3G Infrared Engine
Some of you may be wondering what the 3G Infrared Sensor Technology is actually referring to. Well, Razer’s 3G infrared sensor technology is far beyond what is currently on the market with a whopping precision of 1800 Dots Per Inch (DPI). This system is fully equipped to handle the high speed, long distance sweeps that today’s serious and competitive gamers demand. We are part of the GotFrag network… who knows competitive gamers better?

We are a community originally founded on Counter-Strike. The majority of successful Counter-Strike players play at a very low sensitivity in order to gain more control and accuracy. Playing at this sensitivity requires large, fast sweeps of the mouse. In Razer’s 2G technology there were limitations that caused the cursor to jump off-target and thus cause the infamous “skipping” so often referred to.

3G removes these barriers by reducing the lift-off distance so that as soon as the mouse rises above 2.1mm from the surface, the surface tracking is disabled immediately. This is something that we have complained about for quite some time as serious and professional gamers. In addition, the issue with skipping is also resolved by the fast-tracking 1800 DPI resolution, 60 IPS (inches per second), and 19Gs of acceleration. All things considered, this mouse should be able to handle anything a gamer could throw at it.

However, even with all its standard Razer high quality features and its new and in my opinion, more comfortable design, it all means nothing until it actually runs through the battery of gaming tests. First, let’s take a look at the drivers.

Drivers
While getting the latest drivers for this mouse, I encountered something I had not previously known: these mice, and other Razer mice, have an internal firmware. This came as a bit of a shocker to me. Of course, I proceeded to download not only the drivers for the mouse but the updated firmware, as well. After installing the drivers, I could see that the firmware version on my mouse was only 1.10 and the firmware I had downloaded was v1.2. I started up the firmware file and was instructed to click start as soon as I made sure that nothing would interrupt power to the mouse during this process. I clicked started, was told to unplug and replug the mouse, and it was done. Relatively painless process to upgrade the firmware as the installer did everything you needed to and kept the instruction plain and simple as to avoid any complications with your brand new high end mouse.

The drivers, as usual, are visually attractive and functionally complete. The interface is extremely straightforward, allowing you to customize everything from programming all 5 mouse buttons and each direction of the scroll wheel to turning on and off the light behind the glowing logo and the light of the scroll wheel. On the bottom, you can set, save, and load your different custom setting depending on what you are doing, as well as, change the polling rate, DPI, and set these settings to 5 profile slots. Saving profiles for different applications and games could make these more comfortable and then being able to change between profiles with a couple clicks rather than having to remember all your settings is definitely a plus.

A tab on the left side allows you to open up advanced settings. In this tab you will find things such as mouse acceleration, windows pointer speed, and setting your sensitivity for the X-axis and the Y-axis independently. While I can’t see myself using this much after it is set, it was nice to tweak my mouse just the way I like it. One function I thought was unnecessary was the ability to set the sensitivity for each axis independently, however, having the ability to is nice.

The sensitivity tab opens up to allow access to setting the sensitivity as a whole rather than independently, the scroll speed of the wheel, and the double click recognition speed; all pretty standard in today’s gaming mouse drivers.

I would say the drivers for this mouse are well developed, easy to use, and allows you to get the most out of owning a gaming mouse. The drivers allow for a complete customization of every aspect of its performance and function. This of course is perfect for gamers as every gamer has a personal preference to the speed of every direction. We are, after all, a very picky bunch.