My kid likes it for gaming and claims he can tell the difference in game play between the stock/cheap Dell keyboard and this one with the NKRO technology (due to multitude of keys he's pressing simultaneously). He likes the color changing effects. Both of us agree the mechanical is much much noisier than a membrane keyboard, even though I purchased the red smooth switch version. In my opinion, the build quality feels a cheaper than a more well-known brand of gamine keyboards, but it's a large step up from stock keyboard. I'm sure he's got 100+ hours on the keyboard already and it's still working as expected. Keyboard passes the NKRO key testing techniques/tool online. He's also a fan of the gaming mode which can use the FUNC-F8 key combo to enable/disable the Windows key.