Suggestions for a Gaming Keyboard

[PhIlLy ChEeSe]

Hey all!
I want to get a second keyboard, but the nice one's are sky high priced. So without breaking the bank I want a sturdy keyboard that is gonna last me a few years, and has a good feel to it(I know that is a break the bank request).
Nothing speaks better than experience!!!

PS I have an old Eclipse that I love, but they don't make um no more...

[Witchdoctor]

you want a matt or a mechanical ?

I have a TT that is nice and a Razor that I like

both mechanical, I just like the feel, both cost an arm and a leg though ?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16823162026

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16823114026

Here is a couple of decent deals :scared:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16823114029

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16823129002

Getting ready for some BF4 action . . . . :ohcrap:

[PhIlLy ChEeSe]

Mechanical,
WOW These prices, hang on I got an arm here I sole some where...............:laughing:

[GFDuke]

I might pick up the Razer one. Only because it's lighted. Are the audio cables attached to the keyboard or came they be unplugged?


BF4:good:

[Witchdoctor]

Everything is attached on mine, it has 2x USB one for the keys and one for a plug on the keyboard the audio is in the same cable as well. The razor does not come with a wrist rest though. So long sessions can be fatiging on the wrist, Although I feel the trade off is worth it. great tactical feel and at times almost too responcive.

There is a small curve coming from a rubber matt like say a Logitech G510. but you get over it in 20 minutes

[kikicoco1334]

I have the G unit and i really like it.
annoying the living jesus out of my coworkers tho

[PhIlLy ChEeSe]

I might pick up the Razer one. Only because it's lighted. Are the audio cables attached to the keyboard or came they be unplugged?


BF4:good:
Thought I'd post this for you Duke, of course it is New Egg customer feedback so........



I'm looking at this, I know I should MAN UP and spend some but I'm not feeling it with any you posted WD
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16823126301

[Witchdoctor]

Nothing wrong with a matt bro, used them for years :thumbsup:

They are defiantly a lot more competitively priced.

Disagree with the review, my Razor and TT has been bullet proof, knocks on wood .... :laughing:

[PhIlLy ChEeSe]

Nothing wrong with a matt bro, used them for years :thumbsup:

They are defiantly a lot more competitively priced.

Disagree with the review, my Razor and TT has been bullet proof, knocks on wood .... :laughing:

Cool!
Yeah I know its a "customer" review witch is not a way to decide.

[MaadDaawg]

My razor ultimate was bulletproof until the left support of the spacebar broke.. downhill from there.

Have you looked into Duckey? Well made mechanical keyboard, I picked up a no frills one at Micro Center for $79, cherry red switches :thumbsup:

Think I need to upgrade to one with macro keys though

[Neuromancer]

Get what is comfortable. Everything else is a gimmick

Membrane Keyboards work well and last Forever. Mechanical Keyboards are the same, except cost more and are loud and will really assist your Carpal tunnel.

There isa reason people stopped making them 20 some years ago. Membranes are better.

If you are a button masher, its cool you can geta membrane with n-key rollover, they just cost as much as a mechanical.

As for USB mice.

If you actually use 1600 MHZ polling rate on USB, you are hurting your gaming experience more than helping it.

Heres how I know.

Naked desktop, open task manageer and switch to processes.

Keep your eye on the CPU usage. Then shake the mouse fora a few seconds. Change polling rate and repeat.

1600 MHZ polling rate uses 13-15% CPU usage on a SB-E at 4GHz.

30% on an athlon 2 x2 at 3.7

[PhIlLy ChEeSe]

Get what is comfortable. Everything else is a gimmick

Membrane Keyboards work well and last Forever. Mechanical Keyboards are the same, except cost more and are loud and will really assist your Carpal tunnel.

There isa reason people stopped making them 20 some years ago. Membranes are better.

If you are a button masher, its cool you can geta membrane with n-key rollover, they just cost as much as a mechanical.

As for USB mice.

If you actually use 1600 MHZ polling rate on USB, you are hurting your gaming experience more than helping it.

Heres how I know.

Naked desktop, open task manageer and switch to processes.

Keep your eye on the CPU usage. Then shake the mouse fora a few seconds. Change polling rate and repeat.

1600 MHZ polling rate uses 13-15% CPU usage on a SB-E at 4GHz.

30% on an athlon 2 x2 at 3.7


So how do you cut back on the CPU usage of the mouse?

[Witchdoctor]

I'm too old, I can't even function @ 1600 ......... :ohcrap:

[Neuromancer]

Just reduce the polling rate.

For keyboards, I picked up 5 HP keyboards on ebay for $40 shipped. They work great and have lasted longer than any other keyboard I have owned.

Also the letters don't rub off like the gaming keyboards I have owned.

[PhIlLy ChEeSe]

Just reduce the polling rate.

