AOC AGON AGM600 Gaming Mouse Review

Verdict

The AOC AGON AGM600 gaming mouse is an effective little bit of equipment that beats out many in its worth vary. It simply makes use of some dated design ideas to maintain the value down. The match is nice and the buttons are beneficiant, however its sheer heft and limited-spec sensor guarantee it’s solely nice for the older gamer who performs as a lot Factorio and Terraria as they do Valorant and CSGO.

Introduction

The AOC AGON AGM600 gaming mouse seems to be like a relic from a less complicated time.

It’s curvy, clean, and stuffed with macro potential. However its weight, paired with a number of different issues, means it’d solely catch the attention of a really particular sort of particular person. It’s unlikely to usurp any of the most effective gaming mice of 2023, however it’s priced very competitively.

Design

• Easy design
• Options 10 buttons
• Comparatively weighty at 115g

Accessible solely in black, the AOC AGON AGM600 seems to be the half. It has that “my first gaming mouse” attraction, being each sharp in locations and curvy in others – as if making an attempt a little bit too laborious to be each ergonomically snug and effortlessly edgy.

Loads sufficiently big to accommodate palm grip players and people with bigger palms, it’s that defining trait that units it aside from most different trendy mice proper now, which are inclined to deal with slim frames to go well with claw grip players who depend on utmost precision and velocity.

As an alternative, the AGM600’s many buttons (10 to be precise) place it as a general-use clicker with a core deal with gaming. The buttons make sense in different functions, too. Although it doesn’t lengthen to the opposite facet on your pinky to sit down comfortably, the gripped thumb relaxation assures lengthy periods received’t have your greater digit feeling the friction of your desk mat.

One other factor you’ll first discover with this one is its weight. At 115g earlier than you’re taking the chunky cable into consideration, the AOC AGON AGM600 is seemingly too heavy for the product web page to say exterior of its hidden spec sheet. When manufacturers are competing to create feather-light mice, generally reducing holes into the design to make the dream occur, AOC despatched its designers down one other route, seemingly saying weight isn’t any problem.

Past the sleek matte plastic that shortly gathers proof of use, tasteful RGB lighting catches the attention with out being too jarring. The brand isn’t precisely an indication of greatness, trying a little bit an excessive amount of just like the Murderer’s Creed badge combined with a defend from one thing like World of Warcraft, however the clear strip skirting the underside will give the area beneath it a comfortable, subtle glow that may look nice on shiny surfaces.

Efficiency

• 16,000 DPI sensor
• 1000Hz polling price
• 10 buttons

Operating the favored Pixart PMW3389 sensor as soon as utilized in choose Razer Basilisk fashions from the final decade, there’s little motive to doubt the AOC AGON AGM600. We’re an extended well beyond the times of finicky optical sensors in even the most effective of manufacturers, and also you received’t have to fret concerning the potential problems with the as soon as heralded, now hated laser sensor. In an excellent week of testing, I had no problem with my wrist actions transferring to cursor motion on display screen. Nor did I count on to. It’s plain crusing at a basic stage.

One factor to pay attention to, nevertheless, is one thing I haven’t seen included in a mouse in an extended whereas: movie. A day or two into use, I did start to note a little bit extra drag than I’d have favored, which did trigger some monitoring points I used to be nervous would derail my entire factor of by no means doubting a Pixart sensor. Because it seems, the problem stemmed from plastic movie on the in any other case elegant PTFE ft peeling away. I couldn’t even see the stuff on the opposite ft, however after scratching at them a little bit, it was evident every of the 4 ft had a little bit of plastic defending them.

Simply to verify my suspicions, I checked out one other new mouse I’d examined the week prior and located no such factory-level safety included – the sort you count on to peel off each nook of a brand new TV. It’s one other inclusion I haven’t seen in years, and one which, should you’ve understandably forgotten about, might price you an essential match. Occurring throughout a Diablo 4 session (the place the additional buttons actually turn out to be useful) wasn’t all dangerous – however solely as a result of I wasn’t on my permadeath character on the time. And had it occurred throughout some ranked Overwatch? It might have thrown the sport straight away.

