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Logitech G515 Lightspeed Review | MMORPG.com
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Logitech G515 Lightspeed Review | MMORPG.com
Logitech just released its latest gaming keyboard, the Logitech G515 Lightspeed. Coming in at $140, Matt breaks down whether this is worth picking up in this review!
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Heresy! Long live the G710+!
Agree, mine lived a long time, still works but I put it into retirement. Logitech's early entry into mechanical gaming KB, started out great, they just built them too well (minus the crappy keycaps), I'm sure their quality has gone back down hill again though xD.
54 macro G keys want to argue with you!
I had a G15 and never really used all those G keys tbh. Most logitech KB sucked back then anyways. Within a year the lettering came off the keycaps on my G15. I emailed them and they were like sorry out of warranty. Found out 2 years later people complained so much they sent everyone better keycaps, of course I missed out because by then they stopped making them. Kinda made me not want to buy another Logitech KB, until 710+ came along. It lasted for years until recently I busted a few keys playing Throne & Liberty lol. Again I found out this was also a known issue, it just didn't happen to me for 10 years. I moved on, I could probably replace the keycaps but I figure it's just time to retire it.
I notice the G710 and G510 has a NP, which is a good start!
Also interference is rarely an issue, and even if it is, it's easy to solve by using USB extension cable to bring the receiver closer to the keyboard.
If you don't ever want to move the keyboard and don't mind the wire constantly running into it, then you don't have much any reason why you'd get a wireless keyboard. But nowadays wireless keyboards don't really have the issues you think they have unless you go out of your way to buy the cheapest chinese junk keyboard you can find.
You're living in the past my dude. There is virtually no discernable difference in latency between wired and wireless for most high-end gaming peripherals these days. In some tests wireless even showed faster response times. A wired peripheral isn't instant it still has to send the signal over a wire. What you said would have been true maybe 10 years ago but definitely not anymore.
Would be a fun article.
Short of your cat chewing through a cable wired works. Ask me how I know about the cat thing.
Even some cheap Chinese gaming KBs are pretty good these days. Apparently the bar for most enthusiast gaming KBs has been set by Wooting as of late, and some are giving them a run for their money.
I mean it's not going to be supper noticeable for most gaming applications that you guys play. Plugged in the polling rate goes through the roof any on any decent KB, but again unless you are a competitive fps at highest refresh rates possible it's not going to mater for you. My current KB plugged in has an 8k polling rate.
Bluetooth's troubles don't mean that wireless keyboards and mice that come with their own dedicated dongles would have similar connection problems.
Usually the results are that with some keyboards wireless has worse latency than wired, but with others the difference between them is small. Bluetooth should not be used for gaming since it has always worse latency than either wired or a dedicated dongle.
Link to their latency comparison tool:
https://www.rtings.com/keyboard/1-3-1/graph/23182/single-key-latency-graph/logitech-g915-lightspeed-vs-asus-rog-falchion-rx-low-profile/1686/49976