UtechSmart Venus Gaming Mouse RGB Wired, 16400 DPI High Precision Laser Programmable MMO Computer Gaming Mice [IGNs Recommendation]

Firstly I would like to say that this is an amazing mouse and I would definitely recommend it to anyone with or without a budget. Feel: The mouse has an incredible conformity to your hand. It feels natural, it fits all of the curves of your hand nicely and has good resting areas for all fingers. Its design fits in the palm nicely, and handles easily. Look: Its absolutely beautiful. It provides that nice amount of color that isnt incredibly flashy but just enough to make it look cool. Its breathing lights look incredible in the dark, and the color customization is quite mind blowing. DPI: The DPI is shown by 4 red lights on the top of the mouse, next to up and down buttons. Its very easy to change and easy to determine what DPI setting you are on. The DPI is quite insane, though, as the highest level will take you to the other side of the screen with a slight twitch of the hand. I dont know if its just me, but I feel like it could be too responsive. I generally use it on the first level, with one light on. Program: Its a bit confusing, the profiles are a bit weird, but its generally okay and just takes some messing around with. Changing Profiles: To change between 5 different possible profiles, there is a button on the bottom of the mouse that you push to change the coding for the buttons. This will also change the colors you have set for the profiles. I wish it was a bit easier to change profiles, but its not that big a deal. Weights + Extra Pads: Weights were incredibly useful in determining the right feel and weight for the mouse, and is definitely a good customization feature of the mouse. It comes with 8 weights, already inside of the mouse, and a case for the weights so you dont lose them. The company has also put in extra pads for the bottom of the mouse, when the current ones get worn out. Buttons: Not including the regular clicking buttons, the DPI settings, and the profile button, there are 13 other programmable buttons on this mouse. One of them is right next to the left click, on the outside/top of the mouse, and it is preset as a double click. The other buttons are on the side, numbered 1-12 and preset to 1-12. So if youre a Minecraft player such as me, this is a wonderful mouse. You can program these buttons with the program downloaded with the mouse, and store them in the profiles. Issues: I have very few of these, and I may have touched on some earlier. First off, the scroll wheel. Personally I like a mouse to have very clear notches in the wheel for gaming, so I can tell how many times I need to scroll to get to the certain weapon or tool I need. The scroll wheel for this mouse feels pretty loose, with no hugely defined notches. Theyre still there, but they arent quite as sharp as I like them to be. The next problem is one Ive mentioned, changing profiles. Its a bit tedious to have to turn over the mouse every time I want to change a profile, so an easier method would be nice, though its not a huge deal. Third: Sometimes when I jitter click (click very fast), the mouse squeaks a bit. Its just a bit annoying to hear. Lastly, the scroll wheel isnt fully customizable with colors like the other parts. It only has 5 presets of red, blue, green, yellow, and pink. Compatibility: This mouse is meant for Windows, at least the program is. If you use it for a Mac, the buttons on the sides are still preset to 1-12, but you cannot program them without an external program, and you cannot get the full customization of colors. I believe other methods have been suggested like program the mouse and profiles on a Windows computer and then transfer the mouse to the Mac, but Im not sure how well that works or if it works at all. This is an excellent mouse, and I would recommend it to anyone whos looking for something incredible thats under $80. EDIT: Its been over 2 years since Ive had this mouse, and its finally starting to degrade a bit software wise. However, the only issue Im having right now is that it becomes a bit unresponsive with a couple buttons and tracking for a few seconds.

