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Can someone recommend me a good gaming keyboard?
Squirminator2k
they/themNorth Hollywood, CARegistered User regular
they/themNorth Hollywood, CARegistered User regular
My PC keyboard is starting to crap out on me and I figure now is a good time to treat myself to a gaming keyboard. Can someone recommend me a good one?
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Nothing wrong with the G15 though.
I type pretty fast too, can do around 100 wpm, but I don't really get annoyed by the sound levels.
Dear God, that is the ugliest thing. I'm sure you'd be a huge hit at a 1987 Star Trek convention.
the biggest thing to look for in a gaming keyboard is the ability to press a lot of keys at once without it not allowing you to press any more. there's a name for this, i forget what its called though, anti-ghosting or something?
a good way to test it (if you have access to it) is to hold down both shift keys and type 'the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog' ... since that covers all the keys (if it missing a lot, then its not very good).
What is the different between a gaming and a normal keyboard?
About $50.
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edit: unless you require a wireless one for whatever reason, i guess
It's not a gaming one, but I can't imagine any improvements to it that would aid gaming.
It's probably the best one I've ever had, too.
Oh and stay away from anything wireless.
Thats actually the keyboard my team at work decided we liked best out of all the ones IT was willing to get us...(I develop software for a living). The are surprisingly decent.
thats the exact keyboard i have, and its almost perfect. i dont like the arrangement of the pgup/pgdown/home etc keys, but ive gotten used to it over time. aside from that very small issue its a really good keyboard. doesnt hurt that it costs $15, also.
It's bit a bulky, which I'm not a huge fan of. On the other hand, I like the back lighting (you can change it between blue, purple, and red, and adjust the brightness), and the thing's sturdy enough that you could probably beat someone to death with it.
Yeah! What the hell sort of gamer could make use of more than two buttons on a mouse?
I agree with the keyboard but your crazy on the mouse.
Seriously. I've never understood the need for more than two buttons. Well excluding clicking the mouse wheel. I'm a keyboard hotkey man through and through.
The keys were a bit too "soft" on the press for my liking. I found the LCD screen to be pretty underused for most games.
Plus the thing is fraggin' huge and didn't fit comfortably on my desk.
It wasn't a horrible keyboard IMO, just not worth it for me at the price at cost. When it broke (my own fault) I never considered getting another one.
I have a Saitek Eclipse II that I like better. The "feel" of the keys is closer to what I like and it's not as hefty. It doesn't have a lot of the macro features that the G15 had, nor the LCD display, but like I said I didn't use those much anyways.
How about being able to bind those other buttons to functions in the game?
I've got 7 buttons on mine (a Microsoft Habu), and I'm still not sure it's enough.
Very useful for fps. Means you take your hand off WASD less often.
Edit: Also, if you like the G15 and hate the screen, they have a cheaper version called the G11 which is the G15 sans LCD.... :
http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/keyboards/keyboard/devices/285&cl=US,EN
They also have a Nostromo N52 knockoff called the G13:
http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/keyboards/keyboard/devices/5123&cl=us,en
I call it a knockoff but it actually looks a lot more comfortable than the N52.
holy god it's hideous.
and beautiful