Logitech G413 Review

👤by Matthew Hodgson Comments 📅23-06-17
Conclusion
Inexpensive yet excellent. Those are two words we can confidently use to describe the Logitech G413. Their proprietary Romer-G key switches feel lovely to type on and respond in the blink of an eye when engaged in your favourite game, which along with their design option to place the LED in the centre of the mechanical key, the backlighting is brilliant.

The sleek aluminium-magnesium faceplate married to the black plastic underbody and white LED lighting looks excellent and will suit any workspace.

Even though the USB pass-through only employs the 2.0 standard, this is a non-issue in most cases, with the idea of it being for mice, headset adapters or small USB drives, USB 3.0 would be nice but it does help to keep that ever important cost down.

A lack of dedicated Macro-keys may disappoint some gamers, but the excellent LGS software does allow you to assign macros to unused keys; the software will also impress those who listen to music on their PC, with the ability to flip the Fn key, turning those keys into direct media keys. Very impressive.

Packaging and included extras have been kept to a bare minimum, in pursuit of the cost-saving measures to keep the G413 under the magic £100 threshold, though the inclusion of the additional gaming keys is a very remarkable choice by Logitech.



Logitech have performed on every front, offering a keyboard with all the features you could require, at under £100. This would be a solid purchase for any potential buyer.


Pros
+ Full key backlighting with central LED
+ Beautiful design
+ Excellent software
+ USB pass-through
+ Cable routeing under keyboard
+ Romer-G mechanical keys
+ Fn key inversion
+ 26 Key Rollover
+ Great value

Cons
- No USB 3.0
- Limited lighting options

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