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Logitech G613

3owners with an opinion
67%of verdicts positive
0/1positive/negative since 2024
0happy after 3+ years

Praised for performance; criticized for reliability.

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I am struggling with the current state of BAD keyboards. I had a Corsair k95, which was mostly fine except that keys broke after 3-6 months use. Especially keys that I used for gaming... Then I switched to Logitech G613, and now I cant do any programming because of key chattering. My solution has been moving back to older keyboards.
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>Other people -swear- that its impossible to feel the difference, however I can't provide evidence other than 'blind testing' which I have passed. How do you know if you're feeling input latency or response latency with your devices ? Its not just you. Someone gave me a keychron keyboard to test out because they thought my using 'mainstream' brands that weren't lubricated or whatever was bad, and even wired the input latency on the keychron was worse than relatively cheap logitech (G613) and razer (blackwidow mini) keyboards on 2.4ghz. I don't know if its their USB polling or what but these well reviewed keychron keyboards were basically completely unusable to me. RTings.com usually includes tests of latency in their keyboard reviews under 'typing experience' which is helpful if shopping. Maybe one day if keychron cares enough to fix it I'll give them another try.
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I've had a couple over the past decade or so. If you look past the old IBM PS/2 keyboards, in recent history i've owned: - Das Keyboard 4 Professional ( https://www.daskeyboard.com/daskeyboard-4-professional/ ), which was a nice "starter keyboard". I've heard quality has gone downhill since, but mine performed well. I eventually came to dislike the form factor of it because it was causing my wrists to hurt after prolonged use. - Ducky One 2 ( https://www.duckychannel.com.tw/en/One-2-Phantom-Black ), this one came highly recommended. I purchased one with MX Brown switches for use at work. It took about 3 days for my colleagues to complain about the noise. It is very comfortable to use, but God it's loud. It now lives at my work-from-home desk. - Logitech G613 ( https://www.logitechg.com/en-au/products/gaming-keyboards/g6... ), this one has Romer switches, and is actually quite nice to use. Not too loud and nice tactile feedback. It's rather large, and with COVID and work from home, i needed more "desk space", so it's sitting in my closet at the moment. - Keychron K8 ( https://www.keychron.com/products/keychron-k8-tenkeyless-wir... ), this is probably the best mechanical keyboard i have. It's still rather new, and by using it i think i can feel that i'm going to have a problem with keys binding at some point, it has that little resistant "pop up", but for now it's great. As for typing speed, the Ducky or Keychron are the fastest with the least errors. That is of course a very p