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today's video was supposed to be an assassin's creed unity benchmarking

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video but as i found it extremely difficult to deliver a video to you guys

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that would have been up to our usual standard of quality thanks to various

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bugs and performance related issues throughout the entirety of the

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benchmarking process i decided to forego that plan entirely and play some better

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games some more stable games instead while testing the extremely interesting

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ASUS rog gladius gaming mouse for more

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Corsair gaming RGB keyboards feature precision cherry mx RGB key switches for

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16.8 million color per key backlighting for virtually unlimited customization

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click now to learn more clearly the most unusual feature of this

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mouse is the swappable omron switches for the left and right click but the

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details of that awesome feature we'll have to wait for later for now we'll

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start with the physical overview at first glance it will likely remind you

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of a razer death adder and for many people that's probably a good thing

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weighing in at around 115 116 grams it

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has some half to it and i personally like the weight but if you're looking

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for a lighter mouse you're kind of out of luck here as unfortunately there is

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no changeable waiting system in terms of grip as always it's

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different strokes for different folks but personally this most is too small

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for me to palm so i've fallen back to my trusty aggressive claw grip on the

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rubber sides unfortunately i didn't find the rubberized material to be grippy

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enough to easily hold the mouse while moving and lifting it especially once my

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fingers got a little bit sweaty after a little bit of gaming but my claw grip

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does have very few points of contact and those points of contact have a

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relatively small surface area due to my fingers pointing directly inwards

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towards the mouse itself on the other hand this mouse fits kind

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of perfectly for Linus's palm grip with the increased surface area of his palm

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grip he found the grips to not really be that big of a problem now there are more

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types of grips than just these two and if my claw grip was a little bit more

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relaxed i likely wouldn't have an issue with the rubber grips either so your

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mileage may vary another thing to note about the left and

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right buttons is that they are separate from the rest of the mouse's actual body

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at first i thought this was pretty cool but upon further inspection i

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immediately noticed that they were noticeably wobbly unfortunately to the

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point where i even picked up on it while playing games this results in different

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areas of the button feeling drastically

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different to press i found personally that the worst spot was near the front

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of the button and the best spot was near the top on the inside which was both the

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most responsive and had the least amount of kind of horizontal awkward movement

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that brings us to the scroll wheel and dpi changing button the scroll wheel has

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fairly standard fare it is a rubberized texture and nicely pronounced scroll

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points it also has a press into click but unfortunately lacks the left and

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right functionality that we see on some other scroll wheels the sensitivity

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changing button behind the scroll wheel has only two custom modes although

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personally that's all i would really use anyways these modes can be set in the

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driver where you also see a slew of other options amongst the sensitivity

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and 2 000 hertz holding rate options you'll find angle snapping and

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acceleration which you should definitely leave off if you're a gamer also in the

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driver you'll find some button functionality editing macro setup and

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some basic lighting control options which include breathing which is always

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a favorite of mine back to the physical view of the mouse

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we have the removable usb cable slot which goes along with the two included

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cables at first look i was appalled to say the least not only do i hate micro

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usb cables because of how fragile they are but it also just seemed so

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unnecessary i've never had an issue packing a mouse safely to protect its

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cable due to their naturally small size but before i went on a crazy rant about

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how much i hated this i spoke with Linus who pointed out that in an emergency you

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could charge your phone if you didn't have another cable and this does seem to

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be a modder's mouse and while a modder may be

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swapping out a cable while they're swapping out their switches they could

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swap out that cable for a different color a different length a lighter

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material who knows whatever it is they can do it

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they may need something like a glue gun to keep the cable in place as the

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included like squeeze mounting system that the cable has when you get it out

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of the box won't be on your replacement cable

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it would still be possible while this doesn't necessarily make me happy with

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this as a design choice i must admit that it may possibly

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maybe make some sense but regardless of that we're now on the

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inside of the mouse so we get our first glance at the extremely easy to swap

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omron switches the stock switches can be identified by either their white or gray

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protruding stems unfortunately i don't have any actual spec list on these as

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the manual was quite sparse and as of yet there is no downloadable manual from

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their website although i'm sure this will be addressed once they watch this

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video and last but not least there is the soul

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of the most the sensor the pixart 3988 featured in this mouse doesn't feel

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like it has any acceleration in my subjective testing and it felt quite

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good while playing counter-strike go which is a really good sign overall this

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is a very interesting mouse while isus has offered mice before i think it

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wouldn't be too bold to say this is their first real foray into the world of

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premium gaming mice and knowing ASUS it will only get better from here they

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change the game up with this mouse by introducing swappable switches hopefully

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they can keep the ball rolling and fix some of the quirks that prevented the

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gladius from being as good as we were hoping alright guys

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thanks for watching thanks to ubisoft i'm late for the lan show and have to

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kind of run off and go do that right now so subscribe like comment here comment

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