Award streak for the Kinzu
Quick heads up on a few recently released reviews for the SteelSeries Kinzu. I’ve been screaming quite a lot about the Xai lately, but the Kinzu is definitely getting quite the attention from reviewers as well.
This time around, Hardwareheaven and Vortez Hardware took a closer look - check the reviews on the links below. :)
Hardwareheaven - verdict: 9/10, Value Award
Vortez Hardware - verdict: Gold Award
/Casper
January 14th, 2010 00:11
Brilliant!
I’ve just ordered one of these from Overclockers.co.uk for a good price, and I am happy that people have taken time not just to review the Xai, but to take care on it’s little brother the Kinzu.
:) I guess I’ll be happy with my purchase.
January 14th, 2010 03:48
I’m sorry but those reviews are BS. The Kinzu is plagued with acceleration and tracking problems, not to mention the feet were just god awful. I like my Xai, but when I tried the Kinzu it was just terrible.
January 14th, 2010 05:43
I have a question !
why does my kinzu have the black scroll wheel instead of white ?
and its cable is covered by rubber not fiber ?
Am I using a fake mouse ? :(
January 14th, 2010 09:20
#3 Robocop, where did you purchase your Kinzu?
January 14th, 2010 11:29
#3
Your version is known as the “Kinzu Lite” around some retail shops.
I am not sure why these reviews are getting anywhere near the scored they reached. The Kinzu almost has unplayable acceleration if you use any kind of low sensitivity.
I would like to see SteelSeries fix this issue and the mouse would be very good.
January 14th, 2010 14:58
@ethan
try to use your kinzu driverless. i had also acceleration with the ss drivers. so i deinstalled the kinzu software and now i use the usb rate programm, that i used for the intelli mouses + cpl fix and no force commands
the performance is perfect with that. no positive/negative accel, no tracking and skipping on any surface !
i don`t think the problem of the kinzu is the sensor in it, it`s the drivers from ss that make that problems like the drivers for the xai series
January 14th, 2010 16:49
I dont really know, I buy it from a shop in my country
@ ethan : so that’s mean my mouse is still the 100% real kinzu mouse ??
@ all : I use the lastest 1.0.10 software from steel and there’s just a minor accel ! luckily I play with really high sens :)
January 14th, 2010 20:06
mouse is garbage with the current drivers, when are we getting an update for drivers/firmware??
January 15th, 2010 07:00
Yes robocop, what you have there is an authentic mice, but a oem version =)
January 16th, 2010 18:41
Frank:
You realize that since you already updated the firmware, using no drivers will not affect the performance of the mouse.
January 17th, 2010 13:22
ethan it`s true story. i had the 1.0.8 drivers (firmware i don`t remember any more) and my mouse was stopping sometimes for 2-3 seconds every hour ingame. after i used the usb rate programm, the performance of my kinzu is brilliant. i can play 3 hours cs deathmatch, without any break & problems since then
so it has a affect on MY KINZU mouse, but to be honest - i don`t know why. because of that filter thing i assume, has a effect to the sensor
i have no reason to cook up a story. thats my own personal experience, i wanna share with people and maybe it works for others, thanks to my “tip” (or maybe for steelseries also to work on the current problems in the future)
if you dont believe me, i can make a cs 1.6 video or something for proof :)
look at “fnatic|forest” - playing atm with kinzu and he destroys everything at the european intel extreme masters finals the whole weekend (after he installed the driver once for his fav settings)
you have only bad luck with your firm/software
January 20th, 2010 00:53
Frank Video?
January 21st, 2010 02:55
Frank:
I have never had the “stopping” issue with my Kinzu. It was always massive amounts of positive acceleration. Not using drivers will not change the Kinzu’s acceleration. Drivers only change how the mouse interacts with the operating system. Since the operating system is not affecting my mouse, using drivers will not mess with the performance of the mouse.
I am glad not using drivers fixed your problems, they won’t fix anything with the Kinzu that has something to do with the sensor, not the USB plug.
February 17th, 2010 23:36
Well, i just fixed this.
First my cpi settings were CPI1 3200 and CPI2 3200. Pulling Rate 1000, Acceleration off.
And i had some shitty acceleration in game, after instaling CPL mousefix it was the same, and may other ways the acceleration was still there.
And now comes the funny part :)
I just changed CPI1 to 3200 and CPI2 to 1600, unpluged and pluged my mouse in…and that was it…no more acceleration for me.
I just f*** lol’d :)
February 17th, 2010 23:41
So the main problem is: don’t set your CPI1 and CPU2 on same value.