Razer Viper Review in Spanish (full analysis)

Razer Viper is an e-sports oriented gaming mouse that we wanted to try. The reason is simple, it is one of those mouses highly coveted by a professional gamer, due to its 69 grams of weight and its great new generation Razer 5G sensor of 16, 000 DPI that allows very high speeds and accelerations. In addition, we have two main optical switches, much faster and more durable than mechanical ones.

A direct competitor to the Logitech G Pro, this mouse is one of the manufacturer's strongest racing options. And before we start, we thank Razer for giving us their product and the confidence they show in our reviews.

Razer Viper technical features

Unboxing

The presentation of this Razer Viper is maintained in the guidelines of the Californian brand, with a small cardboard box that closely matches the product. In it, we always find photographs of the mouse, as well as a panel with the information related to the equipment, to make it clear what we are buying.

We open the box to find the mouse perfectly tucked into a cardboard mold and a bag that protects it. In addition to the equipment, we only found the warranty card, the user guide and the occasional merchandise sticker. It has come to us with an impressive rubber mold to make ice cubes in the form of a logo, but it seems to be a gift-only option for the media.

Design

Razer always accustoms us to having perfect finishes on their equipment, if they do something right it is precisely this. A manufacturer always closely related to competitive gaming and creating products fully geared towards optimizing our skills behind the screen. We already know that they are not cheap, but the quality and the brand must always be paid, but with the certainty that they will go well.

This is exactly what happens with the Razer Viper, a very very light mouse, we speak of only 69 grams of weight. Designed for that purpose of e-sports and gaming in general, especially FPS and games where speed is an essential component.

For this, the manufacturer has used entirely plastic for the housing and rubber grip. And it must be quite optimized to achieve that weight, because we have quite considerable measurements, with 126.7 mm long, 66.2 mm wide and 37.81 mm high.

This makes it a mouse compatible with palm grip and claw grip mainly, although because it is very short, it will also offer good comfort in fingertip grip, at least for relatively large hands. We should also note that it is an ambidextrous mouse, exactly the same from right to left and without strange ergonomic frills.

Button configuration

We are already placed in the upper area of the Razer Viper to see what we find and what we do not. And surely the most striking thing is that we have no trace of the DPI button in this area. Instead, we even have a gap inside to make it clear that there is nothing. And where is the button? Well beware, it is in the lower area of the team, at the request of Team Razer, to avoid accidental pulsations during battles.

So we only have the two main buttons and the wheel, with its corresponding button, of course. These two main buttons have optical switches instead of mechanical ones. The user will operate the button in the normal way, but the click heard does not correspond to the push button, but a system activates a front tab that cuts or allows passage of an infrared light beam that activates the pulsation signal. This serves to improve the pulsation speed to triple that of the mechanical switches, being 0.2 ms. And it also supports no less than 70 million clicks, instead of 50 like high-end mechanical mice.

Something very important is that the main buttons are separated from the rest of the mouse casing. This helps improve pulsation, and why not, aesthetics. As for the wheel, we have it quite a bit out of the plane of the keypad. Due in part to the fact that the central area is more sunken to make it more accessible and to its dotted rubber band so that it does not slip.

Now we go to the side zones, which are exactly the same as being an ambidextrous team. In them, we find two navigation buttons on each side, which we can freely configure with Synapse 3. These buttons are located practically in the center, being very flat and of a standard size. This precisely allows us to grab it practically any way, and always have these buttons accessible. Something you can miss is the iconic trigger of the Razer Basilisk that we liked so much.

Just below, we have an area covered by a thin layer of ribbed rubber that will prevent slipping due to sweat and greater comfort in the grip. In fact, it offers very little curvature on these sides, only a little in the center with a very good finger placement and always avoiding the accidental pressing of the buttons. Great job the Razer design, as always.

Finally we have the rear area of the Razer Viper enlivened by the brand logo, always with Razer Chroma lighting. Through Synapse 3, we can customize the color and effects, or for example by placing a color associated with each DPI setting.

The interesting thing is in the curvature and the design, since it is quite wide in this rear part. The team invites us to grab it with the full palm and set a high DPI to maximize displacement on very little surface. The position of the hand will be very low due to the fact that this curvature reaches the end of the area.

Already finishing with the design we go to the lower area, where we have two large legs made of Polytetrafluoroethylene, for friends, PTFE. What has been the legs of all life we go, with a great displacement due to the large surface they take. Note that in the central area, another small leg has also been placed around the sensor, in order to avoid that hairs and other evil entities interfere in the communication of the sensor with itself.

And as we already anticipated, the DPI button is placed in this area. It is quite a peculiar thing, but if we want to avoid accidental clicks, just push the button down behind the wheel. Opting for this solution is something extreme, but hey, if Team Razer says so… There is also a missing indicator of the DPI status in this area, which we will rarely look at.

Sensor performance

The Razer Viper's design is extremely simple and minimalist, but under the hood we have quite a bit of the manufacturer's cutting-edge technology. And we start with its Razer 5G optical sensor, a new specification with no less than 16, 000 native DPI. The most interesting thing to play is not this, but the fact of supporting speeds of up to 450 inches per second (IPS) and accelerations of 50G thanks to a polling rate of 1000 Hz, modifiable in Synapse.

