Side scrolling on gaming mouse?

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I am getting tired of Logitech mice, and would like to try another mouse out. I however have grown VERY fond of having side scrolling on the mouse wheel. In other words, I like to be able to scroll the mouse wheel up, down, left and right.

Are there any other mice that allow this that are not Logitech Branded? Also to be more specific, do they allow you to assign a keyboard key to the side scroll options, more specifically left mouse wheel scroll = m and left mouse scroll wheel = n?

Does the Habu, or any of the razor mice allow this?

I currently have the G5, and it does.
 
I guess the best way to explain would be to do it like this.

I started out gaming w/ a ball mouse. Obviously, I was a complete and utter noob. I then upgraded to a 1st gen optical mouse, and wow was that a trip. Mouse would randomly spin, and my in game charactor would look up all the time out of no where. This was when Unreal and Quake 2 where the hawt games. Then I bought my first real gaming rig, and bought a Logitech 510 optical mouse. Man this mouse was great. Loved it, smooth as silk, really no complaints there. That mouse died on me and I bought a razer diamondback I believe. WOW, greatest mouse in the world. it was a little small for my hands tho, so one day I decided to buy a 518. I noticed how my aim seemed to suffer with this mouse, but I had given the razer mouse to a friend, so I lived with it. I then bought a G7, and that mouse was awesome and again, I felt like my aim degraded a bit after moving to the G7. I decided that this was due to the wireless so I bought a G5. To be honest, my aim really didnt improve at all. So it wasnt the wireless. I went to a basement lan party a few weeks ago, and had the chance to play on my friends PC using his copperhead mouse. WOW, I was on fire. My aim was accurate, and everything felt way better then it does on my PC now. Its hard to explain, but it just felt better. I came home and have been using my G5 ever since, and I really miss his copper head. Problem is the copperhead doesnt have sidescroll, so I have been looking for another mouse ever since. Side scroll is a requirement. I will use this new mouse to test my theory. I could be wrong, and at the worst case, I have a new mouse for my secondary PC. I just want to see what gaming with another mouse without logitech software/drivers is like, and see if it changes anything now.


Long story, sorry, but figured it would be worth 50 bucks to find out.
 
Well I gave up on side scrolling and bought a Deathadder. I think I will try to use the 2 thumb buttons instead of the side scroll buttons. Its gonna be a pain, but Im sure I can learn to use them instead. Ive been spoiled w/ logitech's and side scroll for too long.
 
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