Except for that one little quirk, the AGM600 carried out admirably as soon as all arrange. The buttons are all effectively inside the attain of a single flick of your finger should you’re sporting the proper grip.

In case you ever rocked the Corsair M65, you’ll admire the borrowing of the “sniper button” just a bit ahead of the place your thumb sits on the textured grip. Designed to decrease the mouse’s DPI to a a lot decrease quantity whereas held, it’s an underappreciated inclusion that may make monitoring distant targets a lot, a lot simpler.

If it’s not for you, it’s simply one other button you’ll be capable of program to do absolutely anything. The place easier mice confine you to easy shooter video games, these with bountiful buttons may even make your work life a breeze with loads of room for assigning frequent software program instructions to buttons millimetres away always.

At 16,000 DPI, this isn’t the “quickest” mouse available on the market today, however it must be greater than sufficient for many. For reference, I nonetheless refuse to maneuver on from the 1200-1600 DPI vary, however should you’re sporting a big, high-resolution monitor (or six), you’ll admire the upper values for a minimum of navigating across the desktop with out having to make a number of runs alongside your desk.

In case you’re the hyper-competitive sort rocking in the present day’s extremely excessive refresh price premium shows, nevertheless, it’s possible you’ll begin to discover some points with the disappointing 1000Hz polling price. It wasn’t till I used a 144Hz show a few years in the past that I discovered the Logitech MX Grasp 2S missing in that division at solely 125Hz.
 
There’s an enormous distinction between the 2, however with refresh charges climbing and the AGM600 sticking with a 1000Hz cap when the likes of the HyperX Pulsefire Haste 2 pushing all the way in which to 8000, it’s unhappy to assume you possibly can want to switch this one do you have to all of a sudden discover a whole lot on a 360Hz show just like the Alienware AW2523HF

Software program and Lighting

• Dated software program
• Few and restricted RGB choices
• Two on-board profiles

The AOC AGON AGM600 takes a comparatively refined method to its RGB lighting. You received’t discover any such factor illuminating any of the buttons or the scroll wheel, however the butt of the gadget does sport an addressable emblem and a curious little dot that should have been designed to behave as a DPI profile indicator.

The place the mouse shines is the lighting that skirts the underside of the gadget. Together with your hand in the proper place, there’s no likelihood of a distracting glow catching you off-guard when you’re ready for a foe to pop round a good nook. As an alternative, you get accent lighting that may add a really cool look to your total desk setup when it’s simply there to look fairly.

The G-Menu software program doesn’t seem to help reactive lighting, so that you in all probability received’t be capable of set it as much as bounce off a mirrored or shiny floor to behave as a colored indicator within the nook of your eye, however that’s one thing higher suited to devoted peripherals just like the Govee Dreamview anyway.

The aforementioned software program, whereas a little bit dated in its design, consists of the same old suspects on the subject of addressable RGB lighting. You’ll be able to set a static color, or allow respiratory, blink, or wave results, utilizing a slider to vary the heartbeat price or brightness. You’ll be able to change the course of the consequences, in addition to flip the lights off utterly, however you possibly can’t flip particular person areas off. The brand stays on.

Apart from that, the software program is constructed across the concept of programming every of the ten buttons scattered inside comparatively simple attain. Browser and quantity controls are set by default, however you possibly can file, assign, and execute macros to any of the buttons simply sufficient, and assign them to onboard profiles.

So should you’re set in your methods on the subject of DPI, you possibly can have these buttons open up packages and paperwork, and even run via your typical CSGO spherical setup in a single faucet. It’s not a brand new idea, however it’s a uncommon pleasure you’ll miss should you ever return to a 5 or six-button mouse.

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