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today's gonna be a different kind of video we're taking a look at the ps2 mouse and comparing it against the latest and greatest USB mice and you're probably wondering what is this brain the 1980s I wish it was but on a more serious note today we're gonna take a look at this mouse which I picked up at a junk store probably over a year and a half ago for a dollar and I've been meaning to do this video for a while but we're gonna be comparing it against these other two mice with a hundred FPS on a hundred Hertz monitor and see if there's any difference in the input lag and that's the total time it takes your mouse by the time you click it to actually put out a signal on your monitor so total system input lag today we're gonna be testing this port versus the USB mice now we already know from previous experience that a Logitech G 302 is practically one of the best mice you can get out there in terms of how responsive it is so seeing how the ps2 Mouse goes against this is gonna be a big eye-opener for me personally but also let's go through a little bit of history of why the ps2 port still exists the ps2 port was designed over 31 years ago in 1987 by IBM named after their personal systems to computer however it wasn't until in 1999 that we saw the first commercially available optical mouse this was introduced from Microsoft with their aunt Ellie if you guys remember the CS 1.6 days this became a very popular name for the mouse to use if you're playing this game competitively myself using one of these back in the day now it was a great upgrade over the trackball mice which were just terrible after they got some dust buildup and you had to clean them out regularly and even then you didn't get a consistent tracking experience though of course what about the laser mouse which is inherently a bit different to the optical mouse that came into play in 2004 although originally designed in 1999 by sun microsystems it took a logitech in 2004 a partnership to introduce this mouse with the MX 1000 and later in 2009 since in those five years people realized that they didn't track properly on glass surfaces they introduced the dark field laser and you could actually see this on camera although you couldn't see it it was invisible to the human eye a very weird dilemma that I thought came out with the filming of a camera however the ps2 port itself does still have its benefits in today's market for instance if you're in the data backup industry there may be very crucial data but you just can't risk getting leaked into the wrong hands and so with the ps2 keyboard and mouse you're then able to disable all the USB ports on that system and hence not allowing anyone to put a USB key in and copy off data also peers - keyboards themselves have full Anki rollover essentially what this is is if you don't press as many keys as you like at the same time and they will all register typically on Cheaper USB keyboards you can only press up to six keys at one time more expensive USB keyboards on the other hand do integrate the ps2 interface into their keyboards and hence allowing them to support full and key rollover that's why you do see some USB keyboards with ps2 adapters and they will viii appears to port though another reason of course is battery savings on laptops laptops still used with peers to interface on both their keyboards and also their track pads and this is because they work via a system known as the interrupt system this is when you press a key he will send a signal directly to the CPU as opposed to a USB which will pole itself to the USB controller and so what you're allowed to do here is now save battery because you don't need the keyboard and the trackpad on at all times as opposed to the USB keyboard and mice they sometimes have to be on at all times hence draining power on a laptop device and the last benefit to the ps2 port itself is of course that legacy support and the fact that it will work in any BIOS so it's great for computer technicians who need to get settings right and make things work from the Gecko as sometimes USB devices can introduce their own problems though nowadays on systems instead of having two ps2 ports they're generally integrated into one and a cool fact about this port is is that you can use a splitter and still get a ps2 keyboard MPs to Mouse to plug in to this device however with that being said if you do wish to use a ps2 keyboard and mouse then you will have to plug it in before your system boots as if you plug it in and then you try to use it you'll then have to restart your system as opposed to a USB mouse or keyboard you can plug it in and it will generally work from the get-go without having to restart your system and of course now it's time to get onto that part that y'all have been waiting for and it is the results the ps2 Mouse by I didn't even know who it doesn't even have a brand name on it this scored just the same as the other USB mice I was kind of a little bit sad to see this Mouse just do the same I was hoping there would be at least a little bit of an edge to this port because I have heard that it does give an edge on the