When it comes to gaming mice, nearly everyone you meet is going to have their own preferences and opinions on which ones are best, and most are fiercely loyal to a certain brand once they get comfortable. It can be difficult to get a long time Logitech or Razer owner to give a different mouse a whirl.ZOWIE GEAR may not be a company that many gamers are familiar with, having only been around since 2008. While the company may be relatively new to the game, the designers at ZOWIE GEAR work with professional gamers to develop new products that even the fiercest competitor would be proud to use in battle. The EC1 gaming mouse that we are looking at today was developed with the help of pro gamer Emil "HeatoN" Christensen, and the G-TF mousepad was designed by Abdisamad “SpawN” Mohamed. ZOWIE GEAR was nice enough to provide both of these items plus the P-RF mousepad as well, so let’s take a look at what they have to offer.ZOWIE GEAR’s packaging for the EC1 mouse was simple and informative, with the mouse’s features laid out in 13 different languages. The mousepads were also sent in similar boxes, and the design of ZOWIE GEAR products are easy to spot due to the similar coloring and design across all of the boxes. This was the first time I had opened up a mouse and not been greeted by a driver disc. ZOWIE GEAR states on their site that “most optical mice are 125Hz which can be artificially raised to 500 – 1,000Hz through driver installations. The ZOWIE EC mice are the only optical mice which has 1,000 Hz from standard, without any installation of drivers.”