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The addition of strange 3D-looking symbols on the
gaming keys and the lit-up G logo in the top-left and
G910 logo on the wrist rest don’t help matters.
Then there’s the ARX dock. This wobbly piece of
blue plastic slides out the back to provide a place to
rest your phone, which you can link up to the
keyboard via an app. This lets you control aspects of
your PC and keyboard from your phone – like
lighting, music and seeing PC temperatures and
other stats. It’s nice, but the appeal is pretty niche.
You get plenty of extra keys, though. You’ve got
four gaming keys above the F1-F4 keys and five
more on the left. There are also buttons for profiles,
a host of media keys and a volume wheel.
As for performance, it holds up well. Logitech’s
Romer-G keyswitches feel great and they’re rated to
last for ages. However, you can’t replace the
keycaps with third-party ones, which is a shame.
Add in the non-removable wrist rest
and lack of a USB hub and you have a
keyboard that doesn’t wholly convince.LOGITECH ORION SPARK G910
This not only results in a keyboard that looks
appealingly simple, but also means that you have
more space to move your mouse around.
The downside is that you miss out on a few of the
niceties of other keyboards. There’s no volume
wheel, no USB pass-through and no gaming keys.
You just get four extra keys above the numpad for
mute, volume down, volume up and ‘Game Mode’,
which disables the Windows key.
Otherwise, you get programmable RGB
backlighting and plenty of default secondary
functions that can be activated by hitting the Fn key.
You don’t, however, get Cherry MX keyswitches,
but rather ones made by TTC. They still offer good
performance and withstand 50 million keystrokes,
plus Cherry MX keycaps fit on them. Only the Brown
TTC switches are available, though, which have the
same action as Cherry MX Red switches.
This is a great, simple keyboard. It’s
just that the Cooler Master MasterKeys
Pro L does the same for less.ROCCAT SUORA FX
The G910 doesn’t make the best first impression,
thanks to a design that’s a bit ‘plastic fantastic’. While
several of the other keyboards on our test are externally
all plastic, with this you can really feel it.The Roccat Suora FX is as straightforward as a
mechanical gaming keyboard can get, and therein lies its
appeal. Its barebones design is completely devoid of any
unnecessary additions.