keyboards and so with that I'm going to be testing the keyboards in a future video but this one here it scored exactly the same as these other two mice which in ways is really good news for the USB mice because they tout themselves as being gaming mice and I know in the past I have test particular mice over the USB ports and they have been slower than the G 302 that's a definite so what we see here is that they're scoring between 60 and 70 milliseconds all across the board that's from when I click the button and by the way I'm clicking it really fast and that's to weed out variance when I'm doing that we're noticing that it's about 6 to 7 frames delayed and each frame represents 10 milliseconds on the 100 FPS camera and so the monitor itself of course having a 100 FPS cap in volcán on Wolfenstein 2 and also being on a 100 Hertz monitor it's a really good test to see how many frames we are delayed by the time we click this button and hence why it's sometimes 60 milliseconds and sometimes it's 70 milliseconds but it was good to see that across all three mice the results were the same so what that says is that the ps2 mouse here is the original it's pretty much the base standard for having no or low input lag and then we look at the G 302 and that's got of course really good low input lag and then we look at the Zowie fk2 and that also scored in the same field so those two USB mice they're the master that I'm using here in the channel at the moment they're both really good mice but at least for me with this ps2 Mouse I can now put it on the shelf and not worry that I'm losing any advantages by switching over to a USB mouse but of course ps2 port it's not going anywhere at least in the near future it does have its benefits me personally though I do use a USB mouse and keyboard nowadays I found on the ps2 keyboard itself that very rarely with an overclocked system my system will crash out sometimes very rarely and if now if that happens while I'm editing a video there could be problems I have found on this ps2 Mouse though while I was using it for a little bit of time there was no crashing whatsoever so very weird dilemma that one that crashing I have to look into a little bit more but one cool thing to note is if you guys are on a budget and you are getting into gaming then something like this is not a bad option I mean you can still pick up Pierce two mice for around about five dollars and at least the good thing with that is is that you'll know at least with ps2 mouse that you just be getting straight gaming there's no BS on a five dollar ps2 Mouse you just put it on plug it in and where you go you're gaming and you get the lowest input lag possible as opposed to some of these other USB mice I haven't tested them yet but they could introduce delays from anywhere from 10 to 20 milliseconds I have seen 10 milliseconds plus on $50 mice who the one thing I will say before I get on out of here and one thing that'll be sorely missed with this ps2 Mouse is quite simply the simplicity of it this shape is honestly for me perfect it's a similar shape to the logitech g3 and this was a mouse that was designed a long time ago so in ways I feel like the gaming mice industry is kind of losing focus on where they're going I mean some of these designs of these mice coming out nowadays are just ridiculous for me personally as a fingertip gripper this mouse here represents the perfect shape it's the original design it's so perfect the weight balance is great it's ambidextrous as well so if you're left-handed you can take advantage of it and all they need to do is whack a couple of side buttons on it and you've got yourself a really good gaming mouse this mouse here weight isn't 70 grams it's absolutely awesome for fingertip grippers who are playing RTS or flick shooting in fps and also on that note there's no acceleration built-in so pro gamers mean they might want to just think about using something like this if they still exist and they need that set dpi so not too bad after all with the ps2 laser mouse it's just for me personally I'm so used to my G 302 now the way that works the way it moves I don't think I can change over to anything else I actually tried changing over to the FK 2 and that didn't go so well but anyway guys I hope you enjoyed today's video if you did then be sure to hit that like button and let me know in the comment section below if you enjoyed this video if you want to see any other videos like this I love going off on these crazy tangents sometimes today's video was a lot of fun to make and it gave me some answers that I've sort of been curious to find out all this time although it was kind of as expected if you ask me but anyway I'll catch you guys in another tech video very soon he's out for now bye Melora if you guys remember this mouse it was very popular in the csgo community as moment they're both really good mice but this ps2 mouse eyes one advantage of a lag USB mouse however would be the fact that if you click on clickbait you're now delayed by 10 to 20 milliseconds when you click on that click bait but if you guys are in the market for a mouse you so now we're going to be moving on to the results