Multiple wireless devices at once?

[AnthrSolidSnake]

So I've recently pretty much completely finished upgrading my gaming PC.
I bought a 780ti.
A new Corsair case.
A new CPU fan.
A new 27" 1080p monitor.

I figured while I'm at it, I'd look at replacing some of my external hardware, namely my mouse, keyboard, and headset.

My mouse and keyboard are perfectly fine really. There's nothing wrong with them.
My headset it doing okay, but it does tend to defocus sound from the left side occasionally until I mess with the volume wheel.

My main problem is the wires. I'm SO sick of wires. They get tangled constantly, it makes it a pain to be able to move anything around. And they tend to get caught on stuff and accidentally tugged on hard as a result.

I want to move to all wireless, but I have a few concerns.

I've never had very many wireless devices at once. I had a wireless mouse at one point, but it broke and I was told that a wired mouse was more ideal for accuracy in games. What's the validity in that statement?

Also, will having a wireless headset, keyboard, and mouse cause any interference with each other? I realize they should all run on separate signals, but that doesn't mean they can't interfere with each other, right?

I'm just really hoping that my accuracy and response time won't be hurt as a result of moving to wireless.

I also have my wireless internet router beside my computer. My assumption is, as long as I don't go with very cheap models, I should be fine, but I'd like some opinions on it first before I start shoveling out the cash.

 

[sanquin]

A signal does transfer a bit more slowly when it goes over a wireless connection. Or it can at least fluctuate. Also, wireless means it has a battery that you need to recharge or you need to put batteries in. And it's very frustrating to lose your mouse or keyboard while gaming.

As for if it would cause interference if you use so many at the same time, I don't think so. But I can't say I have experience. I've had one wireless mouse in my life. And ever since I've sworn wireless off for input devices.

 

[DefunctTheory]

Wireless mouses are fine for accuracy, and wireless has gotten good enough to where its hard to tell the difference from a wired mouse, latency wise. Generally speaking, unless your an huge CoD tweaker, wireless is fine for mice. It's working just fine for me.

As long as all your wireless devices use the same protocol (Bluetooth, etc) or are on different frequencies, you'll be ok. Do Not mix and match Bluetooth and Logitech proprietary wireless - they operate on the same frequency, and they will interfere with each other, no matter what Logitech tells you.

 

[AnthrSolidSnake]

Any suggestions then on some great wireless devices? For a headset, I like the idea of surround sound, as I've had my 5.1 "true" surround sound headset for awhile and love it. ("True" meaning that it has all the necessary speaker in each headphone, rather than relying on software mixing)

I like mice with a decent amount of programmable buttons. Currently my mouse has 7 buttons, not including the DPI switch or the left click and right click.

As for my keyboard...I never owned anything beyond a standard, run-of-the-mill keyboard with some dim LED lighting. No special keys. No extra keys. Not even some fancy ergonomics, so picking a nice wireless keyboard is new territory for me...especially with things like "Cherry keys" floating around. No idea what the difference is really.


Honestly, I'd just look myself, but I got to leave for work soon, and then go to bed so I can go to work the next morning, so I'm hoping for some suggestions to at the very least get me in the right direction.

 

[Laughing Man]

Keyboards,

If you go wireless you will sacrifice the addons, e.g lighting on keys, customisable and multi function keys, usb ports on the keyboard.

The cherry keys refer to mechanical keyboards, mechanical vs membrane. Mechanical keyboards tend to be a hell of a lot more expensive, the pay off is that you get a more solid, responsive, positive keystroke vs a membrane keyboard. Mechanical keyboards use different switch types for their keys and these are listed by a coloured name for the switch used, cherry is generally the ones used by most gamer keyboards. The difference is the pressure and actuation length of the key switch, I would list the different colours and their features but I don't know nor really care, google is your friend here, but for the most part Cherry seems to be the standard.

As for keyboards I would heartily recommend you stick with a wired keyboard, I use a Corsair K70

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=KB-009-CS&groupid=702&catid=2705&subcat=2706

and the thing has been faultless, beautiful blue back light LEDS, amazing responsive keystrokes, a USB port on the back and a nice wrist support on the front as well as a tons of Macro keys. I have used a few different keyboards and this is by far and away the best. Also remember that many wireless keyboards may not allow you to access pre windows loading features as many of them are tied to having their wireless receivers drivers loaded prior to being able to do anything, so you may well need to have an old fashioned plug in keyboard on stand by should you need to do anything with your computers BIOS.