Need new keyboard

SamirD said:
Nice! When was the sale--tempted to pick one of these up to complement the evga z15 board I have that supports swapping switches. :)
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Was running about 4 weeks ago, they had an extra 20% off. Item had an amazon renewed paper in it but it's flawless. I hunted for even the tiniest scratch and didn't find one. Honestly, having used it, I'd happily pay the $50 for it open box they're asking.
 
Randall Stephens said:
Was running about 4 weeks ago, they had an extra 20% off. Item had an amazon renewed paper in it but it's flawless. I hunted for even the tiniest scratch and didn't find one. Honestly, having used it, I'd happily pay the $50 for it open box they're asking.
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Thank you! I think if this week goes bad I know where my retail therapy is, lol.
 
SamirD said:
I actually put a 'wtb' on craigslist and scored the focus and and IBM SSK for steal prices. The focus was a bit dirty, but was all original. :)
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I had wanted ads up for other items for some years, I almost never got serious replies. I took them down when people started copying them and offering more than was reasonable.

Randall Stephens said:
Was running about 4 weeks ago, they had an extra 20% off. Item had an amazon renewed paper in it but it's flawless. I hunted for even the tiniest scratch and didn't find one. Honestly, having used it, I'd happily pay the $50 for it open box they're asking.
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I would've recommended it to a friend if I had known they had an eBay store. I pointed them to their website but the full size board has been out of stock for some time.
 
i have two razer keyboards both with blue switches, yes i need that click clack sound when i type, only con is its not very good for late night gaming
 
Edgar said:
the keyboard itself I loved it. Hated the icue software though. logitech is easier to manage for me. just imo
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About the same for me. I think the HW is alright (K95/18 macro key) and I can't stand iCUE. The keyboard is old enough, though, that I can use CUE with it instead (not great but better than iCUE).
 
Oh yea, good ole iClueless, gotta have it, hehehe :) /s

FYI, this forum is as close as that garbaggio will EVER get to any of my pc's !
 
I ended up getting the Logitech G815. And from past experience, the Logitech software just works. No need to "record a macro" just to save a string of text, among other things. Super happy so far.
 
Rather, I played with the keyboard a bit, by accident.
Therefore, I have a ps/2 keyboard(SteelSeries 7G) and the difference in the boot time of windows is 0.7 seconds in favor of the PS/2 slot compared to the USB slot.I also used another usb keyboard.
You can see how much those USB ports load the processor, it's not very little.

Otherwise, what would you recommend as a successor to the SteelSeries 7G? What to buy? So the SteelSeries 7G suits me in all respects, the ergonomics are good for me, the height is just right, I like that it is relatively quiet, there is no click like on other mechanical keyboards.It has a croatian layout.The disadvantage may be that there is no LED lighting, but I can do without it.
In games, the only thing that annoys me is that I don't know when I pressed and when I didn't, somehow it seems to lose the signal, I don't know if it's the graphics or something else.
 
Edgar said:
I'm coming from a Logitech G910 Orion Spark mechanical keyboard. It is 7 years old and a few of the switches are dying. Rather just get a new one at this point. Anybody have any recommendations? Ty in advance!
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I can't help but say that the Alienware 510K was not an option for me. The Cherry MX Red Low Profile keys have a few issues.

1.) The lighting is horrible! The amount of backlight on the keys tends to wash out the keycaps except for opposite colors like green/red yellow/blue. Red/Orange bleeds together like blue/violet cyan/white. After using the G910 - for all its other issues, the lighting is incredible. They use a light pipe with focusing elements to project the light from the pcb into the keys without backlighting them at the same time. Oh, there's a little bleed, but not much. But, the colors are intense and clean.
2.) The lighting is dismal, dim and useless - for me.
3.) The 'new' Cherry MX Low Profile are very sensitive. I don't know if you have ever looked at a key spec sheet, but they each have something like a +/- 15% on the actuation point. For these, that means 1.02mm to 1.38mm. There is NO resting fingers on keycaps. They are so sensitive that if I bang on the table, or shake the keyboard, some of the keys will register a keystroke.
4.) The side to side and front to back 'slop' in the keys is just ridiculous. They are loose enough to shake and rattle like marbles in a dishwasher.
5.) The keycaps are fully exposed and I nearly sliced my finger open on corner of the NumPad Enter key.
6.) (finally) The software is just plain awful. While it works - in general - the auto profile change has some serious bugs. I have three basic setups:
Elite Dangerous
Visual Code
System Default
The settings work - sort of. As I am in Visual Code, the thing flickers from Default to Code settings making it more of an annoyance than any sort of useful. And it takes longer than expected to switch from one profile to another on the fly.
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Now, after all that, my son and wife love theirs - while I am, trying to fix one of my three G910s so I have a working keyboard while I return this one I am typing on now.
lol

I've been a G910 user for years as have my wife and son. They are definitely great - out of the box. But, they have had keys get 'spooky' in as little as 6 months. Which is why I am now sitting on 3 defective G910 keyboards due to crappy Omron Romer-G keys. OMG!

