GAMDIAS Hades Extension Laser Gaming Mouse Review

Performance

The downloadable software for the GAMDIAS HADES is beyond incredible; the level of options and customisation are mind boggling at first, but GAMDIAS have made every effort to make them accessible. They’ve even included a basic mode for those who don’t want things to be too complicated.

Customisable DPI for both X & Y axis, polling rates, acceleration, scroll speed, profiles, back lighting and more are available on the Mouse Function tab.

Extensive macro recording features, with configurable command deploy speeds, delays and more.

Muscle Memory is simply a statistics tracker for the mouse.

Advanced mode allows even further adjustment of the sensor settings, including path correction and lift off height.

Advanced mode has a dedicated colour selection tab.

The Sound & Timer tab allows you to configure audio and visual reminders, perfect for letting you know when a command cool-down is complete so you can deploy your macros again.

The audio notifications are completely customisable. You can record them directly via the microphone, or open files through explorer.

The timers are extensively customisable, featuring countdowns in days, hours, minutes and seconds. You can add alarms, OSD alerts and more, which can also use any sound you like.

Here you can customise the OSD size, language and colour. You can also customise the notification voice; there is a choice of male and female voices.

Sensor performance tests on the HADES were done with angle snapping set to minimum and lift off height set low. As you can see, performance at 400 DPI was exceptional.

At 800 DPI the response from the mouse was perfect.

A little wobble from my own hand at 1600, but the sensor is still providing a smooth readout.

Things are seriously tricky to write at this level of DPI, with a little bit of jitter is creeping in here, but still a very good result from the sensor.

Dialling things up to 8200 DPI and accurate small movements of the mouse are near impossible for me. There is a little jitter apparent on the sensor, but at these settings this is still a very good result.

Overall sensor performance on the HADES is some of the best I’ve seen on a laser mouse with this DPI range. The jitter that creeps into the higher DPI settings is not going to be an issue as such high speeds will likely only be used for rapid turning; such as when driving a tank in games like Battlefield 4 or for quickly scrolling of the map in MOBA/RTS titles.

Gaming performance on the HADES is simply out of this world. The level of customisation both in terms of software and physically through the magnetic side panels means that you can easily dial in your desired preferences. The sensor is one of the best laser sensors I’ve used and the software offers plenty of options to tweak the overall feel of how the mouse tracks. Macro recording, timers, configurable buttons and more make this mouse a great choice for any type of PC game. I played many games of Skyrim, League of Legends, Minecraft, Counter Strike and more on this mouse over the last few days and it has proven to be one of the best gaming mice I’ve ever owned.

I will admit that it can take some time to set up the mouse and really get to grips with all of its features, but even the stock out-of-the-box performance is very good; regardless of whether you’re working or playing.