Patriot Viper V760 Keyboard Review

Patriot Viper V760 Software

The V760 comes with software to control backlighting, keystrokes, and macros. It is a very simple, single page self-explanatory layout. The keyboard can carry a maximum of six profiles, each with its own settings.

There’s a wide variety of lighting patterns, which can be further customized based on light direction, color, brightness, and animation speed. These patterns don’t provide much practical benefit, but they’re an eye-catching way to your setup if you’re ever at a LAN party or showing off to your friends. There are 11 modes in total including static, breating, wave, reactive, sidewinder, ripple, spectrum, raindrop, vortex, spotlight and radar. Patriot also includes light direction option for the presets that can use it and eight color presets with variable brightness and toggle speed.

Below is a sample of one of the animated presets: raindrop, set to maximum speed.

Up to 32 macros can be created, and then applied to a specific key. The macro-making tool is fairly simple, and doesn’t seem to allow for importing or exporting any macros you have made.

From the main screen, keys can be bound to specific functions. They can be bound to another key on the keyboard, disabled, assigned to a macro, and even launch certain programs or open certain files.

Other features include being able to set the response time from 2-20 ms (in 2 ms intervals), adjustable report rate from 125 Hz to 1000 Hz, and firmware adjustments.