 So today we're going to be doing a quick unboxing of the Cyborg Rat 5. So the Rat 5 is the middle range mouse in the rat series of mice. It is between the 3 and the 7. It has quite a few features that are improved over the Rat 3, and I'd say it's probably the best value in this series of mice, which are for hardcore gaming. Let's just get that out of the way. There you go. Gaming mouse for PC. So the Rat 5, it has a 4000 DPI sensor, which is about in the middle of the Rat 3 and the Rat 7. Now bear in mind there's a Rat 9, but it's basically a Rat 7 with wireless. Okay, it has a few other things too. It has a precision aim mode. So that's a button that is for sniping. Okay, it has a weight system, which is better than the Rat 3, which does not have a weight system, and it also has is adjustable. So it has an adjustable length unlike the Rat 3. So let's have a look at what it has to say for itself on the back. It has more programmable buttons than the Rat 3 as well, with 15 user-definable commands via five buttons and a three-position mode switch. Okay, we have a precision aim mode with on-the-fly sensitivity adjustment to steady your aim at the touch of a button, like I said, for sniping, and it has an aluminum chassis. The Rat 3 is also plastic. So the aluminum chassis is, well, I guess it adds some durability as well as some rigidity to the mouse. You can remap the programmable buttons and create custom macros with their powerful software, and inside we find it also has a weight system. So it has 30 grams of removable weights, unlike the Rat 3, which does not have removable weights. Custom length adjustment, we covered that already, and the four user-definable DPI settings. So you can adjust those DPI settings, I believe, in increments of 400, although I could be mistaken about that one. Please do correct me if I'm wrong. Oh, in 125 DPI steps, yet another improvement over the Rat 3, which is only adjustable in 400 DPI steps. Okay, we've gotten better acceleration, we have better tracking speed, and the pulling rate is the same. Looks like we've got three different LED colors for each mode that you are in, so that depends on what your programmable buttons will do. And let's go ahead and get this open. The packaging on the Rat series is a bit of a challenge, but I think I've got it figured out at this point. This is my third Rat unboxing. Oh, shoot, I just ripped it too, didn't I? So much for having it figured out. Okay, so that comes out of there. This one comes out of here, there we are. And this one will then finally... And I dropped my camera. Sorry, that probably gives you guys a headache when it swings around like that. I'm using the Bourne series of movies approach to filming my unboxings from now on. Just extensive use of shaky cam to make it seem more exciting. Okay, forget it, we're just going to do this. All right, cheated. Okay. Inside here, we find a little Cyborg gaming thing, which is going to have a driver's CD, a little product guide to Cyborg's gaming line of products. Okay, we also have a little... Yeah, here we go, here's our product guide. Oh, no, this is just for this mouse. Okay, so this shows you a bunch of really cool stuff then. So, there we are. Flip it over to sort of... If I can figure out how to make this right side up, then we'll be in really good shape. It seems to be numbered. Well, I can't quite figure... Okay, here we go. So one, insert the CD. Two, plug in the USB connector. Three, install the Cyborg technology software. Setting your precision aim button for four, so what your sensitivity will be when you turn on precision aim. All right, step five is changing your adjustable DPI. Step six is the mode button, set up to three different sets of button assignments and sensitivity levels via ST Software. So depending which games you like, what sensitivity and whatever else you want to adjust. Here we've got the adjustable length, including instructions for how to do that, which will come in handy in a moment. Here we have our weight storage system, which is... From the... Oh, yeah, okay, from the bottom in the back, so we'll figure that out too. And then four DPI settings, which are adjustable with this button. So let's go ahead and get them out. Oh, wait, hold on. There's one other thing here. What's this? Oh, yeah, okay. Here's the little guide to the rest of the rats and the rest of the Cyborg gaming series of products. Okay, here is our adjustable weight guide. That has 50 grams of removable weights inside. Here is our Rat 5 with a couple of twist ties holding it into place in the packaging here. So I'll just go ahead and pull those out. There we are. That's not too challenging. So there it is. There's the aluminum chassis that I remember from the Rat 7, and I did notice was missing on the Rat 3. Okay, so here, first things first. Why don't we have a look at the adjustable weights? I believe that's this one. There we are. So we can put on as many weights as we want. Okay, and then we can close it up again just like that. So that's pretty straightforward. It's something you won't use often because once you've got it tuned the way you like it, you probably won't want to change it very often. But it's really nice to have that feature because I personally do change the weight settings on any mice where I have that option. I like a heavy mouse, and most mice these days seem to be tuned for a pretty lightweight build. So it's nice to have a little bit of extra heft to it. Although the Rat 5 is not a light mouse because of the aluminum chassis it has on it, it does have a little bit more weight than an all plastic mouse normally would. So let's have a look at the buttons we have included. There's your precision aim button. So that's going to change your DPI on the fly. There's your indicator LEDs for the DPI, I believe. Hope it's DPI. There is your DPI change button. Here is your mode change button. You've got your left click, your right click, as well as your middle click, mouse wheel. Okay, and then this one right here. Let's figure out what that does. Why don't we? I think that's to do with this, but give me a second. So the adjustable length. Gently squeeze the retaining clip, then slide the mouse shell backward or forward. I don't know, there it is. So that's all you got to do. You just got to squeeze this little clip and slide it back and forward just like that. Okay, so why don't we, you know, I think I remember figuring this out on the Rat 7 video. Why don't we figure out what that does and then I'll come back in just a moment. Well, that was a lot simpler than I thought. It's just a programmable scroll button for your thumb. So you can actually access these buttons here, the aim button, and you can also scroll it left or right, and you can completely program what that guy does. So, I mean, I guess if I was using this mouse, one of the things I'd consider programming it for is just fire, because that'd be a really quick way to fire off like about one, two, three, four, five, about six or seven rounds in a burst just like that. So that's kind of a neat functionality. So thank you for checking out my unboxing of the Rat 5. Don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech Tips for more unboxings, reviews, and other videos about computer stuff, tech stuff, gaming stuff, all that good stuff.