We unbox the ASUS ROG Gladius Mouse!
Hardcore PC gamers usually invest a lot in their hardware, including their keyboard and mouse setups. There’s a lot of choices out there in the market today, including recognizable brands like Razer, Logitech, etc. Taiwanese company ASUS also makes gaming peripherals, and today we’re unboxing a gaming mouse that they unveiled during this year’s COMPUTEX: the Gladius.
Packaging and contents
The Gladius comes in a dark red box with ASUS’ ROG seal. The box lists down the specifications of this gaming mouse, which include LED illumination, 2 level DPI switch, rubberized scroll wheel, as well as two additional side buttons.
The box contains the device itself, as well as documentation, a carrying pouch for two USB cords and two extra Japanese-made Omron mouse switches.
Initial impressions: feels just as good as any gaming mouse, but can be fixed if it ever breaks
We’re no stranger to hi-end gaming gear, especially gaming mice. Unfortunately, not all gaming mice are made equal, and one of the biggest failure points for gaming mice are the switches in the buttons. Two of our previous Razer mice – a Lachesis and an Imperator – had both left mouse buttons fail. It’s a big thing – both the left and right mouse buttons are the most important buttons in gaming mice, and there’s usually nothing you can do if they fail. The more adventurous typically try to fix them using an amalgam of homebrew techniques (we’ve actually tried a few) but in the end, they all revert to the same issue.
ASUS’ ROG Gladius tries to fix that issue by designing the Gladius in a way that it’s easy to service if one of two mouse buttons ever die. Replacing the switches is easy – you’ll just need to remove the 4 screws inside the mouse, take out the two switches and swap ‘em out with the two included ones in the package. In addition, ASUS is saying that the switches in the Gladius is good for up to 20-million clicks, good enough for most gamers out there.
Other features of the ROG Gladius is its 6400 dpi optical sensor, 1000 hz polling rate and its unique USB cable system. The Gladius doesn’t use your typical mouse cable – it uses a micro USD port in it to connect to your PC using the included USB cable. This allows the Gladius to seperate cleanly when its cable is accidentally tugged on, which in turn reduces the chance of a broken cable killing the mouse prematurely. Even if the cable gets damaged, ASUS provides a spare on in the package.
We’ll be using the ROG Gladius in the next few weeks, as we’ve just purchased LOTR: Shadow of Mordor. We’ll also be putting it to the test in some of the FPS shooters that we usually paly, so you can bet we’ll be taking the Gladius to the limit.
