Best price performance gaming keyboard?

Hey, I recently broke my keyboard (which was a cheap 8$ one) and I am looking for a gaming keyboard thats not expensive. (30-60$)

Can someone help me with some recommendations? I never had a gaming keyboard before so my experience is 0.

Thanks :)

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Hey, I recently broke my keyboard (which was a cheap 8$ one) and I am looking for a gaming keyboard thats not expensive. (30-60$)

Can someone help me with some recommendations? I never had a gaming keyboard before so my experience is 0.

Thanks :)

costyssj4

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16823227001

mainly because i here good things about this one

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16823114010

with tax this would also work bt it would go a little over

http://www.amazon.com/Saitek-PZ30AU-Eclipse-Keyboard/dp/B0007TJ7TE/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1258742051&sr=8-4

By far the best for price vs. performance. Amazing keyboard at a low cost.

http://www.amazon.com/Razer-Lycosa-Mirror-Special-Keyboard/dp/B001JQMIAY/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1258742065&sr=1-2

Over your budget, but more on the performance side.

You know, I got a Logitech G11 keyboard early last year ( 2008 ) because I thought it would be great due to all the good reviews. But a few months later some of the keys no longer registered, and a couple of months after that it just stopped working altogether. I later found out that other people had experienced exactly the same thing. So I went back to the cheap Logitech keyboard I'd been using for a few years, which is still functioning even now.

I've looked into some other 'gaming' keyboards, and seen similar reports about keys ceasing to function after a short time. Mostly with models that have backlit keys.

So my advice is to be very wary, and do a lot of research before deciding on a particular keyboard. Check user reviews and forums.

Personally, I think expensive gaming keyboards are a waste of money, and less reliable.

You know, I got a Logitech G11 keyboard early last year ( 2008 ) because I thought it would be great due to all the good reviews. But a few months later some of the keys no longer registered, and a couple of months after that it just stopped working altogether. I later found out that other people had experienced exactly the same thing. So I went back to the cheap Logitech keyboard I'd been using for a few years, which is still functioning even now.

I've looked into some other 'gaming' keyboards, and seen similar reports about keys ceasing to function after a short time. Mostly with models that have backlit keys.

So my advice is to be very wary, and do a lot of research before deciding on a particular keyboard. Check user reviews and forums.

Personally, I think expensive gaming keyboards are a waste of money, and less reliable.

RobertBowen

Yeah, I had a g11 too and it was rubbish, sold it the day after I got it :D You had to press the keys quite hard for them to register and the ctrl button was stiff and awkward. Never had a problem with saitek keyboards, they're great. I wouldn't buy anything from logitech ever again.

I have a Razer Lycosa and it's a good keyboard, every key can be reprogrammed for games and the keyboard itself has great feedback and response with short presses, very precise. Also feels nice whilst typing :)

The cons however are the media keys, you can only set them to one program at a time (itunes, windows media player or winamp if I remember correctly) and they are touch buttons instead of keys so they don't work so well and have a habit of ceasing to work all together till you restart the computer or keyboard (by replugging it in).

Also it takes up 2 USB ports but has a USB port on the keyboard itself... I would rather it just use 1 USB personally and have another free on my computer but oh well.

But yes it's a very nice gaming keyboard that looks slick and is a nice standard size unlike most gaming keyboards which are quite big/dorky/ostentatious.

i didn't know there were such things as gaming keyboards. :o they all seem pretty much the same to me. How do they affect your ability to play a game? All you're doing is pushing buttons, it's not like it can be more accurate or something...SF_KiLLaMaN

spend a little extra cash and get the logitech g15 its an awesome keyboard. i have had zero problems. I cant talk about the g11 as I have never owned one. I might upgrade to the g19 but its 200 bucks. thats a little steap. I am waiting for it to come down in price.

sorry here are the links

G15 - and it came down in price

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16823126034

G19

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16823126053

i didn't know there were such things as gaming keyboards. :o they all seem pretty much the same to me. How do they affect your ability to play a game? All you're doing is pushing buttons, it's not like it can be more accurate or something...SF_KiLLaMaN

Good gaming keyboards reduce the response time from the keyboard to computer to game, it's called controller lag. Also standard keyboards usually have a limit to how many keys you can press at the same time before it just won't register... Gaming keyboards allow for a lot more simultaneous inputs.

Then there's the macros system etc, my keyboard allows me to have like 7 different profiles so I could set my layout for 7 different games.