I might have been wrong about Razer's gaming mice, and I'm really excited to find out just how wrong I was
because today we're unboxing the Razer Viper V4 Pro,
the latest in high-end competition from Razer
for the G Pro X Superlight. It is an ambidextrous mouse in the light category
with all of the bells and whistles you could ever want from a mouse and maybe some more,
as well as some major changes from Razer
that make me actually want to consider their products for the first time in a long time.
In the box, we have our mouse, we have our dongle that looks more like a chocolate
than a technological device. I don't often get the urge to like lick things,
but I really want to lick this. Luckily, what I can't explain is that it is good
for 8,000 Hertz polling rate. It has LED indicators for a multiple of purposes,
which we'll get into, and it's powered via USB-C,
although this could be the most recessed Type-C port ever made.
Like you, on the camera, you can't even see the frickin' USB in there.
You just see a hole and then like a little whisper of metal reflection.
They really don't want you to use a non-Razer cable. Thankfully, it comes with one,
and these Razer cables are generally really high quality. This is another braided cable, just over six feet.
Lastly, we have our instructions. Great, this is actually useful, not this.
We got grip tape, if you're so inclined.
I think that Razer has greatly improved the feel of their plastic on their high-end mice
over the last five years, so I would probably prefer not to use a grip tape,
but that's an actual value add, which you might enjoy.
Getting to the mouse itself, like all good gaming mice,
it's a pretty no-frills affair. We got our six total buttons,
including the main two top ones, with Razer's new switches that are rated for a million clicks.
They're supposed to be 12% more responsive.
They are loud. These are loud clicks. This is not an office mouse,
and if you share an office with me and use this mouse, we will not be friends.
However, I would like to feel your mouse, because these are nice clicks all the way up,
all the way down, very consistent, very satisfying tactility.
That's a good start. How's the scroll wheel? It's an optical scroll wheel, and it feels quite solid.
It's a wide-shape, good rubbery feel, good tactility,
and the click feels pretty much just right.
I feel like the wheel wants to go a little too easy,
where when I click, it almost wants to rotate every time.
Not a huge deal. I generally don't use middle mouse click.
I usually assign that to something else, including the side buttons, like this front and back button.
They're quite small, however, it's proportioned to this mouse.
I don't hate the way they feel. The click is quite good, good tactility
all across of the button, but there's something about this plastic
that feels different or cheaper, or maybe it's just the way that it's raised,
and it's kind of straight edges. It doesn't feel as premium as the rest of the mouse.
It's a little sharp on a comfortably rounded mouse.
We also have our power and DPI button, which is underneath, which is a less useful spot
than on top. It also allows the top to be nicer looking.
We have our Type-C port, and we have our LED indicator on the front.
Right now it's looking for a pairing, so it's gonna keep flashing until I give it its daddy.
On the bottom, we have our quite large glide skates. These are 100% PTFE,
which is the silver standard of glide skates. Glass would be nice, but it's fine.
What is kind of gold standard right now is some new sensor technology.
Razer has the Focus Pro 50K optical sensor Gen 3.
Rolls off the tongue. It's good for 50,000 DPI, 930 IPS, and 90 Gs,
which is way more than you're ever gonna need. But when you're pairing with 8,000 Hertz,
as well as some in-class leading latency, every little bit can help and it all adds up.
And when you're buying, you know, your Ferrari, you don't want Lincoln specs, you want speed.
Anyone else is really important? Let's see what we're working with, baby.
50 grams! That is not the lightest mouse in the whole world,
but it is so far beyond the point of diminishing returns. 50 grams, plenty light.
And that's pretty good considering that Razer claims that this is good for up to 180 hours of battery life
at 1,000 Hertz or 45 at 8,000 Hertz.
So if you want extra battery life, you know, you can sacrifice a little performance,
or you know, you want Ferrari, you go speed. You want segways, you go now.
We're back, and I'm so excited to show you the greatest upgrade that has ever happened to Razer products.
