1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,200 I might have been wrong about Razer's gaming mice, and I'm really excited to find out just how wrong I was 2 00:00:06,200 --> 00:00:10,160 because today we're unboxing the Razer Viper V4 Pro, 3 00:00:10,160 --> 00:00:13,480 the latest in high-end competition from Razer 4 00:00:13,480 --> 00:00:19,480 for the G Pro X Superlight. It is an ambidextrous mouse in the light category 5 00:00:19,480 --> 00:00:24,560 with all of the bells and whistles you could ever want from a mouse and maybe some more, 6 00:00:24,560 --> 00:00:27,800 as well as some major changes from Razer 7 00:00:27,880 --> 00:00:32,280 that make me actually want to consider their products for the first time in a long time. 8 00:00:32,280 --> 00:00:38,640 In the box, we have our mouse, we have our dongle that looks more like a chocolate 9 00:00:38,640 --> 00:00:43,360 than a technological device. I don't often get the urge to like lick things, 10 00:00:43,360 --> 00:00:47,320 but I really want to lick this. Luckily, what I can't explain is that it is good 11 00:00:47,320 --> 00:00:51,760 for 8,000 Hertz polling rate. It has LED indicators for a multiple of purposes, 12 00:00:51,760 --> 00:00:54,800 which we'll get into, and it's powered via USB-C, 13 00:00:54,840 --> 00:00:59,840 although this could be the most recessed Type-C port ever made. 14 00:01:01,160 --> 00:01:05,280 Like you, on the camera, you can't even see the frickin' USB in there. 15 00:01:05,280 --> 00:01:09,080 You just see a hole and then like a little whisper of metal reflection. 16 00:01:09,080 --> 00:01:14,480 They really don't want you to use a non-Razer cable. Thankfully, it comes with one, 17 00:01:14,480 --> 00:01:21,580 and these Razer cables are generally really high quality. This is another braided cable, just over six feet. 18 00:01:21,580 --> 00:01:26,680 Lastly, we have our instructions. Great, this is actually useful, not this. 19 00:01:26,680 --> 00:01:30,720 We got grip tape, if you're so inclined. 20 00:01:30,720 --> 00:01:35,800 I think that Razer has greatly improved the feel of their plastic on their high-end mice 21 00:01:35,800 --> 00:01:39,800 over the last five years, so I would probably prefer not to use a grip tape, 22 00:01:39,800 --> 00:01:43,360 but that's an actual value add, which you might enjoy. 23 00:01:43,360 --> 00:01:46,840 Getting to the mouse itself, like all good gaming mice, 24 00:01:46,840 --> 00:01:51,720 it's a pretty no-frills affair. We got our six total buttons, 25 00:01:51,720 --> 00:01:58,240 including the main two top ones, with Razer's new switches that are rated for a million clicks. 26 00:01:58,240 --> 00:02:01,560 They're supposed to be 12% more responsive. 27 00:02:01,560 --> 00:02:05,760 They are loud. These are loud clicks. This is not an office mouse, 28 00:02:05,760 --> 00:02:09,520 and if you share an office with me and use this mouse, we will not be friends. 29 00:02:09,520 --> 00:02:13,840 However, I would like to feel your mouse, because these are nice clicks all the way up, 30 00:02:13,840 --> 00:02:18,680 all the way down, very consistent, very satisfying tactility. 31 00:02:18,680 --> 00:02:25,040 That's a good start. How's the scroll wheel? It's an optical scroll wheel, and it feels quite solid. 32 00:02:25,040 --> 00:02:29,040 It's a wide-shape, good rubbery feel, good tactility, 33 00:02:29,040 --> 00:02:33,200 and the click feels pretty much just right. 34 00:02:33,200 --> 00:02:37,000 I feel like the wheel wants to go a little too easy, 35 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:40,800 where when I click, it almost wants to rotate every time. 36 00:02:40,800 --> 00:02:44,160 Not a huge deal. I generally don't use middle mouse click. 37 00:02:44,160 --> 00:02:50,200 I usually assign that to something else, including the side buttons, like this front and back button. 38 00:02:50,200 --> 00:02:53,760 They're quite small, however, it's proportioned to this mouse. 39 00:02:53,760 --> 00:02:56,800 I don't hate the way they feel. The click is quite good, good tactility 40 00:02:56,800 --> 00:03:00,080 all across of the button, but there's something about this plastic 41 00:03:00,080 --> 00:03:04,160 that feels different or cheaper, or maybe it's just the way that it's raised, 42 00:03:04,160 --> 00:03:08,060 and it's kind of straight edges. It doesn't feel as premium as the rest of the mouse. 43 00:03:08,060 --> 00:03:11,200 It's a little sharp on a comfortably rounded mouse. 44 00:03:11,200 --> 00:03:16,600 We also have our power and DPI button, which is underneath, which is a less useful spot 45 00:03:16,600 --> 00:03:20,560 than on top. It also allows the top to be nicer looking. 