by popular demand we have the steel series Sensei which is the replacement
for the Z both of which are cruel jokes
for gamers who have a bit of a lisp like
myself all right so let's open up this bad boy and take out the mouse we'll
find a braided cord we find a bag of do
not eat and what else do we have oh oh some
documentation all right all right and then we've got the mouse itself so it is
the replacement for the zy as I mentioned before so what makes the
Sensei special compared to the Z well I
will get into that in a moment let's have a look at what's included first this is a quick start guide man that's a
thick quick start guide look at that it's in a bunch of different languages
because steel series does sell worldwide so that's one reason why they might do
that got some features got some where update instructions on most menu systems
okay cool cool cool we'll have to go through that a little bit when we're looking at the mouse itself and then we
have a steel series catalog which includes a bunch of stuff including as I
saw in the back some stuff that's not even out yet they Diablo 3 stuff which
is coming and looks really cool okay so
the Sensei itself it's got some uh we didn't really look at the Box much we've
got a couple of professional gamer testimonials one from Patrick K sat okay
he's the Swedish uh Swedish national team captain and then we've also got
grubby on here who's a Warcraft 3 Guru all right finally we've got okay steel
series what they have to say for themselves so ambidexter shape and
comfortable grip coating I can vouch for that because the grip is actually and
the shape is actually the same as the Z which preceded it okay um it has a
32-bit ARM processor on board which makes it according to Steel series the
most customizable gaming mouse ever built you can enable Advanced on okay
they've enabled advanced Advanced on Mouse calculations it allows
unprecedented personal setups and millisecond response times it was born
for tournament Victory and built to help you win okay what else we got here in
terms of the overall feature set so ergonomic yes yes uh they claim it is
optimized for all types Palm claw and
fingertip grip okay no Palm claw and
swipe actually swipe I'm not familiar with so if anyone is a YouTuber out
there who wants to comment on the video and Link me to what swipe grip is I
would be very much obliged all right it has programmable illumination with 16.8
million color options that is enabled on your mouse wheel here on your uh okay on
the Z this was the DPI toggle but I don't know what it does on the Sensei
and then finally on the steel series logo at the back you can change those to
whatever color you want instant effortless setup via the built-in LCD on
the bottom so you can have up to five gaming profiles as well as steel series
exact Tech Precision settings which I'm going to talk about a little bit after because that is one of the reasons that
steel series is still my preferred Mouse
of choice okay Mouse of choice or preferred Mouse you can't really say
both but I have an aari laser on my desk at home and I love it and it is because
of the steel series software LCD supports user personalized bit map so
actually this is kind of cool check this out you can actually put on little like
logos and stuff down there that's something that I don't believe was enabled on my iari laser so there you go
they've updated that particular feature and you can double your mouse speed with
dcpi from 5700 to 11.4 th000 CPI
fascinating okay supported by Steel series engine technology offering
operation configuration customization and advanced macros across steel series
peripherals I'll also let you guys have a look at the overall specs here so
there's your counts per inch which is steel series what they claims is a more
accurate way of measuring compared to DPI which is what everyone else uses
which is dots per inch okay one of the other cool things that uh about the CPI
concept itself from steel series is that they believe you should have the utmost
control and you can actually adjust your counts per inch all the way from one
which would be just phenomenally slow up to 5700 in one increment so you see a
lot of mice that offer you 600 800 1,000
DPI settings and those are all preset you can't really alter them well steel
series actually allows you to adjust and increments of one absolutely whatever
you desire so let's take some closer looks at set the mouse itself you got
your forward and your back buttons here for your right-handed people and then
you've got your forward and back buttons here for your left-handed people so it
is truly ambidextrous remember too though if you're right-handed you can
also reach these buttons with your pinky or with your ring finger if you want to go ahead and use those for macros or you
know copy paste or you know in-game functions whatever the case may be
finally up here you've got what is also a programmable button but I believe by
default it switches the CPI you got your mouse wheel and and you have your left
and your right clicks on the bottom you see your steel series gaming grade
engine which I believe they mean uh laser okay so that's your laser sensor
on the bottom of the mouse and you've got your usual slippy feet those are
your nonstick surfaces which are very durable if my iari is anything to go by
which I've had actually for a couple years now we also got a steel series
sticker with it and last but not least I did want to say a little bit of
something about the settings in the steel series software so
there's a few different things there's exact sense so that is what I talked
about before with the exact CPI setting there's free move which allows you to
adjust motion correction personally I hate motion correction although some
Gamers feel differently about it one way or another I turn this all the way off
and I love having this option where I can turn off angle snapping I can turn
off prediction and I don't have to deal with that exactly where I move the mouse
is exactly where I want it to go folks I don't want any compensation and steel
series allows me to do that that's actually pretty much it oh these
are kind of neat huh exact acceleration I've never used this before but the
acceleration works by increasing the CPI as the mouse is moved quickly and then
there's exact aim which actually reduces the CPI as the mouse is moved slowly
allows users to focus in on targets personally I prefer a more linear
response but feel free to play around with those settings so you can get the
most out of your Sensei at least they do offer the option thank you for checking
out my unboxing of the Sensei as you guys can probably tell at this point bit
of a steel series Mouse Fanboy so I'm really looking forward to playing around
with this guy very excited so I just want to show you guys
the lighting effect on the Sensei and I've got it on a test bench which I'm
very excited about dual GTX 590s Gigabyte G1 assassin 990x extreme
Edition anyway so that's the kind of gaming Hardware hopefully you can you
can hook your Sensei up to so there's the steel series logo on the back
there's the indicator up here and then you can see also the lighting on this
each side of the mouse wheel so it's not
super dark in here so the lighting effects are quite right on there there
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