Steelseries Rival 310 (2017) vs Roccat Kone Aimo (2017)

The Steelseries Rival 310 (2017) is an exemplary product and one of the very best Wired Mice at the $40 budget.

The Roccat Kone Aimo (2017), however, doesn't seem to have enough data available for us to be able to draw any meaningful conclusions. If you're considering Wired Mice in the $55 range, you might want to check out some other options.

The Steelseries Rival 310 (2017) has impressed reviewers from two sources that are among the most highly trusted on the internet, namely Laptop Mag and Tom's Guide. It did great in their objective hands-on roundups - it earned the "The best gaming mouse on a budget" and "The best cheap gaming mouse" awards from Laptop Mag and Tom's Guide, respectively. That's high praise from such reputable sources.

Moving on to the Roccat Kone Aimo (2017): it was unable to reach the very top of any roundups from sources that conduct reliable and unbiased testing. Nonetheless, it still managed to impress reviewers from a number of such sites, like PC Gamer, MakeUseOf, realgear.net, PCmag, PCGamesN, Techradar, TrustedReviews, Rtings, and Android Authority, enough for them to include them on those lists.

To get a better idea of how they fare when compared directly to each other, we analyzed review scores of sources that tested both. Techradar and TrustedReviews, for example, preferred the Steelseries Rival 310 (2017), while PCmag rated both of them the same.

We also took a look at which sources had the best things to say about them. We learned that the Steelseries Rival 310 (2017) got reviewed the highest by Techradar - it gave it a rating of 10, while the Roccat Kone Aimo (2017) most impressed reviewers at PC Gamer, which gave it a score of 9.