Razer Deathadder Review

After the ESReality Mousescore 2007 Sujoy promised to review Razer's new mouse as soon as he gets his hands on it. Now the review is done.

The new Razer mouse features an optical sensor, which handles up to 1800 DPI, and a polling rate of 1000 Hz. It has the same shape which was used for the Microsoft Habu.

QuoteThe DeathAdder is aimed at low sensitivity gamers, that is gamers who prefer to sweep the mouse a long way for any kind of movement. To accomplish this Razer are using a new, third generation, infra-red, optical sensor that they claim "eliminates skipping and negative acceleration". I'm very glad to see that Razer do understand the real problems that a gaming mouse can have. But the question is: have Razer got it right with the DeathAdder? We answer that question in this comprehensive mouse review.


If you want this question answered, read the review at ESReality.
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didn't know in which category it fits best. how about a hardware category?
Gone with Crossfire so more people see it ^

Not really an 'esports' post as such, more general gaming.
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Other News at the most imo.
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Cool, im not a razor fan but i like articles about mice :P
looks ugly
Really looking forward to this mouse think this review just reaffirmed by beliefs razer would do it right this time =]
Razer CH isn't that bad as they judge it in this article or? What do you think
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Mouse: Razer Copperhead@1000Hz/400 DPI
Does that answer your question? it is in my opinion the best mouse availible right now however the shape does not suit me I wrote an article on this a few months ago said it was what I thought was the best at that time ;)
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Ok:) Only side buttons are fucked up a bit.
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I actually like them :P the MX ones don't feel solid enough and are placed too high for me :P
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Thanks for making me feel better after just having bought a Copperhead, having read the article on ESR and hearing about this new mouse especially for lowsens gamers :)
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lol, that's kinda sad for you... ;)
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have u tried razer pro solutions v1.6?
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I have tried basically all those cutting-edge mouses, and I like this one most.
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thats diamondback without side buttons afai?
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it got advanced infra-red censor, but mouse details are like db's. It got sidebuttons as well...

I have or have tried mx310, mx510, mx518, g5, ch, habu, ime3.0, wmo, db, etc.

and this one is the best among them all :)
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Well, i'm thinking of fixing my db cord as I realy can't play with ch :'(
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Just switch ch and db cords ! That's what i've done with mine.
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Feels kinda ghey to fuck op my copperhead. Besides i like to keep it for my collection :P I got a broken mx500 and mx510 lying around and a few 5€ crap mice. I saw some stuff on how to fix the mx buttons and ill just take the 5€ mice for extra parts to fix the diamondback.

From all mice i played with diamondback was the most enjoyable, also gave nice straight lines in paint. Only bad side was the feet which didnt last more then a few month, had to replace them with glydz realy fast, was awesome with qpad :P Copperhead can't keep up with my low sensitivity and it doesnt like being lift up a bit while doing very long sweeps. I tend to lift up the outer side a tiny bit and the laser realy doesnt like it. I realy want to play with my db again, besides teKoa signed it!
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Yep, I think you can take you old mx500/510 cord. I had only a copperhead, so I took it (I dislike the shape of the mouse, find it way too big, it isn't comfortable compared to the db). Both mices uses exactly the same cord (connector, and the little plastic thing in the front of the mouse, don't know the name). And you won't fuck it up : I opened both 4 or 5 times and all the feets are still sticky and useable.

But I found something strange: the mouserate showed with the mouserate checker is really more stable with my old broken diamondback cord than with the one from ch ! It should have been the same, duh ?
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I blame you for losing 70€ on crappy copperhead :'( In CPMA it plays nice, with the higher ingame sens, but then you cant use 1000hz as you get some weird bug where your mousebuttons dont work all the time.
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i'm in love :P
Finally a mouse worth upgrading to from the mx500, gotta get this:)
If they can fix the 450dpi/900dpi issues this would be the perfect mouse for ET.
No matter how good that mouse is I wouldnt buy something with such a retarded name.
so whos the retarded one?:P
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LifeRemover would be better
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So your point is...?
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lowsens? i say : *wooo..psssssssssht*
no1 uses lowsens! it would be impossible to own flash games with a lowsens
Question : any1 has a table of some sort that shows the max dpi for each resolution (to avoid negative acceleration ofc)

