Does your gaming mouse observe its personal place 8,000 instances per second? In the event you’re the sort of one who cares, I believe you may additionally need that mouse to trace that quick out of the field — as a substitute of getting to purchase an additional dongle for that characteristic.
That’s the obvious distinction Razer is asserting right this moment with its flagship Viper V3 Professional mouse for esports execs and people who aspire to be one. For $160, the brand new Viper V3 Professional contains the $30 Razer HyperPolling Wi-fi Dongle, the place the $150 Viper V2 Professional didn’t.
It additionally now has a second-gen 35,000 DPI “Focus Professional” optical sensor, which might be adjusted in increments of 1 DPI, bigger mouse toes, a “extra tactile” scroll wheel with a “extra dependable” scroll click on, and an entire lot of small ergonomic changes you possibly can see right here:
You additionally rise up to 16 further hours of battery life at 4000Hz and practically double the battery life (62 hours) at 2000Hz, although battery life at 8000Hz stays the identical.
And Razer’s introducing a “Sensitivity Matcher” in its app that permits you to press a button and transfer your {old} mouse and your new mouse on the similar time, after which it’ll mechanically copy the DPI setting you’re accustomed to over to the brand new rodent. It nonetheless options the identical third-gen optical switches because the prior mannequin, which declare to last as long as 90 million clicks.
Final however not least, Razer’s altering the outer really feel of the mouse in a means that raised some alarm bells for me at first — it’s migrating to a smooth-touch end as a substitute of the eggshell texture of its earlier mouse. However once I requested whether or not we’re returning to the pleasant at first however ultimately cheesy mess of yesteryear’s soft-touch rubber-covered mice, third-party spokesperson Alyssa Benson assured me that there’s no rubber concerned right here.
The Viper V3 Professional is obtainable right this moment in each black and white; the white mannequin weighs an additional gram.