Features

• New Romer-G switch, rated for 70 million clicks
• Quicker actuation on the switches
• RGB illumination (16.8 million colors, individually-lit keys)
• Software control for macro support and illumination
• Potential scripting support within the software
• Arx Control mobile cold shoe to cold-dock phones
• 9 programmable buttons

The Logitech G910 Orion Spark RGB Mechanical Keyboard will be available in the US, Europe, and select countries beginning in November 2014 at a suggested retail price of $179.99. Learn more about the Logitech G910 Orion Spark, the G402 Hyperion Fury, and other Logitech gaming devices at http://gaming.logitech.com/.

Logitech’s latest entry in the gaming hardware market is the G402 Hyperion Fury. Featuring 8 programmable buttons, an ARM processor, and their proprietary Fusion Engine, Logitech claims to have created the fastest gaming mouse in the world. After a few weeks of daily use, Gamecrastinate takes a look at how this mouse stacks up for home, work, and play.

The G402 Hyperion Fury came in a compact package and without an install disk of any sort. Instead, Logitech included a slip of paper that points users towards their support website where they can find the aptly named Logitech Gaming Software. Having plugged in the mouse and selected the right combination of software, in this case Windows 8 64-bit, I was ready to explore all that the G402Hyperion Fury had to offer.

Logitech G402 Hyperion Fury Gaming Mouse

Summary: The G402 Hyperion Fury represents the evolution of gaming mouse technology. The integrated G-Sensor and 32-bit ARM processor that make up the Fusion Engine are game changer when it comes to reliable input precision.

While crunching numbers in benchmarks, performing side by side comparisons, and weighing various mice on a scale might be the standard fare of hardware review sites, these are details that the average gamer isn’t terrible concerned about. If you’re the kind of person that needs that exact information for shaming your poor friends, there are plenty of places on the web to satisfy that need. At Gamecrastinate, we’re interested in how a device works for the average gamer. More often than not, this is a person that drops $60 on a mouse because they are hoping that it performs better than their previous mouse at everyday tasks, not because it benchmarks well or weighs 2 grams less than another brand’s device.

Following that viewpoint, we found that the G402 far exceeded our expectations. Using the G402’s Logitech Gaming Software, I was able to easily configure the mouse to my personal preferences. The G402 offers a DPI range between 240 – 4000, and over 500 IPS thanks to the Fusion Engine. Using the Logitech Gaming Software’s integrated speedometer, moving the mouse as frantically as possible resulted in me maxing out around 99 IPS with the Fusion Engine off, and 150 IPS with the Fusion Engine on. With a claimed maximum of over 500 IPS, I came to the sobering conclusion that the mouse in front of me was quite possibly 5x more precise than the hand that controlled it. It would seem that the robotic revolution has arrived at my doorstep in the form of a pointing device.

In my eyes, the benchmarks numbers for a mouse could very well be reduced down to a simple binary value. Can the mouse respond to movements as fast as you can do them? Yes=1, No=0. For our binary test, the G402 scores a perfect 1 out of 1. It’s much faster than your fleshy human arm, and can do whatever you do on a flat mousepad surface, just better. I have trouble envisioning many scenarios where a gamer of any skill level would require a mouse that performs outside of the G402’s capabilities.

Logitech G402 Hyperion Fury Gaming Mouse

Summary: The G402 Hyperion Fury represents the evolution of gaming mouse technology. The integrated G-Sensor and 32-bit ARM processor that make up the Fusion Engine are game changer when it comes to reliable input precision.

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The G402 Hyperion Fury is Logitech’s latest entry in their gaming line of devices. With a theoretical maximum of over 500 IPS, the G402’s specs are impressive to say the least. The G402 comes with an integrated G-Sensor and its very own 32-bit ARM processor. Combined with the traditional optical sensor, these 3 components form the Fusion Engine, which aims to send reliable tracking data to the computer regardless of how fast the player is moving the mouse.

Logitech G402 Hyperion Fury Gaming Mouse

Summary: The G402 Hyperion Fury represents the evolution of gaming mouse technology. The integrated G-Sensor and 32-bit ARM processor that make up the Fusion Engine are game changer when it comes to reliable input precision.

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The Logitech Gaming Software (LGS for short) features a clean and highly functional UI design that should make it simple for first-time gaming mouse owners to get up to speed. Novices can quickly configure basic settings such as DPI values or single profile button settings, while advanced users can dive into application-based profiles and complex macros.

