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by popular demand we have the steel series Sensei which is the replacement

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for the Z both of which are cruel jokes

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for gamers who have a bit of a lisp like

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myself all right so let's open up this bad boy and take out the mouse we'll

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find a braided cord we find a bag of do

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not eat and what else do we have oh oh some

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documentation all right all right and then we've got the mouse itself so it is

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the replacement for the zy as I mentioned before so what makes the

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Sensei special compared to the Z well I

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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

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thick quick start guide look at that it's in a bunch of different languages

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because steel series does sell worldwide so that's one reason why they might do

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that got some features got some where update instructions on most menu systems

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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

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have a steel series catalog which includes a bunch of stuff including as I

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saw in the back some stuff that's not even out yet they Diablo 3 stuff which

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is coming and looks really cool okay so

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the Sensei itself it's got some uh we didn't really look at the Box much we've

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got a couple of professional gamer testimonials one from Patrick K sat okay

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he's the Swedish uh Swedish national team captain and then we've also got

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grubby on here who's a Warcraft 3 Guru all right finally we've got okay steel

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series what they have to say for themselves so ambidexter shape and

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comfortable grip coating I can vouch for that because the grip is actually and

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the shape is actually the same as the Z which preceded it okay um it has a

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32-bit ARM processor on board which makes it according to Steel series the

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most customizable gaming mouse ever built you can enable Advanced on okay

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they've enabled advanced Advanced on Mouse calculations it allows

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unprecedented personal setups and millisecond response times it was born

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for tournament Victory and built to help you win okay what else we got here in

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terms of the overall feature set so ergonomic yes yes uh they claim it is

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optimized for all types Palm claw and

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fingertip grip okay no Palm claw and

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swipe actually swipe I'm not familiar with so if anyone is a YouTuber out

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there who wants to comment on the video and Link me to what swipe grip is I

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would be very much obliged all right it has programmable illumination with 16.8

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million color options that is enabled on your mouse wheel here on your uh okay on

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the Z this was the DPI toggle but I don't know what it does on the Sensei

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and then finally on the steel series logo at the back you can change those to

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whatever color you want instant effortless setup via the built-in LCD on

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the bottom so you can have up to five gaming profiles as well as steel series

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exact Tech Precision settings which I'm going to talk about a little bit after because that is one of the reasons that

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steel series is still my preferred Mouse

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of choice okay Mouse of choice or preferred Mouse you can't really say

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both but I have an aari laser on my desk at home and I love it and it is because

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of the steel series software LCD supports user personalized bit map so

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actually this is kind of cool check this out you can actually put on little like

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logos and stuff down there that's something that I don't believe was enabled on my iari laser so there you go

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they've updated that particular feature and you can double your mouse speed with

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dcpi from 5700 to 11.4 th000 CPI

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fascinating okay supported by Steel series engine technology offering

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operation configuration customization and advanced macros across steel series

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peripherals I'll also let you guys have a look at the overall specs here so

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there's your counts per inch which is steel series what they claims is a more

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accurate way of measuring compared to DPI which is what everyone else uses

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which is dots per inch okay one of the other cool things that uh about the CPI

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concept itself from steel series is that they believe you should have the utmost

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control and you can actually adjust your counts per inch all the way from one

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which would be just phenomenally slow up to 5700 in one increment so you see a

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lot of mice that offer you 600 800 1,000

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DPI settings and those are all preset you can't really alter them well steel

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series actually allows you to adjust and increments of one absolutely whatever

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you desire so let's take some closer looks at set the mouse itself you got

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your forward and your back buttons here for your right-handed people and then

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you've got your forward and back buttons here for your left-handed people so it

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is truly ambidextrous remember too though if you're right-handed you can

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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

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know copy paste or you know in-game functions whatever the case may be

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finally up here you've got what is also a programmable button but I believe by

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default it switches the CPI you got your mouse wheel and and you have your left

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and your right clicks on the bottom you see your steel series gaming grade

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engine which I believe they mean uh laser okay so that's your laser sensor

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on the bottom of the mouse and you've got your usual slippy feet those are

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your nonstick surfaces which are very durable if my iari is anything to go by

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which I've had actually for a couple years now we also got a steel series

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sticker with it and last but not least I did want to say a little bit of

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something about the settings in the steel series software so

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there's a few different things there's exact sense so that is what I talked

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about before with the exact CPI setting there's free move which allows you to

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adjust motion correction personally I hate motion correction although some

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Gamers feel differently about it one way or another I turn this all the way off

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and I love having this option where I can turn off angle snapping I can turn

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off prediction and I don't have to deal with that exactly where I move the mouse

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is exactly where I want it to go folks I don't want any compensation and steel

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series allows me to do that that's actually pretty much it oh these

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are kind of neat huh exact acceleration I've never used this before but the

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acceleration works by increasing the CPI as the mouse is moved quickly and then

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there's exact aim which actually reduces the CPI as the mouse is moved slowly

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allows users to focus in on targets personally I prefer a more linear

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response but feel free to play around with those settings so you can get the

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most out of your Sensei at least they do offer the option thank you for checking

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out my unboxing of the Sensei as you guys can probably tell at this point bit

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of a steel series Mouse Fanboy so I'm really looking forward to playing around

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with this guy very excited so I just want to show you guys

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the lighting effect on the Sensei and I've got it on a test bench which I'm

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very excited about dual GTX 590s Gigabyte G1 assassin 990x extreme

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Edition anyway so that's the kind of gaming Hardware hopefully you can you

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can hook your Sensei up to so there's the steel series logo on the back

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there's the indicator up here and then you can see also the lighting on this

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each side of the mouse wheel so it's not

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super dark in here so the lighting effects are quite right on there there

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