Razer just made some of its wireless gaming mice twice as good, kinda

Razer has simply deployed a free firmware replace for a number of of its wi-fi gaming mice, that outright doubles their efficiency relating to polling charges. Nonetheless, a lot as this improve is free, you’ll have to cough up some money if you wish to truly expertise this enchancment. So, the query then turns into: must you?

The likes of the Viper V2 Pro and, extra not too long ago, Cobra Pro are prime examples of among the best wireless gaming mice round, made by Razer or in any other case. Now, each clickers have had their polling charges doubled from 4KHz (4,000Hz) to 8KHz (8,000Hz), with three different fashions netting the identical improve.

In its official press release, Razer highlights that the Basilisk V3 Professional, DeathAdder V3 Professional, and Viper V3 HyperSpeed have additionally acquired firmware updates to spice up their polling charges to 8KHz. Sadly, there’s solely a lot software program can do, which means the in-box dongles stay at inventory speeds, requiring you to select up the Razer Hyperpolling Wi-fi Dongle ($30 / £30) to unlock this potential.

The benefit 8KHz polling affords is that it ought to extra precisely seize your mouse actions, with an enter delay of 0.125ms versus the 1ms of 1KHz. Nonetheless, this comes on the expense of battery life, which Razer reckons knocks it again by not less than 75%. Ouch.

In the end, this improve is welcome if considerably area of interest in its usability, that ought to shine brightest within the fingers of execs taking part in the best FPS games. For the remainder of us, nevertheless, 1-4KHz will just do superb and can save us a bit of money and charging time.