The Wooting 80HE improves on the design set by the 60HE in a handful of ways, but some strange design choices have me scratching my head.
Wooting 80HE MSRP $200.00 Score Details “The Wooting 80HE brings the Hall Effect goodness, but at a price that just isn't worth it.” Pros Cons It only took one keyboard for Wooting to catapult to the top of the list of the best gaming keyboards . The 60HE is as iconic as it is controversial, flipping the mechanical keyboard world on its head with Hall Effect switches in a 60% form factor.
I like a heavier keyboard — read my Meletrix Boog75 review for more on that — so I naturally gravitated toward the zinc alloy case. I’m not sure I would’ve chose it if I were buying the keyboard myself, however. The PCR version comes in at $200 prebuilt, while the zinc alloy version costs $290 prebuilt — a $90 premium. You can buy the case separately later down the line, but Wooting charges $110 for the case on its own.
Sound and feel One of the issues with the original Wooting 60HE was the sound and feel. Wooting was a pioneer of Hall Effect switches, and the 60HE ignored designs targeted at a premium sound and feel for a keyboard squarely focused on gaming. The 80HE brings some typing enthusiast sensibilities to the design, and the sound and feel of the keyboard is much better as a result.
As with the 60HE, Wooting is using its own in-house Lekker switches with the 80HE. You have the choice between the L45 and L60, which differ only in their end force — 45 grams and 60 grams, as you might suspect. Both are linear switches, both use an MX stem so you can add whatever key caps you like, and both support the full actuation range of Hall Effect switches from 0.1mm up to 4mm.
It’s been called “cheating” by esports pros like Valorant player Ethos, and for good reason. It undeniably gives you an advantage in competitive games, so much so that Valve actually banned these features from official Counter-Strike 2 servers, as did the ESL for all of its Counter-Strike 2 events.
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