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Matte black Razer Viper V4 Pro gaming mouse on a cloth mousepad beside its wireless dongle and a coiled USB-C cable

49 grams and 180 hours of battery in the Viper V4 Pro

Razer Viper V4 Pro battery life is 180 hours at 1,000Hz and 44 hours at 8,000Hz. The 49-gram shell adds no creak. Here is what the weight cut cost.

An HDMI connector streaming wide separate red, green, and blue light bands into a bright desktop monitor beside a thinner rival stream

96Gbps arrives on HDMI 2.2 through the new Ultra96 cable

HDMI 2.2 Ultra96 cables carry 96Gbps, beating DisplayPort UHBR20's 80Gbps and unlocking uncompressed 4K at 240Hz in 12-bit color on certified cables.

Cutaway mechanical keyboard switch showing a multi-stage spring with tight coils at the top and loose coils at the base beside a rising force curve

Multi-stage springs give the Gateron Pro 2.0 a rising force

Multi-stage springs bend a switch force curve into a rising ramp. See how the Gateron Pro 2.0 Silver presses and why a 60g label hides the shape.

A mechanical keyboard PCB with rows of black hot-swap sockets and an amber switch lowered into one socket by tweezers

Rated for 50,000 swaps, Gateron's 2.0 socket outlasts Kailh

Gateron's hot-swap 2.0 socket is rated for 50,000 swaps against Kailh's 100, but pin damage kills far more sockets than swap counts ever will.

OLED gaming monitor in a dark room with an uneven brightness waveform pulsing across a near-black night scene

Steady frame rates tame the VRR flicker on OLED monitors

OLED VRR flicker comes from gamma tuned for one refresh rate. Steady frame rates, anti-flicker modes and a high FPS cap cut it down in dark scenes.

Lenovo L16 portable monitor standing on its kickstand beside an open laptop on a cafe table, joined by a single USB-C cable

65W flows through Lenovo's L16 Mobile Monitor to your laptop

The Lenovo L16 portable monitor pushes 65W down one USB-C cable to charge your laptop while driving its 16-inch screen. Here is where power stops.