EDIT : for et ofc
depends on sensitivity and fov also^^
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im using about 30cm = 420°, a 100fov, and r_mode 7 (or 8)..
anyway to calculate this or..? :)
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thats pro tbh
And by saying they have 1800 DPI, it really means that you will have 400 DPI (like you should) and the other 1400 is useless!
Well we can always have 1800 dpi and lower windows sensitivity to get something like 400 dpi and still have the awesome performance ;)
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how does lowering windows sens "change" dpi?

Moreso I wonder how this would affect changing DPI in linux (linux has DGA mouse input, the mouse input is not affected by the OS/Desktop, input goes straight to the game).
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It doesn't exactly 'lower dpi' but gives the effect of it, what does windows sensitivity do? it simply does the opposite of DPI.

When DPI doubles say from 800-1600 your mouse now notices twice as many dots per inch, what windows sensitivity does is it can be lowered to count 2 dots before it considers any 1 movement so it's effectively halving the dpi.
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So on what Window notch should the slider be then for having the ´400´dpi feel whilst the mouse runs 1800 dpi?
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anyone knows if it's as heavy as habu?
England Sujoy
QuoteThe weight is identical to the Habu, from my rough guess at holding it. It's a little heavier than a WMO and a little lighter than a MX500. I need some scales really...
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nice, if they remove the sucky lights I'll maybe buy it
you can turn them off ;)
edit: picture
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wtf is 450 dpi? retards@razer :<
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Because you understand a lot about hardware right?

It's an 1800 DPI mouse, which means to scale down DPI in hardware the only "good" ways you can do it are by needing 2 counts to move 1 pixel (1800 / 2 = 900dpi), or 4 counts to move 1 pixel (1800 / 4 = 450dpi).
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Anyone had any problems loading that site?
I tried to open it with my browsers, firewall off and security settings set at "risk". But still i cant view that website...
No problems with other websites =/
No problems here, don't know what it could be though... :s
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This indeed look quite nice. Im guessing it wont be long before Logitech is gonna bring out something similar or even BETTER
Nice to see they got the picture on removing the whole skipping and negative accel features etc.
Logitech haven't released something better than razer mice in a long time.
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You know what. I think it comes down to personal preference.
You can come with all techinfo this and that. But in the end its what you prefer to use will be more based one the shape then only the techinfo ofcourse you will look at is. But the difference are quite minimal.
And take a look @ utiers post. G5 has that as well but for the rest i would dare to say its on of the better mouse. But then again its my personal preference. And its BS to say that logitech hasn't come up with anything useful or better.
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Until they fix the firmware issues, you can always just lower windows sensitivity settings. They should affect q3-engine games without DI. That way you'll get lower effective DPI but the mouse will still be running at 1800.

For games that use DI you need not worry.
So on what Window notch should the slider be then for having the ´400´dpi feel whilst the mouse runs 1800 dpi?
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I think you'd need to set it to "3" in the registry, since the slider in Windows only changes by even numbers.
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Hmm oke, thanks.
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1800/400 = 4.5 -> 10/4.5 = 2.222... -> registry value 2 (equals first notch)
Which results in: 10/2 = 5 -> 1800/5 = 360dpi

If you set it to 3 in the registry: 10/3 = 3.333... -> 1800/3.333... = 540dpi
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As far as I know, the sensitivity scale in Windows is non-linear, so that's incorrect.
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looks nice ;E
Yeah, wanna see logitech release something new!
Was waiting for this one :D Finally i can change my old diamondback
Quote from Esreality:

"I e-mailed the tech support for razer and this was their response: "The Death Adder will not work on a glass surface. We do not recommend an Aluminum surface, it will work, yet it will not track well.""

:-(
wepee bought my DeathAdder today.
fuck me . incredible mouse :S

so accurate , so fast raction.

all my acc's went up after few hours of getting used to it.

only thing that hand starts to hurt little bit - must get used to its shape.

5+++ mouse :)
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