Help me pick a Gaming Mouse?

I decided to get the CM Storm Xornet. I was going to get the Sidewinder, but the Prime eligible version was $45 while the one I linked to was $40 with normal S&H, making both out of my price range by an unfortunately small amount. So I opted for the $26 Xornet with free 2-day shipping. The Razer was nice, but it was just a bit too plain and basic.

But I also noticed that I seem to naturally have a claw like grip on my mice, so I think this was probably the best one for me. The only problem with it seems to be that it doesn't have that bit of cable protection where the cable connects to the mouse, meaning it could fray or break over time. I wonder if there's a way to fix that? Maybe I can take a bit of heat shrink tubing and split one end of it. Take that end and put it up against the mouse itself with a tiny bit of super glue and shrink it.... hmm. Must be some way to do it.

Actually, now that I think about it, maybe I should sleeve the cable? That might look pretty cool. :o

Edit: What size cable sleeve do I need to do that for a mouse cable?

You'd want pretty small sleeve but you'd have to desolder the cable since sleeving that size isn't designed to fit over USB plugs.

EDIT:

sleeve -- min -- max
1/8" -- 3/32" - 1/4"
1/4" -- 1/8" - 7/16"
3/8" -- 3/16" - 5/8"

You could use a generic rubber grommet for strain relief - over, under, or instead of a sleeve.

A little more ghetto but surprisingly effective is just neatly wrapping a long strip of electrical tape to build some squishy firm black thickness at the strain point. One mouse I repaired with this low-budget improvised method has remained 100% functional for years while several other better mice have failed. Sometimes low-tech fugly ideas just work.

If it's not too late to exchange your new Storm, I'd recommend a Gigabyte M8000X Ghost Xtreme gaming mouse. Right now about $55 through NCIX; the technical specs beat every other gaming mouse I could find, awesome software and functionality, looks marginally cool, and definitely mod-worthy. I'm pretty impressed with mine, the only possible negative is that it's slightly on the largish side so better suited for "claw grip" than "palm grip" users.