The main buttons have optical activation technology as we have already said, supporting more than 70 million clicks. Razer is one of the outstanding manufacturers in this technology, already implemented in its keyboard switches that work exquisitely. In any case, all the buttons have Hyperesponse technology that we can activate from Synapse 3, and personalized programming capacity.

The DPI button allows us to configure a maximum of 5 resolution jumps, which we can store in the internal memory of the equipment. In this case we cannot do the same with the lighting and the functions of the buttons, which is a small limitation in order to always have it to our liking on any PC.

And no less important in this case will be the cable, since Razer Viper has the new Razer Speedflex. Basically it is a much more flexible cable than usual to avoid friction and tangles. It has been protected by a mesh of synthetic thread to give it greater durability.

Grip and sensitivity tests

With everything you have read, it will have been quite clear that the Razer Viper is a mouse designed by and for gamers. This means that we should find ourselves a good grip in practically every conceivable situation. Hence its ergonomic design and extremely simple curves.

As in other similar mice, Razer complies, being a very low team to be able to pick it up with the tips of your fingers. But the two most comfortable positions will be claw and palm, personally I always use claw type with the palm resting on the back of the mouse or on the ground for precision work. This mouse can do this perfectly, thanks to a large rear area. The touch of click buttons is very good, with a smooth touch wheel and slightly marked bumps

The sensor works like a charm, it supports any acceleration and speed that we give it, 150 IPS is much more than what our hand can get to move. The central grooves make it look like a slimmer mouse, and the minimum weight it has is undoubtedly its most outstanding quality for gaming. I find it a great choice for FPS, even if your had the famous sniper trigger it would be ideal. I recommend configuring some function on the two opposite side buttons, for example, the one previously mentioned, since it is a pity to waste them.

Variance of movement: The procedure consists of putting the mouse in an enclosure of about 4 cm, then we move the equipment from one side to the other and at different speeds. In this way the line that we are painting in Paint will take a measure, if the lines vary in length, it will mean that it has acceleration, otherwise they will not have it. The variance is completely zero if we keep the precision assistance option disabled. If we activate it, the only thing we will be introducing is a quite considerable acceleration as we see in the previous image. The sensor is already precise enough to activate this option.

Pixel Skipping: Performing slow movements, and at different DPIs in a 4K panel, pixel skipping is not seen in any DPI setting. Of course the more amount of DPI the more difficult it will be to navigate pixel by pixel, but at low resolutions the control is a delight, and something very positive is to be able to modify the DPI in jumps one by one. Tracking: Tests in games like Tomb Rider or DOOM or by selecting and dragging windows, the movement is correct without experiencing accidental jumps or plane changes. With the capacity of 400 in / s and 50 G, it will support movements much faster than our hands can carry out. Performance on surfaces: It has worked correctly on hard surfaces such as wood, metal and of course on mats. The performance in opaque and translucent crystals is correct. Again, we recommend making use of the calibration function for the surface.

Synapse 3 software

Knowing that this Razer Viper has customizable buttons and lighting, the least we can do is install the Synapse 3 software. The program par excellence of the brand to get the most out of the customization possibilities. It is recommended to have it updated to its latest version so that it correctly detects this mouse.

With this software we will be able to customize practically all the aspects of the equipment that we analyze. The first thing we will find is a sketch of the mouse and its different controls, by clicking on one of them we can change its function to almost anything imaginable. We have multimedia functions, keys, gaming functions and a long etcetera.

We can also create macros with the built-in wizard, activate or deactivate the Hypershift function or modify the DPI levels of the mouse. In this case there will be 5 jumps storable in the equipment. If we have a Razer mat, the least we can do is get into the surface calibration section and leave our mouse ready for battle.

In the Razer Chroma section, we will have everything related to lighting. We see that there is only one lighting zone for our Razer Viper, which supports all kinds of animations, synchronization both with other Razer products, and its ability to interact with games, for example DOOM.

Final words and conclusion about Razer Viper

The time has come to value the Razer Viper ! It is a very ergonomic mouse thanks to its ambidextrous design, optical switches that are very pleasant to the touch, a very light weight (competing with the Model O and the finalmouse that has become so famous thanks to the Fortnite Ninja streamer.

We are plenty with its features: 1600 DPI, 1000 Hz and very good customization options via software (although it can be improved). The Gaming experience is great and we think it is one of the best we have ever tried. If it were wireless it would be ideal, for this reason I do not "retire" to my Logitech G305.

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There is some improvement in all products. The first we see is that the button to change the DPI is at the base of the mouse, that is, if we are playing and change weapons, and therefore we want to lower or raise the DPI… We must configure another button for it or lift the mouse to change it. Very weird, right? Razer has notified us that it is an option so that between waiting and waiting for departure, we can change the DPI, since it has hybrid memory, it is not necessary to go through its software.

Also keep in mind that it is not a mouse for users seeking absolute silence. The optical switches offer a great feeling and are super fast, but it makes a little more noise than most mice.

We can currently buy the Razer Viper for 89.99 euros in major online stores. Taking into account that we have the Model O in Spain for 49.99 euros, and in the absence of trying it, the Viper seems to be a somewhat higher price. Even so, we are facing one of the best mice you can buy to compete.

ADVANTAGE	DISADVANTAGES
- DESIGN AND CHOSEN COMPONENTS	- HIGH PRICE
- SENSOR	- BUTTON TO CHANGE DPI ON THE BASE
- LIGHT WEIGHT
- SWITCHES
- SOFTWARE