Steelseries Sensei Professional Gaming Mouse Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2012-05-07
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by popular demand we have the steel series Sensei which is the replacement
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for the Z both of which are cruel jokes
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for gamers who have a bit of a lisp like
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myself all right so let's open up this bad boy and take out the mouse we'll
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find a braided cord we find a bag of do
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not eat and what else do we have oh oh some
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documentation all right all right and then we've got the mouse itself so it is
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the replacement for the zy as I mentioned before so what makes the
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Sensei special compared to the Z well I
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will get into that in a moment let's have a look at what's included first this is a quick start guide man that's a
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thick quick start guide look at that it's in a bunch of different languages
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because steel series does sell worldwide so that's one reason why they might do
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that got some features got some where update instructions on most menu systems
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okay cool cool cool we'll have to go through that a little bit when we're looking at the mouse itself and then we
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have a steel series catalog which includes a bunch of stuff including as I
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saw in the back some stuff that's not even out yet they Diablo 3 stuff which
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is coming and looks really cool okay so
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the Sensei itself it's got some uh we didn't really look at the Box much we've
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got a couple of professional gamer testimonials one from Patrick K sat okay
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he's the Swedish uh Swedish national team captain and then we've also got
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grubby on here who's a Warcraft 3 Guru all right finally we've got okay steel
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series what they have to say for themselves so ambidexter shape and
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comfortable grip coating I can vouch for that because the grip is actually and
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the shape is actually the same as the Z which preceded it okay um it has a
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32-bit ARM processor on board which makes it according to Steel series the
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most customizable gaming mouse ever built you can enable Advanced on okay
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they've enabled advanced Advanced on Mouse calculations it allows
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unprecedented personal setups and millisecond response times it was born
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for tournament Victory and built to help you win okay what else we got here in
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terms of the overall feature set so ergonomic yes yes uh they claim it is
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optimized for all types Palm claw and
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fingertip grip okay no Palm claw and
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swipe actually swipe I'm not familiar with so if anyone is a YouTuber out
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there who wants to comment on the video and Link me to what swipe grip is I
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would be very much obliged all right it has programmable illumination with 16.8
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million color options that is enabled on your mouse wheel here on your uh okay on
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the Z this was the DPI toggle but I don't know what it does on the Sensei
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and then finally on the steel series logo at the back you can change those to
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whatever color you want instant effortless setup via the built-in LCD on
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the bottom so you can have up to five gaming profiles as well as steel series
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exact Tech Precision settings which I'm going to talk about a little bit after because that is one of the reasons that
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steel series is still my preferred Mouse
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of choice okay Mouse of choice or preferred Mouse you can't really say
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both but I have an aari laser on my desk at home and I love it and it is because
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of the steel series software LCD supports user personalized bit map so
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actually this is kind of cool check this out you can actually put on little like
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logos and stuff down there that's something that I don't believe was enabled on my iari laser so there you go
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they've updated that particular feature and you can double your mouse speed with
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dcpi from 5700 to 11.4 th000 CPI
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fascinating okay supported by Steel series engine technology offering
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operation configuration customization and advanced macros across steel series
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peripherals I'll also let you guys have a look at the overall specs here so
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there's your counts per inch which is steel series what they claims is a more
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accurate way of measuring compared to DPI which is what everyone else uses
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which is dots per inch okay one of the other cool things that uh about the CPI
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concept itself from steel series is that they believe you should have the utmost
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control and you can actually adjust your counts per inch all the way from one
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which would be just phenomenally slow up to 5700 in one increment so you see a
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lot of mice that offer you 600 800 1,000
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DPI settings and those are all preset you can't really alter them well steel
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series actually allows you to adjust and increments of one absolutely whatever
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you desire so let's take some closer looks at set the mouse itself you got
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your forward and your back buttons here for your right-handed people and then
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you've got your forward and back buttons here for your left-handed people so it
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is truly ambidextrous remember too though if you're right-handed you can
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also reach these buttons with your pinky or with your ring finger if you want to go ahead and use those for macros or you
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know copy paste or you know in-game functions whatever the case may be
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finally up here you've got what is also a programmable button but I believe by
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default it switches the CPI you got your mouse wheel and and you have your left
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and your right clicks on the bottom you see your steel series gaming grade
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engine which I believe they mean uh laser okay so that's your laser sensor
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on the bottom of the mouse and you've got your usual slippy feet those are
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your nonstick surfaces which are very durable if my iari is anything to go by
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which I've had actually for a couple years now we also got a steel series
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sticker with it and last but not least I did want to say a little bit of
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something about the settings in the steel series software so
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there's a few different things there's exact sense so that is what I talked
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about before with the exact CPI setting there's free move which allows you to
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adjust motion correction personally I hate motion correction although some
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Gamers feel differently about it one way or another I turn this all the way off
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and I love having this option where I can turn off angle snapping I can turn
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off prediction and I don't have to deal with that exactly where I move the mouse
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is exactly where I want it to go folks I don't want any compensation and steel
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series allows me to do that that's actually pretty much it oh these
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are kind of neat huh exact acceleration I've never used this before but the
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acceleration works by increasing the CPI as the mouse is moved quickly and then
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there's exact aim which actually reduces the CPI as the mouse is moved slowly
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allows users to focus in on targets personally I prefer a more linear
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response but feel free to play around with those settings so you can get the
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most out of your Sensei at least they do offer the option thank you for checking
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out my unboxing of the Sensei as you guys can probably tell at this point bit
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of a steel series Mouse Fanboy so I'm really looking forward to playing around
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with this guy very excited so I just want to show you guys
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the lighting effect on the Sensei and I've got it on a test bench which I'm
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very excited about dual GTX 590s Gigabyte G1 assassin 990x extreme
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Edition anyway so that's the kind of gaming Hardware hopefully you can you
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can hook your Sensei up to so there's the steel series logo on the back
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there's the indicator up here and then you can see also the lighting on this
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each side of the mouse wheel so it's not
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super dark in here so the lighting effects are quite right on there there
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you have it thank you for checking out my unboxing and don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech tips from
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