ASUS ROG Gladius Gaming Mouse
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2015-05-07
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1,188 words · ~5 min read
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today's video was supposed to be an assassin's creed unity benchmarking
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video but as i found it extremely difficult to deliver a video to you guys
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that would have been up to our usual standard of quality thanks to various
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bugs and performance related issues throughout the entirety of the
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benchmarking process i decided to forego that plan entirely and play some better
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games some more stable games instead while testing the extremely interesting
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16.8 million color per key backlighting for virtually unlimited customization
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click now to learn more clearly the most unusual feature of this
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mouse is the swappable omron switches for the left and right click but the
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details of that awesome feature we'll have to wait for later for now we'll
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start with the physical overview at first glance it will likely remind you
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of a razer death adder and for many people that's probably a good thing
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weighing in at around 115 116 grams it
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has some half to it and i personally like the weight but if you're looking
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for a lighter mouse you're kind of out of luck here as unfortunately there is
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no changeable waiting system in terms of grip as always it's
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different strokes for different folks but personally this most is too small
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for me to palm so i've fallen back to my trusty aggressive claw grip on the
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rubber sides unfortunately i didn't find the rubberized material to be grippy
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enough to easily hold the mouse while moving and lifting it especially once my
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fingers got a little bit sweaty after a little bit of gaming but my claw grip
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does have very few points of contact and those points of contact have a
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relatively small surface area due to my fingers pointing directly inwards
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towards the mouse itself on the other hand this mouse fits kind
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of perfectly for Linus's palm grip with the increased surface area of his palm
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grip he found the grips to not really be that big of a problem now there are more
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types of grips than just these two and if my claw grip was a little bit more
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relaxed i likely wouldn't have an issue with the rubber grips either so your
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mileage may vary another thing to note about the left and
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right buttons is that they are separate from the rest of the mouse's actual body
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at first i thought this was pretty cool but upon further inspection i
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immediately noticed that they were noticeably wobbly unfortunately to the
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point where i even picked up on it while playing games this results in different
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areas of the button feeling drastically
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different to press i found personally that the worst spot was near the front
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of the button and the best spot was near the top on the inside which was both the
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most responsive and had the least amount of kind of horizontal awkward movement
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that brings us to the scroll wheel and dpi changing button the scroll wheel has
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fairly standard fare it is a rubberized texture and nicely pronounced scroll
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points it also has a press into click but unfortunately lacks the left and
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right functionality that we see on some other scroll wheels the sensitivity
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changing button behind the scroll wheel has only two custom modes although
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personally that's all i would really use anyways these modes can be set in the
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driver where you also see a slew of other options amongst the sensitivity
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and 2 000 hertz holding rate options you'll find angle snapping and
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acceleration which you should definitely leave off if you're a gamer also in the
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driver you'll find some button functionality editing macro setup and
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some basic lighting control options which include breathing which is always
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a favorite of mine back to the physical view of the mouse
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we have the removable usb cable slot which goes along with the two included
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cables at first look i was appalled to say the least not only do i hate micro
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usb cables because of how fragile they are but it also just seemed so
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unnecessary i've never had an issue packing a mouse safely to protect its
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cable due to their naturally small size but before i went on a crazy rant about
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how much i hated this i spoke with Linus who pointed out that in an emergency you
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could charge your phone if you didn't have another cable and this does seem to
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be a modder's mouse and while a modder may be
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swapping out a cable while they're swapping out their switches they could
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swap out that cable for a different color a different length a lighter
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material who knows whatever it is they can do it
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they may need something like a glue gun to keep the cable in place as the
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included like squeeze mounting system that the cable has when you get it out
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of the box won't be on your replacement cable
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it would still be possible while this doesn't necessarily make me happy with
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this as a design choice i must admit that it may possibly
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maybe make some sense but regardless of that we're now on the
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inside of the mouse so we get our first glance at the extremely easy to swap
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omron switches the stock switches can be identified by either their white or gray
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protruding stems unfortunately i don't have any actual spec list on these as
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the manual was quite sparse and as of yet there is no downloadable manual from
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their website although i'm sure this will be addressed once they watch this
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video and last but not least there is the soul
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of the most the sensor the pixart 3988 featured in this mouse doesn't feel
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like it has any acceleration in my subjective testing and it felt quite
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good while playing counter-strike go which is a really good sign overall this
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is a very interesting mouse while isus has offered mice before i think it
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wouldn't be too bold to say this is their first real foray into the world of
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premium gaming mice and knowing ASUS it will only get better from here they
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change the game up with this mouse by introducing swappable switches hopefully
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they can keep the ball rolling and fix some of the quirks that prevented the
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gladius from being as good as we were hoping alright guys
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