: Use Razer Synapse . Go to the Performance tab and select your rate from the dropdown menu (125Hz, 500Hz, 1,000Hz).

You’ve just bought a high-end gaming mouse with a 1000 Hz polling rate. You plug it in, load up your favorite first-person shooter, and yet... something feels off. The cursor doesn't feel as crisp as the reviewers claimed. There’s a subtle delay, a micro-stutter, or the movement feels "floaty."

This was fine for office work in 2002, but for competitive gaming, 125 Hz means a new position report every 8 ms. At 1000 Hz, reports come every 1 ms. The difference in delay (7 ms) might sound tiny, but at 240+ fps on a high-refresh monitor, it’s entirely noticeable.

Do not download random “mouse rate adjuster.exe” files from shady forums or file-sharing sites. Many contain malware or adware.