Let's talk about mice & keyboards!

[znôrt]

I haven't tried their mouses, but Razer's keyboards and gamepads seem very well built.

don't get me even started about keyboards! yeah, this junk seems well built. got a corsair strafe too that stopped working after a couple of months of use. ended up importing from some factory in kentucky that still builds the old ibm keyboards, that has little fancy but is really well built and i think i'm served for a few years now. anyway, won't be buying anything with a 'pro gamer' sticker on it ever again, it's just ridiculous.

 

[clivewil]

It's membrane

after buying several 'good' switched keyboards of various types (last one was an asus cerberus rgb, i think) and all of them suffering from key chatter to varying degrees, i finally gave up and bought a cerberus membrane, and couldn't be happier with it (after putting a bit of black tape over the ridiculously bright 'cerberus' logo, that is)

 

[Chris Simon]

I haven't tried their mouses, but Razer's keyboards and gamepads seem very well built.

don't get me even started about keyboards! yeah, this junk seems well built. got a corsair strafe too that stopped working after a couple of months of use. ended up importing from some factory in kentucky that still builds the old ibm keyboards, that has little fancy but is really well built and i think i'm served for a few years now. anyway, won't be buying anything with a 'pro gamer' sticker on it ever again, it's just ridiculous.

Razer's hardware is actually really good. (Or, well, was when I was using them, who knows what they're doing now). It's their drivers and bloatware that make it insufferable.

 

[znôrt]

Razer's hardware is actually really good. (Or, well, was when I was using them, who knows what they're doing now). It's their drivers and bloatware that make it insufferable.

that may be so. i ignored the whole bloat (installed it just for curiosity and removed it right away) but both my razor mamba tournament and my son's, bought from different retailers and with a couple of weeks of difference, started to fail to track randomly in 2-3 months. yeah the plastic is solid, has a nice 'feel', box is lush ... but the thing isn't reliable and just doesn't work. i slammed it once on the table in frustration and the wheel just stopped working. anyway, it's now in a box with random crap i keep for parts.

 

[Deleted member 110222]

Razer's hardware is actually really good. (Or, well, was when I was using them, who knows what they're doing now). It's their drivers and bloatware that make it insufferable.

No problems with the hardware here, nor the software. I'm not dismissing other people's experience but I've had nothing but good from the brand at a personal level.

 

[Chris Simon]

No problems with the hardware here, nor the software. I'm not dismissing other people's experience but I've had nothing but good from the brand at a personal level.

Well, yeah. If you're okay with sharing your personal data with people that really have no business of needing them in the first place.

It's not as bad as Discord, for example, which is probably the most efficient spyware ever released, but still, I'm generaly not a fan of cloud-based services (But that's just me)

 

[Hooplah]

Razer Blackwidow Ultimate keyboard - programmable plus water and dust resistant (beverage protection?). I'm a fan
of fast mechanical solid feel switches versus membrane, scissors (small used on laptops) or other types for games.

TTesports Black Element mouse - ambidextrous programmable with instant DPI switching (I'm a lefty). I macro
programmed the ESC keyboard key on the T7 button to exit to the ED menu so I don't have to find it on the keyboard.

Also...

Logitech G13 gamepad - Tons of features including displays for profiles, date/time, stopwatch, CPU/RAM usage and
even online news feeds. Great for the camera suite and custom macros. Very popular but discontinued so a new one
now costs a fortune. Lots of other newer types are available at lower cost without the display. Personally a big mistake
for Logitech discontinuing this controller. What were they thinking?

Logitech X-56 Gray HOTAS. Excellent (probably the best ) designed control binding options for ED and X-Plane 11 but
needs a powered USB hub to be reliable. Squeaks now and then but just a little Vaseline wipe on the moving parts below
the joystick makes it very smooth. Yaw drifting still a problem and can slowly change over time but a built-in firmware
re-calibration resets it as needed. Work on it Logitech!

Still for dedicated console players I didn't discuss the awesome PlayStation 4 DualShock controller and getting it to work
on a PC with two software support apps as in DS4Windows and InputMapper. Both support macros and I think one of
them supports wireless Bluetooth connection. I cannot remember which one. With a keyboard/mouse inputs the addition
of a console game pad is something to consider.

So only keyboard/mouse OK. But technology moves on. Consider your options. The games that we play move on so don't
be left out when you need the right controller.

Of course I set all the LED illumination to the Elite traditional "Thargoid Green".

 

[ChemicalBR0]

a no name £60 mechanical keyboard from amazon cherry blue switches(that replaced a god awful corsair strafe rgb that cost 120 quid) the new keyboard has already lasted 3 times as long. it's backlit with a single colour (blue)
and a logitech wired g203 budget mouse that cost £22 (again replacing a god awful corsair m-65 that cost me 60 quid and lasted about 6 months before single clicks were registering as double clicks and the sniper button stopped working)

imo go simple , forget anything with RGB (it only hikes the price) and if it says "gaming" forget about it.
that's just another reason for them to hike the price.

for ED i use an x52 pro. for console type games (gta for example) i use an xbox controller, wired (i've got an xbox so its easy just to plug a micro usb cable into it and use it on pc)

i have had wireless M+KB in the past but much prefer wired as it always works without any need to charge

 

[MTBFritz]

I like the "idea" of wireless controllers and keyboards and see the advantage but the things have a tendency to be low on battery at the WORST...POSSIBLE...MOMENTS and somehow it seems like all I m doing is to check batteries and replace them (selective memory I know) so I have reverted back to the cable-salad and have rather improved my cable-management skills

But a wireless mouse with recharge mat sounds wesome...I would definitely buy that. My biggest issue with keyboards is that certain keys stop working reliably after short periods of time. I ve gotten used to invest 50 bucks into a new keyboard every 6 months or so which my wife finds very suspicious but then...she doesnt write as much as I do

 

[HAMM3R]

For non-flying/driving games I have Logitech G600 mouse and an age old Logitech G11 keyboard. Both have lots of programmable keys/buttons, which I like.

 

[hairychris]

Laptop keyboard and a pretty simple Corsair RGB mouse.

I have a cheap mechanical keyboard - one of those 30 quid Amazon ones - that I haven't really tried out yet.