Func MS-3 Gaming Mouse Unboxing & Overview
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2014-05-07
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1,469 words · ~7 min read
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welcome to my unboxing and first look at the funk ms3 so their slogan is
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functionality perfected so you're probably not going to find 8200 DPI
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sensors and you know 57 buttons and
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whatever else but the idea behind this mouse was to create something that was
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usable so check this out packaging is
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very clean so here let's do the back first so you've got optimal inrange
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button placements for more accurate gameplay so the idea is that there's not a ton of buttons but you could reach
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them all built to last with only the best components available keep your
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comfy grip allows you to keep focused on the screen so it's a palm type Mouse
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customizable LED lighting system with profile indication okay so there's RGB
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lighting which is basically just there and there switch instantly to another
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DPI by holding down the instant aim button so it's got an aim button or a
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sniper button or whatever sort of a lot of different guys have called that all
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right it all started back in 1999 in sunny California a bunch of passionate
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Gamers and friends got fed up with computer gear not cutting it like anyone
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serious about his business these guys decided it was time to take action they
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were Visionaries freethinkers and entrepreneurs and thank God Steve Jobs
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came along and invented the modern gaming mouse in sunny California in 1999
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actually that's not really what happened there but the point is that there were
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some guys they founded Funk and they wanted to create stuff that was good
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enough for them to use it so Funk was kind of Mia for a little bit there but
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it has been resurrected and this is pretty much the first product that's
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come out of the rejuvenated company so let's go
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ahead and open this bad boy up you can open it up from either side I chose the
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right because that's how I roll I make decisions and I just go for it U
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spec-wise what have they got to say for themselves rron switches so that's in
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line with funk saying that they're using only the highest quality materials omon
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switches are very very well regarded uh
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but this is this is funny check this out they actually call out the exact
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processor they're using aago ugs
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9500 okay so or sorry sensor uh and then the processor is a WT
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6573 onboard memory 512 kiloby
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resolution is 90 to 5670 DPI that is a
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huge range and that goes all the way down very very low 1200 frames per
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second tracking speed 5.1 m/ second I think there's pretty much everything in
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here the only thing that I've seen that is not here so you can have up to, Herz
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pulling rate is that um that thing that
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logitech's doing now where they actually rate the feet on the bottom of the mice
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for a particular uh distance that they can travel 250 km on their latest uh GS
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series mice so let's go ahead and check out the actual Mouse itself so it's much
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wider than what you might be used to if you've seen a few sort of modern gaming
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mice because a lot of the mice out there it seems like manufacturers are hedging
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their bets a little bit and saying okay well if we build something small ER then
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people with small hands will be able to Palm it and people with big hands will
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be able to claw it whereas Funk has gone okay no we're going to build something
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bigger so that people with bigger hands can Palm it and people with smaller
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hands can Palm it slightly less so what you'll notice is that I have small hands
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and while my hand does fit comfortably on the ms3 you can see that I'm not
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nearly to the end of the buttons here or to the uh rests for the ring finger and
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the pinky finger and you can see here on the side I'm also not able to reach the
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sniper button necessarily so the ms3 is
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optimized for people with bigger hands such as slick who's on his way over here
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right now to show us what his larger hands will look like on the ms3 thank
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you slick for stepping in and doing what I can't do so uh you know what the mic's
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on so feel free to to talk I still kind of claw it actually um but I I can pom
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it a lot easier than most mice okay so here let's do a quick size comparison s
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of sck hand versus mine so baseball
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glove lady hand so somewhere in between
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is probably where you're going to find the perfect balance with the ms3 now
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let's go ahead and cover all the buttons that are on here so we've got four
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buttons that are accessible with the thumb for me personally I'd be able to
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do one two three of them this one's a bit stiffer than these
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two you can actually hear there's a distinctly different click sound to them
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and then this one is more of a spring loaded sort of type of feel of button
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just like this one right here two buttons on the top all of these can be
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reprogrammed from within the funk software as well as a non-tilting but
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pressable scroll wheel and an additional button over here on the right of your
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ring finger now I personally prefer this positioning for a button that's going to
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be intended to be pressed by moving off either my left or right click because
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I've seen ones positioned here a lot of the time and I personally left click a
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lot more than I right click so I would rather move this off to the side than
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move this off to the side with that said my hands are slightly too small to reach
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that button on the end so guys if your hands are a little bit on the bigger
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side you have probably found your new mouse the bottom is covered in a glossy
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finish that also has slippy pads right here here here here and here and you can
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see the laser sensor right here through the bottom of the mouse itself the
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braided cable is 2 m long and has a nice
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little sort of black an orange finish to it so hopefully you guys can get a good
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look at that and then it does have a goldplated USB connector although it
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should be noted that that doesn't actually do anything for the performance
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it's mostly just for show I mean with that said it's not like it costs a ton
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and Funk charging you an extra $25 because they put a goldplated connector
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on it so I wouldn't worry too much about it from that perspective but yeah it
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doesn't actually affect the performance too much the important thing well not at
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all uh is to have goldplated inside here
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not the outside of the connector where nothing actually happens except I
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believe it's say ground but that's about
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it so thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the funk ms3
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don't forget to subscribe to L's Tech tips from unboxings reviews and other computer videos and oh yeah the last
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thing I should probably mention about it is it has a really nice soft touch feel
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over the entire Mouse with the exception of the bottom and the buttons on the top
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that feels really good here that should give you guys some idea
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of what the textures like and actually looks really good as well thanks guys so
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yeah a couple things I missed the 500 12K memory holds up to three different
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profiles and it's a driverless Mouse so you can just plug it in and it works the
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way you intend it to honestly the minute I switched to my iari laser prior to
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that I'd had a non-d driverless Mouse I gave up on mice that aren't driverless
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every Mouse should have onboard memory these days and the last thing is it can
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record up to 20 actions with a macro so there you go using the
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editor shut up
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Crow so we uh just finished filming this and Diesel the intern apparently wants
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this mouse now to swap out on his workstation so there you go