welcome to my unboxing of the Diablo I Mouse from steel Series so this isn't
the first time steel Series has released a licensed blizzard product but this is
the first time that I've seen their Mouse be basically just like a themed
version of one of their other mice which I already know is awesome so I don't
even have to speculate in fact my steel series Z is right over there I use it on
my test bench and it is a fantastic Mouse so it can only be made better by
like Diablo themed artwork and a Diablo themed gooey that allows you to easily
map ah okay here look I'll let them word it the way they want to quick and
effortlessly remap the mouse buttons with drag and drop predefined game
actions and functions and skills as well as illumination settings all of which are easily configured and the thing that
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
talk about what El steel Series has to say about this mouse first optimal
comfort with an ambid extra shape and making it versatile for all types of
gamer grips the Z is that as well so
there you go that's fairly straightforward seven ergonomically placed ergonomically ergonomically
placed programmable buttons world's most durable switches so these are Omron
switches guaranteed for 10 million clicks which means that no matter how
high your actions per minute actually if you know your actions per minute then
you can actually calculate exactly how long this mouse is guaranteed to last
for you if you sat and gamed like 100%
of the time until it died well you'd probably die first but there
you go there you go the mouse that lives longer than you uh programmable Diablo 3 themed
illumination options so that's the scroll wheel the CPI indicator as well
as the logo at the back and durable double rated nylon cord with goldplated
USB connector now this brings me back to a video I did recently which is totally
unrelated to this where I compared the
performance of an SSD drive with various
SATA cables including SATA 2 cables and SATA 3 cables and there was a lot of
debate after that video where I basically determined that it didn't
affect the performance about why the performance wasn't affected or what kind
of cables they were or whatnot and there were a lot of comments
about how it would have been better if it was goldplated or silverplated and a
lot of debate about what's the best conductor so I'm going to settle this
once and for all silver is the best
electrical conductor better than copper but it's expensive silver also has the
ormous disadvantage of easily tarnishing that is it easily oxidizes when it's
exposed to air so that means that there is a less conductive layer that forms
almost immediately with silver okay so
that's why we use copper because it's cheap and it doesn't tarnish now why do
we use gold to Plate the end of a connector if it's not as good of a
conductor as either silver or
copper why do you think that is the reason is that gold is malleable
gold is soft so what that means is that
every time you insert it the gold is able to actually make a very small very
very small but it'll give way a little bit to the metal from the other end of
the connector making you able to have a
perfect connection every time that is why we gold plate connectors also it
never tarnishes and never oxidizes that
is why we use gold not because it is the best conductor so that is why steel
Series has gold plating on the connectors inside there and then this is
unnecessary but it looks like they've also goldplated the outer housing those
are the important parts though those got to be goldplated so here's the double
braided nylon cord which actually feels like thicker than most of the braided
cords that I've encountered in the past also has a little red stripe which is
you know kind of neat haven't seen that before
either all right so here it only makes sense that since I recently unboxed some
Diablo I mouse pads here let's go with let's go with the Plain Jane Diablo I
one so here we'll you know showcase it there so let's let's go over the overall
the overall Mouse here so what makes this mouse truly ambidextrous because
lots of mice have ambid dtra shapes is the fact that all of the buttons are
equally accessible regardless of whether you use it with a right hand or a left
hand because check this out you've got your front and back buttons here
remember these are all fully programmable so if you're left-handed you can make this back in your browser
and this forward in your browser and you've got them on the other side so
that means that if you're right-handed you can program these to do something with your other fingers and use them
like this and if you're left-handed then you can do it the other way around
you've also got your CPI change button although you can change the uh sorry
yeah your CPI change Button as well as your CPI indicator LED so remember steel
series uses CPI because according to their literature it is a more accurate
representation of the actual sensitivity of the mouse that is the counts per inch
they believe is more accurate than dots per inch so they always use CPI to rate
their mice so unlike their competitors steel series allows you to adjust your
