Today we bring you a review on OCZ's latest gaming mouse, a mouse named Behemoth. When you look back at the history of hardware products, one thin red line that always returns is the usage of somehow ancient, religious, Greek dark or evil names for products.

OCZ also has this tendency here and there to do that and therefore I was keen to find out what the product name Behemoth really means. I mean Behemoth  .. that's a whole lotta name for a mouse alright.

So I dug up some stuff here, Behemoth is a biblical creature mentioned in the Book of Job, 40:15-24. The word is most likely a plural form of behemah, meaning beast or large animal. It may be an example of pluralis excellentiae, a Hebrew method of expressing greatness by pluralizing a noun. It thus indicates that Behemoth is the largest and most powerful animal ever to exist.

Ooohwkaaay kids bed-time ! ... right then, welcome to a new gaming peripheral review here at Guru3D.com. It should be no surprise that today we'll be testing the all new OCZ Behemoth gaming mouse. This gaming mouse is packed with good features and has a great design. Very ergonomic, very well though through and very affordable as well.

The Behemoth has five key features. DPI switching, double lasers for double precision (well that's the theory at least), it is weight adjustable and it has a braided cloth USB cord, no sticky rubber thing. Next to that the mouse has a little memory which means you can save game profiles in there.

Next to being a well designed mouse with a lot of features, it stands above the rest of the gaming mice out there. Let's inspect and test this largest and most powerful animal of a mouse (heck it is called behemoth) ever to exist.

Meet Hilbert. Hilbert is a hardware reviewer at the age of 35; not exactly the frag-meister in the most hottest gaming titles. However, he does love living life fast and knows a trick or two; thus that includes the overall gaming experience. The last time he reviewed a fast "gaming" mouse they were at 600 DPI precision, they here optical and yes .. some mouses in that era even had a little ball ! It's now 2008 and a company releases a laser mouse at 3200 DPI. That's 3200 scanned dots per square Inch people. Hilbert just has to review the product to check if it'll help him improve his gaming experience.
Without further ado ladies and gentlemen, let me introduce to you the guys from CyberSnipa, soon to be known under the label cyber-e-sport. The folks that market and produce hardcore gaming gear for you guys, the gaming audience. It's one of very few companies solely focusing on gaming products and they have been doing that with success.
With that gaming community in mind they have developed a certain amount of products that should be appealing to you, the Guru3D audience.
The first product from their new series we'll test comes from their Cyber Snipa mouse range of products; the Cyber Snipa Stinger. A product with fine precision, good looks and to some degree, it's even customizable thanks to a dominant software application.  I was enchanted to get my hands on the Cyber Snipa Stinger Gaming Mouse. While this piece of hardware is clearly aimed at the hardest of the hardcore FPSers, its resourcefulness and features make it a comfy mouse even for everyday use.
The new Cyber Snipa Stinger doesn't come cheap though. Prepare to cough up  €39.90 / 49 USD for it. But is it worth that money then ? Let's find out at the next page where we'll look at some of the technical features, photo's and my experiences with this product.

Now what really sucks? Developing a piece of hardware that everyone wants, and then not being able to make enough of it to go around. Of course, what happens next is a result of supply and demand. Suddenly your $249 Radeon HD 5850s cost $300—when they’re in stock.

Wouldn’t it follow, then, that a card with two of those über-valuable ASICs would do little to address supply issues of ATI’s Radeon HD 5800-series cards? According to the company, the exact reason it held off on launching its potent Hemlock board related to availability. Now, it says, there are enough Cypress GPUs to support sales of this…monster.

Clearly, Size Matters

Meet the Radeon HD 5970. Apparently, Radeon HD 5870 X2 too-conspicuously conveyed the dual-GPU nature of this card—an attribute that has not necessarily been celebrated in the past by those wary of scaling or stuttering issues.

Nevertheless, this is ATI’s dual-GPU, single-PCB follow-up to the Radeon HD 5870 (and answer to Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 295—a card that, up until today, was the fastest discrete graphics board you could buy). Gone are all auspices of value. This thing is set to sell for $600. Almost ironically, though, the 5970 might end up being the way to go for anyone who was previously considering a pair of Radeon HD 5850s in CrossFire, which would add up to $600 today anyway.

