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welcome to my unboxing of the Diablo I Mouse from steel Series so this isn't

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the first time steel Series has released a licensed blizzard product but this is

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the first time that I've seen their Mouse be basically just like a themed

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version of one of their other mice which I already know is awesome so I don't

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even have to speculate in fact my steel series Z is right over there I use it on

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my test bench and it is a fantastic Mouse so it can only be made better by

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like Diablo themed artwork and a Diablo themed gooey that allows you to easily

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map ah okay here look I'll let them word it the way they want to quick and

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effortlessly remap the mouse buttons with drag and drop predefined game

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actions and functions and skills as well as illumination settings all of which are easily configured and the thing that

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looks like this so we're going to load up the driver and show you guys on the computer behind me in a minute but let's

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talk about what El steel Series has to say about this mouse first optimal

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comfort with an ambid extra shape and making it versatile for all types of

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gamer grips the Z is that as well so

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there you go that's fairly straightforward seven ergonomically placed ergonomically ergonomically

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placed programmable buttons world's most durable switches so these are Omron

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switches guaranteed for 10 million clicks which means that no matter how

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high your actions per minute actually if you know your actions per minute then

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you can actually calculate exactly how long this mouse is guaranteed to last

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for you if you sat and gamed like 100%

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of the time until it died well you'd probably die first but there

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you go there you go the mouse that lives longer than you uh programmable Diablo 3 themed

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illumination options so that's the scroll wheel the CPI indicator as well

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as the logo at the back and durable double rated nylon cord with goldplated

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USB connector now this brings me back to a video I did recently which is totally

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unrelated to this where I compared the

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performance of an SSD drive with various

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SATA cables including SATA 2 cables and SATA 3 cables and there was a lot of

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debate after that video where I basically determined that it didn't

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affect the performance about why the performance wasn't affected or what kind

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of cables they were or whatnot and there were a lot of comments

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about how it would have been better if it was goldplated or silverplated and a

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lot of debate about what's the best conductor so I'm going to settle this

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once and for all silver is the best

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electrical conductor better than copper but it's expensive silver also has the

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ormous disadvantage of easily tarnishing that is it easily oxidizes when it's

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exposed to air so that means that there is a less conductive layer that forms

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almost immediately with silver okay so

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that's why we use copper because it's cheap and it doesn't tarnish now why do

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we use gold to Plate the end of a connector if it's not as good of a

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conductor as either silver or

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copper why do you think that is the reason is that gold is malleable

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gold is soft so what that means is that

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every time you insert it the gold is able to actually make a very small very

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very small but it'll give way a little bit to the metal from the other end of

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the connector making you able to have a

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perfect connection every time that is why we gold plate connectors also it

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never tarnishes and never oxidizes that

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is why we use gold not because it is the best conductor so that is why steel

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Series has gold plating on the connectors inside there and then this is

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unnecessary but it looks like they've also goldplated the outer housing those

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are the important parts though those got to be goldplated so here's the double

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braided nylon cord which actually feels like thicker than most of the braided

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cords that I've encountered in the past also has a little red stripe which is

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you know kind of neat haven't seen that before

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either all right so here it only makes sense that since I recently unboxed some

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Diablo I mouse pads here let's go with let's go with the Plain Jane Diablo I

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one so here we'll you know showcase it there so let's let's go over the overall

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the overall Mouse here so what makes this mouse truly ambidextrous because

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lots of mice have ambid dtra shapes is the fact that all of the buttons are

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equally accessible regardless of whether you use it with a right hand or a left

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hand because check this out you've got your front and back buttons here

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remember these are all fully programmable so if you're left-handed you can make this back in your browser

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and this forward in your browser and you've got them on the other side so

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that means that if you're right-handed you can program these to do something with your other fingers and use them

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like this and if you're left-handed then you can do it the other way around

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you've also got your CPI change button although you can change the uh sorry

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yeah your CPI change Button as well as your CPI indicator LED so remember steel

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series uses CPI because according to their literature it is a more accurate

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representation of the actual sensitivity of the mouse that is the counts per inch

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they believe is more accurate than dots per inch so they always use CPI to rate

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their mice so unlike their competitors steel series allows you to adjust your

