Razer Abyssus High Precision Optical Gaming Mouse

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Razer™ is the world’s leading manufacturer of high-end precision gaming products and peripherals that are designed "For Gamers. By Gamers™".Headquartered in Carlsbad, California, Razer’s award-winning lineup of products includes desktop speakers, headsets, keyboards, mice, software, and gaming surfaces. Since 1998, Razer has collaborated with leading professional gamers to develop, manufacture and market cutting-edge gaming peripherals using proprietary technologies that give gamers the competitive edge. Razer products offer the best in precision, sensitivity, usability and distinctive product design and have a reputation for being leaders in gaming peripheral technology.

On the Lighting tab, you can set the mouse’s lighting and do so individually for the scroll wheel and the logo. Most budget mice have only a single zone of lighting. Most budget mice feature RGB lighting and a rainbow of color choices, but the Abyssus V2 gives you a limited selection of only three colors: green, teal, and royal blue. This is pretty limited, and I'd much rather have the full color spectrum at my disposal than just three colors, two of which are shades of blue. In terms of DPI, the Abyssus is a 7200 optical model that proved sufficiently accurate in Apex Legends and Anthem, making the act of taking potshots at enemies from a long distance a breeze. But then again, competitive players will almost certainly want something more responsive. Razer Abyssus Essential – Software and lighting title=More%20Expert%20Tech%20Roundups&type=articles%2Cvideos&tags=tech-roundup&count=6&columnCount=6&theme=article The Razer Abyssus V2 works right out of the box just fine, but it’s worth your while to install the free Razer Synapse software. With it, you can customize the mouse’s buttons, DPI settings, and lighting. On the Customize tab, you can not only reprogram the mouse’s four buttons but you can also customize the function of scroll up and scroll down on the wheel, which is not usually customizable for any mouse, much less one that is a budget model. You can also set up different profiles, but the mouse doesn’t have any onboard memory so you can’t take them with you.

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is still a lot higher than you can pay for some gaming mice, but ultimately you get what you pay for. In the Abyssus Essential, you're getting a quality sensor at the heart of it that leads to superior accuracy when gaming and when using the PC for more casual purposes. Considering the Abyssus V2 had both an additional button and rubber grip side panels, I don't think it's too much to have hoped for. The Abyssus is also quite small. Compared to the Deathadder Elite it's both shorter and not as tall, so for folks with larger hands it's perhaps not going to be the most comfortable mouse you'll ever use. The design is still good, but if you like to have a larger mouse then this maybe isn't for you. Bottom line on the Razer Abyssus Essential Synapse is also how you can add extra functions to the buttons on your mouse thanks to Razer Hypershift support. On an entry-level mouse without additional hardware buttons, this is a great way to add more functions. A certain button press is dedicated to enable Hypershift, then you can assign buttons to perform secondary functions.

Under Lighting, you can choose among Breathing, Reactive, Spectrum Cycling, and Static presets, or you can switch off the lighting to save power. If that isn't comprehensive enough, the Advanced Effects tab is where you will find Chroma Studio, but since the Abyssus has only a single lighting zone, everything you do here will apply across the whole mouse. You get a handful of Chroma Studio-exclusive effects (Fire, Ripple, Starlight, Wave), in addition to the option to layer effects atop each other, but that's the extent of the appeal here. The Advanced Effects can get only so advanced on a gaming mouse this basic. The Cost of Millions of Colors There really isn’t much to the Razer Abyssus Essential. For once, what you see is what you get. With only three buttons on the body, don’t expect any bespoke customisation of dynamic DPI switching, unless you dive into Razer Synapse for a few minutes. The Razer logo is as striking here as it is with other products Razer Abyssus Essential – Performance Still, some upsides balance out the cons. You just won't find very many lefty-friendly RGB gaming mice out there, period, and none derives from a company as reputable as Razer. Other non-RGB ambidextrous gaming mice exist, of course. The Logitech G203 Prodigy comes first to mind, and a little searching uncovers the Asus Cerberus and BenQ Zowie FK2, among others. Alas, some of these ambidextrous mice are not quite symmetrical, in the way the Abyssus Essential is; some have buttons on only one side; and still others bear a shape that favors right-handed players, even if they are marketed to lefties too. As a result, lefties might look on this truly egalitarian Razer model with special favor. And despite the current incompatibility quirks with legacy Razer gear, Synapse 3 is robust and easier to use than the Corsair Utility Engine or Logitech Gaming Software. So that works in its favor, too. EU Declaration of Conformity for Abyssus Lite & Goliathus Mobile Construct Ed. Bundle (RZ83-0273).pdf

