Roccat Savu Gaming Mouse Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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1,313 words · ~6 min read
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welcome to my unboxing of the Rat savu this is a midsize hybrid gaming mouse
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which I'm not exactly sure what hybrid means but I guess we'll get to that
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later Pro optic sensor so this is using an optical sensor not a laser sensor but
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still capable of 4,000 DPI the DPI is
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honestly it's more of a factor if you're running a very high resolution screen or
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like a multim monitor setup than anything else um because Beyond that
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really the the the accuracy of the tracking is more important than the DPI
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okay button duplicator easy shift plus okay we'll figure out what that is
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later customizable lighting multicolor so you can change the lighting to
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whatever color you want I guess that's what the rainbow here means no sweat
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side grips excellent rat driver and macro presets for games multimedia and
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apps 5 plus two buttons 12 functions via easy shift a okay that sounds kind of
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neat high quality components for solid build for long life okay Optical sensor
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12 Mouse functions rat easy shift ultr light light system drivers and macros
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let's go ahead and open this bad boy up because rat is starting to get a lot of
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attention in North America they hadn't really been present here before but they
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are now and people are really talking about it so let's find out what all of
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the fusses about Optimum midsize design
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with perfectly balanced weight I do
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appreciate having adjustable weight on mice but I understand that that's not
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everyone's preference and and while I okay okay I should disclaim that because
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while I said I do like to have adjustable weight my actual favorite
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Mouse does not have adjustable weight so my second favorite mouse ever is the G9
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and I haven't tried the g9x so I don't I don't know but it's probably more of the
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same and it's good um but my favorite
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Mouse is actually the steel series aari laser which is not weight adjustable so
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let's go ahead and have a look at the Aesthetics of the mouse so this is
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excellent grip material on the side here you can tell right away it's basically
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like sandpaper but not uncomfortable it's like rubber sandpaper so you'll
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have what it allows is for the sweat to sit in between the uh the bumps so you
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can still maintain grip on it and uh it's not absorbent at all but it should
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be pretty durable as well it doesn't feel like the kind of thing that you could just scratch off easily in terms
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of mouse buttons you've got two here so there's your backs and forwards you've
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got your left and right click you got your middle click and let's find out
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what easy shift is this is my at ID card it should be
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noted that it is not valid unless signed
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and needs an authorized signature also this card is the property of rockat
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Studios misuse is a criminal offense
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really this is not a valid means of payment okay this be new register your
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personal ID using this card on our website so I am going to take this and
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I'm going to put this in my wallet right now because oh no my wallet's full of
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things like credit cards and identification okay I guess I'll file
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that somewhere else okay okay moving right along easy shift actually kind of
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cool so what it does here these are all the default assignments however once you
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install the software you can change them so here I'm going to demo on the mouse
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itself rather than so left click right click okay this is the easy shift button
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so here check this out browser forward
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shift browser back okay so scroll up
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scroll down shift volume up volume down
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so basically shift allows you to to press this and then press any of these
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other buttons for different functionality so they give you a map of
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the default assignments with no driver installed but you can install the driver
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and you can change everything you want they also give you some examples of what
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you might want to do and for example Counter Strike or wow or multimedia or
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browser or whatever else the case may be kind of neat I think it would take a
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little while to get used to but once you do you could actually effectively have
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far more buttons on your mouse than you than you actually have which is sort of
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neat okay so the sensor can deliver 400 800600 or 4,000 DPI optimized tracking
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that fits any style also has an ultra 2D incremental step wheel for perfect
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control during weapon changes and other critical decisions let's
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see yeah feels pretty solid okay I'm down high quality build ah yes more
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German engineering excellent so this goes along with our theme of German
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engineering in on our unboxings today which included the be quiet! dark power
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dark Power Pro power supply and my
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rabbit German engineering okay let's
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have a look at the mouse itself physically so you got your slippy pads on the front and the back you got your
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Optical sensor right there in terms of the size they're calling this a midsize
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Mouse I'd say this is more on the smaller side I have pretty small hands
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and this is a very very comfortable size for me uh in terms of the grip I'd say
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it's somewhere between you can Palm it if you want but what you'll find is I
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think your pinky will fall off a little bit so you might want want to uh claw it
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and I don't think it's really suitable for fingertip although you could
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probably do it cuz it's got enough of a contour here and enough of a contour here that you could probably get away
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with it uh but I'd say this is more of a claw grip than anything else um in terms
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of how it's most naturally used the top is is a little bit more smooth but still
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grippy compared to the sides where it's more like that sandpaper finish and the
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overall Comfort is pretty good actually like I'm I'm liking it I don't quite
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like the positioning of these I wish they were a little bit lower but
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um they're still once you actually put it down they're very reachable and it's
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not going to interfere with your ability to use the mouse otherwise even if
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you're holding down one of them as a shift so I think that pretty much covers
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it you know we should plug it in and check out the lighting effects actually
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just to see I think it's Blue by default let's just plug this in there you go
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actually I'm going to go turn off the light so that you can here we'll put it
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next to the Corsair M60 so you can see
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what a mouse with lighting effects looks like compared to a mouse without
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lighting effects if you aren't already aware of what a mouse with lighting
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effects looks like oh it's kind of neat so in the driver you should be able to
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configure things like the colors pulsation and all that good stuff so
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thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the rat savu don't
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