today's video was supposed to be an assassin's creed unity benchmarking
video but as i found it extremely difficult to deliver a video to you guys
that would have been up to our usual standard of quality thanks to various
bugs and performance related issues throughout the entirety of the
benchmarking process i decided to forego that plan entirely and play some better
games some more stable games instead while testing the extremely interesting
ASUS rog gladius gaming mouse for more
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click now to learn more clearly the most unusual feature of this
mouse is the swappable omron switches for the left and right click but the
details of that awesome feature we'll have to wait for later for now we'll
start with the physical overview at first glance it will likely remind you
of a razer death adder and for many people that's probably a good thing
weighing in at around 115 116 grams it
has some half to it and i personally like the weight but if you're looking
for a lighter mouse you're kind of out of luck here as unfortunately there is
no changeable waiting system in terms of grip as always it's
different strokes for different folks but personally this most is too small
for me to palm so i've fallen back to my trusty aggressive claw grip on the
rubber sides unfortunately i didn't find the rubberized material to be grippy
enough to easily hold the mouse while moving and lifting it especially once my
fingers got a little bit sweaty after a little bit of gaming but my claw grip
does have very few points of contact and those points of contact have a
relatively small surface area due to my fingers pointing directly inwards
towards the mouse itself on the other hand this mouse fits kind
of perfectly for Linus's palm grip with the increased surface area of his palm
grip he found the grips to not really be that big of a problem now there are more
types of grips than just these two and if my claw grip was a little bit more
relaxed i likely wouldn't have an issue with the rubber grips either so your
mileage may vary another thing to note about the left and
right buttons is that they are separate from the rest of the mouse's actual body
at first i thought this was pretty cool but upon further inspection i
immediately noticed that they were noticeably wobbly unfortunately to the
point where i even picked up on it while playing games this results in different
areas of the button feeling drastically
different to press i found personally that the worst spot was near the front
of the button and the best spot was near the top on the inside which was both the
most responsive and had the least amount of kind of horizontal awkward movement
that brings us to the scroll wheel and dpi changing button the scroll wheel has
fairly standard fare it is a rubberized texture and nicely pronounced scroll
points it also has a press into click but unfortunately lacks the left and
right functionality that we see on some other scroll wheels the sensitivity
changing button behind the scroll wheel has only two custom modes although
personally that's all i would really use anyways these modes can be set in the
driver where you also see a slew of other options amongst the sensitivity
and 2 000 hertz holding rate options you'll find angle snapping and
acceleration which you should definitely leave off if you're a gamer also in the
driver you'll find some button functionality editing macro setup and
some basic lighting control options which include breathing which is always
a favorite of mine back to the physical view of the mouse
we have the removable usb cable slot which goes along with the two included
cables at first look i was appalled to say the least not only do i hate micro
usb cables because of how fragile they are but it also just seemed so
unnecessary i've never had an issue packing a mouse safely to protect its
cable due to their naturally small size but before i went on a crazy rant about
how much i hated this i spoke with Linus who pointed out that in an emergency you
could charge your phone if you didn't have another cable and this does seem to
be a modder's mouse and while a modder may be
swapping out a cable while they're swapping out their switches they could
swap out that cable for a different color a different length a lighter
material who knows whatever it is they can do it
they may need something like a glue gun to keep the cable in place as the
included like squeeze mounting system that the cable has when you get it out
of the box won't be on your replacement cable
it would still be possible while this doesn't necessarily make me happy with
this as a design choice i must admit that it may possibly
maybe make some sense but regardless of that we're now on the
inside of the mouse so we get our first glance at the extremely easy to swap
omron switches the stock switches can be identified by either their white or gray
protruding stems unfortunately i don't have any actual spec list on these as
the manual was quite sparse and as of yet there is no downloadable manual from
their website although i'm sure this will be addressed once they watch this
video and last but not least there is the soul
of the most the sensor the pixart 3988 featured in this mouse doesn't feel
like it has any acceleration in my subjective testing and it felt quite
good while playing counter-strike go which is a really good sign overall this
is a very interesting mouse while isus has offered mice before i think it
wouldn't be too bold to say this is their first real foray into the world of
premium gaming mice and knowing ASUS it will only get better from here they
change the game up with this mouse by introducing swappable switches hopefully
they can keep the ball rolling and fix some of the quirks that prevented the
gladius from being as good as we were hoping alright guys
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