46 00:03:20,560 --> 00:03:23,720 We have our Type-C port, and we have our LED indicator on the front. 47 00:03:23,720 --> 00:03:29,000 Right now it's looking for a pairing, so it's gonna keep flashing until I give it its daddy. 48 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:33,960 On the bottom, we have our quite large glide skates. These are 100% PTFE, 49 00:03:33,960 --> 00:03:39,080 which is the silver standard of glide skates. Glass would be nice, but it's fine. 50 00:03:39,080 --> 00:03:44,280 What is kind of gold standard right now is some new sensor technology. 51 00:03:44,280 --> 00:03:48,760 Razer has the Focus Pro 50K optical sensor Gen 3. 52 00:03:48,760 --> 00:03:55,080 Rolls off the tongue. It's good for 50,000 DPI, 930 IPS, and 90 Gs, 53 00:03:55,140 --> 00:03:59,020 which is way more than you're ever gonna need. But when you're pairing with 8,000 Hertz, 54 00:03:59,020 --> 00:04:04,140 as well as some in-class leading latency, every little bit can help and it all adds up. 55 00:04:04,140 --> 00:04:10,120 And when you're buying, you know, your Ferrari, you don't want Lincoln specs, you want speed. 56 00:04:10,120 --> 00:04:14,560 Anyone else is really important? Let's see what we're working with, baby. 57 00:04:14,560 --> 00:04:18,160 50 grams! That is not the lightest mouse in the whole world, 58 00:04:18,160 --> 00:04:23,080 but it is so far beyond the point of diminishing returns. 50 grams, plenty light. 59 00:04:23,080 --> 00:04:28,080 And that's pretty good considering that Razer claims that this is good for up to 180 hours of battery life 60 00:04:28,080 --> 00:04:32,280 at 1,000 Hertz or 45 at 8,000 Hertz. 61 00:04:32,280 --> 00:04:35,640 So if you want extra battery life, you know, you can sacrifice a little performance, 62 00:04:35,640 --> 00:04:41,160 or you know, you want Ferrari, you go speed. You want segways, you go now. 63 00:04:41,160 --> 00:04:46,720 We're back, and I'm so excited to show you the greatest upgrade that has ever happened to Razer products. 64 00:04:46,720 --> 00:04:49,240 No longer do you need to download Razer Synapse. 65 00:04:50,280 --> 00:04:54,180 Freaking web app! Oh yeah, come on, it's just in beta right now, 66 00:04:54,180 --> 00:04:57,360 but even beta is gonna be better than whatever the f*** we were doing before. 67 00:04:57,360 --> 00:05:00,800 Let's see if it works. Advice, Viper Vifro. 68 00:05:00,800 --> 00:05:04,360 Oh, thank you so much, Razer. This is the way forward. 69 00:05:04,360 --> 00:05:08,520 Web apps, don't make me download freaking garbage, bloatware, spyware crap. 70 00:05:08,520 --> 00:05:13,160 This is the future! First things first, we can change all the button assignments 71 00:05:13,160 --> 00:05:16,360 other than the left click, which can be problematic. 72 00:05:16,360 --> 00:05:19,740 We can use HyperShift so that we can basically assign an alternate key. 73 00:05:19,740 --> 00:05:24,180 We got our indicator LED options. One is, the first one is gonna show us 74 00:05:24,180 --> 00:05:27,520 our connection quality, then our battery level, then our polling rate. 75 00:05:27,520 --> 00:05:32,340 You can turn them off, which is nice. But I actually think that having the polling rate 76 00:05:32,340 --> 00:05:36,340 is a pretty nice one. Otherwise, you can have your DPI stage on this. 77 00:05:36,340 --> 00:05:41,420 That makes a lot more sense than having it on the mouse because this actually I could have 78 00:05:42,320 --> 00:05:45,880 within eye shot of my monitor so I can look at the dongle and see. 79 00:05:45,880 --> 00:05:49,960 I actually think that's a smart upgrade instead of adding more weight to your mouse. 80 00:05:49,960 --> 00:05:54,920 Put it on the dongle. Next, we can change our DPI settings. We can separate the X and Y axis. 81 00:05:54,920 --> 00:05:58,660 We can enable up to five different settings 82 00:05:58,660 --> 00:06:02,360 and move them around. I know that I just want 800. So I'm gonna disable everything 83 00:06:02,360 --> 00:06:06,420 except that it looks like you have to have two on, 84 00:06:06,420 --> 00:06:11,480 which is interesting. I would like that to be a thing that mice manufacturers don't force me to do 85 00:06:11,480 --> 00:06:14,680 is have two profiles. I know exactly what I want 86 00:06:14,680 --> 00:06:17,920 and I don't need my button to accidentally switch it partway through. 87 00:06:17,920 --> 00:06:21,480 That being said, I would know because my frigging light on my dongle 88 00:06:21,480 --> 00:06:25,200 would tell me I have the wrong settings. Next, we have our power settings. 