Razer is dangling features behind a $30 dongle

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The limits of what the gaming community is willing to pay to get the edge on their opponents continue to be pushed by the company. The luxury of having a higher polling rate than the other guy can be obtained by fans of the viper v2 pro mouse. The purpose of this dongle is to give you an almost imperceptible edge against your competitors by providing a wireless mouse with a polling rate of 4,000hertz.

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A device's polling rate is how many times a mouse or other peripheral relays its information to your desktop. The polling rate for wired and wireless peripherals is 1000hertz, which means that your desktop is getting updates from your mouse once a day. Not to be outdone, manufacturers have begun making peripherals that can polling rates of up to 8000hertz. It's difficult to say how much this will affect a player's performance given that current cutting-edge gaming monitors top out at 500hertz.

Similar to how peripheral manufacturers were racing to equip their mice with more powerful sensors, polling rate is the new metric being used to measure the effectiveness of mice in the gaming landscape. There is empirical data that supports the idea that a higher polling rate makes you a better player. You will pay for the privilege, according to the company.