Logitech G900 Chaos Spectrum Review - The best wireless mouse ever?
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2016-05-06
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1,759 words · ~8 min read
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the Logitech g900 chaos Spectrum a wireless mouse that doesn't really care
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about competing against other Wireless mice and chooses to pick a fight with
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the big boys the wired mice it might even get a little offended if you say
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for a wireless mouse when describing it
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so how does it fair stay tuned to find
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link in the video description let's start with the sensor the g900 features
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the pixart PMW 3366 this is a big deal even the
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sticklers over on the esteemed overclock.net Forum voted in this poll
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that they would mostly prefer the 3366 even beating out the 3310 edel Yago our
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resident Counter-Strike guy stated that the 3366 felt true not affected in any
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way by the Wireless and when he took flick shots he didn't feel like he was
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aiming over or under that's a good thing something to worry about when making a
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wireless mouse is the amount of power that you can deliver to the sensor from
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the battery this power must be split also to things like the wireless
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transmitter which you don't normally have to power not enough power to the
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sensor poor performance not enough power to the wireless transmitter poor
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performance just in a different way with input lag and whatnot this as far as
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I've been told is because the 3366 was designed from the ground up as a
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wireless sensor and has just been fully realized now that doesn't mean that it's
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worse for Wired in any way at all that is not what I'm saying it just means
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that it's great for both and not limited to one Speaking of the wireless
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transmitter the highly optimized 2.4 GHz Connection in tandem with some design
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decisions in terms of where the transmitter is located where the battery
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is located in relation to where the transmitter is located and the various
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materials used throughout the shell and other components through throughout the
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entire build result in a very fast and supremely stable connection if you don't
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believe me that's actually a good thing doubt all claims but coming soon we have
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a tour of their design facility where they helped me Benchmark the wireless
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transmitter against other competing Wireless mice using their Advanced
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Equipment it's pretty cool for now their
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results will be on screen and you'll just have to deal with that let's move
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on to the click the left and right Mouse buttons are based on a mechanical pivot
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design and also feature a spring tension system that ensure that you don't have
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to bend any plastic in order to just press the button which you shouldn't
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have to do and they also ensure that the response of the button returning home is
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quite fast the included rron switches are also raised off of the main PCB onto
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their own and put at a slight angle so the button is pressing directly onto the
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switch and doesn't have to go through any other processes in order to actually
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press the switch there are some complaints here mainly from edzel the
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buttons do have a quite noticeable horizontal shift and lift slightly if
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you pull up from under them I didn't notice the ladder of these issues but
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edzel did because of the way that he holds his Mouse his fingers actually
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reach slightly over the buttons and he uses the ledge there in order to
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actually lift the mouse a fairly interesting way of holding it uh so take
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that as you will for me I claw it which is fairly standard and I can feel the
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horizontal shift every single time I move it left to right not great but I do
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like the clicks overall and they feel satisfying and responsive physically
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it's designed in a way that it looks sufficiently different and futuristic to
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represent its design mentality but also holds enough of its Logitech
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characteristics that you'd probably be able to identify it as a Logitech mouse
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even if it was completely debadged its weight is pretty damn good at 107 G
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compared to the steel series rival at 128 G and the g303 at 87 that's
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comparing it to wired mice for a cable it has a micro USB connection and an
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included 6t braided USB cable that feels
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quite nice for when you need it to charge the mouse and maybe even play
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with at the same time or to extend the receiver closer to your mouse using the
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small included adapter the most is ambidextrous with swappable Magnetic
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forward and back buttons and symmetrical
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design it features a hyper fast scroll wheel but with a little bit of weight
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shed by using a spoked design instead of
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a solid design this further contributes to the lightweight overall construction
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of the mouse the scroll wheel also features tilt inputs and is able to be
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switched between click scrolling and free scrolling with the button featured
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right behind it behind that button are DPI up and down buttons and indicator
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LEDs to keep you from guessing the bottom of the most features six
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individual feet placements and an onoff switch and another button that is used
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to switch between onboard memory profiles which brings us conveniently to
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the Logitech gaming software the software allows you to configure onboard
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memory profiles which are helpful if you use computers that are not your own
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profile configurations to bind various buttons to various things configure your
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DPI set your report rate and tell the mouse what forward and back button
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configuration you currently have due to the magnet setup then you have lighting
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control where you can set lighting modes based on profiles which features solid
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color color cycling and breathing modes
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for all the various RGB colors that you could want then you come to the battery
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settings which are my favorite personally it can tell you approximately
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how much gaming time you have left and can change that estimation based on your
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lighting preferences this resulted in me quickly turning off all of the lights
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that were on the mouse and going for maximum possible time but I'm not really
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the target audience for RGB anyways so
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oh well also a estimate that they have
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is 32 hours of usable Mouse currently
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moving time per full charge which is
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pretty sweet after that you have surface tuning for the various mous pad types
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that you may be using a key press map which is probably a lot more applicable
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on a keyboard than a mouse but is cool nonetheless when all is said and done I
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can confidently say that this is the best wireless mouse that I have ever
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personally used and that's kind of saying a lot because I used to be a
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constant user of the Logitech G7 the one that had like those swappable battery
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packs which I still actually kind of Miss cuz then you literally never have
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to have it plugged in but I understand that that would add weight constraints and people want lighter mice whatever
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don't worry about it I ditched that Mouse which was my favorite because of
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wanting to be a better gamer and there was too much input lag and all this kind
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of crap so I went for a Wired Mouse but I have always missed the freedom what I
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appreciate about this mouse is that its
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wireless transmitter delay is very low it's a extremely fast Mouse even beating
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out some wired mice in terms of input which you can see in the video that's
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coming soon when I Benchmark it using their specialized equipment The Click
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input time is super fast the sensor is great it's it's I don't know I like it a
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out let me know what you think in the comments down below also if you like the
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video like it if you dislike the video dislike it if you're like wiress by suck
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anyways even though you have evidence coming in a video soon that it's pretty
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want to see another video click up here to watch edel's Final Mouse review
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because that's very applicable if you're looking for competing mics