hello and welcome again to david gets really nervous and sweaty on camera
last time i got really sweaty and nervous but this time
maybe not because this time i have a fan
attached to a mouse i mean a mouse attached to a fan
let's see if this thing blows me away so they actually sent us two of these bad
boys i'm guessing different colors let's just open this
one first
little instruction manual uh at this
point i think most people know how to use a mouse plug it in away we go all right
so this is the zephyr gaming mouse it's a pretty cool mouse i think i like the
shape of it but what makes it special is that there's actually a little fan
on the inside so the idea is that
if you get sweaty palms when you play games this thing will actually cool your
palm for you and help you uh get those frags my palms don't get
particularly sweaty at least that's what i thought until jono asked me if i wanted to do
this and i said not really and then i started noticing that like
between my fingers actually got really sweaty and even right now they're kind
of sweaty so i'm excited to see if this thing actually cools the way it is supposed to so right
off the bat i actually like this cable quite a bit it's a braided cable it's kind of
fabric-y it feels like if you had a cable tie it would shred this thing pretty quickly but
otherwise pretty durable this is what i look for
most of the time when i'm getting a corded mouse which
admittedly i don't use anymore i use a wireless mouse just for the
freedom it provides but there's definitely an argument to be made for
corded mice especially when you consider the weight
speaking of weight this mouse is 68 grams which is a little
bit heavier than some of the lightest corded mice like the model o minus which i think is about
like 58 but it's definitely still lighter than all the wireless ones the lightest ones
including the viper ultimate which is like 7778 or the
gpro at 80. at home i use a 403 wireless which is
about 100 grams so no matter what this thing's gonna be quite a bit lighter how that's achieved
and how they achieve the cooling is actually this kind of honeycomb-ish
design it's a little more organic looking on this one often it's kind of a straight
hexagon shape if you look inside can you see that
inside you can see the fan it kind of looks like a little turbine the clicking
is good these are omron 50 million switches
so they're rated pretty high i know there's been some reliability issues
with these ones especially in logitech mice they're either under volting or using too low of a current and so the
circuit and the electrical on the mouse isn't actually meant to handle that this
shouldn't be a problem because this is a wired mouse and so i can't imagine
they're trying to do any like power saving or anything like that so it
should last up to the 50 million at least mechanically i mean the electrical
always goes out before 50 million so on this mouse there's the two main
buttons there's the mouse wheel with a click there's the top middle
button which is the dpi there's two
side buttons front back you can mount
them however you want also on the bottom you can see the pixart
3389 sensor uh nothing wrong with that
sensor it's considered a flawless sensor that's the joy of reviewing mice now
it's not about seeing how accurate a sensor is it's more about how it feels
in your hand how it how it plays and that's something only i
can give you so let's find out
all right so we've plugged the mouse in
and the RGB is extraordinarily bright
so you change it by hitting the two buttons and then hitting the side
buttons so there's a whole variety of RGB my hand is in the way is there a
way to do this
that's not gonna work honestly i would probably have this off i usually keep
RGB on my computer off i find it distracting apparently in the final production model
there'll be a way to turn it off but for now let's go with the rainbow who doesn't
love a rainbow so when i plugged it in you can feel the
fan kick up it's got different settings so
you change it with that button on the bottom
sounds weird sounds bad right now there's the three settings there's off
no sign no noise no vibration
there's this setting which is i think about 4000 RPM
there's this one which is 7000 RPM and then there's going to be a 10 000 RPM
option but apparently they don't have that available quite yet the question i think
this is like the main question of this mouse is can i feel the
air you know what i do feel is like
vibration city this is insane i would not be into
using this it is so distracting it feels like there's like a rumble pack in this
maybe they can do like a firmware update where they make it
that the fan changes for rumble you can get like some vibration feedback heck
yeah the vibration goes down on the higher
setting but the noise goes up that being said most of the time when
i'm pc gaming i'm usually wearing a headset
so does it really matter no but the vibration
yes that does really matter i can feel
a little bit of air i wouldn't describe it as particularly
like much cooler than using a a honeycomb
shaped mouse anyway yeah it's okay
is this a game changer probably not
but that's okay mice are pretty good as they are okay so why don't we uh
fire up a game sensitivity is high but with one button press
we're switching between 400 and 16 000 all the way up
