Patriot Viper V765 (2018) vs Havit KB487L

Two highly trusted sources that perform well-thought-out in-depth testing consider the Patriot Viper V765 (2018) to be a great product - it earned the "Best Budget Keyboard" title from Tom's Hardware and "Ranked 1 out of 2" from AnandTech in their respective Mechanical Keyboard roundups, which is a good indication of it being a notable product.

As for the Havit KB487L, it was really well-received by reviewers at Tom's Hardware, a reliable source that's known for conducting its own, high-quality, in-depth testing. It performed great in its "Best Budget Mechanical Keyboards 2023" roundup and was named its "Best Budget Mechanical Keyboard for Work and Play", which, on its own, makes it a product that warrants a closer look.

We also meant to do a direct Patriot Viper V765 (2018) vs. Havit KB487L comparison of their ratings, but we, in spite of our best efforts, couldn't find any review scores for the Patriot Viper V765 (2018).

Finally, we wanted to pit the Havit KB487L against the rest of its competition. Thankfully, we were able to find enough data to properly examine its review performance and found that it, on average did worse than most other Mechanical Keyboards - it managed to get an average score of 6.0, compared to the overall Mechanical Keyboard average of 7.4.