Steelseries Diablo III Mouse Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2012-05-07
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welcome to my unboxing of the Diablo I Mouse from steel Series so this isn't
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the first time steel Series has released a licensed blizzard product but this is
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the first time that I've seen their Mouse be basically just like a themed
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version of one of their other mice which I already know is awesome so I don't
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even have to speculate in fact my steel series Z is right over there I use it on
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my test bench and it is a fantastic Mouse so it can only be made better by
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like Diablo themed artwork and a Diablo themed gooey that allows you to easily
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map ah okay here look I'll let them word it the way they want to quick and
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effortlessly remap the mouse buttons with drag and drop predefined game
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actions and functions and skills as well as illumination settings all of which are easily configured and the thing that
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looks like this so we're going to load up the driver and show you guys on the computer behind me in a minute but let's
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talk about what El steel Series has to say about this mouse first optimal
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comfort with an ambid extra shape and making it versatile for all types of
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gamer grips the Z is that as well so
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there you go that's fairly straightforward seven ergonomically placed ergonomically ergonomically
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placed programmable buttons world's most durable switches so these are Omron
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switches guaranteed for 10 million clicks which means that no matter how
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high your actions per minute actually if you know your actions per minute then
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you can actually calculate exactly how long this mouse is guaranteed to last
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for you if you sat and gamed like 100%
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of the time until it died well you'd probably die first but there
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you go there you go the mouse that lives longer than you uh programmable Diablo 3 themed
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illumination options so that's the scroll wheel the CPI indicator as well
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as the logo at the back and durable double rated nylon cord with goldplated
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USB connector now this brings me back to a video I did recently which is totally
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unrelated to this where I compared the
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performance of an SSD drive with various
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SATA cables including SATA 2 cables and SATA 3 cables and there was a lot of
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debate after that video where I basically determined that it didn't
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affect the performance about why the performance wasn't affected or what kind
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of cables they were or whatnot and there were a lot of comments
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about how it would have been better if it was goldplated or silverplated and a
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lot of debate about what's the best conductor so I'm going to settle this
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once and for all silver is the best
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electrical conductor better than copper but it's expensive silver also has the
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ormous disadvantage of easily tarnishing that is it easily oxidizes when it's
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exposed to air so that means that there is a less conductive layer that forms
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almost immediately with silver okay so
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that's why we use copper because it's cheap and it doesn't tarnish now why do
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we use gold to Plate the end of a connector if it's not as good of a
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conductor as either silver or
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copper why do you think that is the reason is that gold is malleable
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gold is soft so what that means is that
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every time you insert it the gold is able to actually make a very small very
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very small but it'll give way a little bit to the metal from the other end of
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the connector making you able to have a
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perfect connection every time that is why we gold plate connectors also it
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never tarnishes and never oxidizes that
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is why we use gold not because it is the best conductor so that is why steel
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Series has gold plating on the connectors inside there and then this is
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unnecessary but it looks like they've also goldplated the outer housing those
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are the important parts though those got to be goldplated so here's the double
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braided nylon cord which actually feels like thicker than most of the braided
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cords that I've encountered in the past also has a little red stripe which is
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you know kind of neat haven't seen that before
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either all right so here it only makes sense that since I recently unboxed some
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Diablo I mouse pads here let's go with let's go with the Plain Jane Diablo I
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one so here we'll you know showcase it there so let's let's go over the overall
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the overall Mouse here so what makes this mouse truly ambidextrous because
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lots of mice have ambid dtra shapes is the fact that all of the buttons are
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equally accessible regardless of whether you use it with a right hand or a left
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hand because check this out you've got your front and back buttons here
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remember these are all fully programmable so if you're left-handed you can make this back in your browser
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and this forward in your browser and you've got them on the other side so
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that means that if you're right-handed you can program these to do something with your other fingers and use them
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like this and if you're left-handed then you can do it the other way around
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you've also got your CPI change button although you can change the uh sorry
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yeah your CPI change Button as well as your CPI indicator LED so remember steel
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series uses CPI because according to their literature it is a more accurate
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representation of the actual sensitivity of the mouse that is the counts per inch
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they believe is more accurate than dots per inch so they always use CPI to rate
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their mice so unlike their competitors steel series allows you to adjust your
