comes more naturally.

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      • Alien Emperor Trevor

        September 22, 2015 at 15:30

        I’m ambidextrous to a degree – can do some stuff with my right hand, but more precise tasks like writing or whatever require the left. Like right now I’m using my mouse right-handed, but once I’m home and gaming it’s left-handed. Back in school when I played cricket I used to bowl left-handed and bat right-handed. My parents bought me a pair of left-handed scissors once, I couldn’t use them – were too uncomfortable haha.

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        • Commander JJ of the Normandy

          September 22, 2015 at 15:37

          Excuses!

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          • Alien Emperor Trevor

            September 22, 2015 at 15:48

            Guess which hand I used to DOWNVOTE you! Burn!

          • Commander JJ of the Normandy

            September 23, 2015 at 08:21

            I’ll be the better person and not downvote you….but just spread rumours instead about how you are actually a nice person. How does that feel?!

          • Alien Emperor Trevor

            September 23, 2015 at 08:49

            Oh please, nobody’s going to believe that. 😛

          • Commander JJ of the Normandy

            September 23, 2015 at 08:55

            XD

    • Commander JJ of the Normandy

      September 22, 2015 at 15:08

      Should’ve known you would have something to say about the ambidextrous mouse. ;P

      Reply

    • Ragnar The Vengeful

      September 22, 2015 at 16:02

      Left handed people are the only people in their right minds.

      Reply

  3. Commander JJ of the Normandy

    September 22, 2015 at 15:12

    R1000 does seem a bit steep for something of this quality.
    My GX mouse was around half that and it’s going to last me many years to come (it better).

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    • Grand Admiral Chief

      September 22, 2015 at 15:16

      I paid R700 for my Diamondback 10 years ago…and it is still a beast with no issues.
      So, R70 per year, good buy that

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      • Commander JJ of the Normandy

        September 22, 2015 at 15:19

        Wow. Very good buy.
        I think mine’s maybe around 3 or 4 years old now.
        Though my very first optical mouse ever (those original white-ish Microsoft ones) still works perfectly. I have an MS desktop set at work, they don’t make them like they used to.

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    • Alien Emperor Trevor

      September 22, 2015 at 15:25

      Especially for a mouse that’s under 9000.

      Reply

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