Sidewinder X6 gaming keyboard

Why wouldn't you use the other thread you made on exactly the same topic? And my advice still stands - it's not mechanical, it's not worth more than £10.
 
because im looking for people who specifically have experiance with this keyboard because its the one im most interested in atm. and thankyou for your input i appreciate it :)
 
I had one.

Horrid and it doesn't have anti ghosting like the X4 does.

The removable numpad was bad to as I use the arrow keys and surrounding buttons for games, due to the extra plastic between the arrow keys and the numpad I couldn't stretch my fingers to reach the required key without almost lifting my hand off the arrow keys completely.

And I have big bear paws.
 
I've owned two X6's

In short: Do not buy

Main reason I got it was because I could remove the numpad
(the further apart my hands are, the more my shoulders hurt. Removing numpad helps a lot)

I liked it apart from 2 fairly serious things...

1: Certain combinations of buttons don't work. I can't recall right now, but it's an issue if you use WASD. I think it was if you held down three keys, two of which involved WASD, it would recognise a 4th keypress

e.g While crouching and moving forward/back left/right (ctrl-a-s) you couldn't reload

Strangely enough, I use ESDF instead, and never once encountered this problem. I had to switch to WASD to see what people were talking about


2: Keys kept dying.
It wasn't long before certain keys stopped responding, or I had to mash them really hard. Seemed to be mainly the number keys. Fairly certain I didn't spill anything on keys etc

Got my first X6 replaced... Same problem happened on second



Side note... If anyone can show me a backlit keyboard that isn't too wide (ie without numpad) I would be greatly appreciative.

Numpad on the left works too. Since the distance between mouse and WASD is still reduced
 
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Hmmm, just had an X6 delivered yesterday....

So far it seams fine but not really had a chance to play much with it yet but I already prefer the key feel over my old cyborg v7 (it was an earlier version of it as I got it a couple of years back).
 
I got mine one about 2 months ago. It might look the part, but can't say I'm comfortable with using it.

The keys seem too big (wide)...when I play FPS games, while pressing wasd, I find that my little finger struggle to reach/hold down the left-ctrl key which I usually set for crouching...

If I had the option to choose again, I definitely would not go for the Sidewinder X6 again.

I wish I asked for other peoples' opinion like you did when I bought mine lol
 
I have an X6 and like it. The keys feel better than any keyboard I have used, I wanted the detatchable numberpad as I had a small desk and the integrated rotary volume control was also a big plus for me.
The only think I didn't like was that it was not wireless.
 
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