89 00:06:25,200 --> 00:06:28,680 So we can turn up the speed at which it goes to sleep 90 00:06:28,680 --> 00:06:31,680 or low power mode. I don't ever want you to go to sleep. 91 00:06:31,680 --> 00:06:36,520 And then we can calibrate. We can enable asymmetric cutoff, which will divorce our lift off distance 92 00:06:36,520 --> 00:06:41,520 and our landing distance. We want it as low as possible unless we have weird tracking issues. 93 00:06:41,520 --> 00:06:46,400 Then we have our advanced, which enables us to have a dynamic sensitivity, 94 00:06:46,400 --> 00:06:49,440 which definitely could be your thing. 95 00:06:49,440 --> 00:06:53,620 The other thing that I like that I've seen more and more is actually a rotation setting. 96 00:06:53,620 --> 00:06:57,160 So depending on which angle you have your mouse, 97 00:06:57,160 --> 00:07:02,920 it makes adjustments based on that. I think I usually keep it around like the seven, 98 00:07:02,920 --> 00:07:06,720 that's a bit more, like let's say call it nine. Nine degrees. 99 00:07:06,720 --> 00:07:10,040 So now the software knows that I'm holding it at an angle 100 00:07:10,040 --> 00:07:13,680 and is making some kind of adjustments for that. 101 00:07:13,680 --> 00:07:17,320 So that's pretty cool. Again, something you're gonna want to get used to 102 00:07:17,320 --> 00:07:20,600 not just switch over and forget that you did. 103 00:07:20,600 --> 00:07:25,680 Let's game. First impressions. This feels like a very, very good mouse. 104 00:07:25,680 --> 00:07:30,080 Makes sense. Our Labs testing show that this is about as good as it gets 105 00:07:30,080 --> 00:07:36,000 just above 0.6 milliseconds, both over wired and dongle at 8,000 Hertz. 106 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:39,600 That's pretty fantastic. And what we found out recently in our video 107 00:07:39,600 --> 00:07:45,200 where we tested if input latency matters is that every millisecond of input latency 108 00:07:45,200 --> 00:07:48,560 does friggin' matter. Go watch that video if you haven't watched it. 109 00:07:48,560 --> 00:07:52,080 It's hard to comment too much on top end gaming mice because they're all pretty darn good, 110 00:07:52,080 --> 00:07:55,680 but like this I feel so connected 111 00:07:55,680 --> 00:07:59,760 to what's happening on screen. Kind of more impressed than I thought it would be 112 00:07:59,760 --> 00:08:03,640 about a razor product. What I will say is it feels like the balance of the mouse 113 00:08:03,640 --> 00:08:07,960 is a little further forward than I'd expect. Like the back feels very, very light. 114 00:08:07,960 --> 00:08:13,120 Not necessarily a bad thing, just something to note. We also tested the sensor accuracy. 115 00:08:13,120 --> 00:08:18,040 And while it's not the best that we've tested, it's totally within the realm of pretty good. 116 00:08:18,040 --> 00:08:21,120 And you would get used to it pretty darn quick. 117 00:08:21,120 --> 00:08:24,640 I'd say overall, razors on a pretty good trajectory. 118 00:08:24,640 --> 00:08:28,680 It sounds like they're listening to their users. They're making a pretty solid product. 119 00:08:28,680 --> 00:08:32,120 And it seems like on paper at least it should be more reliable than some of the products 120 00:08:32,120 --> 00:08:36,040 I've tested in the past. You're gonna be paying for all this performance. 121 00:08:36,040 --> 00:08:40,880 It's $160, not the most expensive gaming mouse there is, 122 00:08:40,880 --> 00:08:44,960 but it's above what I usually consider to be necessary 123 00:08:44,960 --> 00:08:51,160 for pretty top end performance. However, that's not mind blowing or collector price 124 00:08:51,160 --> 00:08:54,400 like we've seen in other razor products. And it's a very good package. 125 00:08:54,400 --> 00:08:58,240 So let us know in the comments. Would you consider a razor product? 126 00:08:58,360 --> 00:09:02,000 Are you like me that you're like absolutely not for quite a long time? 127 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:06,400 And let us know. If you wanna watch more ShortCircuit videos, you can check out the time we unboxed the Keychron M5. 128 00:09:06,400 --> 00:09:10,600 It's a vertical mouse, but those innards are inside of all of the Keychron M series 129 00:09:10,600 --> 00:09:15,560 lineup and those are really good value. And if you want a little more education on input latency, 130 00:09:15,560 --> 00:09:18,600 you should check out that LTT that we produced a few months ago. 131 00:09:18,600 --> 00:09:22,520 It's got some pretty cool people in it. Like baby no money. Yeah, he's a gamer.