CPI in fairly small increments the aari laser that I have actually allows
increments of one CPI but it's not quite
that granular anymore this one allows adjustments in 100 cpis which is still
better than most of their competitors which are more like along the lines of
like 400 800 1200 1,600 and those are
the only intervals that you can pick so they still give you a great degree of
granularity and you just use this button to switch between them so they are some
of the most customizable mice on the market because you can change everything
from your uh from your uh oh crap I
can't even remember what it's called but you can change how much correction it adds to a straight line can't remember
what it's called so I have mine set to absolutely none zero correction and then
you can have you have a bunch of settings in between and you can actually
properly control all of your sensitivities your average plane Jin and
even some of your high-end mice do not allow you to do that they go oh 400
800,00 well that's not granular enough so there you go that's why personally
love steel series mice um not really sure where I was going with that anymore
steel series gaming grade engine at the bottom we've got our slippy pads which
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
Class One logo so basically don't put your eye right up to this and turn it on
you know it's not good uh on the top of the mouse right right I was telling
talking about the CPI button there we go I'm caught up again hey check this out
they've they've upgraded the scroll wheel so that is a clickable button and
then it is also a rubberized uh like Diablo 3 looking scrolly wheel thing
going on you know what I already like this mouse a lot more than the zy and
that is for one major reason the Z for
all its awesomeness is not as grippy overall
this is a very uh plasticky shiny slippery surface compared to the Diablo
I Mouse which has oops I accidentally spat on it while I was talking there
much better now okay whereas this one has like a rubberized soft touch feel
throughout the entire Mouse personally find it easier to pick up a mouse that
has that finish on it and I find it to be less um clammy feeling especially
when you game for a while and you get a little bit sweaty the Diablo II logo
here at the back lights up and I think we've covered the physical attributes of
the mouse pretty well now let's go ahead install the uh install the drivers so
we're having a quick look at the software which actually provides an astounding amount of customization I
mean it's it's at the point where it's actually a little bit ridiculous because
you go ahead you click on a button you can change everything about it from from
the name to the tool tip to the key color to the text color that shows up um
to the key font you can change from action types like macros launch
application disable key you can record delays or not record delays when you're
doing your Macros there's an advanced edit option here to well edit macros in
a more advanced way you can create different profiles and your profiles can
be um for different types of characters
within the game Diablo I or within whatever other game you want in spite of
the fact that this is Diablo 3 themed you can actually use it in a lot of
different ways so there's single Keys here comes with a bunch of preconfigured
stuff and then there's custom whoops yeah custom ones here that you can
create using the new action button down here all right what else we got in here
so moving over to the settings tab we see we can adjust the CPI so the counts
per inch so that's either with the LED off or the LED on we have two easy
switch profiles that we can switch between we can also adjust the pulling
rate and the lighting on the mouse I haven't actually shown the lighting on
the mouse yet check it out the Diablo I logo CPI indicator as well as the mouse
wheel are all illuminated so it can pulsate fast or slow and it can be
bright or less bright okay what else we got here moving
over to properties so we can set uh different profiles to launch when
different trigger games are launched and check this out this is statistics so
this is like an odometer for your mouse so you can go either current session or
lifetime clicks and it will actually track according to this uh this Zone up
here how many times like how often that Mouse button gets used in relation to
the other one so clearly I'm a left click kind of guy and I don't use my
middle click very often however if I take my middle click and I click it like
50 times here you're going to see that if I navigate away from here with so on
sorry this is going to take a second
guys still clicking okay done clicking
now I'm just going to like navigate away and come back and my middle click oh
it's using lifetime clicks now
right I think it takes a second to update so give it a minute yeah there we
go so my left button now has much less frequency in relation
to oh was I accidentally clicking the the right button while I was doing that
oh oops whatever so it readjusts according to what buttons you press kind
of hilarious so thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the
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