Less is more," said Robert "Razerguy" Krakoff, president, Razer. “We’ve taken our ambidextrous three-button mouse design and loaded it with our industry-leading technology without the added cost of too many bells and whistles. Our goal with the Razer Abyssus is to give competitive gamers access to gaming grade hardware without breaking the bank." While its own display of RGB is comparatively underwhelming compared to Razer’s other products, it still find a comfortable place in the Chroma ecosystem. There's also no grippy areas on the side of the mouse. This may not be an issue to some, but with such solid gaming performance from this mouse, a couple of rubber strips along the edges would have just made it a little nicer to use for long periods.

The Abyssus Essential is also Razer's first mouse to have Chroma underneath, so you get a neon haze surrounding it being reflected from your mousepad. It's a small touch, but especially if you're a Chroma fan, it looks amazing. The usual Chroma configurations are all available so it'll sync with your other Razer hardware, but this is a design feature I really hope makes it to the next generation of Razer's mice. In my Razer Basilisk review, I noted that Razer's Synapse 3 software needs some work in one key area. Granted, it's still in beta at the moment of this review, and it's bound to see improvements upon its official release, expected in June. But, as it stands at this writing, Synapse 3 remains incompatible with many other Razer products. If, say, you want to use the Abyssus Essential with an older Razer keyboard, you'll need to install a previous version of Synapse, too. Carlsbad , Calif.– Nov. 10, 2009– Razer™, the world’s leading manufacturer of high-end precision gaming and lifestyle peripherals, today launched the Razer Abyssus™ gaming mouse. By combining simplicity with a state-of-the-art 3.5G 3500dpi infrared sensor, the Razer Abyssus stands ready to frag. You can find the second highlight on the underside of the Abyssus, snaking around the bottom so a myriad of colours can be seen illuminating your desk. This results in some cool effects, enhanced further once I made the effort to customise it with Razer Chroma.Also on the Performance tab, you can set the rate of acceleration for the mouse as well as its polling rate. (A higher polling rate means the mouse reports its position to the PC more frequently, making the mouse feel more responsive.) The default polling rate is 1,000Hz but you can lower it to 500Hz or 125Hz. I played with the acceleration and polling rate settings but couldn’t not discern much of a difference, if any, no matter what what settings I selected. Perhaps eSports athletes on a budget would make use of these settings on the Abyssus V2, however, since they're usually more discerning. That said, you can assign every button on the Abyssus Essential to an action of your choosing: a mouse function, an application launcher, or a macro (a combination of recorded keyboard and mouse functions). This mouse in particular also supports a feature called Mouse Use, which optimizes it for either left- or right-handed players, depending on their dominant hand. The Abyssus Essential, therefore, serves a niche of gamers who prefer fewer buttons but must have ostentatious lighting. You get no extra trappings beyond the personalization you can pull off in Razer's Synapse 3 software, such as button-function assignments, performance adjustments, and of course, tweaks to the RGB effects. Software That's in Flux Meanwhile, my index and middle fingers were comfortable enough resting atop the right and left mouse buttons. Better yet, given the symmetrical shape, the Abyssus Essential accommodates the often-neglected base of lefty gamers.