PROS: -Fits very well in my smaller-medium hands. I have long fingers and the mouse feels very good. Comparable to a SteelSeries Sensei. -Tactile clicky buttons. -DPI selection is very easy to cycle. -Plug-and-play. -Great build quality. -Great if you use mice with your left-hand. -Rubber cable. Braided cables are extremely overrated and get caught up on things, tangle, and can shear, exposing and eventually breaking the cable connection altogether. -The glides on the bottom of the mouse are very good quality. Mouse feels nice to move. -Comes with replacement glides. -Quick start guide contains good, simple instructions with informative graphics. MEH: -If you sweat/get oily hands while gaming, the mouse will get very greasy. A quick wipedown with a kleenex or toilet paper will help immensely. -My middle mouse button (pressing in the scroll wheel) was acting up a few months ago. It wouldn't work sometimes, but if you pressed harder, multiple rapid-fire clicks would occur (middle mouse closes tabs in chrome, for example). It has gotten better recently, however, and I do not have that problem anymore. -The sensor will cause the cursor to jitter if there's any dust specks/particles that the optical laser crosses over. This is obviously a given, but still something to consider if you have animals that may traverse along your mousepad. SUBJECTIVE: -Clicking is a lot louder than my previous mice. The buttons feel very premium to press and use, but they may be too loud for some people. Read more
This is by FAR the best mouse I've ever owned. As a previous owner of a SteelSeries Rival 300 , the FK1 takes the cake. BenQ has always produced quality products, and this one does not fall short of their standards. As an ambidextrous mouse user, I found that using the mouse in either hand feels very natural, and allows for use of the additional mouse buttons while using either hand. I love this mouse so much, that I've also bought a second mouse for office use, as well, I've recommended it to many friends. Being a big gamer, I expect precision over anything else. Pros: Fits perfectly into medium-sized hands. Works well with either palm or claw grip. One of the best optical lenses on the market, with very little built-in acceleration. Rubber cord feels sturdy, while not too firm - I use a mouse bungee to keep the cord from producing additional force during gaming. Very easy to clean. Cons: The skates that come with it are pretty "eh". I recommend replacing them with some of these Hyperglide Mouse Skates. Looks like a mouse - don't expect any flashy lights. Overall: This mouse is great for gaming. I've used it across many games(Counter-Strike, Overwatch, Path of Exile, Rust, World of Warcraft and more) over the span of about 10 months now. I intend on using it until it breaks, or Zowie releases a better one! ;) Read more
What can I say that hasn't already been said about the FK? Well, I'll try to say something. I am coming from owning 4 seperate mice over the last 2 years. Started with a Razer Imperator I got for Christmas, 2013. Servicable mouse, if quirky. Being a Razer with their reliability (will be getting to that later), it died 6-8 months later with random disconnects from computer. Not appropriate for even casually playing CS:GO, or any game for that matter. Bought a Logitech G502 after reading good reviews on it. Enjoyed that mouse, and it sill works now, however, it was much too heavy for my purposes and had no way to rest my finger comfterably on the side. Sensor was good, however I bought a Razer Deathadder Chroma a few months later thinking the G502 was dying, only to find out later that the surface calibration is terrible and was causing me issues. I bough the Deathadder Chroma because I have a friend who had the Deathadder 2013 and loved the shape and senser, but had problems with reliability. I thought the reliability concerns wouldn't trouble me because I know he is hard on his mice. Natually, within less time than the G502 started wigging out the Deathadder Chroma did the exact same thing as the Imperator and randomly disconnected. Loved the shape of the mouse though, but the clicks were also not perfect. Now comes the FK1, finally. I bought this hearing good things about the mouse for some time on the internet, and tried out the mouse after the same friend who was hard on mice bought one, and fell in love. The senser tracks perfectly, only jitters are my hand's own, and the coating is amazing. Have never been a fan of overly grippy rubber coating, and the coating on the Zowie FK1 hits the sweet spot for me. However, the one place where I've had problems as of right now is with the scroll wheel. While this has for some time been many people's issue with Zowie mice, I am here to elaborate more on the problems specific to Zowie's FK1. Scrolling in webpages is fine. While there is little more play than I'd like in the scoll wheel, it gets a passing mark from me for scrolling outside of games. However, the scroll wheel isn't percice enought for me in games. I use scroll wheel to jump in CS:GO excusively, with space as my PTT in game, so the scroll wheel better be good. It's not good enough for this. I find myself dying to accidently jumping while picking up the mouse in a firefight more than I'd like. Happens especially after I've attemped to b-hop or jump over something. Very annoying. In short, Pros: - Lightweight - Great tracking - Good coating - No drivers Cons: - Scroll wheel is iffy - Mouse feet wearing faster than I'd like - Side buttons aren't huge Read more
