I've been shopping for a quality mech for my gaming PC and ended up buying a Leopold FC750R w/ Cherry MX Pinks (aka Silent Reds)... great switch, especially w/ the Leopold's incredible build quality.
The Razer Yellows sound like a hybrid of Cherry MX Reds or Pinks and their Speed switch.
I'm really interested in this. I personally like laptop keyboards due to travel, but most of them suck as far as feel and what not. A shorter travel mechanical may be just perfect for me. I have the slim Logitech USB keyboard now and like it, but the lack of n-key (10-key) rollover makes certain games annoying since it will decide to randomly ignore a jump or something due to too many keys being down already.
Just what are you playing that demands such a key mashing? Even in the heyday of Q3 and UT your bog standard 5$ keyboard was enough press-wise, the choice was about tactile preferences.
As far as I can tell the real issue is (or was) with ghosting where pushing two or more keys simultaneously is somehow registered as a key that you didn't press or no key at all. Nowadays NKRO (or at least enough keys as to not matter) and Ghosting seem to be ubiquitous features on all but the cheapest boards and even less of an issue for Keyboard+Mouse gaming, as opposed to using your keyboard to play music in keyboard / synthesizer software.
Does the awful synapse software still come for free? Will it still cause all sorts of driver crashes? Hopefully they still have the wonderful feature where their USB keyboards don't work in the bios? I love my razer mouse but my Tarantula was the worst keyboard purchase I have ever made. It was the worst peripheral purchase I ever made. Having to login to Razer's software just to use basic functions of the keyboard, no way.
I have two Black Widows (two different systems), one is a 2011, one is a 2014. Both work in the BIOS/EFI for the systems they have been connected to (four in total), I have never had the driver crash, I actually like the synapse software as it means my settings are identical on both systems without me having to do anything, and has overall been a good experience.
The only issue I have with Synapse is that the click/button heat map tracking function broke a game I was trying to play, and I had to disable it. And also the constant updates...but both are mostly just annoying.
I am pleased to hear that other consumers have had vastly different experiences than me, but my experiences are what I KNOW are true, whereas both of you could simply be shills. Screw Razer and their $200 keyboards.
The whole always running and stored in the cloud thing is stupid, as is never knowing if a given update will need a reboot (they frequently (always?) say they might when installing, but only occasionally do) drives me to delay installing updates promptly: I wait until a planned reboot and often forget. The popup notice about an update being available chiming when the computers screen is off is annoying but is probably W10's fault (as are most of my other complaints with the notification).
But I've never had a crash with their drivers across multiple PCs and mice over the last half dozenish years.
All those annoying sounds associated with notifications can easily be turned off. And notifications can be moved off the tool bar and into the side bar just as easily, or removed altogether. Much easier to do than any previous version (which this has been apart of since XP, this is not a win10 exclusive. Well the side notification bar is).
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Stuka87 - Tuesday, January 24, 2017 - link
I have two Black Widow Stealths (pre-chroma), would be curious as to how the yellow switches feel.Chaitanya - Tuesday, January 24, 2017 - link
Even I want to know how those yellow switches compare to Red from Cherry/Kailh. I am using Gigabyte K85 with Kailh reds and pretty satisfied with it.Flunk - Tuesday, January 24, 2017 - link
Kailh makes the switches for Razer (although Razer claims they're a different variant than the normal Kailh ones).I've got a keyboard with Razer orange at work and one with Cherry MX browns at home, they feel the same to me.
mrvco - Wednesday, January 25, 2017 - link
I've been shopping for a quality mech for my gaming PC and ended up buying a Leopold FC750R w/ Cherry MX Pinks (aka Silent Reds)... great switch, especially w/ the Leopold's incredible build quality.The Razer Yellows sound like a hybrid of Cherry MX Reds or Pinks and their Speed switch.
SmCaudata - Tuesday, January 24, 2017 - link
I'm really interested in this. I personally like laptop keyboards due to travel, but most of them suck as far as feel and what not. A shorter travel mechanical may be just perfect for me. I have the slim Logitech USB keyboard now and like it, but the lack of n-key (10-key) rollover makes certain games annoying since it will decide to randomly ignore a jump or something due to too many keys being down already.Michael Bay - Wednesday, January 25, 2017 - link
Just what are you playing that demands such a key mashing?Even in the heyday of Q3 and UT your bog standard 5$ keyboard was enough press-wise, the choice was about tactile preferences.
mrvco - Wednesday, January 25, 2017 - link
As far as I can tell the real issue is (or was) with ghosting where pushing two or more keys simultaneously is somehow registered as a key that you didn't press or no key at all. Nowadays NKRO (or at least enough keys as to not matter) and Ghosting seem to be ubiquitous features on all but the cheapest boards and even less of an issue for Keyboard+Mouse gaming, as opposed to using your keyboard to play music in keyboard / synthesizer software.fanofanand - Tuesday, January 24, 2017 - link
Does the awful synapse software still come for free? Will it still cause all sorts of driver crashes? Hopefully they still have the wonderful feature where their USB keyboards don't work in the bios? I love my razer mouse but my Tarantula was the worst keyboard purchase I have ever made. It was the worst peripheral purchase I ever made. Having to login to Razer's software just to use basic functions of the keyboard, no way.Stuka87 - Tuesday, January 24, 2017 - link
I have two Black Widows (two different systems), one is a 2011, one is a 2014. Both work in the BIOS/EFI for the systems they have been connected to (four in total), I have never had the driver crash, I actually like the synapse software as it means my settings are identical on both systems without me having to do anything, and has overall been a good experience.GalaxyWide - Tuesday, January 24, 2017 - link
The only issue I have with Synapse is that the click/button heat map tracking function broke a game I was trying to play, and I had to disable it. And also the constant updates...but both are mostly just annoying.fanofanand - Wednesday, January 25, 2017 - link
I am pleased to hear that other consumers have had vastly different experiences than me, but my experiences are what I KNOW are true, whereas both of you could simply be shills. Screw Razer and their $200 keyboards.DanNeely - Wednesday, January 25, 2017 - link
The whole always running and stored in the cloud thing is stupid, as is never knowing if a given update will need a reboot (they frequently (always?) say they might when installing, but only occasionally do) drives me to delay installing updates promptly: I wait until a planned reboot and often forget. The popup notice about an update being available chiming when the computers screen is off is annoying but is probably W10's fault (as are most of my other complaints with the notification).But I've never had a crash with their drivers across multiple PCs and mice over the last half dozenish years.
wolfemane - Thursday, January 26, 2017 - link
All those annoying sounds associated with notifications can easily be turned off. And notifications can be moved off the tool bar and into the side bar just as easily, or removed altogether. Much easier to do than any previous version (which this has been apart of since XP, this is not a win10 exclusive. Well the side notification bar is).jamyryals - Wednesday, January 25, 2017 - link
Is the USB passthrough USB 2/3/3.1?