ATI’s approach here looks a lot like what Nvidia did with its GeForce GTX 295 earlier this year.

1) Take two top-end GPUs. In Nvidia’s case, it was the GT200 with 240 stream processors. In ATI’s, it’s the 1,600-shader Cypress found in its Radeon HD 5870.
2) Drop clock rates a bit in order to keep power and thermals under control.
3) ???
4) Profit

The most significant difference is that, while Nvidia hacked and slashed the back-end of its GPU to match what you’d get from a pair of GeForce GTX 275s, cutting ROPs and 64-bits of the originally-512-bit memory interface, ATI’s Radeon HD 5970 sports a pair of uncut Cypress chips. Only the clocks are dropped (to Radeon HD 5850 levels), and for a fairly sensible reason that we'll get into shortly, too.

What results is a massive, single-PCB card that stretches a foot long—an inch more than the already-lengthy Radeon HD 5870 and an inch and a half longer than ATI’s Radeon HD 4870 X2. This will unquestionably be a sticking point for enthusiasts with cramped enclosures. Enthusiasts are a resourceful bunch, though.

More Sweet Spot Action

Hemlock represents the third of four projected launches based on the Evergreen family, first discussed in early September. The first, of course, was Cypress—the Radeon HD 5870 and Radeon HD 5850. The second was Juniper—the Radeon HD 5770 and 5750. The next launch, after today’s, is expected in the first quarter of 2010 and will consist of the entry-level Cedar and Redwood components.

At least on paper, AMD’s Sweet Spot strategy is going off without a hitch.

In reality, the same availability issues that plagued the Radeon HD 4770 shortly after launch are taking their toll on Radeon HD 5870 and Radeon HD 5850 supply (the 5770 and 5750s seem to be a little more widely available). Blame, of course, is being directed at TSMC’s 40nm manufacturing node and its resulting yields.

Of course, that’s a shame since supply affects pricing. But ATI tells us that only the 5850 is being hit by a $50 price jump. The 5870 remains at its $399 price point (though you’ll see some vendors selling the card for more). Moreover, the Radeon HD 5970’s $599 MSRP is being set with already-known supply issues priced in—expect it to remain around that $600 level.

 more detail Diamond ATI Radeon HD5970 PCIE 2048 MB GDDR5 Video Card 5970PE52G

Can upper-mainstream gaming and true mobility coexist? We’ve seen many attempts (perhaps hundreds?) by vendors during the last several years to pack desktop gaming horsepower in a portable package. But performance lagged and did not live up to the claims. We almost got there in 2004 with ATI's Radeon 9600 XT-based Mobility Radeon 9700. Yet, at that time, mobile processing still fell short. Intel released its Core Duo mobile processors two years later, but new games made the elder GPU obsolete. While CPU and GPU manufacturers continuously chase the rainbow of efficiency, technological convergence appears as mythical as the pot of gold at the rainbow’s end.

There have been "desktop-replacement” PCs that are notebooks almost in name only, such as Eurocom’s recently-reviewed Core i7-based D900F Panther. Perhaps light enough to carry from your office to the parking lot, such behemoths appeal mostly to those who want a desktop they can take home rather than a computing device they can take anywhere. This explains the drive by Intel to put Core i7 technology in a smaller, more heat-efficient product suitable for a wider user base, which we recently revealed as Clarksfield.

Always near the forefront of mobile technology, Asus jumped at the chance to build a gaming notebook using the new processor series. Yet, in an effort to reduce both heat and cost, Asus chose a far different product than the i7-920XM that Chris reviewed. Running 400 MHz slower and with 2MB less cache, the G51J’s i7-720QM allows Asus to price its product within easy reach of many mainstream gamers. Let’s see how it stacks up to our most modern gaming notebooks.

get product here ASUS G51J-A1 15.6-Inch Blue Gaming Laptop (Windows 7 Home Premium)