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CPI in fairly small increments the aari laser that I have actually allows

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increments of one CPI but it's not quite

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that granular anymore this one allows adjustments in 100 cpis which is still

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better than most of their competitors which are more like along the lines of

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like 400 800 1200 1,600 and those are

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the only intervals that you can pick so they still give you a great degree of

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granularity and you just use this button to switch between them so they are some

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of the most customizable mice on the market because you can change everything

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from your uh from your uh oh crap I

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can't even remember what it's called but you can change how much correction it adds to a straight line can't remember

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what it's called so I have mine set to absolutely none zero correction and then

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you can have you have a bunch of settings in between and you can actually

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properly control all of your sensitivities your average plane Jin and

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even some of your high-end mice do not allow you to do that they go oh 400

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800,00 well that's not granular enough so there you go that's why personally

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love steel series mice um not really sure where I was going with that anymore

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steel series gaming grade engine at the bottom we've got our slippy pads which

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I'm sure there's probably a more you know official name for them this is a laser mouse so you got your little Laser

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Class One logo so basically don't put your eye right up to this and turn it on

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you know it's not good uh on the top of the mouse right right I was telling

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talking about the CPI button there we go I'm caught up again hey check this out

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they've they've upgraded the scroll wheel so that is a clickable button and

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then it is also a rubberized uh like Diablo 3 looking scrolly wheel thing

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going on you know what I already like this mouse a lot more than the zy and

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that is for one major reason the Z for

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all its awesomeness is not as grippy overall

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this is a very uh plasticky shiny slippery surface compared to the Diablo

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I Mouse which has oops I accidentally spat on it while I was talking there

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much better now okay whereas this one has like a rubberized soft touch feel

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throughout the entire Mouse personally find it easier to pick up a mouse that

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has that finish on it and I find it to be less um clammy feeling especially

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when you game for a while and you get a little bit sweaty the Diablo II logo

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here at the back lights up and I think we've covered the physical attributes of

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the mouse pretty well now let's go ahead install the uh install the drivers so

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we're having a quick look at the software which actually provides an astounding amount of customization I

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mean it's it's at the point where it's actually a little bit ridiculous because

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you go ahead you click on a button you can change everything about it from from

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the name to the tool tip to the key color to the text color that shows up um

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to the key font you can change from action types like macros launch

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application disable key you can record delays or not record delays when you're

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doing your Macros there's an advanced edit option here to well edit macros in

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a more advanced way you can create different profiles and your profiles can

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be um for different types of characters

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within the game Diablo I or within whatever other game you want in spite of

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the fact that this is Diablo 3 themed you can actually use it in a lot of

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different ways so there's single Keys here comes with a bunch of preconfigured

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stuff and then there's custom whoops yeah custom ones here that you can

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create using the new action button down here all right what else we got in here

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so moving over to the settings tab we see we can adjust the CPI so the counts

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per inch so that's either with the LED off or the LED on we have two easy

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switch profiles that we can switch between we can also adjust the pulling

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rate and the lighting on the mouse I haven't actually shown the lighting on

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the mouse yet check it out the Diablo I logo CPI indicator as well as the mouse

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wheel are all illuminated so it can pulsate fast or slow and it can be

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bright or less bright okay what else we got here moving

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over to properties so we can set uh different profiles to launch when

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different trigger games are launched and check this out this is statistics so

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this is like an odometer for your mouse so you can go either current session or

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lifetime clicks and it will actually track according to this uh this Zone up

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here how many times like how often that Mouse button gets used in relation to

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the other one so clearly I'm a left click kind of guy and I don't use my

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middle click very often however if I take my middle click and I click it like

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50 times here you're going to see that if I navigate away from here with so on

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sorry this is going to take a second

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guys still clicking okay done clicking

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now I'm just going to like navigate away and come back and my middle click oh

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it's using lifetime clicks now

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right I think it takes a second to update so give it a minute yeah there we

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go so my left button now has much less frequency in relation

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to oh was I accidentally clicking the the right button while I was doing that

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oh oops whatever so it readjusts according to what buttons you press kind

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of hilarious so thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the

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Diablo I Mouse don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech tips for more unboxings

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