No longer do you need to download Razer Synapse.
Freaking web app! Oh yeah, come on, it's just in beta right now,
but even beta is gonna be better than whatever the f*** we were doing before.
Let's see if it works. Advice, Viper Vifro.
Oh, thank you so much, Razer. This is the way forward.
Web apps, don't make me download freaking garbage, bloatware, spyware crap.
This is the future! First things first, we can change all the button assignments
other than the left click, which can be problematic.
We can use HyperShift so that we can basically assign an alternate key.
We got our indicator LED options. One is, the first one is gonna show us
our connection quality, then our battery level, then our polling rate.
You can turn them off, which is nice. But I actually think that having the polling rate
is a pretty nice one. Otherwise, you can have your DPI stage on this.
That makes a lot more sense than having it on the mouse because this actually I could have
within eye shot of my monitor so I can look at the dongle and see.
I actually think that's a smart upgrade instead of adding more weight to your mouse.
Put it on the dongle. Next, we can change our DPI settings. We can separate the X and Y axis.
We can enable up to five different settings
and move them around. I know that I just want 800. So I'm gonna disable everything
except that it looks like you have to have two on,
which is interesting. I would like that to be a thing that mice manufacturers don't force me to do
is have two profiles. I know exactly what I want
and I don't need my button to accidentally switch it partway through.
That being said, I would know because my frigging light on my dongle
would tell me I have the wrong settings. Next, we have our power settings.
So we can turn up the speed at which it goes to sleep
or low power mode. I don't ever want you to go to sleep.
And then we can calibrate. We can enable asymmetric cutoff, which will divorce our lift off distance
and our landing distance. We want it as low as possible unless we have weird tracking issues.
Then we have our advanced, which enables us to have a dynamic sensitivity,
which definitely could be your thing.
The other thing that I like that I've seen more and more is actually a rotation setting.
So depending on which angle you have your mouse,
it makes adjustments based on that. I think I usually keep it around like the seven,
that's a bit more, like let's say call it nine. Nine degrees.
So now the software knows that I'm holding it at an angle
and is making some kind of adjustments for that.
So that's pretty cool. Again, something you're gonna want to get used to
not just switch over and forget that you did.
Let's game. First impressions. This feels like a very, very good mouse.
Makes sense. Our Labs testing show that this is about as good as it gets
just above 0.6 milliseconds, both over wired and dongle at 8,000 Hertz.
That's pretty fantastic. And what we found out recently in our video
where we tested if input latency matters is that every millisecond of input latency
does friggin' matter. Go watch that video if you haven't watched it.
It's hard to comment too much on top end gaming mice because they're all pretty darn good,
but like this I feel so connected
to what's happening on screen. Kind of more impressed than I thought it would be
about a razor product. What I will say is it feels like the balance of the mouse
is a little further forward than I'd expect. Like the back feels very, very light.
Not necessarily a bad thing, just something to note. We also tested the sensor accuracy.
And while it's not the best that we've tested, it's totally within the realm of pretty good.
And you would get used to it pretty darn quick.
I'd say overall, razors on a pretty good trajectory.
It sounds like they're listening to their users. They're making a pretty solid product.
And it seems like on paper at least it should be more reliable than some of the products
I've tested in the past. You're gonna be paying for all this performance.
It's $160, not the most expensive gaming mouse there is,
but it's above what I usually consider to be necessary
for pretty top end performance. However, that's not mind blowing or collector price
like we've seen in other razor products. And it's a very good package.
So let us know in the comments. Would you consider a razor product?
Are you like me that you're like absolutely not for quite a long time?
And let us know. If you wanna watch more ShortCircuit videos, you can check out the time we unboxed the Keychron M5.
It's a vertical mouse, but those innards are inside of all of the Keychron M series
lineup and those are really good value. And if you want a little more education on input latency,
you should check out that LTT that we produced a few months ago.
It's got some pretty cool people in it. Like baby no money. Yeah, he's a gamer.