Keyboard

Switches, actuation, and latency, measured on the boards people type and game on all day.

Logitech G512 X keyboard on a desk with WASD keys lit, a sim racing monitor behind showing throttle and brake bars

Map the G512 X analog keys to throttle, brake and clutch

G512 X analog keys for sim racing give throttle and brake a real axis. See the 4mm against 33mm travel math, and where trail braking breaks down.

Gateron KS-20 magnetic switch with a smoky housing and amber base seated on a green keyboard circuit board, an orange keycap hovering above its cross stem

Your keycaps fit Gateron KS-20 magnetic switches just fine

Magnetic switch hot-swap compatibility is narrower than the box implies. Keycaps fit, most switches do not, and magnet polarity decides the rest.

Two stone monoliths in a desert at dusk, one dark with a glowing violet glyph, one pale with an indigo glyph, above a broken keyboard

Double-shot and dye-sub legends both outlast your keyboard

Double-shot vs dye-sub legends both last for years on quality keycaps, so let RGB backlight support and legend color decide which set you buy.

Glossy black ABS keycap with a rainbow glow beside a matte grey PBT keycap, both giant monuments touched by passers-by

PBT keycaps dodge the greasy shine that creeps across ABS

PBT keycaps resist the greasy shine ABS develops from finger oils and UV, but ABS and PC still win on shine-through RGB. See the full trade-off.

Logitech G512 X keyboard on a dark desk with keycaps lifted near WASD, exposing empty switch sockets beside loose analog switches

Analog and normal switches share one G512 X socket bed

Logitech's G512 X has 39 hybrid sockets taking analog magnetic or standard mechanical switches. How the bed works and why it stops at 39.

Hand brushing grease onto a Durock stabilizer resting on a glass pane beside a syringe and a keyboard missing its spacebar

Lube the stabilizer wires with Krytox 205g0 to end rattle

Stabilizer rattle disappears when you balance the wire flat on glass and lube it with Krytox 205g0, the same fix Keychron now builds into the K2 HE.