Logitech G402 Hyperion Fury Gaming Mouse - Inhumanly Fast
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2015-05-07
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1,712 words · ~8 min read
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oh hey guys uh just casually gaming
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with the purchase of a qualifying Intel processor SSD or knuck you could
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instantly win an Intel gaming jersey and be entered in the draw for the ultimate
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system click now to learn more the first and most important thing about this
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mouse is the optical sensor featuring logitech's delta zero and fusion engine
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i'll get into exactly what the fusion engine does in a moment but first i want
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to test their delta zero feature which basically means no cursor acceleration
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as i have some pretty seriously deeply rooted trust issues when it comes to
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most manufacturers and their claims about acceleration a quick and dirty
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explanation of mouse acceleration is this if you disable it moving your mouse
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from point a to b along a surface without acceleration should result in
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the cursor on your screen moving exactly relative to the movement of your mouse
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independent of the speed of which the mouse is moving
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if you were to start at a move halfway to b extremely quickly shake the mouse
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around for a little while and then go extremely slowly to b it would still
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land on b if you enable acceleration moving extremely quickly the same
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distance on the mouse pad will cause your cursor to overshoot b's position on
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the screen and then repeating the same movement but very slowly will cause the
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cursor to fall short of b's position this is fine for average users who want
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to move their mouse very slowly when trying to click on something more precisely but it's not desirable for
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gamers who want precision of their muscle movements to translate directly
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to the screen without any janky randomness it seems like this is a
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non-issue since aside from gaming mouse drivers Windows allows pointer
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acceleration to be disabled except that many modern gaming mouse sensors have
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inherent acceleration that cannot be turned off so to calm anxiety we tested
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g402 sensors by grabbing our camera slider and just doing a few
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modifications i replaced the traditional soft stopper method with dual heavy duty
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clamps to reduce travel when the slider bumped into them
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i then put the slider on the table and lowered it pretty much as far as it could go using a velcro strip to secure
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the mouse to the bottom of the slider then for measurement i put a grid
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overlay on my monitor after all this setup i tested it with a
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variety of movements and i'm happy to say that as far as i can tell the g402
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features what is known as a perfect sensor with no inherent acceleration
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kudos logitech next up is the fusion engine i was
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talking about earlier logitech is using a gyro and an accelerometer to augment
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their already awesome optical sensor if you're running at a low dpi setting and
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need to whip your mouse insanely fast in order to pull that super sick 360 no
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scope at the end of your mega dope montage video it is technically possible
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for you to outpace an optical sensor if you do manage to outpace the optical
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sensor it can potentially cause the cursor to jutter or even drastically
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jump around which is bad with the fusion
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engine and the gyrometer and accelerometer we'll try to fill the
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holes in the data stream to avoid this to test this out Linus and i had a
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contest of sorts where we battled to see who could whip the mouse the fastest in
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terms of ips or inches per second minus one to his extensive master badminton
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skills which he has honed over many years of extremely vigorous training so
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it works as advertised kudos again but even though it worked i left logitech's
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sensor monitoring tool on for a night of gaming and just tried to ignore it and
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play normally to see what would happen it seems that i never actually exceeded
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84 ips which means this feature is unlikely to ever actually kick in for me
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but i'm not a professional gamer if you're a low sensitivity gamer and you
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do end up purchasing the g402 and you find that you get into the speeds where
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the fusion engine really benefits you please message me on twitter or some
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other medium as i'd love to hear more about your experience which brings us to
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the software setting the 240 to 4000 dpi
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sensors multiple sensitivity levels was easy enough and it allowed for fairly
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specific setting as it was able to increase in increments of 80. you can
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also set your polling rate to 125 250 500 or even 1 000 reports per second
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after getting all that technical stuff out of the way you can have fun with the right side of your brain by playing with
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the customizable lighting you're able to set brightness level change the speed or
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disable breathing mode entirely and change the deep if dpi lighting is
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always on or just illuminated when you are changing things and last but not
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least is turning off the lighting effects when you haven't used your mouse for a specific amount of time handy for
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those of us who have our computers in our rooms so that was fun but now it's
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time for real world use of impressions in terms of shape feel and ergonomics of
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the unit when compared to the g502's futuristic alien looking aesthetic the
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g402 is definitely more conservative but still does have some flair it's rocking
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eight buttons including forward back dpi up dpi down dpi shift left click right
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click and middle click and they can be programmed to execute various functions
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keystrokes or even multi-key macros using logitech software so basically
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even if you're one of those guys who is religiously against dpi shift buttons
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you can set that button to anything from play next song functionality to spamming
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kabba kappa kappa or razer dongerz in chat unfortunately though scroll up and
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scroll down were not included in the key binding options after all that we're
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left with a few takeaways when compared to the g502 the g402 is definitely a bit
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more conservative it's down to eight buttons from 11 it
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doesn't have a free spinning or tilting scroll wheel it doesn't have a
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customizable weighting system it lacks some of the nicely textured soft touch
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rubber gripping the light isn't quite as bright
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it doesn't have a braided cable the swooped out part for your thumb isn't
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nearly as accommodating and the left and right click don't feel quite as sharp
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and responsive as the g502 but they still have a 20 million click rating
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which is nice but hold on now that's actually not that bad on one hand you
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have the g502 with its beautiful sensor and laundry list of features on the
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other hand you have the g402 with a different but still beautiful sensor
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which is ARM in ARM with a powerful but possibly not needed for everyone at
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least fusion engine while the g402's laundry list of features is considerably
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shorter than the g502 it still feels great in hand i mean you still have the
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fundamental ergonomic quality of a logitech mouse which too many people
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myself included feels great in your hand
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and you've got one other thing in your hand that feels great too
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20 bucks the g402 is 60 compared to the g502's 80 price tag so that's a lot of
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most for your money and the review is pretty much over but i have one more
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closing thought thank you logitech for working on meaningful performance
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metrics instead of just focusing on dpi
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which many people are just going to lower anyways they don't even have their
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dpi blasted on the front of the box and it's clear they're more focused on
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things like their delta zero and fusion engine technologies i'm tired of seeing
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companies dump high-end flawed mice
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year after year and it's nice to see a shift in focus speaking of a shift in
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focus today's video is sponsored by Gigabyte auras x7 v2 gaming notebook
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this is the thin and light sli gaming notebook that we compared against a not
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so thin and light notebook in the video in the annotation here
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with two GeForce 860ms in sli an Intel i7 4860hq processor a 17.3 inch 1080p
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display a one terabyte hard drive and a few different options for SSD and RAM
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capacities all packed in a chassis that's less than 0.8 inches tall this is
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an absolute beast that you can pack in your backpack without breaking your back
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as a surprisingly good keyboard solid heat dissipation from its rear exhaust
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setup and more than acceptable noise levels for a thin notebook all which
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make the Gigabyte auris x7 v2 an ideal product for someone looking for a
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notebook that's suitable for everyday use as well as gaming so if you're in
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the market for a gaming notebook be sure to check out pricing and availability
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for the x7 v2 using the link in the video description let me know what you
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guys think about their delta zero and fusion core technologies as long as what
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do you guys think about our testing methodologies for stuff like acceleration also if you would like to
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save money getting the 402 or if you're more kind of into the baller style
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status of the g502 let me know all that kind of stuff in the comments down below
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for watching i'll see you next time