I might have been wrong about Razer - Razer Viper V4 Pro
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I might have been wrong about Razer's gaming mice. And I'm really excited to
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find out just how wrong I was because today we're unboxing the Razer Viper V4
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Pro, the latest in high-end competition
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from Razer for the Gro X Super Light. It
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is an ambidextrous mouse uh in the light category with all of the bells and
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whistles you could ever want from a mouse and maybe some more as well as
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some major changes from Razer that make
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me actually want to consider their products for the first time in a long
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time. In the box, we have our mouse. We
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have our dongle that looks more like a
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chocolate than a technological device. I don't often get the urge to like lick
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things, but I really want to lick this. Luckily, what I can explain is that it
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is good for 8,000 Hz polling rate. It has LED indicators for a multiple of
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purposes, which we'll get into. And it's powered via USBC. Although, this could
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be the most recessed type-C port ever
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made. Like you on the camera, you can't even see the freaking USB in there. You
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just see hole and then like a little whisper of metal reflection. They really
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don't want you to use a non-razor cable. Thankfully, it comes with one. And these
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Razor cables are generally really high quality. This is another braided cable.
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Uh just over six feet. Lastly, we have our instructions. Oh, great. This is
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actually useful. Not this. We got uh grip tape if you're so inclined. Uh I
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think that Razer has greatly improved the feel of their plastic on their
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high-end mice over the last 5 years. So, I would probably prefer not to use a
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grip tape, but that's an actual value ad which you might enjoy. Getting to the
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mouse itself, like all good gaming mice, it's a pretty no frills affair. We got
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our six total buttons, including the
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main two top ones. With Razer's new
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switches that are rated for a million clicks, uh they're supposed to be 12%
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more responsive. Uh they are loud. These
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are loud clicks. This is not an office mouse, and if you share an office with
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me and use this mouse, we will not be friends. However, I will like to feel
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your mouse because these are nice clicks. all the way up, all the way
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down. Very consistent, very satisfying
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tactility. That's a good start. How's the scroll wheel? It's an optical scroll
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wheel and it feels quite solid. It's a
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wide shape, good rubbery feel, good tactility, and the click feels pretty
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much just right. I feel like the wheel wants to go a little too easy where when
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I click it almost wants to rotate every time. Not a huge deal. I generally don't
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use middle mouse click. I usually assign that to something else, including the
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side buttons like this front and back button. They're quite small. Uh,
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however, it's proportion to this mouse. I don't hate the way they feel. The click is quite good. Good tactility all
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across of the button. But there's something about this plastic that feels
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different or cheaper. Or maybe it's just the way that it's raised and it's kind
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of straight edges. It doesn't feel as premium as the rest of the mouse. It's a
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little sharp on a comfortably rounded mouse. We also have our power and DPI
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button which is underneath which is a less useful spot than on top. It also
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allows the top to be nicer looking. We have our type-C port and we have our LED
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indicator on the front. Right now it's looking for a pairing so it's going to
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keep flashing uh until I give it its daddy. On the bottom we have our quite
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large glide skates. These are 100% PTFE
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which is the silver standard of glide skates. Glass would be nice but it's
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fine. What is kind of gold standard right now is uh some new sensor
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technology. Razer has the Focus Pro 50K optical sensor Gen 3. Rolls off the
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tongue. It's good for 50,000 DPI, 930
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IPS, and 90gs, which is way more than you're ever going to need. But when
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you're pairing with 8,000 hertz, as well as some in-class leading latency, every
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Ferrari, uh you don't want Lincoln specs. You want You want speed. You know
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what else is really important? Weight. Let's see what we're working with. Baby
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50 g. That is not the lightest mouse in
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the whole world, but it is so far beyond the point of diminishing returns. 50 g.
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Plenty light. And that's pretty good considering that Razer claims that this
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is good for up to 180 hours of battery life at 1,000 Hz or 45 at 8,000 Hz. So
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today. We're back and I'm so excited to show
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you the greatest upgrade that has ever happened to Razer products. No longer do
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you need to download Razer Synapse. There's a freaking web app. Oh yeah,
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come on. It's just in beta right now, but even beta is going to be better than whatever the were doing before. Let's
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see if it works. Add device. Viper VRO.
