The GAMDIAS HADES Laser Gaming Mouse

The GAMDIAS HADES is an average-sized gaming mouse at just under 12.5 cm long, and 6.6 cm wide. For those with larger hands, it can be made wider using the provided 3 sets of interchangeable side panels. Even better (at least for left-handed gamers!), the HADES is an ambidextrous mouse.

The GAMDIAS HADES has two "fixed" buttons - the left main button (or the right, if you are left-handed), and the DPI button. This leaves you with 6 other programmable buttons, one of which is the clickable scroll wheel. On both sides of the mouse are two silver-coloured side buttons.

By default, the two side buttons on the left act as Forward and Backward, while the two side buttons on the right serve as the Profile Cycle and Call HERA buttons. These buttons can be programmed with a wide variety of functions, including keyboard shortcuts and even Skype functions! Here's a quick reference to the available buttons :

1 and 2 - the left and right mouse buttons. These are interchangeable in the HERA utility but one must be "fixed" as Left Click.

3 - the scroll wheel is clickable but its click function is disabled by default (set as Universal Scroll). A common option would be to change this to Precision Aim.

4 - the DPI switch. This is a fixed function button that scrolls through the 5 available DPI options - 400, 800, 1600, 3200, 8200.

5 - the left, front customizable side button. By default, it's set to Forward.

6 - the left, back customizable side button. By default, it's set to Backward.

7 - the right, front customizable side button. By default, it's set to Profile Cycle, which allows you to cycle through the 6 available custom profiles.

8 - the left, back customizable side button. By default, it's set to Call HERA, which basically launches the HERA software so you can customise the mouse.

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LED Lights

Unlike the GAMDIAS ZEUS, the GAMDIAS HADES comes with just two LED lights, and only one of them is actually adjustable - the LED light that lights up the scroll wheel. The other LED lights up the GAMDIAS logo at the back of the mouse but that's permanently yellow.

On the other hand, the HADES allows for extremely fine control of that scroll wheel LED light. Take a look :

As you can see, the GAMDIAS HADES gives you the ability to change the scroll wheel's LED light colour through RGB controls, allowing you to fine tune your colour of choice from a palette of 16.5 million different colours. It also supports 3 brightness levels and a pulsing mode, although there's no option to change the frequency of the light pulses.

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Laser Sensor

Again, the GAMDIAS HADES comes in two models. The one we are reviewing here is the GMS7011 model with a laser sensor. There is a lower-cost version, the GMS7001, which comes with an optical sensor. You can verify this by looking at the label at the base of the mouse.

Although the GAMDIAS HADES uses a lower-powered 0.5 W laser than the GAMDIAS ZEUS, which comes with a whooping 1.25 W laser to illuminate the tracking surface, they both feature the same 8200 dpi sensor. So their performance, vis-à-vis real world usage, is identical.

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