Saitek Cyborg R.A.T. 7 Adjustable 5600DPI Gaming Mouse Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2011-05-08
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1,794 words · ~8 min read
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I have received endless requests to unbox this product this is the sech rat
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7 so the rat is available in four different flavors the seven is the
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highest end one although there is a nine it is the same Mouse as the rat 7 except
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it is Wireless instead of wired this is a 5600 DPI Mouse it
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connects to your computer via USB 2 all of that is completely unexceptional the
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part that is interesting is the fact that this is adjustable in almost every
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Dimension and angle so the rat 7 has little gears and dials all over it to
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make it mold perfectly to your hand no matter what kind of hands you have so
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you can see I have Stumpy hands see I have these short fat fingers that make
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most mice fairly uncomfortable for me but my understanding is with the rat 7
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no matter what kind of fingers I have it will be comfortable so you can see the
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box is a very very high quality box you can open up the front of it and you can
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see a little window that has the rat 7 we've got some more features here so
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they show some of the different dials that you can use to adjust dimensions of
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the Rat 7 so you can move this you can
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move this aspect of it the thumb rest out and in you can move it forward and
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back that's pretty cool so you can move the bottom here down and
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up let me see how this one works not
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sure let me see what else we've got
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here here's a storage tin okay why don't we just open it up and see what happens
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hopefully I have my key oh I don't have my keys on me this is going to be
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bad cameraman has a key on him hopefully
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I can figure out how to even open this box every once in a while I encounter a
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box that's a bit of a challenge to unbox ah there we go so you actually have to
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open up the window in order to unbox this particular Mouse so we'll just kind
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of grab onto that
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there you know it's kind of surprising to me that no one has already thought of
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calling a mouse a rat when it's like an extreme Mouse but uh yeah it looks like
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sech is the first to come up with that marketing idea very clever very clever
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indeed I'm just killing time right now until I can get the mouse out of the box
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or rat I should say and let me just kind of figure out what's uh what's under
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here this is a very complicated box I have uh no idea how I'm going to put
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this back together when I'm done here because I do not get it hold on a minute
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ah it's caught right there okay lift that up come on come on out thank you
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okay so inside the box now that we finally have it open we have a cyborg
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gaming disc that presumably has some drivers and such on it then we have a
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little limited warranty thing uh yeah drivers probably or not doesn't really
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matter if there are drivers you should download the latest ones from the sech
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website okay next we have a little uh
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guide okay so it shows
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you how to use the four user definable
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DPI settings how to use the interchangeable
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Pinky and palm rests okay how to use Precision aim mode that's kind of a cool
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button I wonder if it'll make my aiming more precise sure hope so okay the head
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tilt to further optimize button position so
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that's 01 number one worldwide and PC
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flight I can't tell what this is some parts of it look like kind of a manual
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and other parts look kind of like a catalog so here you have custom length
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adjustment and it shows another indicator for precision aim mode okay oh
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that's the rat five oh this is all the different rat series mice they all look
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the same right this is the rat 7 this is the one we have today this is the rat 3
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so it doesn't have uh the Precision aim mode it doesn't have all the adjustable
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stuff on it the rat five right here uh
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lacks the looks like the DPI no cuz they butttons there okay forget
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it insert the CD okay there's your quick start
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guide there's your user definable DPI settings right
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there on the back here it shows you how to set your Precision aim button so you
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can set a percentage decrease of moste sensitivity while Precision a button is
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held so you actually hold it down when you're sniping that's kind of cool
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and then here we have a huge box full of accessories and then some other cutouts
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just other stuff came with it I guess it would go in there so let's find out what
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we have in terms of accessories we have pinky
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one ah come on out okay so that is Pinky
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one so I guess it works kind of like that when it's no no must work like that
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when it's attached to the mouse okay then we have pinky
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2 so this goes on completely different way it's kind of a little rubberized
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grip instead of a rest all right then we
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have uh weight cartridge here's the weight
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cartridge cool and next we have Palm rest 2 so
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this is a replacement Palm rest for the one that comes installed on the
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mouse oh Palm rest one and palm rest 2 sorry so one of them is kind of a
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rubberized um semi-textured surface and the one is a very very grippy rubberized
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surface more like a like a tire than anything else so it's actually got
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treads on it all right so go ahead and put those back in there and now without
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further Ado we will finally have a look at the rat 7
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Mouse as soon as we undo these twist ties bear with me
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here I I do like fancy retail packaging
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but it makes my job a little bit more difficult cuz I have to do all of this
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on camera in one
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take and I can't and I can't get it out of the
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box yeah yeah it's a hard profession
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unboxing products for a living but somebody's got to do
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it somebody has got to do it there we
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are that is the rat 7 so why don't I start with showing some of the features
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that we've talked about already so here come in and have a have a close look
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cameraman so there's your forward and back buttons there's your Precision aim
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button so that's very comfortably positioned to easily press it and then
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you can even press one of these other buttons at the same time depending on what kind of key bindings you're using
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here is a mode button right there so that's within easy reach of your index
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finger here is your DPI toggle
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button there's your left click there's your right click over on the other side
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we have the interchangeable pinky spot so uh we can use any of the other two
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pinky ones to uh attach there under here
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we have weights so here let me see how
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to I'm guessing if I undo this it will release the weight cartridge somehow so
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we're not actually going to do that for the time being because as much as I want
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all the weights all over this park bench that would that would make my life more
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difficult so there you have it so it adjusts this way it adjusts this way
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this way many many many different ways
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if I could figure out where some of the buttons are to adjust anything then that would be great but maybe we'll do a
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follow-up video on this one and show all of those other aspects of it it has a
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very very high quality braided cord on it so you can see that you cannot see
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through the braiding at all and it's got a goldplated USB 2.0 connector and thank
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you for checking out the unboxing of the sech Rat 7 completely adjustable gaming
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mouse so after Consulting the manual we
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figured out how to make most of the adjustments here so okay first of all
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you get the uh the key out of the back see it's stored right in the back of the
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mouse like that isn't that clever so you just pull that out by unscrewing it and
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then there's uh an allen key spot right here so you use that one to adjust the
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thumb piece front and back so you see I'm moving it backwards right now I hope
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you can see that I'm moving it Forward right now pretty cool and then there's
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another key spot right in here so you just loosen that one a little bit that
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allows you to adjust it this way and
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then once you've got it such that it is in exactly the right comfortable
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position for you you just put the hex key back in there screw it in
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tight and it won't move anymore there it
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is nice and solid and then uh what was the last one yeah and the last one how
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to adjust the Palm piece is you just push in this little button right here
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slide it back and then it locks wherever you want to put it so if you have a
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larger hand then you can adjust it so the Palm sits much further back I don't
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so I would probably use it pretty much in its stock configuration so that is
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pretty darn cool one thing I didn't mention in the last video was it
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actually has an aluminum base so this thing is built like a tank it's quite
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heavy so I would probably recommend you remove some of the weights that come on
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by stock so you just undo this you can pull the weights off and put them in
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your little weight storage container thanks for checking out this addendum to
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the previous unboxing