Razer Abyssus Review
Razer Abyssus V2 is the latest edition of the Abyssus series produced by Razer. It doesn't have any uncomfortable wide shaped chassis but it's pretty ergonomic, buttons are positioned correctly and they have good response speed, has enough polling speed and the sensor is quite snappy. This is Mashhud from Frenzytitans360 and today I'm going to give a review of Razer Abyssus V2.
First off, let's talk about the size, shape and the outer parts of this mouse. This mouse's shape is comparably small. It is preferable for palm grippers and acceptable for fingertip grippers. It is actually too small for claw-grippers. Chassis is made of high-quality plastic and they don't give any hollow feeling but have a premium finishing. There are mould-rubberized texture at the both of the side. Since there's no thumb-rest, so having a good rubberized grip will cover up that in-availability. It also creates enough friction with the finger and doesn't slip off during the lift-off of the mouse. It has a ledge beside of it's bottom parts that might be handy for lifting the mouse off. It's hump is located at the back of the mouse which will help this mouse to get palm-gripped with comfort. Abyssus V2 has a length of 4.6 inch & width of 2.5 inch. So it's not even nearly 2:1 ratio even though the shape is quite good for small hands. There's a typical Razer logo located on the circular shaped palm-rest. It can glow with 3-different colors (green, cyan and blue). It has a rubberized cable which creates a bit graze with the surface and it can affect during your FPS gaming period. So using a mouse-bungee is recommended. Without cable, it has a weight of 79 grams, and 111 grams with the cable.
Now let's talk about the buttons. This mouse is ambidextrous and doesn't have any side button on both of the sides. It has a total of 4 buttons including left & right buttons, a scroll wheel and a DPI cycling button. With the DPI button, you can cycle the DPI settings into 5 different adjustments (800/1600/2400/3600/5000 DPI). The DPI button is very clicky and doesn't create any noise during clicking. Left & right buttons are very light and easy to click but don't cause any mis-clicking issue. The scroll wheel needs to be smoother but it's good enough for quick browsing and it has a groovy texture on it which is handy for gripping. I've tested the response speed of this mouse and found out that it has an average latency of somewhere around 5.5ms. Most of the time the latency is somewhere from 6ms to 3ms. Some mis-clicks cause the latency to increase up to 10ms but that's not a noticeable latency. Overall the response speed is good enough.
I've also tested the polling rate of this mouse. Well one thing to notice here, if the sensor of your mouse can snap surfaces with high FPS, then high polling rate is very important to keep the hardware functions up with a synchronized progress. Polling rate is the number of data that mouse's micro processor sends to the computer for ordering to move the cursor to the desiring direction and distance(according to DPI and vector of movement). By testing it's frequency speed at 500Hz, I've found out that it has a polling accuracy of 95.4%. Polling rate runs at 500Hz to 477Hz at this adjustment. But the accuracy might move down to 90% or up to 98.2%. But it's polling rate can run up to 1kHz of frequency. This is a satisfying performance and won't cause any extra delay or noticeable latency.
Now let's discuss about it's sensor. I'm actually not sure what sensor they've used inside of Abyssus V2 but it's performance is pretty much same as PMW3310's. This is an optical sensor but it can also track on other surfaces as well since it has a laser emitter to illuminate the surface. I've tested the accuracy of this sensor and it performed quite well. It has 78% accuracy at 800 DPI and 5/11 windows sensitivity. But at the same DPI but windows sensitivity of 6/11, it starts skipping pixels a lot and the cursor jumps few extra pixels than it supposed to track(according to DPI adjustments). There is 82.33% accuracy at 2400 DPI and 5/11 windows sensitivity. Once again the deviation moves up to positive when the sensitivity gets adjusted into 6/11. At 5/11 windows sensitivity in 5k DPI, the accuracy turns out to be 76.88%.
So it's safe to say that this sensor has pixel skipping issues at any sensitivity above 5/11. It also decelerates a lot at 4/11 sensitivity. So 5/11 is the only only recommended win.sensitivity here. At 3.6k and 5k DPI, it stutters a lot and causes significant accuracy decrease. It also spins out at fast horizontal flicks and causes interpolation at vector changing movements and But at 2.4k DPI, it doesn't cause any stuttering, pixel skipping or decelerating. Sensor is completely prevented from angle snapping. adjusting DPI is completely user's decision but to get the most accuracy, adjusting the DPI in 1600 or 2400 DPI at 5/11 windows sensitivity is the bottom line recommendation.
So let's come up with the highlights and facts about this mouse. This mouse has a sturdy build quality but the cable should've been better. Micro-controlling unit is impressive as well. Sensor is acceptable, it is prevented from pixel skipping and stuttering at the correct eDPI(DPI+win.sensitivity) adjustment. Overall this is a good mouse and would be preferable for FPS gamers if it's sensor had high native DPI. Thanks for reading the review, hope this review will help you decide whether you should buy it or not and stay tuned for more.
