Logitech G Pro X Gaming Headset

Tom's Guide Verdict

The Logitech G Pro X is novel, but information technology introduces just as many complications every bit opportunities.

Pros

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Key switches feel good
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Compact design
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Novel concept

Cons

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Dull switch swapping
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Can't reprogram every fundamental
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Expensive

The Logitech G Pro X keyboard ($150) is a fleck of a mystery to me. On the i mitt, it's a compact, comfortable and colorful gaming keyboard with an extremely creative central concept. The G Pro 10 isn't just a tournament-grade keyboard; it'due south also a customizable powerhouse, letting y'all swap out every single primal switch in pursuit of the perfect gaming setup.

On the other paw, the G Pro X already costs quite a scrap of money for a tenkeyless keyboard – and if you want to experiment with alternative switch types, the price could balloon by another $100. And while swapping out cardinal switches is a smashing feature on paper, in practice, it'due south a dull, exhausting process that's somewhat decumbent to failure.

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As a stand-alone product, the Chiliad Pro 10 works fine, although not significantly better than cheaper keyboards from Logitech and similar competitors. As an experimental model, it's novel, but it introduces just as many complications as opportunities.

Design

On its surface, the Logitech G Pro Ten is quite similar to the Logitech G Pro Keyboard from a few years dorsum. It's a tenkeyless peripheral with a plain blackness chassis and full RGB lighting. There are no actress keys, just two buttons up top for a game style (which disables sure keys during gameplay) and brightness. There's also a detachable USB cable, making the device easier to transport.

The Logitech G Pro X is a tenkeyless peripheral with a plain black chassis. (Image credit: Logitech)

Things don't really get interesting until you lot pry off the key caps – and the cardinal switches underneath. The G Pro X is Logitech'due south get-go keyboard with swappable key switches, meaning yous tin customize the feel of each ane of the device'south 87 keys.

The keys were quick and responsive, whether I was gunning downwards foes in a offset-person shooter or constructing a base in a real-time strategy game.

When you start purchase the G Pro X, you tin decide what kind of switches yous'd similar equally a baseline: tranquillity, linear GX Reds; placidity, tactile GX Browns; or loud, tactile GX Blues. (I personally like the Blues the best; your mileage may vary.) Only y'all can as well buy Red, Brownish or Blue key-switch sets, which include 90 switches of the desired color. Each gear up costs $50.

As such, if you lot want to mix and match Cherry, Brown and Blueish switches to suit your play style, you lot can – as long as you lot're set to dish out $250 for the privilege. The swapping process is simple in theory and a little complicated in execution.

Keys

Equally stated above, you have a pick between Logitech's three types of key switches when you purchase the G Pro X, and you can farther customize the peripheral with actress central-switch kits. Logitech sent us all three switch types, and they all experience pretty good.

Compared with Cherry MX switches (the manufacture standard), Logitech G's switches are a picayune chip stiffer and more resistant, but they're still quite comfortable. On a typing.com examination, I scored 121 words per minute with 98% accuracy with the G Pro 10. Compare and contrast with 109 words per minute with 97% accuracy on the Logitech G915, and information technology seems articulate that the G Pro Ten keys take a lot less getting used to than Logitech's depression-profile switches.

Features

Since the G Pro X targets an esports audition, it features a removable micro USB power string and a tenkeyless blueprint for piece of cake travel. That'south all pretty similar to the original G Pro model.

What's new is the fact that you can bandy out the mechanical switches. If you lot pick upwardly the GX Blue model and afterwards on decide that Reds would arrange y'all improve, you can spend $l instead of buying a whole new keyboard. Or — and this is the fun part — if y'all want dissimilar levels of feedback on your letter, number and part keys, you can mix and friction match three different fundamental-switch types any mode yous see fit.

Granted, I don't think nigh gamers would observe this feature very useful. Anybody has tactility preferences, truthful, but I don't know how many people feel strongly about, say, the A key feeling loud and clicky and the spacebar feeling quiet and resistant. It'd besides be quite expensive, particularly if you wanted all iii types of switch.

So there's the process of swapping switches. Information technology's relatively piece of cake, that's true. Yous become a plastic puller that works on both the key caps and the switches. You don't need to pull too hard, but you do demand to position information technology pretty precisely each time. To bandy a key switch, you pull a primal cap, pull the switch, insert the new switch and supersede the key cap. To make matters more than complicated, information technology'due south extremely easy to bend the switches' metal contacts past accident and extremely difficult to jimmy them back into identify if you exercise.

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Practice it in one case, and you'll think it's a pretty novel feature for a big-name gaming keyboard. Do it 87 times, though, and you'll wind up with a hand cramp and tunnel vision. Swapping out every single cardinal took me 50 minutes, almost on the dot. It'south not something you'd want to exercise very often; you lot're probably meliorate off just picking a style of switch you like and sticking with it.

If you lot desire different levels of feedback on your letter, number and function keys, y'all can mix and match 3 unlike key-switch types any way you see fit.

The G Pro besides runs on the Logitech G Hub software, which is a fairly unproblematic mode to program the function keys, control RGB lighting and set up profiles for individual games and apps. My i criticism here is that you can't reprogram every key, simply the office keys. This isn't really a trouble in other Logitech keyboards, but the whole point of the M Pro X is that you can customize every primal physically. Information technology seems strange that you lot tin can't reprogram them, too.

Performance

I tested the G Pro Ten with an eye toward esports, paying special attending to games similar Overwatch and StarCraft: Remastered. The keyboard performed equally well as any other recent Logitech peripheral — which is to say, very well. The keys were quick and responsive, whether I was gunning down foes in a first-person shooter or amalgam a base in a real-time strategy game. Since you lot can choose your ain switch type, every gamer should notice something that suits.

My but criticism here is that the Thousand Pro Ten isn't that great for everyday productivity, particularly if you've become reliant on media keys and a number pad. That's non really the audience that Logitech is courting with this product, but it's something to keep in mind before you drop $150 on a keyboard.

Bottom line

I don't know how widespread the Logitech Yard Pro Ten's appeal is. Being able to bandy switches is cool, simply $l also as 50 minutes is probably more than than near gamers want to spend on the project. The peripheral works well for esports, but it'due south pretty expensive, peculiarly considering that you can ofttimes get tenkeyless models for $100 or less.

But at its core, the Grand Pro X is a solid enough product, and at least it offers something that no other major gaming keyboard has tried still. If you desire a tenkeyless gaming keyboard, I'd try to pick up an original Logitech G Pro, particularly since its price might decrease as the G Pro X becomes more widely bachelor. But the G Pro Ten volition get the job washed, if you've got the money to spend.

Marshall Honorof is a senior editor for Tom'south Guide, overseeing the site's coverage of gaming hardware and software. He comes from a science writing groundwork, having studied paleomammalogy, biological anthropology, and the history of science and engineering science. Later on hours, you can find him practicing taekwondo or doing deep dives on classic sci-fi.