Wooting’s 60HE v2 upgrades the best gaming keyboard with improved speed and sound

Wooting acceptable the modular for gaming keyboards with the archetypal 60HE 3 years ago, and present it’s acceptable to motorboat a successor with an upgraded design. The 60HE v2 volition beryllium disposable aboriginal this twelvemonth with existent 8K polling, a caller closed-bottom switch, and an aluminum lawsuit that should each adhd up to a faster keyboard with an improved dependable and feel.

The archetypal 60HE popularized the usage of Hall effect switches and a Rapid Trigger system. Together they sped up however rapidly you tin activate a key, improving competitory PC gaming. Keychron, Corsair, SteelSeries, and galore others followed Wooting and present connection akin boards with Hall effect switches and Rapid Trigger-like systems.

The upgraded 60HE v2 volition amended the archetypal model’s velocity acknowledgment to existent 8K polling and a debased input latency of conscionable 0.125ms. That’s the aforesaid latency arsenic the 8kHz USB polling connected the larger 80HE that Wooting launched past year.

Wooting is besides shipping the 60HE v2 with a caller “Lekker Tikken” switch, a closed-bottom Hall effect power with a 4.0 mm actuation range. Hall effect switches usage a magnet truthful the committee tin way however acold a power has been pressed, but the dependable illustration has typically been worse than Cherry MX-style switches. Gateron, Neon, and different power makers person been steadily improving the dependable illustration of HE switches implicit the past fewer years, and Wooting’s upgraded power promises a “uniquely marbly dependable signature.”

Wooting has besides improved the acoustics and typing consciousness by utilizing a PET movie furniture beneath these caller switches, and a Poron sandwich pad betwixt the sheet and PCB that’s designed to trim vibrations. 60HE v2 owners volition besides beryllium capable to swap betwixt a silicone block, which has brushed sounds, oregon an EPDM foam artifact that produces a louder sounding board.

If you’re a instrumentality of a split-spacebar past you’ll besides beryllium capable to take this enactment connected the 60HE v2, and Wooting is adjacent shipping this upgraded plan wrong a premium aluminum case. Just similar the 60He earlier it, the v2 volition beryllium afloat customizable and compatible with astir after-market cases and keyboard parts.

“The archetypal 60HE wouldn’t person happened without our community, and neither would this,” says Wooting CEO Calder Limmen. “We’ve learned a batch since the archetypal release. The 60HE v2 is the adjacent step.”

The Wooting 60HE v2 is expected to motorboat successful Q4 2025, but Wooting hasn’t revealed pricing oregon nonstop merchandise dates conscionable yet.