ROCCAT Kova+ ROC-11-520 Black 7 Buttons 1 x Wheel USB Wired Optical 3200 dpi Gaming Mouse

Pros: Favourite mouse I have owned. I've owned the Deathadder, m60 and G500. The lights are a nice visual feature. Side buttons are in ideal locations for my size of hands. I don't know if it is a placebo effect but my FPS game has greatly improved as I find I have better accuracy with this mouse.

Cons: It is a smaller mouse so large hands may have issues with it.
Top thumb button does not macro to any of my games.

Other Thoughts: Highly recommend it, especially if it goes on sale.

Pros: Nice look with the customizable leds, nice feel to it.

Cons: Accuracy is garbage. On horizontal and vertical lines it was decent but on diagonals it was extremely unaccurate.

Mouse wheel click takes an insane amount of force. this is a HUGE nono for me. I use mousewheel click all the time.

Pros: 1.) Sexy design
2.) LED's come in multiple colors
3.) Lots of customization options
4.) Price (definitely worth the 40-50 bucks)
5.) Can be used with either hand (right or left)
6.) Comes in a nice box
7.) Never needs batteries (Wired)

Cons: 1.) For some reason when I put the installation disk in. The program never loads up. I had to download the drivers online.. I'm running Windows 7 64-bit.

Other Thoughts: I've only had this mouse for about a day or so. I've heard it has had some issues with others, hopefully that wont happen with mine.

Pros: The design of the mouse gives the user a choice which explains why I purchased this mouse in another store. I would put my newegg community on point with this device. To have a choice for coloring and its configuration is a plus, the feel is sturdy and its a great mouse for web surfers and media artist. Read my cons and I will save you a headache and cash. $$

Cons: OK here comes the boom, if your running Windows 7 64 Bit your in for a surprise. It seems they did not make this mouse 64 Bit friendly, It has compatibility issues. The drivers install successfully but the software goes into idle, then it will hang until you end task it. You get 7 buttons but you can only assign in a gaming 4 buttons. That's ridiculous, LMC (Left Mouse Click)+RMC+Wheel+1st Thumb buttons. So the last three remaining buttons are just there for brag rights. This is more like a MEDIA mouse not a gamer mouse, and their TECH SUPPORT? send in a email LOL no contact phone number. The best assist you would get is try installing the mouse content from your program files 86 folder. And install it in your user profile name app section to see if it helps LOL. There are no more updates for drivers and no firm ware update.

Other Thoughts: Always check the top gaming mouse from 2012 and 2013 and you would find them listed here in newegg. Do your research first and get your good prices here.

Pros: The hardware is great. Its a very nice looking mouse, great quality on the scroll wheels and side buttons. I got this mouse because its similar in size and feel to my old razor deathadder's (didn't want to buy razor again because their build quality is rather poor, thumb buttons always break)

I'm very satisfied with the build quality and performance of the mouse. Its great for people with smaller hands and people that like lightweight mice.

Cons: At first glance the driver looks great, has all the options you need, laid out clearly, and isn't a horrific bloated mess like razor's synapse driver.

However I ran into a few annoying issues. Applying settings in the driver doesn't seem to work at all unless you right click it and run as administrator, even then applying settings takes a very long time for some reason. I'm running windows 8, but I'd imagine the UAC issue affects windows 7 too. The driver works alright besides this one annoying issue, the only reason I didn't give this mouse 5 stars.

Also the scroll wheel simply does not work properly if you aren't running with a 1000hz polling rate, very strange issue. If the polling rate is set to 500hz scrolling simply doesn't respond often, at 1000 it works perfectly. Not a *huge* issue since this mouse does default to 1000hz.

Other Thoughts: I will probably buy roccat again, I just hope they can improve their drivers. Its also nice that they have linux drivers, I don't currently run linux on my gaming pc but may dual boot when steam is released for it.

Pros: I've got smaller hands, and this mouse is a perfect fit. It has a smoothe feel to it, and all the buttons feel naturally in reach. Obviously this is depends on your hand size. Also has great Linux support. Drivers are mainline kernel, and utilities are installable. The nice thing is you can save the settings to the mouse itself, so it works consistently in a dual or multi boot environment, or if you plug the mouse into another computer. The company is extrememly GNU friendly, and fully opensources their drivers and utilities.

Cons: I had to build the utilities from source. Not a problem for me, but could be harder for less experienced Linux users. The directions to build the tools are well outlined for both fedora and ubuntu in their instructions.

Pros: This mouse is very smooth when used under a game pad. Looks very sleek, but the buttons are kind of edgy. For those who have big hands a bigger mouse could be better.

Cons: The installation disc that came with the mouse wouldn't run on PC. Had to download drivers online. Roccat customer support is lacking.

Other Thoughts: As mentioned above the installation auto-run file wouldn't work. My Anti Virus detected the auto-run file as a trojan. When I contacted Roccat Support they said that the CD doesn't work because it was originally made for Windows XP ( I use Windows 7) and they haven't changed it since the Kova [+] was first produced. Even though on the box of the kova under system requirements it clearly states windows vista and windows 7 both 32/64 bit. I ask for a new disc just to have a concrete copy and they said it was impossible to send me a new one.

Pros: This mouse is very fluid and extremely elegant. The flat black and glossy black look awesome, the LED lights add to it. The software is great and works great. The DPI is amazing and very accurate. The weighted scroll wheel feels expensive and sturdy.

Cons: If I had to say anything it would be that there is no LED time out feature which means they either always have to be on or off no time out light my ROCCAT keyboard has. My keyboard I can have dim or go completely off after a certain amount of time and a simple hit of the key wakes it back up.

I think maybe in ROCCATS next software release for the Kova + should definitely include this feature.

Pros: Great mouse looks good, moves good, works great in games. I love the lighting and how you can change the colors.

Cons: When I first got it, it was buggy but once you figure it out it's great. Also, the plastic sides get dirt and stuff on them but no big deal.

Pros: Perfect hand posture mouse (no edges on the sides)

Perfect tracking for low DPI users (pro-optical)

Scroll wheel is comfortable to scroll

Cons: I don't know if it happens to everyone, but I returned mine only because I was getting a 1:1 glitch.

You have to get used to press the right side buttons (pretty hard to do)

Apparently the scroll down function sometimes initiates a x-y unbalancing.

You lose 1:1 and sometimes the speed changes.

I would have kept this mouse if it didn't have this problem

Other Thoughts: My ideal mouse (needs some upgrading)

Truly needs a new edition that can fix that glitching and try to maybe change some things