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CPI in fairly small increments the aari laser that I have actually allows
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increments of one CPI but it's not quite
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that granular anymore this one allows adjustments in 100 cpis which is still
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better than most of their competitors which are more like along the lines of
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like 400 800 1200 1,600 and those are
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the only intervals that you can pick so they still give you a great degree of
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granularity and you just use this button to switch between them so they are some
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of the most customizable mice on the market because you can change everything
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from your uh from your uh oh crap I
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can't even remember what it's called but you can change how much correction it adds to a straight line can't remember
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what it's called so I have mine set to absolutely none zero correction and then
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you can have you have a bunch of settings in between and you can actually
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properly control all of your sensitivities your average plane Jin and
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even some of your high-end mice do not allow you to do that they go oh 400
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800,00 well that's not granular enough so there you go that's why personally
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love steel series mice um not really sure where I was going with that anymore
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steel series gaming grade engine at the bottom we've got our slippy pads which
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I'm sure there's probably a more you know official name for them this is a laser mouse so you got your little Laser
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Class One logo so basically don't put your eye right up to this and turn it on
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you know it's not good uh on the top of the mouse right right I was telling
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talking about the CPI button there we go I'm caught up again hey check this out
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they've they've upgraded the scroll wheel so that is a clickable button and
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then it is also a rubberized uh like Diablo 3 looking scrolly wheel thing
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going on you know what I already like this mouse a lot more than the zy and
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that is for one major reason the Z for
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all its awesomeness is not as grippy overall
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this is a very uh plasticky shiny slippery surface compared to the Diablo
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I Mouse which has oops I accidentally spat on it while I was talking there
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much better now okay whereas this one has like a rubberized soft touch feel
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throughout the entire Mouse personally find it easier to pick up a mouse that
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has that finish on it and I find it to be less um clammy feeling especially
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when you game for a while and you get a little bit sweaty the Diablo II logo
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here at the back lights up and I think we've covered the physical attributes of
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the mouse pretty well now let's go ahead install the uh install the drivers so
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we're having a quick look at the software which actually provides an astounding amount of customization I
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mean it's it's at the point where it's actually a little bit ridiculous because
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you go ahead you click on a button you can change everything about it from from
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the name to the tool tip to the key color to the text color that shows up um
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to the key font you can change from action types like macros launch
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application disable key you can record delays or not record delays when you're
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doing your Macros there's an advanced edit option here to well edit macros in
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a more advanced way you can create different profiles and your profiles can
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be um for different types of characters
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within the game Diablo I or within whatever other game you want in spite of
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the fact that this is Diablo 3 themed you can actually use it in a lot of
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different ways so there's single Keys here comes with a bunch of preconfigured
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stuff and then there's custom whoops yeah custom ones here that you can
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create using the new action button down here all right what else we got in here
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so moving over to the settings tab we see we can adjust the CPI so the counts
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per inch so that's either with the LED off or the LED on we have two easy
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switch profiles that we can switch between we can also adjust the pulling
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rate and the lighting on the mouse I haven't actually shown the lighting on
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the mouse yet check it out the Diablo I logo CPI indicator as well as the mouse
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wheel are all illuminated so it can pulsate fast or slow and it can be
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bright or less bright okay what else we got here moving
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over to properties so we can set uh different profiles to launch when
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different trigger games are launched and check this out this is statistics so
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this is like an odometer for your mouse so you can go either current session or
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lifetime clicks and it will actually track according to this uh this Zone up
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here how many times like how often that Mouse button gets used in relation to
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the other one so clearly I'm a left click kind of guy and I don't use my
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middle click very often however if I take my middle click and I click it like
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50 times here you're going to see that if I navigate away from here with so on
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sorry this is going to take a second
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guys still clicking okay done clicking
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now I'm just going to like navigate away and come back and my middle click oh
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it's using lifetime clicks now
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right I think it takes a second to update so give it a minute yeah there we
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go so my left button now has much less frequency in relation
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to oh was I accidentally clicking the the right button while I was doing that
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oh oops whatever so it readjusts according to what buttons you press kind
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of hilarious so thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the
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Diablo I Mouse don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech tips for more unboxings
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