Cyborg R.A.T. 5 Adjustable Laser Gaming Mouse Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2011-05-08
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1,474 words · ~7 min read
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So today we're going to be doing a quick unboxing of the cyborg rat five so the
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rat five is the middle range Mouse in
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the rat series of mice it is between the three and the Seven it has quite a few
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features that are improved over the rat 3 and I'd say it's probably the best
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value in this series of mice which are
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for hardcore gaming let's just get that out of the way there you go gaming mouse
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for PC so the rat five it has a 4,000 DPI sensor which is about in the middle
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of the Rat 3 and the rat 7 now bear in mind there's a rat 9 but it's basically
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a rat 7 with wireless okay it has a few other things too it has a Precision aim
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mode so that's a button that is for sniping okay it has a weight system
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which is better than the rat 3 which does not have a weight system and it
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also has is adjustable so it has an adjustable length unlike the rat 3 so
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let's have a look at what it has to say for itself on the back it has more
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programmable buttons than the rat 3 as well with 15 user definable commands via
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five buttons and a three position mode switch okay we have a Precision a mode
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with on thefly sensitivity adjustment to steady your aim at the touch of a button
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like I said for sniping and it has an aluminum chassis the rat 3 is also
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plastic so the aluminum chassis is well I guess it adds some durability as well
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as some rigidity to the mouse you can remap the programmable buttons and
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create custom macros with their powerful software and inside we find it also has
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a weight system so it has 30 G of removable weights unlike the rat 3 which
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does not have removable weights custom length adjustment we covered that
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already in the four user definable DPI settings so you can adjust those DPI
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settings I believe in increments of 400
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although I could be mistaken about that one please do correct me if I'm wrong oh
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in 125 DPI steps yet another improvement
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over the rat 3 which is only adjustable in 400 DPI steps okay we got better
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acceleration we have better tracking speed and the pulling rate is the same
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looks like we've got three different LED colors for each mode that you are in so
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that depends on what your programmable buttons will do and let's go ahead and
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get this open the packaging on the rat series is
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uh bit of a challenge but I think I've got it figured out at this point this is
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my third rat unboxing oh shoot I just ripped it too
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didn't I so much for having it figured out okay so that comes out of there this
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one s of comes out of here there we are
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and this one will then
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finally and I dropped my camera sorry that probably gives you guys a headache
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when it swings around like that I'm using the uh born series of movies
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approach to filming my unboxings from now on just extensive use of shaky cam
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to make it seem more exciting okay forget it we're just going
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to do this there I cheated okay inside here we find a little cyborg
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gaming thing which is going to have a driver CD a little uh product guide to
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Cyborg's uh gaming line of products okay
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we also have a little yeah here we go here's our product guide oh no this is
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just for this Mouse Okay so this shows you a bunch of really cool stuff then
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so here we are let's flip it over to
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sort if I can figure out how to make this right side up then we'll be in
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really good shape
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seems to be numbered I can't can't quite F okay here we go so one insert the CD
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two plug in the USB connector three install the cyborg
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technology software setting your Precision aim button for four so what
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your sensitivity will be when you turn on Precision aim all right step five is
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changing your adjustable DPI step six is the mode button set up to three
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different sets of button assignments and sensitivity levels via St software so
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depending which games you like what sensitivity and whatever else you want
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to adjust here we've got the adjustable length including instructions for how to
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do that which will come in handy in a moment here we have our weight storage
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system which is
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uh from the oh yeah okay from the bottom and the back so we'll figure that out
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too and then four DPI settings which are adjustable with this button so let's go
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ahead and get them oh wait hold on there's one other thing here what's this
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oh yeah okay here's the little Guide to the rest of the uh WRA and the rest of
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the cyboard gaming series of products okay here is our adjustable weight guy
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so that has 50 g of removable weights
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inside here is our rat five with a
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couple of uh twist ties holding it into
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place in the packaging here so I'll just go ahead and pull those
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out there we are that's not too challenging so there it is there's the
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aluminum chassis that I remember from the rat 7 and I did notice was missing
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on the rat three okay so here first
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things first why don't we have a look at the adjustable
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weights I believe that's this
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one here we are so we can put on as many weights as we
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want okay and then we can close it up
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again just like that so that's pretty straightforward
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it's something you won't use often cuz once you've got it tuned the way you
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like it you probably won't want to change very often but uh it's really
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nice to have that feature because I personally do change the weight settings
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on any mice where I have that option I like a heavy Mouse and most mice these
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days seem to be tuned for a pretty
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lightweight build so it's uh it's nice to have a little bit of extra heft to it
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although the ratp five is not a light Mouse because of the aluminum chassis it
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has on it it does have a little bit more weight than an all plastic Mouse
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normally would so let's have a look at the buttons we have included there's
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your Precision aim button so that's going to change your DPI on the
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Fly there's your indicator LEDs for the uh DPI I
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believe hope it's DPI there is your DPI change button here
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is your mode change button you've got your left click your right click as well
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as your middle click Mouse wheel okay
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and then this one right here let's figure out that does why don't we I
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think that's to do with this but give me a second so the adjustable length gently
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squeeze the retaining clip then slide the mouse
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shell backward or forward oh know there it is so that's all you got to do you
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just got to squeeze this little clip and slide it back and forward just like that
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okay so why don't we you know I think I remember figuring this out on the rat 7
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video why don't we figure out what that does and then I'll come back in just a
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moment well that was a lot simpler than I thought it's just a programmable
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scroll button for your thumb so you can actually access these buttons here the
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aim button and you can also scroll it left or right and you can completely
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program what that guy does so I mean I guess if I was using this mouse one of
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the things I'd consider programming it for is just fire because uh that'd be a
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really quick way to fire off like about 1 two 3 four about six or seven rounds
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in a burst just like that so that's kind of a neat functionality so thank you for
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