Zowie Gear Hammer Gaming Headset and G-TF Cloth Mouse Pad Unboxing Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2010-05-08
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1,044 words · ~5 min read
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okay so today i'm unboxing a couple of zowie gear products as you can see i'm
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in the cameraman's office so i am finally back at work after my boat with
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the swine flu um honestly i know nothing about zowie as a company except that
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they make gaming peripherals we don't actually carry them yet however i'm
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going to have a look at these evaluation products and check out what i think of
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them so this headset is called the hammer it should fall around like a
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69.99 79.99 sort of price range it has
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uh some guy on it who says it's really good
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and then it has another guy who also says it's really good okay so it's
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designed for esports so that means it's designed for sports that you do not
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leave your armchair in order to do
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the very best kinds of sports obviously okay so we'll start with the headset and
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they also have a mouse pad which is the g
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tf or two face okay so headset here the build quality
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actually there's nothing particularly exceptional
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about it but it feels like it's going to be pretty comfortable when i go ahead
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and put this on my head so i'm just going to figure out which way okay so
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the ARM here is a little bit stiff for the huge huge microphone which looks
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like it should be pretty good it's like an enormous microphone in there i
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don't know why you would need that but either way that's pretty cool so this is
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the left ear so i should probably be putting the uh this turns all the way
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around okay so i should probably put that over there so i'm gonna check out
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the uh comfort level here how do i look
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cameraman is making kind of like a weird face at me this isn't actually flexible
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which is something i don't really like so you can't adjust how far the mic sits
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away from your head however they're incredibly light which i guess is one
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huge advantage of such a such a slim design and another thing that i've
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noticed about them as i had them on is that they are using a closed design
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so that means that sound is going to be a little bit more tinny
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you're going to get a little bit less bass but the advantage is going to be that
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directionality is much better other people can't hear what you're
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listening to and you can't hear any outside noises like i can hardly hear
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myself talk when i have these on much like the sennheiser pc350s
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okay so it also comes with uh what do we
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got here oh okay we've got an on
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on the on the cable we have a switch for the mic as well as a volume control this
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feels pretty cheap and cheesy but uh i don't think the clip is going anywhere
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anytime soon so it should be durable enough from that perspective then we
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have let's see pretty short cable but it looks like
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this little accessory package here comes with an extension cable so that you can
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either plug into the back of a keyboard on your desk or you can reach around all
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the way and reach around or you can reach around all the way to the back of the case okay it also comes with a
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couple of foam ear pads
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so you can actually replace the pleathery ones that come with it and it
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looks like oh this is actually really easy to do with foam ones should you prefer that
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feel on your ears of velour or whatever
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you want to call this material okay let's move on to the mouse pad i'm just
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going to cough once here sorry about that
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okay i'm not still not feeling 100 quite yet okay so this is the g tfs or the two
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face it is a spawn okay whatever that means it has this
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badass looking guy on it all right and it says okay what is unique about
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this mouse pad is that it is a hundred percent cloth but it is as fast as
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plastic because it actually uses a plastic coating over top so that's kind
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of like the steel series 5l which is a
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cloth pad with a plastic layer on top
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except that this is not a hard pad this is actually still a rollable
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sort of actual cloth pad whereas the 5l
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sips on like a plastic back substrate
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sort of thing so this is a quite a large mouse pad as you can
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see here with it in front of me so i've got the cameraman's like ghetto mouse
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here which totally sucks but in terms of
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in terms of glide actually i can't really see it being any faster than the
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qck that i'm using at home but i do like the rough textured feel quite a lot if
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you can i don't know how the cameraman is going to sort of capture that but
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have a look and i also really like how thick it is this is quite a thick mouse
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pad and it has nice nice woven edges
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which is something that i've noticed about my qck is the edges are getting
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quite frayed and i can see that this would cause that to not happen the back
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is a rubberized very grippy i'm just obviously you'd never use a mouse on the
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back of a mouse pad never do that it's stupid but i'm putting a mouse on the
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back of it so that i can demonstrate it's quite grippy when you put it down
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on the desk and it's not going to move if even if you lift your mouse and kind
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of do that sort of thing anyway thank you for checking out my unboxing of the
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zowie gear hammer and two face
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mouse pad