Razer Naga Hex LoL Edition Unboxing
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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1,840 words · ~9 min read
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This is the Razer Naga Hex LOL. Oh,
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wait. League of Legends. Hold on, that's different. Uh, yeah, it's a game, not a
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laughing thing. Okay, so this is the Razer Naga Expert Moa, which I actually
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had to look up. I hadn't heard of that before. So, it's apparently uh something
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something. can't remember. Multiplayer online battle arena. That's a genre now.
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I mean, I always thought we just called it Dota and League of Legends because those are sort of the primary games. But
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there you go. Optimized for mobile and action RPG games or I mean MMO probably
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is just as valid for something like this
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because uh however, unlike the regular
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Naga, which has 12 buttons on the side, the Naga Hex is named such because it
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only has six buttons on the side. So, it's not quite as uh as crazy optimized
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for tons and tons and tons of different functionality, but more like you want to
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have a bunch of different profiles with a few different um
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commands that you'd want to be able to execute at a moment's notice. Now, if
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you've followed Linus Tech Tips, you probably already know that I do like the
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Naga, uh the original one. I've never tried the Hex, although based on what
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I'm seeing so far, they're going to be pretty similar. And I do like the idea
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of mice that have a lot of buttons on the side. Uh the G600 was probably the
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biggest disappointment for me out of the lot just because um and again if you've
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watched Linus Tech Tips videos for a while you'll have you'll know this already, but because I found the I found
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the tracking to feel sort of um a little bit laggy. There was some some latency
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there that was bothering me. Whereas the Naga I have never had that problem. So,
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it's um I mean you can see that it's one of the ones that's actually on our
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gaming test bench. So, we do actually use it. It's uh you can always tell when
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we pull something out and it's sort of nearby and convenient, but it's
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something that we like and actually use day-to-day. So, there you go. So, let's
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have a look at what Razer includes. Dominate the Fields of Justice with the
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Naga Hex. Cool. Okay. So, there's a little card there. They're so good at
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packaging, giving you little like things that are sort of neat. Changing the
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rubber thumb rest. Okay. So, there's a thumb rest in the middle which you can
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apparently adjust to different side grips right there. So, you've got a
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larger one and a smaller one. And then it looks like the medium one comes
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equipped on the mouse. And this is smart actually for a reason that I'll explain
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in a moment. Uh we've got some Razor stickers which are obviously pretty
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sweet as well as the rest of their usual documentation. Ah, yes. You get a free
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champion with the mouse. And since I don't need a League of Legends champion,
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I would be happy to give him to you guys. So, you get a free Trindir.
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Yay! First one to reclaim the code gets it.
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There you go. Enjoy. Free giveaway for you guys there. All right. So, what's
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good about the Naga Hex? First of all, it has the same shape as the original
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Naga, which I like. It's perfect for sort of smaller and smallish medium
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hands to be very nicely contoured. So, you can see from both angles here,
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there's somewhere to rest your pinky, somewhere to rest your ring finger,
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places for your middle and index fingers, and of course, somewhere to put
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your thumb. I find for myself personally, this is the best ergonomic
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razor mouse that I have used and I've used pretty much all of them. I also
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really like this this improvement on the Hex here versus the original Naga. So,
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people complained with the original Naga that you would often accidentally hit
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these buttons when you're trying to lift the mouse off the surface. I personally
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never had that issue with it, but some people did. So, what they've done is
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they've added this thumb rest right in the middle of your six buttons here.
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Number one is that depending on what size you use, you can optimize it so
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that you can easily feel your way around these buttons. And number two is that
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also gives you a comp a convenient place to hold the mouse should you want to
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easily lift off the table. So without using these two fingers at all, I can
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take the mouse. I can go like hold on. There we go. Yeah, I can go like this
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without actuating any of those side buttons. I can move quite vigorously. So
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this is extremely handy. Now, in terms of uh mappings, similar to the original
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Naga, it looks like they've changed the uh the pad on the bottom. So, the
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original Naga had a ring-shaped pad around the entire mouse, whereas the Hex
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version has got smaller pad feet that are here. Uh these approaches look
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pretty similar to me because the surface area, see, it's quite thin around the
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edges here, looks pretty similar. They're going to take a long way to wear down either way, but there's selections
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here. So, you can either use the number pad to uh to bind to these keys
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automatically or you can use the number keys across the top of the keyboard.
