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What are the best gaming keyboards with LCD screens?

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Best gaming keyboards with LCD screens	Price	LCD	Last Updated
-- Logitech G19	$129.99	Yes	Dec 17, 2018
-- Logitech G19s	$349.98	-	Feb 15, 2018
-- Razer DeathStalker Ultimate	$192.99	Yes	Mar 16, 2018
-- Saitek Mad Catz STRIKE7	$199.99	Yes	Jun 16, 2018

Logitech G19

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Top Pro

LCD is supported by Aida64

You can use the Aida64 utility to monitor various computer status such as CPU/GPU/HDD temperature or CPU/GPU frequency on this keyboard's LCD. This is really handy to see how your computer is balanced in various games: you can see if your CPU is starting to bottleneck your graphics card (or vice versa), thus gaining significant insight on whether and what you need to upgrade on your PC. See More

Top Con

Legacy product

G19 is a legacy product, its firmware is not upgradeable and the keyboard itself is superseded by the newer G19s model. See More

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Unofficial Linux support

There's at least one community-maintained unofficial driver for the LCD screen on Linux See More

Top Con

Requires separate power adapter

This keyboard requires (and comes with) a separate power adapter in order to power key backlighting, LCD and powered USB hub. Without it, it still works as a basic keyboard without backlighting, LCD and unpowered USB hub. I'm still disappointed they didn't find a way to power it via USB (even if using an additional USB cable), the power adapter it comes with is really crappy. Note that it is possible to mod it so that it is powered via Molex directly by the PSU to avoid using the crappy power adapter it comes with. This gives an additional benefit of keyboard drawing zero power when the computer is off. See More

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Unreasonably expensive for what you get

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LCD displays ugly bright white Logitech logo until drivers load

Until Logitech Gaming Software loads and reapplies settings after bootup, you're stuck with a jarring white Logitech logo at full brightness on the keyboard's LCD. This is fixed in the updated G19s keyboard (logo is black), but G19 doesn't have updateable firmware. See More

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Uneven lighting

Because G19 uses plastic light guides to spread the light rather than having one LED per key, keys are lit non-uniformly, with some of them being partially unlit and having dark grid-like pattern across. This is a design failure. See More

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