Logitech G513 assessment: very good high quality gaming keyboard with a delicate flare

The Logitech G513 keyboard comes together with your selection of both the Romer-G tactile change – a quietly bumpy change that’s been across the block – or the model new linear change. Both function the identical 1.5mm actuation level and 45gf actuation drive, however linear maintains that clean motion that’s harking back to the favored Cherry MX Reds. The G513 additionally comes with gratuitous 26-key rollover do you have to sprout any additional palms anytime quickly.

Included within the field can also be a reminiscence foam wrist relaxation. I’m just a little smitten with these cosy helps, and Logitech have put collectively a incredible minimal black wrist relaxation for the G513 that rivals the very biggest. Unfortunately, this light-weight leatherette slab options no mechanism to connect it to the keyboard itself, and regardless of Logitech trying to promote that as a function, I’m not satisfied.

The keyboard itself is sort of equivalent in most elements to the G413 of yesteryear. It encompasses a deep-grey brushed 5052 aluminium-magnesium facade, which sits atop of a plastic chassis. Like its understated sibling, the styling stays delicate throughout the opposite defining options. The black accented Logitech G brand and indicators, the black keycaps, the black cabling, and recessed USB 2.zero passthrough all serve to minimise design distractions from the primary occasion (and the discerning issue between the 2 fashions): RGB lighting.

Thanks to the Romer G change design – which locations an LED inside the central channel of the hole key relatively than outdoors of it – the RGB lighting is visually clear and constant because it shines by means of the keycap. The lighting is much extra localised this fashion stopping gentle from spilling out from underneath the floating key design.

The subtlety of the keyboard dramatically aids in contrasting the illuminated keys in opposition to the darkish facade, and the G513 seems to be surprisingly upmarket even with the RGB lighting ablaze. The keycap font is crystal clear, which accentuates the lighting additional, and even with the lighting switched off the marginally dimmed translucent design on the keycaps lends nicely to the board aesthetic.

While the Romer-G gaming keycap hasn’t made an look (fortunately), Logitech have seen it match to incorporate 12 further concave keycaps.

It’s a disgrace that there’s not a single devoted media key in sight. While media shortcuts are clearly marked on the facet of the related keys – and simply inverted inside the offered software program – a quantity wheel wouldn’t go amiss. It’s definitely one of many options that almost all different high-end boards at this worth vary have deemed important, and is noticeable missing from the G513.

The Logitech G software program permits for the standard fanfare of RGB lighting, sync, and macro management. There are loads of results to select from, however the app additionally gives game-specific lighting profiles to intensify sure controls or themes for a superb couple hundred titles by means of Logitech’s Lightsync function.

Priced at $150 / £159, the Logitech G513 competes with the gaming keyboard the Aristocracy. The high quality is nearing extreme, and the inconspicuous design is elegant in comparison with the standard gamer aesthetic. However, the pricing may be troublesome to justify except you’re head over heels for RGB or in dire want of a wrist relaxation, particularly when the G413 – an virtually equivalent board with equally minute consideration to element –  is a lot extra reasonably priced.

Despite a considerably costly RGB premium, you’ll battle to discover a keyboard that’s so excessively engineered because the G513 from Logitech. They’ve enhanced the Cherry RGB change with the linear Romer-G in a manner that’s virtually not possible to comply with by rivals, and the G513 is as trendy as it’s well-built. All in all, these elements lend to a mode that’s each minimal but innately Logitech.

The G513 builds upon a relatively sturdy basis of its predecessor, the G413, which is each a blessing and a curse. On the one hand, it’s exquisitely constructed, and the design is unmatched; but on the opposite, the value premium weighs closely on the included wrist relaxation and RGB options, that are expensive commodities (in comparison with the competitively priced G413) irrespective of how well-received they might be. As a whole bundle, nonetheless, the G513 feels constructed to final and nicely worthy of its price ticket.

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