I just got this mouse, so I dont have a lot of experience with it yet, but I wanted to give my first impressions. Pros: 1. Do all mice come with replacement Teflon pads? Because this mouse does. Thats new to me, and while I havent bought a new mouse in a few years, I typically buy high-en peripherals. 2. The side buttons dont accidentally click when you pick the mouse up! This is a big deal for me, as my last mouse did this so often that I had to disable one of the three side buttons in the profile. 3. The fit is really quite good. Fit and feel are things you just cant glean from a review online, so take this with a grain of salt. Your hands may hold this mouse just perfectly, or not. You wont know until you try it. I expected it to be on the large side, because it has 12 side buttons. But it fits my hands very well (I wear mens medium gloves). 4. It comes with a printed manual. This may not seem like a big deal, but its nice to be able to see what each button is, without having to load up a PDF. 5. The braided cable is nice. It helps identify your mouse if you plug in to a USB hub. 6. Adjustable LED coloring lets you select a color that suits your preference. Cons: 1. The DPI indicator LEDs color is not adjustable (fixed at red). This doesnt really bother me. 2. The Velcro cord organizer is not removable. Minor issue, Im gonna leave it on for now. If it bugs me, Ill cut it off. I have lots of Velcro cable organizers, so it will be easy to replace if I need to. I have the polling turned all the way up to 1ms (1 KHz), and have not noticed any issues yet. I quickly found the DPI that I like is around 7,000. I will need to play around with that a bit. The software makes this easy. Since the mouse has 4 adjustable DPI increments, Im leaving #3 at 7,000, and will set #1 and #2 a bit lower, with #4 and #5 a bit higher. Then I will adjust the DPI in game (and in Windows) until Im happy. I also put acceleration at one notch above zero. For the price, this is an amazing mouse. I got it on sale, which made it an even better value. One feature that I would like to see is an DPI assignment that lets me toggle between my current DPI and any other. I would love to be able to hit side button 1 and instantly be in the lowest DPI (for sniping), and hit it again to be back at whichever DPI I was just using. I may be able to do this with a macro, so Ill try to figure that out before I post a feature request with UtechSmart. I will update my review after Ive spent some time gaming with it (probably Far Cry 5 / New Dawn).

The Good: I purchased the wired version of this mouse in October, 2014. I have had 0 problems with it and I LOVE it! Its by far the best mouse I ever owned. I got my mouse covered in liquid so I decided to get a new one. I was checking out the wireless version since Ive been wanting the same mouse in a wireless version. So, I went ahead and bought this one. When I got the moue, I was BLOWN AWAY! It has almost everything I wanted and I didnt think it would have. For example, the cord that comes with it to charge and make it a wired mouse, isnt just a cheap usb cable. Its actually the same thick, long, and sturdy cable that comes with the wired version. It has an unbelievable texture I cant get over! I wish all my gaming controllers had this texture too. The only thing thats different is that it doesnt have the little weights to change the weight of the mouse. I like the mouse weight the way it is though so Im ok with it. The mouse glides so smoothly as well. It comes with these little stickers like the wired one that I think are just to raise it maybe? Im not sure I just put them on like the first one. I think maybe the help with the gliding of the mouse. The Bad: The UI is a little confusing in the app. The place to save and load profiles is in a drop down arrow which may confuse people also since its called Export and Import profile. With this option, its a little different from the way it was done in the wired version. Its not that big of a deal really. The only other thing that I dont like is the fact that you cant choose individual colors for the side button section, the wheel section, and the logo. I believe it was something like that in the wired version. With this mouse, you can only change all the lights as one. It really isnt big deal which is why I still rate it a 5. I would rate it a 4.8 maybe if that was possible on Amazon but it isnt. NOTES: There are 2 other things to mention that may be important to future purchasers. 1. There is the ability to create and assign macros. May be very important to some. For those who dont know what it is, its the ability to do several key presses assigned to one button. For example, you could assign a macro to the side button 1 that will make the computer think you pressed Control and C to copy. Then you could make a macro for the 2 button that does, control and v to paste something. You can do any number of things like this. 2. There are 4 light modes. A. Steady which stays on always and you can chose brightness. B. Respiration which slowly goes dim then back up to max brightness which you can change the speed. C. Neon which just alternates between several colors and has no options. D. Off which obviously keeps lights off completely. Verdict: I would 100% recommend this mouse to anybody for ANY purpose. You could game and use it as a regular mouse of course. I havent tested it yet but I think the fact that you have granular control of the pointer, the effortless glide, the ergonomic design and the gripping texture of the mouse, I think this would be an AMAZING mouse for drawing, using programs that need this kind of control such as 3D software. If youre looking for the best mouse you can get to do it all, this is the one! Its also WAY cheaper than other mice with nowhere near as high quality and options.

Was skeptical at first, but gave it a shot bc of the price and I was extremely surprised. I use it for gaming. Mainly Elder scrolls online .Able to make several different Loadouts like loadout one for gaming. Loadout two for video editing etc. It’s is bulky but even I with small hands had no problem using this. Definitely recommend.

