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It’s an excellent mouse — very accurate, with tons of customization options.
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The specs of this mouse are fantastic. The shape is a little large for smaller hands and the clicks on this mouse are obnoxious. They sound like pingpong balls.
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Razer is one of the leading makers of gaming hardware, and they have built a new version of their eSports Pro gaming mouse, the DeathAdder. What features does it have, and what makes it worth the rather high price? Let’s send it through its paces and see if this is a tool for the competitive gamer’s arsenal.
The box contents are straightforward, with the mouse, receiver, and a decently long braided USB-A to C cable, custom cut grip tape, Razer stickers, and some documentation. Setup is as simple as you’d expect – download the latest version of Razer Synapse, plug it in, and go!
The mouse itself is incredibly light. A just 56g, it weighs less than most of the “skeleton” style mice and doesn’t collect things inside of it that you can’t clean out. Stripped down to save weight, it does not have a side-to-side scroll wheel or many extra buttons, just two thumb buttons, the right and left click, and the scroll wheel. The scroll wheel also has no “free spin” mode, but gains an optical sensor. The power button serves as double duty to cycle through the programmed DPI settings that you have set in the Synapse software, and there is no multi device connectivity with Bluetooth. This mouse is about one thing, and that is performance at minimal weight.
While the mouse may be stripped to the essentials for hardware, the sensors and software allow for a ton of customization and performance. The mouse is capable of a blistering 8000hz polling rate with a 45k sensor, even while wireless. Usually, higher polling rates are reserved for wired connections, but the wireless technology here allows for an astonishing polling rate. This mode will drain the battery more quickly, but fortunately Razer thought of that – you can set different polling rates for full screen games vs standard desktop use. One of the coolest features I’ve found is the dynamic sensitivity mode “jump”, which allows for a lower sensitivity when the mouse is moving more slowly, which is great for aiming, but then jumps to a higher sensitivity when the mouse is moved rapidly, allowing for rapid 360 spins in a shooter when you need to react quickly. It’s a really cool feature that prevents having to bind a button to a “DPI Shift”.
One thing I really like is, oddly, the receiver. Most of the time, the receiver is a little dongle or a box that doesn’t add much other than taking up a port or sitting on a desk. This one has status indicator LEDs that show connection health, current battery level, and the polling rate (these can be customized to show things like current DPI using Synapse). It also has some weight so it stays put. The only improvement would be if it had a second USB-C port to plug the mouse into directly to charge or switch to wired, since this dongle is designed to be on your desk.
The surface of the mouse is pretty smooth – I’m used to mice with grips or texture of some kind, but again those can add weight. It’s still fairly easy to grip, but if you are super sweaty it could get slippery. Fortunately, Razer thought of that too, and there is pre-cut grip tape in the box to add some grip (with just a touch of additional weight) to key parts of the mouse. The optical buttons feel great, with a super snappy response. The mouse also has an optical scroll wheel that should mitigate one of the most common points of failure in gaming mice.
The mouse will store the last binding configuration programmed in Synapse into it, although some key binds or macros aren’t available unless you have the software running. I typically use a gaming mouse for work where I can’t run any software, and this mouse probably would not be the best fit for that kind of multi-device or multi-purpose use as it really needs Synapse running and doesn’t have some of the extra buttons that are frequently used for productivity.
For gaming though, this mouse excels. It moves so freely without feeling like it’s skating that you forget it’s there and just focus on the game. It so responsive and accurate that you know the limiting factor in your game is your skill, not the equipment. With that it mind, the mouse can justify the steep price tag while not having a lot of frills and extra features. It’s about one thing, and that is delivering a tool designed for fast paced competitive gaming, and if that is what you need this is the mouse for you.
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Everything was as advertised but the minimal improvements over the Deathadder V3 Pro, does not justify the $70 price increase. Great mouse if you're willing to dish out the money just to have the best of the best.
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it performed and worked but i was not a fan. the mouse felt almost to light and very poor materials were used to make it. i did not enjoy the short time i had it and wouldn't buy another.