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Thank you so much, Razer. This is this is the way forward. Web apps. Don't make
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me download freaking garbage bloatware spyware crap. This is the future. First
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things first, uh we can change all the button assignments other than the left
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click uh which can be problematic. We can use hypershift so that we can
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basically assign an alternate key. We got our indicator LED options. One is
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the first one is going to show us our connection quality, then our battery
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level, then our polling rate. You can turn them off, which is nice. Um but I
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actually think that having the polling rate is a pretty nice one. Otherwise,
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you can have your DPI stage on this. That makes a lot more sense than having
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it on the mouse because this actually I could have uh within eyeshot of my
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monitor so I can look at the dongle and see. I actually think that's a smart
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upgrade. Instead of adding more weight to your mouse, put it on the dongle.
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Next, we can change our DPI settings. We can separate the X and Y axis. We can
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enable up to five different settings and
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move them around. I know that I just want 800. So, I'm going to disable
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everything except that it looks like you have to have two on, which is
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interesting. I would like that to be a thing that uh mice manufacturers don't
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force me to do is have two profiles. I know exactly what I want and I don't
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need my button to accidentally switch it partway through. That being said, I
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would know because my freaking light on my uh dongle would tell me I have the
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wrong settings. Next, we have our power settings. So, we can uh turn up the
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speed at which it goes to sleep. Um or low power mode. I don't ever want you to
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go to sleep. Uh and then we can calibrate. We can enable asymmetric
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cutff, which will divorce our liftoff distance and our landing distance. We
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want it as low as possible unless we have weird tracking issues. Then we have
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our advanced, which enables us to have a dynamic sensitivity, which definitely
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could be your thing. The other thing that I like that I've seen more and more
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is actually a rotation setting. So depending on which angle you have your
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mouse, um it makes adjustments based on
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that. I think I usually keep it around like the seven that's a bit more like
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let's say call it nine 9 9°.
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So now the software knows that I'm holding it at an angle uh and is making
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some kind of adjustments for that. Um so that's that's uh that's pretty cool.
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Again, something you're going to want to get used to, not just switch over and
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forget that you did uh let's game. First impressions, uh, this feels like a very,
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very good mouse. Makes sense. Our Labs testing showed that this is about as
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good as it gets. Just above 6 milliseconds, both over wired and dongle
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at 8,000 Hz. That's pretty fantastic. And what we found out recently in our
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video where we test if input latency matters is that every millisecond of
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input latency does faking matter. Go watch that video if you haven't watched
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it. It's hard to comment too much on top and gaming mice because they're all
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pretty darn good. But like this, I feel so connected to what's
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happening on screen. Kind of more impressed than I thought it would be
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about a Razer product. What I will say is it feels like the balance of the
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mouse is a little further forward than I'd expect. Like the back feels very,
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very light. Not necessarily a bad thing, just something to note. We also tested
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the sensor accuracy, and while it's not
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the best that we've tested, it's totally within the realm of pretty good. uh and
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you would get used to it pretty darn quick. I'd say overall
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Razer's on a pretty good trajectory. It sounds like they're listening to their users. They're making a pretty solid
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product. Uh and it seems like on paper at least it should be more reliable than
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some of the products I've tested in the in the past. You're going to be paying
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for all this performance. It's $160.
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Not the most expensive gaming there is, but it's above what I usually consider
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to be necessary for pretty top- end performance. However, that's not
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mindblowing or collector priced like we've seen in other Razer products. Uh,
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and it's a very good package. So, let us know in the comments. Would you would
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you consider a Razer product? Uh, are you like me that you were like
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absolutely not for quite a long time? Uh, and let us know. If you want to
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watch more ShortCircuit videos, you can check out the time we unbox the Keyron M5. It's a vertical mouse, but those
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inards are inside of all of the Keyron M series lineup, and those are really good
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value. Uh, and if you want a little more education on input latency, you should
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check out that LT that we produced a few months ago. It's got some pretty cool
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people in it. Like Baby No Money. Yeah, he's a gamer.