Glorious PC Gaming Race Modular Mechanical RGB Keyboard TKL/Tenkeyless

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The GMMK also comes in a Barebone Edition, so you can install your own switches and keycaps and change them out at any time. The prebuilt version is also hot-swappable, so you are not just limited to Gateron Browns. We identified a testing issue with this keyboard wherein we didn't properly filter out the end point of our data set before calculating the averages to produce our Latency results. We've now recalculated the Single Key Latency and Multi-Key Latency scores with the endpoint properly filtered out, and both scores have lowered slightly.

Not only was the Glorious Modular Mechanical Keyboard the first fully modular board the world had ever seen, it underpins this legacy with a sleek, minimalistic style, and engineering quality that makes the functionality trade-off seem negligible—especially when you consider the leagues of switch customisation it offers. There have been others since, the Wooting One and Two boards, as well as the mighty ErgoDox options, and soon newcomer Mountain will ship its Everest board, but the GMMK is a real tough, simple, and eminently affordable act to follow. Retested the keyboard with the latest firmware version (v0045) to measure the impact on latency. There were no changes to latency results. Even the software is no nonsense, which is really the theme Glorious went for with this model. And, although you're limited to just 3 customisable profiles, these can be imported and exported. Macros are there and are easy to record, but assigning them wasn't as intuitive as I'd have liked—it took me a moment to figure out how to assign them.Thankfully the GMMK makes up for the baseline software with a couple of redeeming functionality features. For example, the n-key rollover (NKRO) means it registers every keystroke no matter how many are pressed at once, and the variable polling rate (report rate) might excite some users who feel the need to tune-up how often the board reports info to the CPU. I'm still skeptical as to whether the ability to change it really makes a difference, though. In case you’re wondering: the Gateron Browns are easily as good as their Cherry counterparts; I’d even dare to say that the Gaterons feel a bit smoother and have a slightly more noticeable bump, but that could just be me. Most of my mechanical keyboard experience so far has been with Keychron. However, as I'm venturing out, I appreciate Glorious' GMMK because it's a great mechanical keyboard to start with for many people. It's pretty affordable compared to what else is out there, and the GMMK has solid build quality. There are also no dedicated media controls, other than through the function keys, but there's really no need for swanky greebles here. Minimal to the max means the quality is left to speak for itself.

The GMMK is a great starting point for those who want to get into mechanical keyboards. It has three different sizes, and the prebuilt version comes with Gateron Browns, which are a great beginner switch.The software for the GMMK is only available for Windows, so if you want to reprogram any keys on the GMMK, make sure to have a PC around. Also, the GMMK has no wireless functionality, so you'll always need to have it plugged in when using it.