Today ladies and gents we will review the Asus ROG Gladius mouse. This is ROG’s high end mouse geared towards FPS gaming users.
The box is only slightly larger than the mouse but contains most of the information you need:
It’s somewhat hard to see however so here’s a zoom of that exploded drawing that’s stolen from the ROG website:
So let’s talk about some of the things mentioned here. Let’s start with the sensor. Generally optical sensors are better for everything except glass surfaces. They are more accurate and more responsive. This particular sensor is rated as 200ips, 50g acceleration and 6400dpi. What does this mean?
DPI – dots per inch – effectively the accuracy of the mouse i.e. it means the mouse should detect a movement of 1/6400 of an inch. In other words at a 1:1 sensitivity ratio you can traverse a 4K screen in a movement of < 2/3 an inch. That’s crazy sensitive. My preference is about 3000-4000dpi in general, so this means there is plenty of head room if you like a mouse more sensitive than I do. The Razer Deathadder which is competing for a similar market also has the same 6400dpi sensor (although the Chroma edition ups that to 10000 dpi).
Acceleration – measured in g – the ability of the mouse to measure acceleration. 50g rated on the Gladius is allgedly the highest you can get and again the same as the competition in the form of the Deathadder.
IPS – Inches per second – the top speed the mouse can measure before it starts losing information. 200 inches per second is FWIW 11mph. For reference the fastest olympic atheletes can sprint temporarily at 25mph. This is likely to be fast enough for most then. Bear in mind that even if it wasn’t you’d simply have to move a bit further than you’d expect and acceleration could be used to compensate for it.
Interestingly the OS support only seems to cover 64 bit windows.
The front cover of the box opens up and there is plastic packaging overlays the mouse itself so you can feel the grip before you buy in a big box store:
So let’s get this box opened up for a real look…
