Steelseries World of Warcraft WoW MMO Gaming Mouse Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2011-05-08
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1,399 words · ~6 min read
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so today the cameraman's very tired and he'll be sitting in a chair and I'll be
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standing for a change so we're doing a little bit of rule reversal but he won't
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be appearing in front of the camera and I won't be behind it today we have a
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very exciting product to unbox it is a blizzard license product it is made by
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Steel series and it comes with World of
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Warcraft cataclysm branding on it do you
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think you can guess which product it is yes it is finally the updated wow Mouse
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now the original wow Mouse was a fairly similar looking product but the
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improvements that have been made are all really cool so let's start with uh
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opening up we've got a little magnetic clasp here so that's what closes the
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package we've got like a cool sort of packaging on this where it's like burned
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away and then you you know pull it open and you can see there's a bunch more
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information here covered in blizzard artwork of course which is always
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awesome all right develop four World of Warcraft players by blizzard and steel
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series cooperatively The cataclysm MMO gaming mouse invokes the iconic imagery
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of Deathwing the Destroyer leader of the black dragon flight and okay so this is
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just marketing Spiel all right that's not going to tell us too much here we go
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multiplatform compatibility Mac and PC just like uh blizzards games game
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Library official in-game support so you can bind all 14 buttons within the game
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so it's built right into wow support for this mouse Advanced macros with 14 fully
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programmable buttons we have onboard memory to store your
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custom settings Advanced illumination with 16 million colors and four
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intensity settings very cool um the original wow Mouse had like the same
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sort of deal where you could change the color of it and up to 10 unique profiles
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uh linked to the Armory your custom profiles linked to the Armory so I'm
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guessing that's for different characters all right then let's actually have a
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look at the back of the box here and here we go so frames per second that is
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the FPS that can be recorded by the mouse is 11.75 five self adjusting okay
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inches per second is 150 counts per inch
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is 90 to 5040 so the CPI seems to be
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quite a bit higher than the original wow Mouse acceleration true 16bit these are
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all very highly technical specifications I mean you got to understand steel
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Series has been building mice for a long time this is not a Cheesy like wow
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branded product that is just designed to sort of take a cheap Mouse throw a label
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on it and sell a bunch of mice they've actually been building gaming
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peripherals for as long as we've uh we've had awesome professional level
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peripherals so
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um let's see if there's anything else that I want to cover that is uh talked
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about on the back of the box now the software for the original wow mouse was
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pretty good and as far as I know we're using a very similar software layout but
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what I'll have to do is I'll have to update you guys once I have a chance to
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actually use the mouse So today we're going to focus on the physical aspects
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of it so first of all what we have included in the package yeah cameraman
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couldn't care less but it's basically a little thing that tells you to download
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the latest drivers you know oh quick start guide wow okay we might find some
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more info in here it's quite thick which I guess is because there's a lot of
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languages to configure the mouse you launch the gaming mouse software via the
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start menu adjust speed and sensitivity you can program the buttons you can
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adjust the color intensity and pulsation effects so it does have the pulsation
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that the original wamos had you can choose up to 10 profiles with 14
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different buttons and and let me
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see buttons and default settings here we go so here they map out all the
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buttons okay well there's not a whole lot in there actually it is a quick
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start guide all right so let's have a look at the wild mouse itself first
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thing is it's an MMO Mouse so it's all about buttons let's show you guys where
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all of the buttons on this mouse are so we'll start on this side we have 1 2 3 4
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five buttons on the left side so I'm not going to count this one I'll count that
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as a the top button five here next we have 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 eight on the top and
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then finally on this side we have an
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additional one so that is a total of 14
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buttons on this mouse now personally I
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did not find the ergonomics of the original M wow Mouse to be quite to my
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liking it was more of a um more of an
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ambidextrous shape so it wasn't really fitted for our right hand whereas the
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new WoW Mouse the cataclysm Mouse actually borrows a little of the shape
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from my personal favorite Mouse the aari laser so you've got this same shape here
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to rest your two fingers on and then over on the other side the thumb buttons
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are actually in a much better position
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for someone like me to actually reach them the original wow Mouse had some of
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the buttons were a little bit weird like you could kind of accidentally hit one
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when you mean to hit the other cuz they were all on kind of a a single button
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and it was more like a rocker switch and I didn't really like that all that much
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but this is a much much better layout so these are going to be your back and
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forward buttons and Windows and I guess the other ones are mostly intended for
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games use all right so the overall finish of it now this is not quite a
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production sample Mouse uh but this should be pretty close to what we're
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expecting so it's kind of a A Worn armor look finish to the uh to the top of the
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mouse and then this is final so this is a pretty much a steel series staple this
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kind of rubberized uh grippy feeling
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thing okay so let's uh flip the mouse over here we find the steel series
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gaming grade engine as well as nice large slippy pads on the bottom of the
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mouse so it's going to take you a long time to wear those guys out uh we have a
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very nice looking braided oh cameraman wants to see that I guess we have a very
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nice braided cable here so you can see that they're using a very high quality
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sleeving when the cameraman finishes looking at the uh gaming grade engine
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all right so they use a great quality C cable sleeving you can't see through
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that to the cord at all and then we'll have a look at sort of how long it is so
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yeah it's about wow it's actually really long cord and then we've got a
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goldplated USB connector at the end to
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make sure that you're always making good connection between The Mouse and the USB
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port so I'll just show you guys the
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couple more views of the mouse itself cuz it really does look pretty sharp so
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what I want to show you guys in I guess I'll do an upcoming video on this is I
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want to show you guys the driver configuration as well as the uh what it
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looks like with all the lighting effects enabled so don't forget to subscribe to
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Linus Tech tips for follow up on this mouse more unboxings more reviews all
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that kind of good stuff and thank you for watching