

However, the bluetooth connection has been a little buggy in my experience, ie whenever my computer goes to sleep, the mouse stops working when I wake it back up and the only way to get it to reconnect is restarting the computer. The ability to change the right side panel between flat or with a pinky-rest is nice and being able to use it via wireless, bluetooth or USB is also neat. It’s not the best value for money, but it is certainly one of the best three gaming mice you can buy right now, with shipments due from November 1.I love Corsair and the Dark Core, that being said it has some.issues.

The Viper Wireless does one better: it’s an absolute banger.

The Viper was Razer’s most interesting mouse in years, because it showed the company was paying attention to trends while maintaining some core design ideals. (If you’re really worried about gaming in the summer, the mice with holes in the chassis are actually the best option, provided you don’t mind giving them a clean every now and again.) You can’t remove the side buttons the way you can with the G Pro Wireless, but the Viper’s rubber and plastic composite texture handles Australian temperatures a little better. But what Razer have made is not only a really classy upgrade in terms of the wireless charging - the dock is elegant and works beautifully - but the mouse is a classy bit of kit. It’s a banger of a device, and it’s a fantastic bit of design on Razer’s part, but unless you have the money to burn you can surely wait for prices to drop.īut if you can’t, and you want a top tier wireless gaming mouse? You’d have to look at the shape, for one. And my recommendation for that applies here too. It’s priced at $256.95, about the same as the Logitech G Pro Wireless when it came out. It’s still a little too bloated for my like, and I hate the initial user experience of plugging in a mouse and having notifications pop up on Windows telling me I need to install drivers and other software. The Viper Wireless has five separate mouse feet now, all of which are smaller in size, but it glides just as well.Ĭoming with all of this, as you’d expect, is Razer’s Synapse software. The original Viper had a relatively thin mouse foot at the top and a large, more rounded one on the bottom, with a rounded square around the sensor. The mouse feet have been redesigned, too. And a space on the underside has been carved out so the Viper can sit in its special dock, which is a really neat touch.

The housing is super lightweight plastic, so it doesn’t add any extra weight. When you take the mouse out of the box, the USB receiver is tucked away in a tiny little casing that sits just above the sensor. I really like the underside of how the Viper is engineered.