These things are total crap - maybe we are talking about a bad batch (that covers about 16 months of keyboard stock - mostly from Best Buy). On the three keyboards I've taken apart to scavenge spare keys, I came upon some interesting findings.

Out of an entire G910, the Romer-G switches measure anywhere from:
0Ω to 10Ω (more or less perfect) about 5% of total keys
1.2 kΩ to 300 kΩ (still works) about 85% of total keys
Over 300 kΩ (starting to get spooky misses keypress 1 out of 20) about 5% of total keys
and the last 5% are noisy (key repeats) and over 1MΩ to open.

Damnit, every one of these should have been less than 1 Ω. Even some of the unused keys (G-keys and F9 ~ F12) had high readings.
To me, it's an indication that the stock strip the switch contacts were made from was never rinsed of manufacturing contaminants before assembly.
So, it's not just a sign of wear and tear.
Never again...
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When working for Littelfuse (for 15 years) many of the fuses and devices we made were thoroughly rinsed in a neutralizing bath and then filtered water to make certain no contaminants were present in the final product.

This is not as uncommon as you might think. Back in the early 80's the company I worked for "OmniMedical" (formerly E.M.I. Medical CT Scanner Div USA) ordered some 74L$xx series chips from Texas Instruments. They were out of these IC's for general use and took a batch that were set to be tinned, out of the process without neutralizing the flux they had been dipped in. About 8 months later, I went to get some from stock and ALL of the legs had turned black and fallen off the chips. We are talking thousands of IC chips. Management was not pleased.
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And, my Logitech G15 from 2008 was just recently cleaned (I mean totally torn down and made like new inside). Membranes washed and checked for issues and all keys soaked in hot water with Dawn. I've used this thing for so long, some of the keycap masks have "melted" off. Even the space bar has a worn through spot.
I'm thinking that my next keyboard will have Cherry MX Brown switches or something similar, I believe these are more suited for heavy hands.
(sorry for the rant - lol)
 
MarkWF said:
I've been a G910 user for years as have my wife and son. They are definitely great - out of the box. But, they have had keys get 'spooky' in as little as 6 months. Which is why I am now sitting on 3 defective G910 keyboards due to crappy Omron Romer-G keys. OMG!

These things are total crap - maybe we are talking about a bad batch (that covers about 16 months of keyboard stock - mostly from Best Buy). On the three keyboards I've taken apart to scavenge spare keys, I came upon some interesting findings.

Out of an entire G910, the Romer-G switches measure anywhere from:
0Ω to 10Ω (more or less perfect) about 5% of total keys
1.2 kΩ to 300 kΩ (still works) about 85% of total keys
Over 300 kΩ (starting to get spooky misses keypress 1 out of 20) about 5% of total keys
and the last 5% are noisy (key repeats) and over 1MΩ to open.

Damnit, every one of these should have been less than 1 Ω. Even some of the unused keys (G-keys and F9 ~ F12) had high readings.
To me, it's an indication that the stock strip the switch contacts were made from was never rinsed of manufacturing contaminants before assembly.
So, it's not just a sign of wear and tear.
Never again...
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When working for Littelfuse (for 15 years) many of the fuses and devices we made were thoroughly rinsed in a neutralizing bath and then filtered water to make certain no contaminants were present in the final product.

This is not as uncommon as you might think. Back in the early 80's the company I worked for "OmniMedical" (formerly E.M.I. Medical CT Scanner Div USA) ordered some 74L$xx series chips from Texas Instruments. They were out of these IC's for general use and took a batch that were set to be tinned, out of the process without neutralizing the flux they had been dipped in. About 8 months later, I went to get some from stock and ALL of the legs had turned black and fallen off the chips. We are talking thousands of IC chips. Management was not pleased.
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This is some very, very valuable information to the higher ups at Logitech as you have discovered something their qa department completely missed. I'd get on linked in and see if you can't reach one of the C-levels with this info--I bet they'd not only give you 3x more G910s, but give them for you for life in return for the professional analysis that will save them millions with their manufacturing vendor.
 
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