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is ncix.com hey guys we're here at gamdias and i
know what you're probably thinking is slick another keyboard video seriously
no no guys okay first we're going to do the mouse then we'll do the keyboard of
course i had to get to that then we'll do the headset then we're going to do this interesting thing right here so
first i'm going to go over the mouse like i just said at first it looks nuts there's tons of
stuff all over the place there's 11 macro keys
to do all over the place it's all programmable they have a nice software
for all of their things tied into one let's actually jump up to that real quick so this is their software right
now i just have the mouse and keyboard plugged in so at the bottom you can see
mouse and keyboard are available so one piece of software all your peripherals
as long as they're all from gamdias all right we're going to jump back down not
spend too much time with software as it's still mostly in beta if i flip the
mouse over you'll find three scroll wheelie type things right here as
you can see they're connected directly if i can spin this out to the plastic
panel that is closest to them so this one controls this panel this one
controls this panel and this one controls this panel making it a very
adjustable mouse apparently there's also going to be options for other plates to
go on this as well and on this side they noted that some people with smaller
hands had problems getting their pinkies caught in here so on the actual
production model that will be released they're going to have a plug that can go there temporarily and they can remove it
later on if they don't want it personally i would leave it out because i think it looks great without it and my
pinky is not going to be caught there i currently have the most set up in a
configuration for my hand so i usually claw grip mice and this mouse isn't big
enough for me to palm grip anyways but i never problem grip anything so it's not really that big of a deal
so it fits me perfectly right now which is actually kind of nice every finger
goes into its exact spot that i would want it to go to my pinky doesn't drag
along the mat my thumb doesn't drag along the mat everything is working fine
it's a fine looking mouse we're going to move on to the keyboard now again slick
another keyboard review this one does actually have some interesting things
first off i noticed this little camera button and that intrigued me it's a
recording button or a streaming button or a network streaming button or
whatever you want it on release it's not ready yet but i have been told what you can do is
you can live stream with it or you can local record with it or you can stream
to another computer in the house so if you have someone with a home theater computer set up to the tv you can stream
to that your dad or your family or your mom or whoever wants to watch you play
whatever game you're playing can watch there i don't know if you have anyone that wants to just sit and watch you
play games but that is a cool option
now moving forward if i pull this key off they'll probably not be too happy
that i didn't use a key puller but i don't know whatever so
sorry gamdias it looks like cherry blue switches it
looks fairly standard but then there's this little square around the switch
that is a way of dampening the press so it doesn't actually bottom out which
makes it quite a bit quieter as if i'm gonna put the mic there
i don't know how attuned you are with cherry blues but they're really really loud you can hear the click and then you
can hear it slam against the bottom of the keyboard if you press all the way down like i do i always press all the
way down it's a bad habit but it is a habit so that dampens it and also makes less
total travel time and makes it spring up faster they're clean claiming that is a
type of hybrid switch and it'll feel more like a red than it does like a blue
i'm not so sure how i feel about that i like the blues and i like dampeners but
i'm not sure how much a red user would be able to actually relate the two
that's up to you i would recommend trying it out yourself as i do with all
mechanical keyboards up at the top here they've got a usb hub one of them with
uh mic and audio headers not headers plugs sorry about that talked a lot
today jumping down to the bottom they have a wrist rest it's a massive wrist
rest any 7g users will that like their huge wrist rest will like this one thing
to notice is it's magnetic clips in very
nicely and if you take it off spin it around and put it on top of your
keyboard it actually works as a dust cover this is kind of interesting i do
carry dust covers with my keyboards just to keep them nice and pristine and if
you want a place that is very dusty this could help you out it's just interesting
added functionality that gamdias has done you'll notice that their logo
actually says zeus on it that is just actually their logo they are gambias as
it says on the wrist rest moving past the keyboard we get to
hephaestus this thing is huge and crazy
and has heat sinks and vibration motors
and everything so basically i'm going to jump into the heatsinks they're saying
gamer's ears get hot that sounds pretty accurate to me so they have heatsinks in
here to try and keep the overall temperature of the um of the cans cold
sorry for using terminology cans there that's what some people call
ear cups on headphones huge huge soft cups they feel quite nice
up here there's a little bit not quite as much as down here but this is the
more important part in my opinion if say you're in a game someone throws a
grenade and it blows up behind you depending on what side they're on one of
the ear muffs will vibrate and i believe if it's central they'll both vibrate
yeah so if it's central they will both vibrate if it's on one side one will vibrate just a little bit of added
functionality there they're like calling it a added
element so that's kind of interesting or forced to mention the boom mic is very
adjustable so if you somehow have a mouth that's over here when the rest of
your face is over there you can do that or you can very easily have it wherever
you want it it seems to be able to be pretty stiff wherever you want it so
that is pretty cool these things i tested them out the bass
is pretty insane it can pound like
pretty much no other of course there is others but pretty much no other bass is
awesome i noticed a little bit of siblings on some highs but those weren't
that bad and that brings us to this guy
this guy's quite interesting it heats to your monitor through 3m stickers and
it's actually not that bad apparently if you take it off it doesn't leave
and it won't pull any of the paint off your monitor although it may leave some
residue basically what this is is it's cable management for one cable i highly
suggest your mouse as they have it set up here and then on the back if i can
rotate this monitor uh
i'm getting some people trying to help me here we'll try and get this done i'm going to unplug the monitor actually
there we go
there we go nope this side this side this side that side there you go usb 2.0
hub on the back that is actually pretty cool and then this you're probably one
wondering what that was doing there i had the headphones hooked up there and
that's actually what makes sense a lot of people don't have headphone holders
personally i have sennheisers that came with a headphone holder and i love it if
you don't have a headphone holder this is not a bad idea
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