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welcome to my unboxing of the Diablo 3 mouse from Steel series so this isn't the first time SteelSeries has released a license blizzard product but this is the first time that I've seen their mouse be basically just like a themed version of one of their other mice which I already know is awesome so I don't even have to speculate in fact my SteelSeries eye is right over there I use it on my test bench and it is a fantastic mouse so it can only be made better by like Diablo themed artwork and a Diablo themed GUI that allows you to easily map okay here look I'll let them worried it the way they want to quick and effortlessly remap the mouse buttons with drag-and-drop predefined game actions and functions and skills as well as elimination settings all of which are easily configured in the thing that looks like this we're gonna load up the driver and show you guys on the computer behind me in a minute but let's talk about what else SteelSeries has to say about this mouse first optimal comfort with an ambidextrous shape and size making it versatile for all types of gamer grips the zai is that as well so there you go that's pretty straightforward 7 ergonomically placed organically organ Amma Klee placed programmable buttons world's most durable switches so these are Omron switches guaranteed for 10 million clicks which means that no matter how high your actions per minute actually if you know your actions per minute then you can actually calculate exactly how long this mouse is guaranteed to last for you if you sat and gamed like 100 percent of the time until it died well you'd probably die first but there you go there you go the mouse that lives longer than you ah programmable Diablo 3 themed illumination options so that's the scroll wheel the CPI indicator as well as the logo at the back and durable double braided nylon cord with gold plated USB connector now this brings me back to a video I did recently which is totally unrelated to this where I compared the performance of an SSD drive with various SATA cables including SATA 2 cables and SATA 3 cables and there was a lot of debate after that video where I basically determined that it didn't affect the performance about why the performance wasn't affected or what kind of cables they were or whatnot and there were a lot of comments about how it would have been better if it was gold-plated or silver and a lot of debate about what's the best conductor so I'm gonna settle this once and for all silver is the best electrical conductor better than copper but it's expensive silver also has the enormous disadvantage of easily tarnishing that is it easily oxidizes when it's exposed to air so that means that there is a less conductive layer that forms almost immediately with silver okay so that's why we use copper because it's cheap and it doesn't tarnish now why do we use gold to plate the end of a connector if it's not as good of a conductor as either silver or copper why do you think that is the reason is that gold is malleable gold is soft so what that means is that every time you insert it the gold is able to actually make a very small very very small but it'll give way a little bit to the metal from the other end of the connector making you able to have a perfect connection every time that is why we gold plate connectors also it never tarnishes and never oxidizes that is why we use gold not because it is the best conductor so that is why SteelSeries has gold plating on the connectors inside there and then this is unnecessary but it looks like they've also gold-plated the outer housing those are the important parts though those got to be gold-plated so here's the double braided nylon cord which actually feels like thicker than most of the braided cords that I've encountered in the past also has a little red stripe just you know kind of neat haven't seen that before either all right here it only makes sense that since I recently unboxed some Diablo 3 mouse pads here let's go with let's go with the plain-jane Diablo 3 one so here you know showcase it there so let's let's go over the overall the overall Mouse here so what makes this mouse truly ambidextrous because lots of mice have ambidextrous shapes is the fact that all of the buttons are equally accessible regardless of whether you use it with a right hand or a left hand because check this out you've got your front and back buttons here remember these are all fully programmable so if you're left-handed you can make this back in your browser and this forward in your browser and you've got them on the other side so that means that if you're right-handed you can program these two something with your other fingers and use them like this and if you're left-handed and you can do it the other way around you've also got your CPI change button although you can change the sorry yeah your CPI change button as well as your CPI indicator LED so remember SteelSeries uses CPI because according to their literature it is a more accurate representation of the actual sensitivity of the mouse that has the counts per inch they believe is more accurate than dots per inch so they always use CPI to rate their mice so unlike their competitors SteelSeries allows you to adjust your CPI in fairly small increments the Akari laser that I have actually allows increments of 1 CPI but it's not quite that granular anymore this one allows adjustments in 100 CPI switch is still better than most of their competitors which are more like along the lines of like 400 800 1200 1600 and those are the only intervals that you can pick so they still give you a great degree of granularity and you just use this button to switch between them so they are some of the most customizable mice on the market because you can change everything from your from your I can't even remember what it's called but you can change how much correction it adds to a straight line can't remember what it's called so I have mine set to absolutely none zero correction and then you can have you have a bunch of settings in between and you can actually properly control all of your sensitivities your average plain gin and even some of your high-end mice do not allow you to do that they go with 400 800 1200 well that's not granular enough so there you go that's why I personally love steel series mice not really sure where I was going with that anymore steel series gaming great engine at the bottom we've got our slippy pads which I'm sure there's probably a more you know official name for them this is a laser mouse so you got your little laser class1 logo so basically don't put your eye right up to this and turn it on you know it's not good on the top of the mouse right right I was telling talking about the CPI button there we go I'm caught up again hey check this out they've upgraded the scroll wheel so that is a clickable button and then it is also a rubberized like Diablo 3 looking scrolling wheel thing going on you know what I already like this mouse a lot more than his eye and that is for one major reason cuz I for all its awesomeness is not as grippy overall this is a very plasticky shiny slippery surface compared to the Diablo 3 Mouse which has as I accidentally spat on it while I was talking they're much better now okay whereas this one has like a rubberized soft touch feel throughout the entire Mouse I personally find it easier to pick up a mouse that has that finish on it and I find it to be less clammy feeling especially when you game for a while and you get a little bit sweaty the Diablo 3 logo here at the back lights up and I think we've covered the physical attributes of the mouse pretty well now let's go ahead and install the install the drivers so we're having a quick look at the software which actually provides an astounding amount of customization I mean it's it's at the point where it's actually a little bit ridiculous because you go ahead you click on a button you can change everything about it from the name to the tooltip to the key color to the text color that shows up to the key font you can change from action types like macros launch applications sable key you can record delays or not record delays when you're doing your macros there's a dance edit option here too well edit macros in a more advanced way you can create different profiles and your profiles can be for different types of characters within the game Diablo 3 or within whatever other game you want in spite of the fact that this is Diablo three themed you can actually use it in a lot of different ways so there's single keys here comes with a bunch of pre-configured stuff and then there's custom oops yeah custom ones here that you can create using the new action button down here alright what else we got in here so moving over to the Settings tab we see we can adjust the CPI so the counts per inch so that's either with the LED off or the LED on you have two easy switch profiles that we can switch between we can also adjust the polling rate and the lighting on the mouse so I haven't actually shown the lighting on the mouse yet but check it out the Diablo 3 logo CPI indicator as well as the mouse wheel are all illuminated so it can pulsate fast or slow and it can be brighter or less bright ok what else we got here moving over to properties so we can set different profiles to launch when different trigger games are launched and check this out this is statistics so this is like an odometer for your mouse so you can go either currents or lifetime clicks and it will actually track according to this this zone up here how many times like how often that mouse button gets used in relation to the other one so clearly on the left click kind of guy and I don't use my middle click very often however if I take my middle click and I click it like 50 times here you're gonna see that if I navigate away from here a solo sorry this is gonna take a second guys still clicking okay done clicking now I'm just gonna like navigate away and come back and my middle click huh it's using lifetime clicks now right I think it takes a second to update so give it a minute yeah there we go so my left button now has much less frequency in relation to Oh was I accidentally clicking the right button while I was doing that Oh oops whatever so it readjusts according to what buttons you press kinda hilarious so thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the Diablo 3 mouse don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips for more unboxings reviews another computer video