For keyboards, I picked up 5 HP keyboards on ebay for $40 shipped. They work great and have lasted longer than any other keyboard I have owned.

Also the letters don't rub off like the gaming keyboards I have owned.


I have no clue how to turn down the polling rate on my mouse, I'll google it Thanks!

[Witchdoctor]

mine does it right on the mouse

using a Level 10 and a G500

[PhIlLy ChEeSe]

Well I ended up getting this cheapy around $50, just can't justify the $149 cost of the others with not many feature that I want........
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16823109191

[MaadDaawg]

I'm too old, I can't even function @ 1600 ......... :ohcrap:

Shit Witchie, I'm older n you and I have my RAT 7 set at 2200 :eek:

[Witchdoctor]

:scared:

[Kal-EL]

Kool bones, do let us know how this keyboard performs. I had the sidewinder mouse for a long time. Ask Maadaawg, it did well in Unreal :)

[Witchdoctor]

The humane society will need to be notified. Don't you know, cruel and unusual treatment of Daawg's is against the law .............. :keeporder:

[Kal-EL]

The humane society will need to be notified. Don't you know, cruel and unusual treatment of Daawg's is against the law .............. :keeporder:

ROFL! :laughing::laughing::laughing::laughing:

[MaadDaawg]

Kool bones, do let us know how this keyboard performs. I had the sidewinder mouse for a long time. Ask Maadaawg, it did well in Unreal :)

you're on so seldom it's difficult to remember to be honest :D

[Kal-EL]

you're on so seldom it's difficult to remember to be honest :D
I don't even know where the install disk is anymore :scared:

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[thebanik]

What, we are now gameaholics.com? Everyone playing games, no one submitting scores, :p

[Kal-EL]

What, we are now gameaholics.com? Everyone playing games, no one submitting scores, :p

WE are, uh, I uh, well, :withstupid:

[Witchdoctor]

What, we are now gameaholics.com? Everyone playing games, no one submitting scores, :p

Not like we used to for sure, for me it is simple economics right now
So I am gamaholican this summer

you and 3D are tearing it up though bro ........... :thumbsup:


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[GFDuke]

Just a break in the action is all. Believe!! Everything has a place and time.

[PhIlLy ChEeSe]

Not like we used to for sure, for me it is simple economics right now
So I am gamaholican this summer

you and 3D are tearing it up though bro ........... :thumbsup:


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Same for me, used to have unending money for it. Now I have to spend my money on other stuff, for now atleast..........

[thebanik]

Not like we used to for sure, for me it is simple economics right now
So I am gamaholican this summer

you and 3D are tearing it up though bro ........... :thumbsup:



Just a break in the action is all. Believe!! Everything has a place and time.

Same for me, used to have unending money for it. Now I have to spend my money on other stuff, for now atleast..........

Completely agree with you WD, Duke and Philly. I also took a break of almost a year to improve my financial situation. And luckily nothing much has changed in the year except for Titan which is so out of my budget that cannot even think of buying it.

Oh and yeah 3D is definitely on a roll.

[rickss69]

Still using the Saitek Cyborg for gaming and general use... http://www.ebay.com/bhp/saitek-cyborg-gaming-keyboard Mine is an older unit than these, but still holding up...a little wear on the "C" and "Shift" keys.

[PhIlLy ChEeSe]

Still using the Saitek Cyborg for gaming and general use... http://www.ebay.com/bhp/saitek-cyborg-gaming-keyboard Mine is an older unit than these, but still holding up...a little wear on the "C" and "Shift" keys.


Wish you would have posted that five days ago, I love mine. I might buy another just to have two of them..................:thumbsup:

[Witchdoctor]

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[Neuromancer]

Wish you would have posted that five days ago, I love mine. I might buy another just to have two of them..................:thumbsup:

Keyboards.. meh.

Saitek game controllers. Holy crap. Logitech failed me at EVERY turn. Bought a p2500 saitek in 2003. Lasted me till 2010. Have not bought another controller since (and stopped playing racing games because of it) because last I looked they stopped making good controllers.


EDIT: At WD. I know I am getting old. I prefer those cylons to the newer ones. ( I watched all of BSG earlier this year during my convalescence and Do not get the infatuation. Has no one seen the original? It was campy and terrible and awesome. the new one. tried to be LOST or something, and I got LOST in the process. Did not like it, and I will never rewatch the series. then again what doI know, I watched the season premiere first episode of Lost and went, OMG this show is terrible It looks like a drama soap opera show...

It did get a little better but I think it was only because I had someone telling me how awesome it was each time I watched it. (And I still would rather have been out on the back deck with a beer and a smoke shooting the shit).

[Witchdoctor]

I agree, the new BSG totally blows IMO ,

Like the Face man as Starbuck FTW ............. :thumbsup:

the perception of true evil in the original was win

[Kal-EL]

I like the new one.

[Witchdoctor]

:P