Razer Heart of the Swarm Peripherals Unboxing
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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NVIDIA this is going to be a bit of a batch unboxing so we're going to go as
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quickly as we can here we've got the marauder keyboard the Banshee headset as
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well as the Spectre Mouse from Razer however these are the new Heart of the
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Swarm Edition peripheral so we'll start with the marauder which has according to
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Razer elevated keys with optimized travel distance okay so this is they're
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going for RTS optimization here it also has on thefly macro recing which I
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personally think is great not having to open up the utility in order to set up
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any macros that I want to use as well as last but not least they APM lighting
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system all three of these peripherals have the APM lighting system which
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changes the uh changes the lighting scheme depending on what kind of actions
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per minute you're actually putting through it now the only things Razor's really changed with these peripherals is
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the box art so you can see the box art is purple but our keyboard actually
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shipped by default with a blue color scheme just like the original wing of
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Liberty Marauder so not much has changed there the good news Starcraft players is
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that you can change the color scheme to whatever you want without any difficulty
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so let's move on to the Spectre Mouse I'm just going to prop this up on the
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keyboard here so my uh so my close-up camera can check it out if they want so
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the Spectre Mouse has broad buttons it's pretty much impossible to miss them it's
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got the same APM uh optimized lighting
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scheme that can change things around depending on your actions per minute which I think is cool lighting is down
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the side of the mouse as well as the Starcraft 2 logo on the top the scroll
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wheel has 24 individual clicks which is something razor started calling out on
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their mice recently uh apparently more clicks is is a good thing although I can
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think I mean if you bound it to something you wanted to execute actions quickly that would be a good thing to
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use it for and you've got your left and
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uh your left buttons that are your back and forward it's an ambidextrous design
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but there are only buttons on the one side so as a lefty you're not going to
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be able to bind back and forward to your thumb you'd have to try to use the button
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with your pinky which is not really that optimal so it's ambidex extra shape with
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more of a right-handed design now the bottom of the mouse is where you find
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one of the coolest things so it's th000 HZ Ultra pulling Mouse 5600 DPI sensor
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etc etc etc but check this out you can actually
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adjust the click Force required for the
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top two buttons here the left and the right click so there's three settings
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low medium and high and I think all three of us in the room found the high
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setting to be a little bit on the high side but oh okay slick is saying no he
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did not so it was just me and Diesel who found the high setting a little bit high
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but this goes to show you how it might be useful to be able to adjust how much
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force is required for your clicks cuz I found mice that I like except that I'm
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like oh this one's basically got a hair trigger on it and I am not able to use
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it versus ones that I'm like oh this is like way too heavy and I can't really
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use it so there you have it moving on to the Banshee headset this is a USB
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headset so it does does not have an analog option part of the reason for
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that is because it has the lighting scheme built onto it it needs to be
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powered in order to function correctly so there we go I'm going to go ahead and plug this in and hope that it's uh gone
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and lit itself ah yes there we go that looks nice Starcraft 2 Logos on both
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sides as well as uh Lighting on the bottom of the unit and on the sides and
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so front and back bottom and sides looks very good it's a circumoral fairly open
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design so I can hear quite clearly even once I have them on and it sits over top
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of my ears so I'm going to try and give our close-up camera a good look at how
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large those pads are fairly soft fairly
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plush but they do rebound quite quickly so I'd expect them to need a bit of a
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Breakin period before they start to get really comfortable however this is good
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news for comfort the headband is extremely wide so I'll pull out my
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trademark iPhone comparison it's almost the width of an iPhone and sits on your
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head with that entire surface down there with a nice plush pad on it so that's
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going to make this very comfortable the weight I'd say is sort of average it's
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not super lightweight but the fact that it's really well supported like that
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means it shouldn't fatigue you too much over time the buttons available on the
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back are for your microphone which is detachable by the way there you go you
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can take the microphone off put it back on if you want especially if you're not
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looking at it this will be okay you know what it's off for now okay so you can
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adjust the volume and mute on your microphone as well as the volume and
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mute on the headset itself which is just kind of nice to have back there and you
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can easily touch them and feel what you're trying to do so thank you for
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checking out this Mass unboxing here I'll just put this down next to the
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other one so you can get a nice little shot of what they all look like in the
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dark remember guys you can change the color scheme to whatever you want and
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I'm just going to cut across that camera so hopefully whoever's editing this is
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going to see that there we go so that is what they look like all together and you
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can make them all the same color within Razer synapse 2.0 which is their
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software that allows you to set up Prof profes for your devices and then as long
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as you log in synapse 2.0 it can take all your profiles with you wherever you
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