OCZ Behemoth Gaming Mouse

 

Here’s a short list of hardware that will be used when putting the mouse through its paces:

 

 

As most of you are aware, testing a mouse poses a number of issues related to the user rather than the mouse itself. To combat these problems and eliminate them from the review, some new testing methods have been assigned to present a fair analysis of the mouse in hand.

 

 

Without having to think, most if not all of you will know that the tracking of a mouse is essential to how you carry out the tasks on your computer. Testing on a mouse mat whilst a good idea, does not portray how the mouse will perform on other surfaces, so we decided that a number of differing surfaces should be used to test how the mouse operates on each.

 

Mouse mat – No complaints here, the mouse passed with flying colours during operation on the cloth mat. The mouse feet glided over the surface of the mat causing no noticeable friction and the double laser sensor worked well at all times responding quickly to my movements.

 

Wood – Unless you are a fan of pushing gritty, scraping mouse feet along a surface and the irritating noise it produces you would be best to avoid this surface altogether. Aside from this, the mouse performed without fault, offering a viable solution should you not have a mouse mat in the vicinity.

 

Black Glass – The plastic feet of the mouse caused a severe dragging effect on the glass surface, slowing my movements down to a snails pace. Tracking didn’t suffer and allowed me carry out my normal tasks with ease albeit somewhat slower.

 

Brushed Aluminium – Obviously this isn’t something you are going to be using your mouse on, but I thought I’d try it out nonetheless. As the aluminium is brushed it has a grain, if you can call it that. Like anything going against the grain the mouse is slowed down dramatically and judders forwards slightly. This is precisely the reason why the tracking was rather poor and skipped around the screen like a monkey on speed.

 

Clear Acrylic – Before I tested the mouse on this surface I had a fair idea of what was going to happen. Laser mice need a dark or slightly coloured surface to track on, if this isn’t present the laser cannot correctly pick up the movements and more often than not fails to move at all. This was indeed the case with the clear acrylic. Moving the mouse on it yielded the occasional skip in random directions but nothing more.