Gaming mice are quick, within the sense that they’ve ridiculously highly effective monitoring sensors. They’re additionally quick within the sense that they convey together with your laptop in a short time, measured in polling fee hertz. A typical mouse may use a 250hz or 500hz polling fee, updating its place 5 hundred instances a second, however gaming mice usually begin at 1000hz and go even quicker. Much quicker, in the event you’re utilizing a current Razer gaming mouse and also you make sure that to replace your firmware.

According to a press launch from the corporate, it’s boosting the polling fee on a number of of its present gaming mice, no new buy crucial. Several wired and wi-fi fashions will now have an choice to spice up their polling fee as much as 8000Hz, matching the corporate’s quickest fashions. The present fashions being upgraded are beneath, with hyperlinks to our critiques the place out there:

Owners can enhance their polling fee by upgrading the firmware of their mouse (and HyperSpeed wi-fi dongle, if crucial) by means of the Synapse driver software program. Note that you just’ll in all probability have to manually modify the polling fee in Synapse and that it’ll solely work with Razer’s proprietary USB dongles or when plugged in immediately, not over Bluetooth.

Personally, I discover that polling charges over 1000Hz are form of nutty and 8000Hz is effectively past even essentially the most spectacular eSports “athletes” means to trace and reply. That’s with out even mentioning on-line multiplayer, the place your connection to the server will bottleneck this sort of efficiency by an order of magnitude. That stated, it’s very cool to see Razer improve its present merchandise the place doable as an alternative of intentionally saving that function for brand new releases.