I’ve been out there for a brand new gaming mouse for some time now and final month I lastly picked one: the Razer Viper Ultimate. Not to go all influencer on you (“sorry to everybody who purchased the viral gaming mouse earlier than it went on sale as a result of—” and so on.) however I grabbed mine on what I believed was a reasonably good sale for $95 again in September and it is now $20 cheaper.
PCG’s {hardware} nuts swear by the wi-fi Logitech G Pro X Superlight proper now (which is additionally on sale for Prime Day) however I attempted it out first and located it simply barely too giant for consolation in my hand. I wasn’t keen to go all the best way all the way down to a compact mouse, so the Viper Ultimate wound up being the Goldilocks mouse for my hand measurement.
The Viper Ultimate has fallen off our listing of the greatest gaming mice, however solely as a result of it is a number of years previous now and there is newer stuff. We rated it an 89% again in our 2019 Razer Viper Ultimate evaluation and stated “it is gentle, ambidextrous, feels good within the hand, and tracks your actions in addition to a wired unit.”
I’ll go away the true {hardware} particulars to the specialists in that evaluation and as an alternative inform you the approach to life stuff. I needed to get away from the cheese grater Steelseries Aerox I’d been utilizing for a pair years to get one thing just a little extra understated and get again to the wi-fi life-style.
The Viper Ultimate has the design restraint I want in a mouse at my massive age. Yeah it is nonetheless bought an RGB Razer brand on it however you’ll be able to flip that off within the Razer Synapse app—I did. And talking of being demure, I’m very grateful to lastly have a mouse whose scroll wheel is not extraordinarily audible whereas I’m wanting issues up in the midst of a PC Gamer Chat Log podcast recording. Silence is golden.
The final bit I’ll gush about is the charging stand. Last time I had a wi-fi mouse it was the Steelseries Sensei Wireless that got here with a reasonably massive charging base. The Viper Ultimate has a really small little dock with two contact factors that is far more in step with the desk actual property I’m keen to allot. It’s additionally bought a little bit of RGB on the backside of the bottom to subtly clue you in in your mouse battery life with out having to open the Synapse app to verify it.
You cannot inform me that does not look cute and clear.