I own two of the previous wired model of this mouse (work & home). I love it. My wife bough the wireless version recently and loved it as well. I then bought the wireless version for work so I wouldnt have to have my go to meetings mouse in addition to my main wired mouse. The pricing (on both versions) is also very reasonable. There are good & bad between the models. There are aspects to the new software that I like and some that I dislike. The wired version was hampered by having to use older software to get all the functionality. This one can use the new software. Lighting: There are additional lighting effects that were not available on the wired version. These features are still lacking in variety and options, but that is a minor complaint. Specifically, while plugged in it pulses a color (based on battery charge) rather than the light setting chosen. Id love to just use it wired when at my desk and wireless when off to meetings and such. I love the light color cycling and miss that when it is plugged in. Weight Compartment: The wired version had the bottom compartment with additional weights. This version is lacking that and thus a bit lighter than I am used to. While I liked the heavier weight it isnt a deal breaker for me. Software: The software, while newer, has fewer options for programming the keys compared to the older version. The older version had a ton of pre-made keys that were easy and available. You can get to the same functionality, but you have to add them as key combinations. An example was the old software had a pre-done entry for copy, paste, and other basic functions. On this one I had to manually create a ctrl + c hotkey. Again, not a huge issue for me, but I could see it being less useful for others who may not have an idea of what to put on all the keys. It certainly felt like a step backwards on that aspect. I suspect this has to do with them storing the profile on the mouse directly rather than in a file. Profiles: The software not having the profiles or way to toggle between them was odd. There is no indicator for which profile you are on. The button on the bottom to toggle profiles just felt odd as well. This might be worth the trade-off for having the two profiles on the mouse though. I absolutely hated that I couldnt convert my current profile onto the new mouse (.pdf profile in older version vs .jmk in this one). This forced me to re-create all my macros and re-assign them. Again, not a deal breaker as it is a one time setup and only impacts people with prior versions. Note, the software is PC only. You can set the mouse up on a Windows machine, it stores the profiles on the mouse, then you can use the mouse without issue on a Mac. Misc: The slot for the dongle on the bottom of the mouse is a bit odd. It sticks out just far enough that you cant use the mouse with the wired charger while the dongle is put in the mouse for storage. I dont understand why they didnt do the recessed tabs on top/bottom of it so you could grip it to pull the dongle out (like most other dongle storage layouts are). I suspect it is mostly a non-issue since you dont remove the dongle while you have it plugged in, it just seemed like an odd design choice (maybe something they can fix in the next hardware revision/version). The Good: Good size that fits hand very comfortably with the nice textured finish Good quantity of buttons to program High precision with adjustable DPI to get mouse movements just right Multiple profiles for different tasks Better lighting options compared to prior versions profiles stored on mouse (limit 2) The Less Good: no additional weight compartment in wireless version (wired version has it) lighting options, while better, are still underwhelming lighting option when plugged in is not existent less pre-created macro/key options in software compared to earlier versions (can manually create for functionality, just lose the ease of it) The Bad nothing that would sway my purchase decision Summary: This is a great mouse for the price. It is very comfortable to use and ticks off all the quality items needed for a functional mouse for gaming or customization of buttons. The software is its greatest weakness, but not detrimental to the point where it has a functional impact (just the area they should focus more effort on). I back this up with this wireless mouse version being my third of this style/brand of mouse for my own use (2 wired, 1 wireless) plus my wifes use of both the wired and wireless version too. Mac users need to be aware of the software limitation so they can get it setup on a Windows machine first, then theyll be ready to go.

The Good: The mouse is comfortable and feels pretty solid. The left and right click feel great, the wheel has a nice soft ratcheting that is very quiet and just barely felt but gives a slight haptic feedback and keeps the wheel from just spinning freely. Most of the side buttons feel nice and clicky but there are a couple (Notably the 5 and 10 for me) that are a little more mushy and dont provide much feedback. Im sure it varies between mice, you may have no mushy buttons or several. The buttons are also small and close together so it can sometimes be difficult to hit a middle row button without hitting the top or bottom row, but the columns are easy to distinguish thanks to the opposing angles. The Bad: So the mouse itself is pretty solid for the price, although longevity has yet to be determined. However, the driver software is not great. It has decent configuration options to map pretty much any action you might want and is not difficult to use, but the combination button assignments (Alt or Ctrl + another key) only work about 10% of the time, randomly. The majority of the time, it will only register the key as if alt or ctrl were not being held, making the feature useless. There is a workaround by setting up a macro, but that is a tedious process that shouldnt be necessary. The software is also somewhat barebones. It has 5 profiles you can set up that are stored on the mouse, and you can also save profile configurations to your hard drive for later recovery. The profiles have to be selected manually, there is no option to set profiles to run with certain programs. There is a button on the bottom of the mouse that cycles through the profiles, or you can select them manually within the configuration utility. For some reason after spending a good chunk of time setting up all the macros and keybinds for the side buttons, after the first time I restarted my computer the config tool just said disabled under every button and wouldnt let me change any bindings. The problem persisted after uninstalling/reinstalling both the config software and the mouse itself, and rebooting. The mouse continued to work under the profiles I had already set up by using the profile select button on the mouse itself, but the software was unable to communicate with the mouse to detect the profiles or change them. Somehow, after a lot of wasted time and frustration, the situation corrected itself when I moved the mouse to a different usb port. Im still not sure what caused this, but it could be unique to my computer. TLDR; It feels well made for the price, is comfortable to use, with an ergonomic design, ringfinger rest, and a textured, grippy surface, and most of the buttons feel nice and crisp, but the configuration software is somewhat lackluster compared to G-hub or Synapse.