First off, let's talk about the size, shape and the outer parts of this mouse. This mouse's shape is comparably small. It is preferable for palm grippers and acceptable for fingertip grippers. It is actually too small for claw-grippers. Chassis is made of high-quality plastic and they don't give any hollow feeling but have a premium finishing. There are mould-rubberized texture at the both of the side. Since there's no thumb-rest, so having a good rubberized grip will cover up that in-availability. It also creates enough friction with the finger and doesn't slip off during the lift-off of the mouse. It has a ledge beside of it's bottom parts that might be handy for lifting the mouse off. It's hump is located at the back of the mouse which will help this mouse to get palm-gripped with comfort. Abyssus V2 has a length of 4.6 inch & width of 2.5 inch. So it's not even nearly 2:1 ratio even though the shape is quite good for small hands. There's a typical Razer logo located on the circular shaped palm-rest. It can glow with 3-different colors (green, cyan and blue). It has a rubberized cable which creates a bit graze with the surface and it can affect during your FPS gaming period. So using a mouse-bungee is recommended. Without cable, it has a weight of 79 grams, and 111 grams with the cable.
Now let's talk about the buttons. This mouse is ambidextrous and doesn't have any side button on both of the sides. It has a total of 4 buttons including left & right buttons, a scroll wheel and a DPI cycling button. With the DPI button, you can cycle the DPI settings into 5 different adjustments (800/1600/2400/3600/5000 DPI). The DPI button is very clicky and doesn't create any noise during clicking. Left & right buttons are very light and easy to click but don't cause any mis-clicking issue. The scroll wheel needs to be smoother but it's good enough for quick browsing and it has a groovy texture on it which is handy for gripping. I've tested the response speed of this mouse and found out that it has an average latency of somewhere around 5.5ms. Most of the time the latency is somewhere from 6ms to 3ms. Some mis-clicks cause the latency to increase up to 10ms but that's not a noticeable latency. Overall the response speed is good enough.
I've also tested the polling rate of this mouse. Well one thing to notice here, if the sensor of your mouse can snap surfaces with high FPS, then high polling rate is very important to keep the hardware functions up with a synchronized progress. Polling rate is the number of data that mouse's micro processor sends to the computer for ordering to move the cursor to the desiring direction and distance(according to DPI and vector of movement). By testing it's frequency speed at 500Hz, I've found out that it has a polling accuracy of 95.4%. Polling rate runs at 500Hz to 477Hz at this adjustment. But the accuracy might move down to 90% or up to 98.2%. But it's polling rate can run up to 1kHz of frequency. This is a satisfying performance and won't cause any extra delay or noticeable latency.
Now let's discuss about it's sensor. I'm actually not sure what sensor they've used inside of Abyssus V2 but it's performance is pretty much same as PMW3310's. This is an optical sensor but it can also track on other surfaces as well since it has a laser emitter to illuminate the surface. I've tested the accuracy of this sensor and it performed quite well. It has 78% accuracy at 800 DPI and 5/11 windows sensitivity. But at the same DPI but windows sensitivity of 6/11, it starts skipping pixels a lot and the cursor jumps few extra pixels than it supposed to track(according to DPI adjustments). There is 82.33% accuracy at 2400 DPI and 5/11 windows sensitivity. Once again the deviation moves up to positive when the sensitivity gets adjusted into 6/11. At 5/11 windows sensitivity in 5k DPI, the accuracy turns out to be 76.88%.
So it's safe to say that this sensor has pixel skipping issues at any sensitivity above 5/11. It also decelerates a lot at 4/11 sensitivity. So 5/11 is the only only recommended win.sensitivity here. At 3.6k and 5k DPI, it stutters a lot and causes significant accuracy decrease. It also spins out at fast horizontal flicks and causes interpolation at vector changing movements and But at 2.4k DPI, it doesn't cause any stuttering, pixel skipping or decelerating. Sensor is completely prevented from angle snapping. adjusting DPI is completely user's decision but to get the most accuracy, adjusting the DPI in 1600 or 2400 DPI at 5/11 windows sensitivity is the bottom line recommendation.
So let's come up with the highlights and facts about this mouse. This mouse has a sturdy build quality but the cable should've been better. Micro-controlling unit is impressive as well. Sensor is acceptable, it is prevented from pixel skipping and stuttering at the correct eDPI(DPI+win.sensitivity) adjustment. Overall this is a good mouse and would be preferable for FPS gamers if it's sensor had high native DPI. Thanks for reading the review, hope this review will help you decide whether you should buy it or not and stay tuned for more.
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