The LGS’ menu at the bottom offers users 6 simple options. Home, Customize buttons, Customize pointer settings (DPI), Customize lighting, Fusion Engine settings, and Settings (general). By separating the options into categories like this, users of all comfort levels should be able to easily navigate the options and utilize the software to the fullest capability.

As far as macros go, the LGS leaves nothing to be desired. Users should be able to do pretty much anything they want with the macro system. By checking a box in the settings, users can also instruct the macro system to obey input delays, which could allow for more complex commands for some games. The software also allows for application-based profiles for commands and DPI settings, although it’s possible that many gamers will adopt a one-size-fits all mentality when it comes to DPI settings. Finally, much like Razer Synapse software, Logitech Gaming Software supports keyboard functions as well. Users will be able to increase the overall functionality of their PC with the added ability to create keyboard macros, even if they don’t own a Logitech keyboard.

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It appears as if Alienware is the least patient of the bunch, as they have announced that their previously announced Steam Machine will now be called the Alpha and will be a regular small form-factor Windows PC. The PC will run a highly customized version of Windows 8.1 with a proprietary front-end and a unique custom Nvidia GPU. Instead of the also delayed Steam controller, the Alpha will ship with an Xbox 360 controller.

To learn more about the Alienware Alpha, visit Alienware.com.

Battlefield: Hardline, Dragon Age: Inquisition, and Plants vs. Zombies Garden Warfare will join the growing list of games that take advantage of AMD’s low-level API.

On June 9 EA announced that three of its upcoming games would support Mantle: Battlefield Hardline, Dragon Age Inquisition and Plants vs. Zombies Garden Warfare. Each of these brings new features, maps and gameplay to already-popular franchises. If the results we saw with Mantle in Battlefield 4 are anything to go by, these games should absolutely fly on AMD Radeon™ hardware.

You can check out AMD’s entire announcement with some recaps on what Mantle brings to the table at http://community.amd.com/community/amd-blogs/amd-gaming/blog/2014/06/10/more-mantle-games-are-on-the-way

Testing Hardware
Motherboard:	Asus P9X79 WS
CPU:	Intel Xeon E5-2695 v2 12 Core @ 2.4 GHz
RAM:	4x Kingston DDR3-1600 8GB ECC Reg. (32GB total)
GPU:	4x ASUS Radeon R9 280 3GB DirectCU II
Hard Drive:	Samsung 840 EVO 1TB SATA 6Gb/s SSD
PSU:	Silverstone ST1500 1500W

What’s even more incredible, despite building their system for 4 virtual operating systems, you could theoretically build a system that might power up to 66 virtual PCs at once using a Quad Xeon with 66 video cards! While that’s highly theoretical and possibly impossible due to a number of real-world factors, it’s clear that 4 virtual gaming PCs might actually be a low number for a powerful enough system.

You can check out Puget Systems entire build complete with a short intro on how they configured the virtual  machines at http://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Multi-headed-VMWare-Gaming-Setup-564/.

I asked Robert Hallock about this specifically, and he explains that they had “very limited time with the title and [we’ve] been able to implement some respectable performance improvements thanks to the skill of our driver engineers. Careful performance analysis with a variety of internal tools have allowed us to profile this title, despite deliberate obfuscation attempts, to improve the experience for users.”

The article goes on to explain how Watch Dogs’ development was done as part of Nvidia’s Gameworks program. Gameworks gives game developers a proprietary set of tools that helps to harness the power of Nvidia’s technologies. In addition Nvidia’s own engineers work with the game developer to ensure a highly optimized game, for Nvidia products that is. The bad news is that this largely blocks AMD from the development and optimization process of the game.

“AMD is no longer in control of its own performance. While GameWorks doesn’t technically lock vendors into Nvidia solutions, a developer that wanted to support both companies equally would have to work with AMD and Nvidia from the beginning of the development cycle to create a vendor-specific code path. It’s impossible for AMD to provide a quick after-launch fix. This kind of maneuver ultimately hurts developers in the guise of helping them.”

While Nvidia seems to push proprietary technologies on developers with things like G-Sync and ShadowPlay, AMD has gone down a different path entirely with things like FreeSync and the Mantle API. It’s hard to argue that closed development and proprietary technologies are a good thing for the industry in the long term, but with Nvidia taking at least 60% of the market share, is there anything AMD can do?

Head over to Forbes.com to read Jason Evangelho’s entire article. He even gives a short benchmark comparison between an AMD Radeon 290x($500) vs an Nvidia GTX770 ($300).

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