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The Naos 5000 is a great mouse, love the ergonomics, just make sure to use a hard mousepad with it, as tracking on cloth mousepads is not as good.
Regarding your issues:
- Don't use a USB hub with your mouse, always plug it into the back of the computer directly, and make sure it is a USB 2.0 port. It sounds like you are getting some electrical noise that is causing the static in your speakers. The Naos includes a ferrite choke on the mouse cord (that black cylinder on the cord, near the USB connector) to help suppress electrical noise that can cause interference, but your USB hub's cord might not have a ferrite choke on it, so the electrical noise might be radiated from there. You can get clip-on ferrite chokes on eBay pretty cheap, like $2-3, just look for one with the same inside diameter as your cord. TDK is a good and popular brand of ferrite choke. The other thing that could be causing your speaker interference can be the graphics card, especially when the graphics card is working hard, as in gaming, because it is then pulling a lot of current, and can radiate more electrical noise. Does your mouse cause interference with your speakers at the Windows desktop, just moving around, or only gaming? Take care on your internal PC wiring, to keep the graphics card supplemental PCIE power cables as far away as possible from everything else, especially the front panel audio jack wiring; if they are close to each other, you can get some coupling that will lead electrical noise into your soundcard or onboard sound solution through the front panel audio cabling.
- regarding the heat issue, I'm not too sure what the trouble could be, because I never noticed any of this, so I will take a wild guess. The Naos 5000 has a lot of LED's, and the color can be programmed. Each LED is actually three LED's in a single package element, a red one, a blue one and a green one. Just like an RGB monitor, these RGB LED's can be controlled to synthesize different colors by combining the red, green and blue at different power or intensity levels. If your color of choice is anything other than red, green or blue, multiple LED's (within an LED package element) will be turned on, and it may very well emit more heat, along with the corresponding driver transistors and current limiting resistors. Yeah, I did a lot of reverse-engineering on my Naos 5000, when I decided to frankenmouse it, to get the LED's working. See the attached pic of the top circuit board, which is obviously the one closest to your palm. My gaming rig is blue-themed, so on mine, I only have one of the three LED's in each package element turned on, which might help keep it cooler.
Regarding your issues:
- Don't use a USB hub with your mouse, always plug it into the back of the computer directly, and make sure it is a USB 2.0 port. It sounds like you are getting some electrical noise that is causing the static in your speakers. The Naos includes a ferrite choke on the mouse cord (that black cylinder on the cord, near the USB connector) to help suppress electrical noise that can cause interference, but your USB hub's cord might not have a ferrite choke on it, so the electrical noise might be radiated from there. You can get clip-on ferrite chokes on eBay pretty cheap, like $2-3, just look for one with the same inside diameter as your cord. TDK is a good and popular brand of ferrite choke. The other thing that could be causing your speaker interference can be the graphics card, especially when the graphics card is working hard, as in gaming, because it is then pulling a lot of current, and can radiate more electrical noise. Does your mouse cause interference with your speakers at the Windows desktop, just moving around, or only gaming? Take care on your internal PC wiring, to keep the graphics card supplemental PCIE power cables as far away as possible from everything else, especially the front panel audio jack wiring; if they are close to each other, you can get some coupling that will lead electrical noise into your soundcard or onboard sound solution through the front panel audio cabling.
- regarding the heat issue, I'm not too sure what the trouble could be, because I never noticed any of this, so I will take a wild guess. The Naos 5000 has a lot of LED's, and the color can be programmed. Each LED is actually three LED's in a single package element, a red one, a blue one and a green one. Just like an RGB monitor, these RGB LED's can be controlled to synthesize different colors by combining the red, green and blue at different power or intensity levels. If your color of choice is anything other than red, green or blue, multiple LED's (within an LED package element) will be turned on, and it may very well emit more heat, along with the corresponding driver transistors and current limiting resistors. Yeah, I did a lot of reverse-engineering on my Naos 5000, when I decided to frankenmouse it, to get the LED's working. See the attached pic of the top circuit board, which is obviously the one closest to your palm. My gaming rig is blue-themed, so on mine, I only have one of the three LED's in each package element turned on, which might help keep it cooler.
