Does polling rate and response time help in gaming?

[victorjramos]

Hi everyone, 

 

I was wondering ifthere are any benefits to chaning the polling rate on the Keyboard. 

 

I've got

125Mhz

250Mhz

500Mhz

1000Mhz

 

the same goes for key response time

 

I've stuck to 1ms forever, but i wondered if you know of any benefits to 

having it other than 1ms. 

 

I've got

1ms

2ms

4ms

8ms

 

 

Is there any benefits in changing them? 

 

I have not changed my 1ms in a long time nor my polling rate 1000mhz since i cant see any benefit to doing it. Can anyone let me know the benefits you've gained by having different settings? 

[Rorgash]

1 is about as fast as you can have, and no not really, not without having insane reflexes and everything else fast enough, which doesnt happen, and the pooling rate is good to have on either 500 or 1k depending on how good the mouse is, but no huge difference unless you do pro fps gaming maybe

[Ninety1Nine]

Really the only time you would notice a lower latency (125Mhz or 8ms) would be if you put everything on the highest latency setting.

Just putting one thing on its slowest setting wouldn't be noticeable.

 

There really isn't a benefit to change it except in a rare situtation. If the rest of your system has a higher latency and you want to try to cut down where you can.

[Guest]

I game on a dell mouse just fine

[Osmium]

Putting things as high as they go in generally a good idea considering you know your hardware can handle it. Even though I don't think it matters at 500 and above I like the idea that there is no bottleneck from my hardware.

[victorjramos]

Thanks everyone. I'm glad for all your responses. It really helped. 

[Osmium]

Thanks everyone. I'm glad for all your responses. It really helped. 

 

Thats what we are here for

[victorjramos]

Im helping design a keyboard and im trying to see if the current design makes sense. Currently F1 - F4 have RPS and MHz changes. I want to get rid of it myself since i know it will be rarely changed or ever need to be after you've found out what your machine can handle. But im trying to see what non-executable functions we can sassign to it to replace them and im drawing a blank. 

 

Im trying to avoid most basic windows key shortcuts since the keyboard can be set to "Basic" with a simple command. 

 

I'd like to be able to find a dedicated Screenshot button beyond Alt + prtsc because that just goes to your clipboard. 

Any reccomendations?