Performance

The Thor sports an Avago-9500 sensor and thus doesn’t experience any Z-axis tracking issues like my everyday personal mouse the Razer Naga. The sensor boasts a 6000 DPI maximum which is eons above what any sane human being would use, but it has the ability should you want to try it. I found myself most comfortable with a DPI of around 1600, but the lower DPIs were incredibly useful when Photoshop editing. I did experience a slight amount of positive acceleration on both soft and hard surfaces in my testing, but it wasn’t enough to be overly noticeable or disturbing to gameplay. In fact, I didn’t notice the acceleration at all until I made a point to test for it. This is typical for the Avago-9500, the same sensor used in the SteelSeries Sensei and the Corsair mice among others.

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The mouse itself is rather large and felt odd in my hand for the first day or two of using it. Once used to the bigger mouse I was right back at home. The only issue I did have was that I felt that I needed to pinch the mouse with my pinky finger to keep it from dragging, and as a gamer that doesn’t pick my mouse up off the mouse pad when playing; this was something that felt new and awkward to me.

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The buttons, though few and very simple, all did their job effectively. The left and right click buttons were probably the biggest surprise. They are the longest part of the mouse, and I expected to have to stretch my fingers down to the tip to be able to click, but I was able to press them almost in the center of the mouse.  The mouse wheel is rubber and easy to grip, but it isn’t studded like many mice today, though this wasn’t an issue. I found that the mouse wheel did wiggle a bit back and forth which is another thing that I am not used to and don’t commonly see, but it was more of an annoyance to my-self diagnosed OCD than an issue. The two side buttons are easy enough to reach and I didn’t have any issues with them. In fact, being able to customize what they do using the software is awesome because I use them as talk keys for Ventrilo, and constantly going forward and backward in my browser is too big of a price to pay to converse with friends.

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