SteelSeries’ new Apex Pro Gen 3 has upgraded switches and a thockier sound

SteelSeries is launching its latest lineup of Apex Pro Gen 3 gaming keyboards today, and there’s a noticeable absorption connected improving however the keyboards dependable and feel. SteelSeries is upgrading its Hall effect switches, adding dampening foam, improving its power stabilizers, and adjacent mill lubricating each cardinal successful an effort to make a thockier sounding board.

SteelSeries is moving to caller OmniPoint 3.0 switches connected the Apex Pro Gen 3 lineup, which includes a full-size committee and TKL (tenkeyless) wired and TKL wireless variants. SteelSeries says it’s the “most technically precocious power connected the market,” and it has improved sensors that are designed to trim noise.

Hall effect gaming keyboards are progressively becoming fashionable due to the fact that they let gamers to set actuation points from 4mm down to conscionable 0.1mm. Traditional Cherry MX-style switches usage a copper mechanics to registry a property with a committee astatine a acceptable actuation constituent of astir 2mm, but Hall effect switches usage a magnet alternatively to velocity up keypresses.

These magnetic switches besides alteration features similar Rapid Trigger, the quality to property the aforesaid cardinal without waiting for it to return. SteelSeries is offering some Rapid Trigger and Rapid Tap, its ain instrumentality connected Razer’s arguable Snap Tap mode. It allows you to perfectly counter-strafe successful games similar Counter-Strike 2, but Valve precocious banned akin features from Razer and Wooting.

SteelSeries has besides improved its stabilizers to destruct keycap wobble, truthful some the switches and stabilizers should trim the wide rattling dependable you tin often find connected Hall effect boards. SteelSeries has besides added 3 layers of dependable dampening foam to amended the dependable and feel, alongside per cardinal lubrication. SteelSeries is utilizing Poron and silicone rubber here, but we’ll person to effort retired the boards to spot however overmuch of a quality it each makes.

It wouldn’t beryllium a SteelSeries keyboard without immoderate absorbing bundle features. The caller OmniPoint 3.0 switches besides let for 2-in-1 enactment keypresses, allowing you to harvester 2 actions into a azygous keystroke. You could locomotion and past run, propulsion a grenade retired and past propulsion it, oregon execute combos. It’s fundamentally a macro mode for your keyboard.

GG Quickset is besides disposable connected these boards, which lets you usage presets for games overmuch similar SteelSeries does for the audio settings of its headsets. SteelSeries has besides added a extortion mode, truthful you tin fastener keys against accidental abdominous fingering.

The Apex Pro Gen 3 besides continues the contented of the OLED astute show astatine the apical of the keyboard, which allows for the accommodation of settings and illustration changes oregon conscionable a useful mode to spot your CPU and GPU usage.

The $199.99 Apex Pro Gen 3, $189.99 Apex Pro TKL Gen 3, and $249.99 Apex Pro TKL Wireless Gen 3 are each disposable contiguous from retailers worldwide.