Roccat has already proved itself on the gaming peripheral battle ground with its Ryos MK Pro Gaming Keyboard, which won our gaming keyboard group test some weeks ago. This time, though, we’re looking at its newest range of gaming mice, in particular the Kone Pure series.
The Kone Pure is a series of immensely impressive gaming mice. The base edition, the Kone Pure, has enough features to make even the most cynical of mouse connoisseurs salivate. The rest of the range, from the Kone Pure Color, Kone Military and Kone Optical all offer a little something different either in terms of design or some special feature.
The Kone Pure Military Edition is the mouse we have on test in this instance – in Camo Charge green we might add. It’s a cleverly designed mouse, with ample width for a comfortable feel, an impressive 5000dpi optical sensor, 1ms response time, 1000Hz polling rate, 30G acceleration and 1.8 metre braided USB cable.
On top of that little lot you also get a 72MHz Turbo Core V2 32-bit ARM processor with 576KB of memory. The processor is used to compute the various functions of the mouse as fast as possible, which decreases any lag or wait time between profile switching or when having to alter the mouse buttons during intense gaming. The 576KB of memory may not sound like much, but it’s enough to store a huge set of user configured macros.
By default there are nine possible button assignments across the seven available buttons (counting the wheel up and down). However, these can be doubled with the use of the Roccat EasyShift + technology. If you install the Roccat Kone driver, the possibility to increase the number of macros and button assignments doubles once more and can be configured for game specific functions as well as multimedia or advanced browser functions.
The design is rather splendid, with a glowing LED Roccat logo on the rear of the palm rest, which can be configured to illuminate in 16.8 million colors. The available designs in the Military range (Camo Charge, Desert Strike and Naval Storm) are all equally stunning, but they're also free from any distracting extras that could be hit or pressed during gaming. It’s ergonomically styled and fits in the hand well without having to alter your grip to accommodate any side installed features.
We found the Roccat KonePure to be an extremely easy mouse to get used to. Even without the drivers installed,its functionality was superb,and it glided effortlessly across the surface of our desk. In game, it was truly terrific and very accurate, while on the desktop for normal day-today duties it functioned well enough and even added a little something extra thanks to the button assignments.
For the reasonable price of a tad over £60, you’re getting a superb gaming mouse with plenty of capability, minus the extreme additions that are so often added for effect on gaming mice. All in all, an excellent choice of mouse for the gamer.
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