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excellent what's up everybody in today's video I'm going to be doing a review of the Nith Rockets newest gaming mouse with a special trick it's frickin modular I actually first spotted this mouse back at Computex in June and I was immediately impressed by its ability to swap out the thumb button keys for crazy amount of customization does this flexibility justify the Nitz hefty hundred and twenty US dollar MSRP though should you click the like button on this video let's investigate further to separate fact from myth myth here's a quick look at the retail box for starters this is the black and gray version of the myth and were promised a white version as well in November beyond the marketing and specifications info on the outside and the peekaboo window there's some actual useful stuff in here like a QuickStart guide and warranty info some stickers that allow you to set the rules and a replacement side grip which rocket says is hot swappable I really like this side grip since it's magnetic it pops on and off easily and that actually stays in place once it's on there and I prefer the wider stance grip that gives you a ring finger rest and an ideally placed rubber strip that's perfectly situated to grip with your pinky when lifting the mouse up off of your mousing surface hot-swappable though I guess you have to imagine some MLG scenario where the protagonist is getting worked at whatever game they're playing I don't know buddy I can't keep up and then the coach comes in to the sides like yeah finished but then they swap off the side grip on the fly and pop in the new one and then they come back and win the whole thing that's that's what that's that's what plays out in my head at least okay I get distracted from the accessories so the last thing you get in this box is the plastic carrying case box which you actually really need because it holds your other side grip and all of the replaceable thumb buttons which you could easily lose otherwise also these little guys are definitely choking hazards so keep them away from your toddlers please I will come back to the thumb buttons in a bit though for now the knit overall has an elegantly contoured body with the same soft touch finish on the outside of the mouse that you might recognize from the rocket I odd it feels fantastic and if the tie on is any indication I'm sure it is also quite durable this is unapologetically a right-handed Mouse so my condolences to lefties out there thanks to that swappable side panel though I think this mouse will work with any type of grip claw grippers will likely prefer the narrow narrower setup and palm grippers or folks like me who are kind of between palm and claw will probably go for the wider configuration like I have setup right here finally there's a tightly braided one point 8 meter USB cable for plugging the mouse in as for specs the Nith has a twin tech r1 laser sensor that can go all the way up to 12,000 dpi sensitivity high DPI or CPI is one of the benefits of a laser sensor but 12,000 dear god I can't imagine anyone actually going that high and playing a game you can even adjust in 1 dpi increments for that laser mouse aficionado and your family who's desperately been searching for a 10,000 739 dpi sensors that's the sweet spot right there it's really just marketing though big numbers are good in theory realistically at more reasonable dpi settings and actual use it tracked beautifully and smoothly thanks to the fast 1 millisecond response time there are 18 frickin buttons on the net let's count them left and right click you have 12 buttons on the side of the thumb area zone you also have the easy shift button and the scroll wheel click up here that's 16 as well as the dorsal fin at the top the switch which clicks both ways so it counts as 2 I never got into the habit of using the dorsal fin on the tie on which also has it right there but Kyle actually has gotten so used to using it to side scroll and actually do application switching that he gets mad when he doesn't have it and he has to take his time with him wherever he goes so it can be useful if you train yourself to use it speaking of training yourself with 18 buttons I imagine this mouse will take some getting used to if you want to make full use of all them features the scroll wheel itself feels lightweight but wide and sturdy it has distinct detents as you turn it okay and a very grippy rubber finish that I approve of so the thumb button area is the super modular part of this Mouse by sliding the slider on the bottom of the Nith all the buttons can pop out you can then replace each button with a blank if you don't want to use that button or you can swap two buttons with one of the double wide buttons that Rocket provides in the little accessory box if you want a more important and larger button if you mm Oh or a MOBA player and you want all those buttons though the default configuration with all 12 does seem fairly usable as the buttons are recessed more towards the top - kind of like a staircase and the buttons themselves are contoured with edges to help you determine which ones you're actually pressing if you have very large hands you might have a hard time pressing the buttons closest to you with the base of your thumb but I was pretty much okay with my larger-than-average mitts just if you have really big hands you might have a hard time with that out-of-the-box rocket will tell you that these buttons can be arranged in thirty six thousand seven hundred and thirty eight different ways add the easy shift button which you press to activate a secondary set of functions for each button and math plus numbers equals 10 to the 24th or one sextillion possible hardware software layout and function combinations well a sextillion is probably the sexiest number that exists it's also pretty impractical to grasp so let's just say that you'll probably be able to find a configuration that you like among all those and if you still can't rocket has just opened up their 3d printing library through Shapeways where you can order custom printed replacement buttons to expand your options even further you can order these directly from Shapeways for between twelve to seventeen dollars for a set or you can download the 3d data files directly from rocket if you have a 3d printer and modeling programs and you want to get creative and kind of build your own which i think is the coolest part rocket has basically taken the custom keycaps market for mechanical keyboards and applied it to the myth and while this is a niche feature i actually think it's pretty freakin cool let's round things out with a look at rockets swarm software which handles drivers firmware updates and programming changing those thumb buttons out is part one part two is actually assigning the buttons in the software and telling the myth how you've configured the hardware it's actually a really simple drag-and-drop UI and very straightforward and easy to work with and of course you can assign any of the buttons to do any of the things from a complex macro to a simple keybinding swarm lets you configure all of your rocket hardware if you happen to have a rocket keyboard too for example so you could possibly use rocket talk to assign an easy shift button on your keyboard that then engages the EG easy shift button for the mouse and then you can reassign that easy shift button which i probably would be assigned to dpi switching or something like that anyway it also does the rest of the standard Mouse related things that you might expect including changing the polling rate click speed scroll speed acceleration lift off distance recording macros saving all the settings to profile so you can easily switch between them or even assigning the profile to a game so it changes automatically to that profile when the game is launched also of course you can adjust the mouse's RGB LED lighting here and you can individually choose colors for the rocket logo on the palm and the edge lighting along the base settings are saved internally to the Nith supported by at 72 megahertz turbo core v2 32-bit ARM based processor and 576 kilobytes up onboard memory so then if impressed me with its overall feel and performance the unique modular thumb button area and the flexibility of the easily swappable side grips I like the nod to user customization with 3d printing support and the swarm software easily stands up to the software from the competition competition is really where there's a challenge though as this is not the first multi buttoned MMO and MOBA Mouse on the market there's the venerable Razer Naga which can be found for 70 or 80 bucks right now of course at Corsair has their m95 which I also found for about 80 bucks as well as they're yet to be released scimitar which we recently looked at at PAX Prime which also costs $80 or is going to Logitech g600 can be found for $50 so a price drop on the Nith might make it a more viable option for gamers on a budget but that's for you guys to decide and that is all for this video so let me know if you think the nits feature set warrants its price tag links to this mouse my store as well as my Amazon affiliate code are in the description as usual don't forget to like and share this video if you enjoyed it and subscribe to my channel so you won't miss when I post a new video in the future and as always thank you very much for watching