Turtle Beach Vulcan II TKL gaming keyboard review

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I mightiness beryllium precocious to appraising the Turtle Beach Vulcan II TKL, but during that delay, it’s precise overmuch go portion of my PC furniture. Keeping the feathery half-height keycaps of the older, consistently fantabulous Roccat Vulcans (Turtle Beach bought Roccat successful 2019 past afloat absorbed them successful 2024, gaining their powers), it’s a fast, smooth, and close WASDmasher that’s quiescent capable for typing too.

Those keycaps bash beryllium rather precocious up, which was particularly noticeable coming consecutive from the low-profile Logitech G515 Lightspeed TKL. If a nerdy violent – radicalised by years of watching performatively aggravated tech YouTubers – forced maine to take astatine gunpoint, I would thin towards the sharper, adjacent nimbler consciousness of the G515. As a logical currency purchase, though? The Vulcan II TKL is simply a just spot cheaper, adjacent accounting for its deficiency of wirelessness, portion offering a sturdier aluminium build, hot-swappable mechanical switches, and a measurement dial, each of which the G515 lacks.

It besides has Snap Tap-style accelerated trigger support, thing that’s ne'er done overmuch for maine – connected this keyboard included – but tin seemingly supply specified a slippery strafing vantage to quick-fingered Counter-Strike 2 players that Valve banned its use. You conscionable don’t get that level of illicit feature-stuffing connected the G515 Lightspeed TKL; you’d person to divert to its wired cousin, the G515 Rapid TKL, and that’s pricier than Vulcan II TKL arsenic well.