CLICKY VS LINEAR FOR GAMING PC
CLICKY VS LINEAR FOR GAMING WINDOWS

CLICKY VS LINEAR FOR GAMING WINDOWS

When you’re constantly tapping W, S, A or D to move around - I and plenty of old-school CS 1.6-era players that I know do this with the strafe keys more than anything else, popping and peeking windows and doorways and always staying moving to stay alive as long as possible and avoid becoming a bullet sponge. With that in mind, you do still need a good, fast, responsive keyboards for those moments where the shit hits the fan and you need to navigate around quickly and reliability.įor this kind of gaming, I’m of the opinion that once you’re used to it, a linear switch keyboard is undeniably better.

It’s a FPS, and it’s a bit twitchy but not nearly as constantly fast-paced as something else like Overwatch or Quake Champions, both of which I also dabble in. I play a lot of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds at the moment - far more of it than anything else. My short review of the keyboard itself: it’s nice! It’s well built, it has the function keys I want, the (removable, magnetic) wrist rest is plush and comfortable, it has lots of pretty LED colours. Razer’s existing Green and Orange switches are functionally quite similar, and have an identical construction and internal layout, but for the fact that one clicks while the other doesn’t - they both have an identical travel distance and actuation point, although you’ll have to let up the Green a little more before you can double-tap it (a standard characteristic of ‘clicky’ switches) where the Orange switches off barely a tenth of a millimetre after it switches on.īecause of that, and because the difference is far more stark between the two, I’m comparing Razer’s Green switches with its Yellows all my comparisons are on the BlackWidow Chroma V2. The Yellow is only available in the newest BlackWidow Chroma V2, so I got hold of a pair of otherwise identical boards to examine the difference for myself. Razer actually has three mechanical keyswitches - the tactile clicky Green, the linear and silent Yellow, and the mid-ground compromise of the tactile and silent Orange.

CLICKY VS LINEAR FOR GAMING PC

It’s the question that every PC nerd has asked themselves as they’ve been poring over online store listings: should I buy a mechanical keyboard with clicky tactile switches, or one with silent and linear keys? I compared two otherwise identical keyboards over a couple of weeks of gaming and typing to find my own personal favourite - and try to figure out why that was.

Clicky vs linear for gaming