i want to play a game that is both twitch shooter and a little bit scary
and the first game that came to mind was 2005's
fear which is long overdue for a remake
so make that hashtag happen fear remake
4k 2020. yeah that's the one
i think my sensitivity is too high it would be nice to have a bungee
uh as i think that's kind of the big downside to corded gaming is that
sometimes you're pulling and then all of a sudden
it yanks in the wrong direction yo is there acceleration and smoothing on this
thing that is not cool is that they didn't send like a firm
like a control software did they
okay let me i've got to turn that off for Windows
there was no smoothing but it didn't feel quite right so it might just be that the dpi
isn't set how i'm used to it'd be nice to have some kind of software control so
you can be sure that things are right because right now i'm just going off feeling and that feels pretty close to
what i'm used to at home with my 403 yeah that
kind of stuff can come later so it's not that big of a deal i like the feel of light mice like the
model o minus is like a really good mouse and this feels
kind of similar the shape's a little more uh kind of
jagged i don't love the way that this bottom feels in my palm i'm particularly
partial to non-ambidextrous mice might kind of curve one way and my hand can
kind of fit in there that's why i like the 403 but overall it's pretty comfortable i
don't love the way that these buttons are kind of covered
by this ledge here uh i kind of like
having my fingers closer to the edge and this feels like it prevents me from
gripping it how i want but like i said my it's a preference thing
so maybe that's what you like that's a little more fear because uh
i'm on the clock and now i get to play video games so i don't have headphones
right now so i mean i can hear the mouse it's not that bad even when i'm not thinking
about it it's just like a little bit of a whine i can deal with that i can handle that
oh i thought you were dead as i played
and as i warmed up partially because my nerves i actually can't feel the fan going so if you're
someone who's like partial to having your palm get warm
you know what it's kind of cool it kind of works i think it could use a little
bit of refinement it's not bad but it just
vibrates a little bit but i want to try it in the game that i know best that i know what a mouse
should feel like and that's rainbow six so let's load that up
i'm all sweaty everywhere butt my palms so i'm going to cool down with my
refreshing cold water of my LTT Store.com water bottle
yeah if only the mouse could do that oh now i'm all wet what did i do
while this game's loading up i'm gonna take a look at what the
white mouse looks like
huh figure that it's the same mouse but white
these pads on the bottom don't feel particularly good they're kind of sticky
i wasn't noticing any resistance on the pad
but i don't feel like they would last forever i'm just gonna do a regular
terrace on let's go ash because i love the r4 i'm just gonna do a full
auto run normally when i'm warming up to play rainbow six and rank i will
play with the single shot and trying to go headshots only
but just to kind of give this a chance first let's just see how we do
okay it still has my settings
oh wow okay all right all right it's definitely different but i mean
it's hard to judge a mouse off first impressions because it always takes a little bit to get used to
and i haven't played as much rainbow six in the last couple
months okay that's enough of that let's try
the 403.
okay yeah this is definitely the mouse i'm more used to
that's not a knock against the other one the other one i could see getting used to it when i
first heard that it was a mouse with a fan in it it seems so gimmicky but it's
it's a proper gaming mouse and if it's the shape that you like
there's no shame in using that and if you have sweaty palms
there's no shame man you don't even need to get help just get love
or get a mouse andy you're right you're right i think if you have a sweaty palm
uh getting like a model o or a model d
would be totally fine i think the the cooling does a little bit
but i think just having the honeycomb shape does more like the difference between this
and this isn't that extra airflow it's having just
passive air kind of being able to go in and out uh and so
if you have sweaty palms give them a try try the model
oh the model d the final mouse if you can still find one
uh i think the cooler master 710 is a honeycomb there's lots of choices
this is a good choice though it's a good one to put in your options it started at
79 for the early bird and i think it's going up to 100
when it's uh kind of full production and it's a pretty good mouse
i would say there's lots of options i wouldn't highly recommend this but
it's pretty good and it's it's a cool unique feature and
maybe this is the right thing for you and so that's it thanks for watching
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thank you very much actually wait no no wait i had to do one more test
this is the make or break feature can you take this mouse
to disney world with you plug it into a power bank and use it as a fan
and the answer is yes this is amazing
oh yeah oh yeah i can't feel anything i want to see if
both mice at maximum
i can feel it you know what
let's do it next time i go to anywhere warm
bring this mouse with me