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They both also include more support right around the sensor itself. It is a
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laser mouse. There you go. So, there's that one on that one in right in the
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middle of the mouse, so it glides extremely smoothly. Now, in terms of
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buttons on this guy right here, there's the six on the side. So, these are
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mechanical buttons. They've got a very satisfying click to
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them, whereas the original Naga didn't really have that click. It was a very,
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very different feel. That are actually rated for up to 250
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clicks per minute, which I think is actually pretty interesting. That's an
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awful lot of clicks, especially given that you'd never click one of the
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individual buttons 250 times a minute, unless it's about five times a second on
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one button. So, it's pretty much optimized for the most demanding
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workloads, I think, as far as that goes. It does include support for Synapse 2.0.
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Now, Synapse originally, there were a lot of complaints about it, but Razer
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really addressed them with one of the most recent updates. So, it's their cloud-based software that allows you to
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essentially store your profiles for your peripheral and take them with you
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because anytime you're connected to the internet, you log into your profile and
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it'll go boom, you're using your Razer peripherals. Okay, these are all the
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settings that you like to use. So, it's just a cloud-based thing, but it
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originally if you didn't log in, you wouldn't be able to even use the
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profiles on a peripheral that you'd already plugged in. So, they've
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completely fixed that now. So, it works even in offline mode, and it'll give you
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the most up-to-date ones if you are not in offline mode. Going back to the
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mouse, they've relocated two of the other buttons as well. So, by default,
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these are your back and forward buttons on the original Naga. Whereas now,
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instead of having two buttons up here, which I actually found were quite difficult to reach, particularly this
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one anyway, they've relocated them here in more like the traditional DPI sensor
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switching location that people are more used to seeing, whereas this is a bit of
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a uh there's not that many mice that use this particular configuration. Uh, did I
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mention already it has a 5600 DPI sensor? I hope I did. Um, in terms of
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the rest of the looks, there hasn't really been that much that's changed.
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So, instead of an illuminated Razer logo here, there's an illuminated League of
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Legends logo, which goes along with the co-branding of the mouse, as well as
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instead of a blue illuminated scroll wheel, they've gone with a yellow one
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instead. So, we're going to go ahead and plug this in so you guys can get a good idea of what the mouse looks like once
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it lights up. And we're going to finish up with
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a quick unboxing of the accompanying League of Legends Goliath mouse pad. So
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there you go. It has some League of Legends artwork on it. It's also got
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sort of the usual things you've come to expect from any Goliath mouse pad. So it
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has an anti- fray edge, so it's not going to well fray. Although in my
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experience, usually even the ones that go straight to the edge with the regular
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mouse weave usually take two to three years to start fraying. It's got a nice
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rubber bottom on it. So, I mean, what is there to say about it? It has League of
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Legends graphics on it. It goes with your mouse and it's made by Razor, so it's probably fine. It has a pretty
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tight weave, so it's a fairly smooth surface for a cloth pad. So, personally,
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I do prefer a bit of a less dense weave, but that comes down to the individual
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user's choice. And I think that pretty
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much wraps it up. Now, it's come to my attention that you guys guys may not
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have seen the game code the first time around. So, I'm just going to flash that one more time. And best of luck to
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whoever gets the barbarian there. Thank you for checking out Oh yeah, I think
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they're rated for yeah, 10 million click life cycle for the uh for the buttons on
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the mouse. And I think that's everything that I wanted to say about it. Thanks
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more thing I wanted to say. There's 24 click spots. Razer, for whatever reason,
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calls that out.
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24. We can count them together if you'd like, or we could just end the video
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