Cyborg R.A.T. 3 Laser Gaming Mouse Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2011-05-08
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1,282 words · ~6 min read
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now I already looked at the rat 7 on my channel and that was the highest end of
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the rat rat series of well mice I guess
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they're rats if you want to be really technical about it see rat kind of like
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that so uh that is the highest end from this series so now we're going to have a
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look at the rat 3 which is the value rat
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mouse so the first thing that stands out about the rat 3 is it lacks some of the
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customization options of the Rat 7 it also is a lower DPI sensor so it is a
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3200 DPI sensor so let's have a look at
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what else sech has to say for this particular gaming mouse okay 3200 DPI we
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got that next we have low friction PTFE
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slick feet all right so what I normally call slippy pads they're calling slick
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feet I guess either one of those terms will do and we have a goldplated USB
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connector to make sure that you've always got good contact it's going to be corrosion resistant all that good stuff
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okay so 400 to 3200 DPI in 400 DPI steps
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I like that it's uh quite a bit finer than some of the other gaming mice that
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I've seen out there acceleration up to 10 G's uh pulling rate is dynamic up to
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500 Hertz so that is 500 times per second tracking speed is up to 1.2 m/s
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wow good luck moving a a mouse that fast
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okay everything else here is fairly straightforward okay LED colors are red
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blue and purple for each mode all right
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cool nothing on this side on the other side we see oh yeah we already looked at
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this remap programmable buttons and create custom macros with the powerful
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St software okay that's something I didn't see before uh for user definable
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DPI settings and nine user definable commands via three programmable buttons
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and a three position mode switch okay so why don't we start getting this thing
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open if I can figure out how to open the box I had
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a lot of trouble with the rat 7 as I recall so there's actually four mice in
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the rat series there's the three the five the seven and the nine so they've
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conveniently built themselves in enough room to do an entire upgraded series
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called the 4 6 8 and 10 I guess uh so
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the main differences are in terms of how much customization there is okay so the
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the rat 7 you can change almost every dimension of the mouse even uh how much
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customization there is and what features it has so the rat 9 for example is
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basically a wireless version of the Rat
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7 just in case you were wondering what is the difference between the nine and
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the seven so yeah this packaging is just a total bear to get open there we
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go aha so let's find the accessories here inside
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first there we go so cyborg so it's a
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sech brand uh which is I believe a mad
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cats brand so sort of brand within a brand within a
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brand ultimately as long as it's good stuff it doesn't really matter okay so
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here we go cyborg gaming.com includes ah here we go here's a summary look look at
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that they're going to make life easy for me
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okay so oh fly so these are the
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keyboards okay so there's the clip cyborg keyboard there's a
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fly okay oh no fly is a joystick aha
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that helps okay look product guide I love this okay so the three four user
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definable DPI settings okay the five has uh 30 G of
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removable weights I don't believe we're going to find removable weights in the
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three 15 us definable commands via five
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programmable buttons so there's one of the differences the rat 7 yes
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interchangeable Pinky and palm rests four user user definable DPI settings
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Precision aim mode that one is the fully
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featured Mouse and then the rat 9 is the
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wireless version of that guy okay so
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let's look at the rat 3 Mouse and see
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what we think of it
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hm really oh okay they've fastened it
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with a twist tie here I was like why can't this come out and then I realize
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why it can't come up so I've completely trashed the packaging now all right so
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let's see what we can adjust oh looks like we do have some adjustments we have
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we have more customizability than I had originally thought
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so here we go let's have a closer look at this guy first of all we've got the
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uh hex key right here so that one is is
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to slide this back and forth
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okay next we have a hex key over
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here and that
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one H how does that move
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it guess I'll have to figure this out off
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camera okay so I have figured it out the
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rat 3 is not adjustable in any way these
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are to label the back and forward buttons so let's go through everything
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that is included on this mouse why don't we start with the forward and back
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buttons so these are programmable buttons you can change what you want them to do and that is a pretty cool
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thing okay here we have indicator LEDs for the DPI settings so you have up to
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four user definable DPI settings and you can pick the mode here that you desire
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okay and there's also a DPI adjusting
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button here okay this is rapid fire this
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is your right click which is not rapid fire okay over here on the other side
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you have no buttons now unlike the higher end mice the rat 3 does not
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include like a metal plate on the bottom it is a fully plastic design you have a
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oh yeah you have a middle click as well as a mouse wheel should show you that
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this is just for show as far as I can tell it's kind of like a cool uh like
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cooling pipe looking thing that's uh
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built right into the mouse now it's quite even though it looks like there's
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kind of pieces missing and it might not be comfortable it actually fits quite
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nicely into like a a claw type grip and
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the thing about that particular grip is it's pretty flexible you can use a small
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Mouse whether you have small hands or big hands you should be able to hold the
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rat 3 fairly comfortably for gaming so
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there's
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your uh laser sensor on the bottom and I forget
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how many DPI it is a 3200 DPI laser
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sensor it's actually labed right there good for me and there are your slippy
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pads on the bottom of the mouse including a very large one over your
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thumb cuz that's probably where you're going to be putting a lot of pressure if
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you hold a mouse anything like the way that I do so thank you for checking out
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my unboxing of the Rat 3 don't forget to subscribe to lonus techtips for more
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Style videos with me there's your goldplated USB
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connector look at that it even has a little cyborg logo on it