Razer’s Viper V3 Pro mouse puts its dongle where it belongs

Does your gaming rodent way its ain position 8,000 times per second? If you’re nan benignant of personification who cares, I fishy you mightiness besides want that rodent to way that accelerated retired of nan container — alternatively of having to bargain an other dongle for that feature.

That’s nan astir evident quality Razer is announcing coming pinch its flagship Viper V3 Pro rodent for esports pros and those who aspire to beryllium one. For $160, nan caller Viper V3 Pro includes nan $30 Razer HyperPolling Wireless Dongle, wherever nan $150 Viper V2 Pro did not.

Mind you, nan 58-gram Viper V2 Pro was already an awesome portion of kit, taking nan crown for nan lightest wireless gaming rodent astatine its debut, and nan V3 Pro now sheds an other 4 grams to deed 54 grams and firmly cement itself among nan lightest battery-powered mice you tin buy.

It besides now has a second-gen 35,000 DPI “Focus Pro” optical sensor, which tin beryllium adjusted successful increments of 1 DPI, larger rodent feet, a “more tactile” scroll instrumentality pinch a “more reliable” scroll click, and a full batch of mini ergonomic adjustments you tin spot here:

You besides get up to 16 other hours of artillery life astatine 4000Hz and astir double nan artillery life (62 hours) astatine 2000Hz, though artillery life astatine 8000Hz stays nan same.

And Razer’s introducing a “Sensitivity Matcher” successful its app that lets you property a fastener and move your aged rodent and your caller rodent astatine nan aforesaid time, aft which it’ll automatically transcript nan DPI mounting you’re accustomed to complete to nan caller rodent. It still features nan aforesaid third-gen optical switches arsenic nan anterior model, which declare to past up to 90 cardinal clicks.

Last but not least, Razer’s changing nan outer consciousness of nan rodent successful a measurement that raised immoderate siren bells for maine astatine first — it’s migrating to a smooth-touch decorativeness alternatively of nan eggshell texture of its erstwhile mouse. But erstwhile I asked whether we’re returning to nan delightful astatine first but yet tacky messiness of yesteryear’s soft-touch rubber-covered mice, third-party spokesperson Alyssa Benson assured maine that there’s nary rubber progressive here.

The Viper V3 Pro is available today successful some achromatic and white; nan achromatic exemplary weighs an other gram.