Best budget gaming keyboard

PsychoFish said:
What about input lag? I have never found a wireless mouse or keyboard that doesn't require ESP for FPS games due to an ever so slight input lag
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Have not noticed any at all but then again I don't play FPS games, but when typing its instant so I presume it is fine.
 
Roomys said:
You know how a steering wheel feels when you turn corners in a game, you dont get that with a keyboard.

With a mechanical one you do.

AFAIK?
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You're saying that they're pressure sensitive and responsive? Not just 1/0? Do you have a link to a mechanical keyboard with this tech?
 
Roomys said:
You know how a steering wheel feels when you turn corners in a game, you dont get that with a keyboard.

With a mechanical one you do.

AFAIK?
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No, not quite. Mechanical refers to the switch type underneath the keys. All keyboards, including mechanical keyboards, the keys operate with a switch. These switches have two modes, on or off / open or closed / 1 or 0 (whatever you prefer).

Most Mechanical keyboards use either Cherry MX Black, Cherry MX Red, Cherry MX Brown, Cherry MX Clear or Cherry MX Blue switches...

The differences in these switches are they way they feel. Black & Red are linear switches which means that you don't feel the "switchover" between on and off states and are relatively quiet as far as mechanical switches go. Brown and Clear switches are tactile and have a "biting" point that gives you tactile feedback (resistance) when you cross the switchover point. The Blue switches are the noisy tactile ones that have a very clear and distinct clicking sound when going past the switchover point.

Your very cheap keyboards use a membrane which works similar to the keys on your microwave oven, dome switches are the most common gaming keyboard configurations available (think Logitech G19), you also have scissor switches (like the ones used on laptop keyboards) and lastly the buckling spring keyboard. All of them basically work in the same manner, a key's circuit is either in the off state (depressed) or in the on state (pressed)
 
PsychoFish said:
No, not quite. Mechanical refers to the switch type underneath the keys. All keyboards, including mechanical keyboards, the keys operate with a switch. These switches have two modes, on or off / open or closed / 1 or 0 (whatever you prefer).

Most Mechanical keyboards use either Cherry MX Black, Cherry MX Red, Cherry MX Brown, Cherry MX Clear or Cherry MX Blue switches...

The differences in these switches are they way they feel. Black & Red are linear switches which means that you don't feel the "switchover" between on and off states and are relatively quiet as far as mechanical switches go. Brown and Clear switches are tactile and have a "biting" point that gives you tactile feedback (resistance) when you cross the switchover point. The Blue switches are the noisy tactile ones that have a very clear and distinct clicking sound when going past the switchover point.

Your very cheap keyboards use a membrane which works similar to the keys on your microwave oven, dome switches are the most common gaming keyboard configurations available (think Logitech G19), you also have scissor switches (like the ones used on laptop keyboards) and lastly the buckling spring keyboard. All of them basically work in the same manner, a key's circuit is either in the off state (depressed) or in the on state (pressed)
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1. you left out the rare cherrymx greens...

2. Mech switches are a life changer. Once you use them you will never want to touch membrane ever in your life again.
 
Applause said:
1. you left out the rare cherrymx greens...

2. Mech switches are a life changer. Once you use them you will never want to touch membrane ever in your life again.
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Yeah, but green is a rarity an mostly used (except on the CM Storm keyboard - where it's used everywhere) for the heavy hitter keys like the spacebar and the enter keys. The Cherry MX Green feels hard to press and requires a lot of force, sometimes too much for my liking.

The most important feature of a gaming keyboard for me is the KRO
 
Everytime I touch a membrane keyboard I fell like I am using the worst ever invented keyboards...

If you are buying gaming kb's try mech before you just buy another membrane kb
 
Applause said:
Everytime I touch a membrane keyboard I fell like I am using the worst ever invented keyboards...

If you are buying gaming kb's try mech before you just buy another membrane kb
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You know there are other types of switches...
+ Cherry lost their patent so everyone can make them :D
 
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