Company: SteelSeries
Product: Kinzu Gaming Mouse
Street Price: £20.00
Date Reviewed: 01/04/10
Reviewed By: Aaron Bowie
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Introduction:
SteelSeries Kinzu was developed in close cooperation with professional gamers to set new standards for performance in optical mice. The Gaming Grade image correlation sensor has been optimized to improve stability and eliminate jitter. The CPI settings are based upon those used and recommended by professional gamers. This compact ambidextrous mouse operates with 9375 Frames Per Second at movement speeds of 50 Inches Per Second and supports customizable polling rate (between 125-1000Hz) with as little as 1 millisecond delay between the mouse and the computer. SteelSeries Kinzu is compact, lightweight, optical and is in a league of its own when it comes to reliability and stability.
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SteelSeries Kinzu Optical highlights:
- Ambidextrous lightweight ergonomic finger-tip / palm design
- Slip-resistant coating for superior mouse grip and control
- Gaming Grade optimizations for pro gaming CPI values
- CPI toggle for on-the-fly high & low sensitivity adjustments
- Customizable report rate between 125hz-1000hz / 1 ms response time.
- 3200 Counts Per Inch
- 9375 Frames Per Second
- Acceleration on/off toggle via software
- 50 Inches Per Second and 20G of acceleration
- Low-friction high-performance polyethylene feet
Specifications:
- Frames per second: 9.375
- Inches per second: 50
- Megapixels per second: 3.75
- Counts Per Inch (CPI): 400 - 3200
- Acceleration: 20 G
- Buttons: 3
- Cord: 2 m / 7,9 ft (braided to improve durability)
- Polling: up to 1000 Hz
- Lift distance: ~2.0mm
- Large pressure points that reduce friction for optimized glide
- Driverless, plug-and-play feature for LAN gamers
- Built-in memory for 3 profiles
- Measurements: 117 x 64 x 36 mm / 4,6 x 2,5 x 1,43 in
- Operating systems: Win XP / Vista / Win 2000 / Mac OS
*Configuration software only available for Windows operating systems
Examining the Product:
After some gaming I have to say the Kinzu works pretty good. It is extremely lightweight and the glides are world-class, meaning the mouse is VERY EASY to move around the mousepad. There's some side-effect too, as sometimes aiming feels a bit out-of-control due to slipperyness.
Conclusions and Final Thoughts:
I really do like this mouse, i think there might be few problems if you have big hands. having said that there are a few little bad things about this mouse one: there is only three buttons so if you are a hardcore gamer this might put you off also there is no driver's for this mouse in the box you have to download it direct from steelseries. the set up for it is VERY basic as you can see here.
Price: £20.00
Overall:
I would recomend it to you as a basic entry into gaming mouses, i cant fault the tracking on it and it seems to glide on all surfaces even clothes.
But it lacks when it comes to gaming as it only has three buttons.
I give the kinzu a silver star of smooth!!
