Razer’s worst stored secret of current instances is over, because the Viper V4 Professional is now official

The Razer Viper V4 Professional is lastly official, with the corporate unveiling its replace to the massively in style symmetrical gaming mouse. It is lighter, quicker, and longer lasting than earlier than, although it comes with a well-known excessive value.

The previous few generations of Razer Viper have discovered their means onto our greatest gaming mouse information because of their mixture of nice design and efficiency, and regardless of their excessive value. Competitors from extra competitively priced choices is getting ever stiffer, however with a fair lighter design and big increase in battery life, the Viper V4 Professional might as soon as once more impress.

The massive ticket change right here is the battery lifetime of this mouse. Razer is using a brand new Focus Professional 50K Optical Sensor Gen-3 sensor that may monitor solely when it must, lowering energy consumption. In consequence, battery life has doubled from 95 hours on the Viper V3 Professional to 180 hours on the Viper V4 Professional. That is ‘solely’ a 30 hour enchancment over the more moderen Deathadder V4 Professional, nevertheless it’s nonetheless a formidable determine total. It additionally delivers that longevity whereas working at a fairly speedy 1kHz, polling charge too, not restricted to a sluggish 250Hz or utilizing Bluetooth (which this mouse would not help).

This mouse can, after all, additionally ramp as much as 2kHz, 4kHz, and even 8kHz polling charges, however with ever-decreasing battery life because of this, and an ever diminishing have an effect on on efficiency. The brand new mouse makes use of the identical wi-fi puck launched with the Deathadder V4 Professional. This satisfyingly weighty unit, with its three inexperienced lights to point connection standing, battery life, and polling charge, sits on the finish of the USB-A to USB-C cable, and you will have to take away it to cost the mouse through its entrance USB-C port.

The opposite massive change with this mouse is its discount in weight, from the 54g of the V4 Professional to simply 49g. That is nonetheless not fairly on the degree of what would now be thought of an ultra-light mouse, nevertheless it nonetheless makes for a decently mild choice. For comparability, the actually ultra-light Corsair Sabre V2 Professional is simply 36g, however the brand new flagship Logitech mouse, the G Professional X2 Superstrike, is 61g.

One other distinction in comparison with that Logitech mouse is that the Viper V4 Professional does embrace one further button, over and above its left, proper, center, and aspect buttons. On its underside is a DPI switching button that can be utilized to change between DPI settings with a faucet, or, when you maintain it down whereas scrolling the wheel, you possibly can even fine-tune settings on the fly.

For switches, Razer hasn’t but managed to engineer a copycat model of Logitech’s Superstrike know-how, however as an alternative, this mouse depends on standard switches. Nonetheless, these are optical switches that should not have any debounce delay, no double-click points, and so they’re rated to final 100 million clicks.

On the same observe, the scroll wheel makes use of an optical encoder, which Razer says is extra correct and longer lasting than standard mechanical encoders.

Additionally launching at the moment is Razer’s Synapse Net, which helps you to configure some points of your Razer gear through an internet interface, reasonably than having to put in Razer Synapse.

Accessible from at the moment, the Viper V4 Professional value is ready at $159.99, making this a usually premium choice for a flagship Razer mouse.

A brand new Razer Gigantus V2 Professional mouse mat vary has additionally landed on Razer’s retailer at the moment. Just like the SteelSeries QcK Efficiency vary, it presents a number of completely different velocity choices to fit your play type. From Max Management, which makes use of a softer foam and rougher high floor for low mouse velocity and excessive stopping energy, to Max Pace, which makes use of a denser foam and ultra-slick high floor, there are 5 completely different choices priced at $49.99.