Far better for gaming than your regular, generic, 2 clicker and wheel. The number buttons on the side are convenient, but also not. It takes time to get used to using this mouse, while not pressing those buttons on the side. Could be fixed by making them more ridged, or by removing 1 row, making room for your thumb to grip the edge of the mouse. That is my only real issue for now.

I bought this mouse March 2021 so its not 2 yrs old yet and the last few months I have noticed a loud clunk when I right click. It still works just fine, but the noise makes me think it will be dying soon. I dont ever use the lights and am not a gamer so there is no rage banging or throwing. I use this mouse for CAD. I dont use any of the other buttons other than R & L click. I just like the shape of the mouse. It is really comfortable, although sometimes my pinky is hanging off to the side and gets stiff. The battery lasts a long time. I shut it off when Im not using it to preserve battery as well as not use the lights as I stated above. I purchased the protection plan so I guess I will put that to use and get a new mouse. Would expect this mouse to last longer and not make funny noises even at the low price.

Noice it is

I have been playing and using this mouse for about a week now and honestly overall I love this mouse. To begin right out of the box my hand immediately got used to the placement of each finger and it was no problem adjusting from a normal mouse to this one. Each button works perfectly and are all re-programmable with the exception of the profile switch on the bottom of the mouse. However the buttons on the top give a pleasing clicky sound that allows me to ensure I hit the button while the buttons on the side are more squishy and less loud making it a bit harder to make sure I hit the button. It is however a very minor detail and I dont mind much. Secondly the mouse aesthetically is very pleasing, it looks complex but has a very clean and appealing look to it and I am talking about without having the glowing lights on. When the lights turn on they have a very appealing and nice touch to the mouse, they arent overly bright making the mouse look gawdy or harsh to the eye at all and even if they are there is an option to change the lighting in the software but I will get to that later. My only real complain about that mouses lights is the red lights that represent the current mouse DPI you are using. They are always red, it would have been nice if they would also change color based off of the profile like the lights on the mouse wheel and the front. Once again it isnt a deal breaker but it is a small detail that I dislike. Third the customization of the mouse varies. In the way of light choices it is a lot like any other mouse, the mouse has one light option for the buttons on the side and the logo per profile you can set up. There are 5 profiles one with a set color of the mouse wheel and the front: Pink, Blue, Red, Green, and Yellow. The buttons on the side and the logo however can be setup with any color to your liking. While this is great and all I really do wish that you could choose the profile lighting of the mouse wheel and the front lighting rather than them just being stuck with the default colors. I would like to be able to make all the profiles blue or perhaps even red as the color on the wheel and the front. I can understand they did this in order to make it easy to differentiate between the profiles but I would sure like it more if I could change that. My second complaint is an option that most mouses like this come with and that is a rainbow effect, where the colors of the buttons on the side and the logo change overtime making the mouse almost like a rainbow. These two complaints are probably two of my biggest problems with the mouse however I strongly believe that with an update to the software they could both be included and fixed with ease. Moving onto the button customization the buttons are fully customizable, you can choose from using simple actions such as copying and pasting to more complex things such as making button combinations like Ctrl+H to view browsing history to writing out long text speeches or button combinations in game with the macro manager. Moving onto the final guide, the software. I personally found the software was nice and easy to use. It was easy to set up different settings for profiles such as ones for gaming and ones for normal everyday use. The mouse allows you to change the DPI per each DPI Profile (There are 4 DPI profiles) and a lot of other things such as polling rate and double clicking speed. My one complaint for the software is that the Macro Manager is in the Macro Actions when it should be a seperate tab on the main menu. Other than that I found the software was quite simple and had no problem working it without having to read the manual. In conclusion I really enjoy using this mouse, it is quite customizable and overall a good mouse for gamers and people who are under a workload where they need to perform actions quickly. I overall love it and would recommend it to anyone looking for a customizable and easy to use mouse.