Roccat Kova Optical Gaming Mouse Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2012-05-07
·
1,408 words · ~7 min read
0:08
welcome to my unboxing of the rockat kova this is designed in Germany you
0:13
know the Germans always make good
0:16
stuff anyway so this is an optical gaming
0:20
mouse it's featuring ambidextrous design
0:23
which means you can use it with your left or your right hand it has easy
0:27
configuration because it is driverless personally I always prefer driverless
0:31
mice because that means that you don't have to install some bloated application
0:35
just to use your mouse you might have to install some bloed application in order
0:39
to actually configure it I haven't used a rockat mouse before so this will be my
0:43
first one but once you've done that you go ahead you plug it into any system
0:47
from there and it stores all the settings on the mouse itself so let's
0:50
see what they have to say for themselves customizable light system very cool I'm
0:53
a big fan of customizable light system you can change the color easy handling
0:58
not sure what they mean by that but but uh oh okay non-slip stabilization
1:03
surface okay driverless configuration we've already talked about that enhanced
1:06
Optical sensor they're saying this is a prooptical sensor grip Tech side area
1:11
and a vshape here you can see they allow
1:14
you to customize the lights have your mouse illuminated in your favorite color
1:17
they show a whole little Rainbow there very very cool all right moving around
1:21
to the other side great packaging I love the way they do their
1:24
packaging kova is part of the rockat
1:28
sdms organ iiz your gaming Zone in a space saving and neat way as part of the
1:33
smart desktop management system the kova integrates perfectly with the gaming
1:36
peripherals on your desktop all right
1:41
then let's open it up shall we so I have
1:44
my handy dandy unboxing knife here which I will use to open the handy dandy box
1:50
slice and slice 5 plus two buttons is another
1:55
thing that they mention on the top of the box here that is not mentioned
1:59
elsewhere and that it is ultra
2:02
light personally I always used to prefer
2:05
a bit of a heavier Mouse but then I moved over to using an aari laser for my
2:10
daily driver and uh that is a very light Mouse as well and I have now been
2:15
converted to preferring a light Mouse so
2:18
who knows this one might be quite appealing to
2:21
me all right why don't we show the included accessories first then we'll
2:26
have a look at the kova itself so as must stand for
2:32
accessories actually probably
2:35
not overall very good packaging though
2:38
here's a quick installation guide important
2:42
document cameraman is fussing up the mouse right now all right change light
2:47
effects so you can change the lights uh here oh oh interesting oh neat okay hold
2:53
on hold on okay so connect to the computer switch hand mode so you can
2:56
change by pressing four and six so these
3:00
two side buttons while you plug it in you can change from right to left-handed
3:04
mode that's smart cool you don't actually have to go into any kind of
3:07
driver um uh any kind of software
3:11
application okay neat so here's all the uh standard configurations for
3:15
right-handed mode all right you press four and six while it's plugged in to
3:19
set the light effect to breathing full or no illumination so you just press
3:23
those together and you can change the lighting mode very cool all right you
3:27
can change the DPI using these buttons right here here so the one on this side
3:31
and the one on this side that's a very smart place to have the DPI change
3:34
because normally they're located somewhere like kind of here on the mouse
3:38
and it's very challenging to reach that in the middle of a game like if the
3:41
theory is that you're using different DPI for sniping or for uh standard play
3:46
and you're changing on the Fly then you need it located somewhere much more
3:50
convenient than that so having it somewhere like on the side where you can
3:53
zoom in change your DPI zoom out change your DPI very very
3:58
convenient change the breathing mode you can set the breathing mode to change
4:02
color after one two or three breaths or holding the color after each breath by
4:06
pressing these two buttons together and you can change your color look at that
4:10
by pressing these buttons together change breathing mode change color so
4:14
let's have a look at the mouse itself it's got your standard USB cord on it
4:18
nothing really to say about that it's got a little rock at logo there on the
4:22
end of the USB okay so here's the kova branding we've got uh very very grippy
4:28
rubber surfaces here you can actually hear it
4:33
squeak there you go on the left side as
4:37
well as the right side of the mouse so that allows you to hold the mouse quite
4:41
securely all right so I would say this is more of a claw or or like a more of a
4:47
claw or fingertip grip style Mouse it's not really suitable for palming because
4:51
it is quite small you've got a great scroll wheel here so it can be because
4:55
of its shape it can be easily used with the right hand or with the left hand
5:00
because you see how it has that uh that Ridge in the center so that means that
5:04
you at the angle that you would naturally be using it is very flat
5:08
whereas most M Mouse wheels are actually flat on the top and it's an unnatural
5:12
angle to uh to come at it from okay we've got more lighting effects here as
5:16
well as here your standard left and right Mouse click buttons are here and
5:20
here and then at the bottom we find the prooptic sensor so why don't we go ahead
5:24
and go plug it in give me just a moment here guys so here's the lighting effects
5:29
guys you can see I have it on breathing mode right now you can see the red light at the
5:34
back the red lights on the top you can change the color by clicking like this
5:39
just as they say oh wait is that the breathing mode one hold on let me see oh
5:43
yeah I think that's the breathing mode one okay so I think this must be the
5:47
color change one there we go there's
5:51
green change it again there's other more
5:54
different green there's
5:57
blue there's other more different
6:00
blue let's see what else we got here purple does it have other more different
6:05
purple no it goes back to blue
6:08
red very cool so the lighting is that
6:11
easy to customize I would say this is my favorite the dark green very nice
6:17
color and uh yeah or that one actually that one's
6:22
really good too that dark blue so there you go that is my unboxing of the Rock
6:25
at kova don't forget to subscribe to lus Tech tips for more unboxings reviews and
6:28
other computer videos
6:32
while cameraman and I were putting the kova back in the box we found a very
6:37
interesting thing that we missed during the unboxing so here's a little story
6:40
about a reindeer race getting out of control and then you go in on day one
6:45
you find a lake and then on day two you
6:49
have some scuba divers and some technicians and on day three there's
6:52
some kind of a surveillance project exploring a subsurface Glacier on day
6:57
four it's like a like an Ops secret Ops
7:00
journal or something you intercept some email correspondence good job that
7:04
sounds really interesting please handle this issue without distracting too much
7:10
attention personnel file and then I
7:14
guess we take out the personel guy o here's our contact
7:18
person and then there's some analysis in the rockat
7:22
Laboratories and finally you can join the organization are you prepared to
7:25
become a Rocketeer so I have no idea what that's for But it includes an ID
7:30
card so there you
7:33
go