r/MechanicalKeyboards Switch Collector : Prototype Hoarder Sep 29 '24

Review Gateron Pro Ultra Glory Yellow Switch Review

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u/LemonySmidget Sep 29 '24

gateron ultra pro max red review, wen?

kidding aside, another banger review!

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u/the_donner_legacy Sep 29 '24

Tl;dr

Quiet ish, little leathery scratch. Consistent in sound comparatively to other linears. Bit of wobble. Heavy factory lube. Heavy for a Gateron. Silly name.

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u/XomthePrince Sep 29 '24

I thought these were holy pandas at first lol

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u/M44t_ Sep 29 '24

Holy milky panda pro smh

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u/ThereminGoat Switch Collector : Prototype Hoarder Sep 29 '24

Hey all,

I can't say I've ever had to write down the full proper name of a switch on a sticky note before just to make sure I didn't screw it up when writing the review. With that, I present a full length review of the Gateron Pro Ultra Glory Yellow switches. I wonder if their performance lived up to all of those descriptors shoved into that name...

Website: https://www.theremingoat.com/

Article: https://www.theremingoat.com/blog/gateron-pro-ultra-glory-yellow-switch-review

Scorecard Repository: https://github.com/ThereminGoat/switch-scores

Force Curve Repository: https://github.com/ThereminGoat/force-curves

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theremingoat

As always, thank you all for the continued readership, love, and support week in and out. The upcoming pair of weekends may see a slight shift in content scheduling as I'll be taking a trip for a decent part of a week that would interrupt my working time for both upcoming weekends. Regardless, I promise there will still be more switch stuff to read and learn about!

Cheers,

Goat

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u/GetNooted Sep 29 '24 edited Sep 29 '24

TBH That is an awful lot of words to say they're average! Kinda not surprised people use AI to try to summarise.

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u/1000YearGay Sep 29 '24

They're really naming switches anything these days

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u/loaba Sep 29 '24 edited Sep 29 '24

Am I the only one who thinks these switch names have gotten pretty much out of control? They're just pretentious AF

Like, Gateron Pro Ultra Glory Yellow - Beyond Gateron (the brand name) WTF does the rest of it mean? Does Gateron have a Pro and Non-Pro Line? Does "yellow" maybe indicate if it's clicky, or linear, or tactile? What does "Ultra Glory" mean?

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u/cebubasilio Sep 29 '24

 Does Gateron have a Pro and Non-Pro Line?

Funnily enough, yes. People say pros just feel better and yada yada. But really it's factdory lubed.

Does "yellow" maybe indicate if it's clicky, or linear, or tactile? 

Gateron Yellows are always Linear, and always have more actuation force to their Red counterparts. this has consistently been 50g above Red's 45g

What does "Ultra Glory" mean?

This is basically the name of this line. The other being Ink and Milky (there are actually more). Difference between them could be internal design, material and choice of opacity. Ultra Glory seems to be smoky almost milky head design with POK steam and Nylon bodies.

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u/loaba Sep 29 '24

Thank you for the ELI5, I very much appreciate it. So these will be similar, but still quite different from what I am currently using (Cherry MX2A Silent Reds).

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u/DirtyGingy Big A$$ Enter Sep 30 '24

The pro line also uses polished molds for the stems, making them smoother over all

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u/the_donner_legacy Sep 29 '24

Am I the only one who thinks these switch names have gotten pretty much out of control?

Given the 40 paragraphs on the review about names, there's at least one other person out there in agreement.

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u/EmployEquivalent2671 Sep 29 '24

The names have some point to them... they're catchy (kind of)

it's much easier to market (and discuss) a product if it's called mmd princess rather than mmd linear no.12

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u/the_donner_legacy Sep 29 '24

I concur tbh, they're silly but really you have to go silly when there is so many tangible aspects to switch.

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u/EmployEquivalent2671 Sep 29 '24

I mean, you could've called it via an office lottery, everyone writes down a one-word name for the switch, based on the color scheme and puts it in a box. You pull one card and just go with that

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u/the_donner_legacy Sep 29 '24

I'm not convinced that's NOT how gateron functions.

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u/EmployEquivalent2671 Sep 29 '24

I am convinced that's how everyone functions at this point

Maybe gateron decided they wanted to shake things up and do some organic marketing for the switch (kind of a shame it's nothing to write home about, except for the name, if they made it super clacky I'd be stoked)

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u/loaba Sep 29 '24 edited Sep 29 '24

I guess I just need to look at the catalog and see if I can suss out a naming convention.

I'd like to check out switches beyond Cherry. There are so many options out there, but you can't tell anything from a glance.

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u/According-Two-297 Sep 29 '24

Switch names are following the monitor naming scheme.

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u/FatRollingPotato Sep 29 '24

I wish they would, usually that alphanumeric mess at least follows some infernal internal logic that you can look up on their website.

But I doubt things like Equalz Grapefruit Gummy, Invokeys Blueberry Chiffon or Gateron Nostalgia V2 have some logic to them. And I only made up one of those names.

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u/Upstairs-Idea5967 Sep 29 '24

At this point I feel like you could kit out a 40% just using an individual Gateron Yellow from each line. (It’d probably be pretty good tbh.)

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u/ChancellorBrawny Sep 29 '24

Quote of the day:

"Maybe I am, in fact, actually beginning to lose my mind."

  • Goat

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u/JKRickrolling Sep 29 '24

What a weird name, even with gateron standard.

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u/paltamunoz Sep 29 '24

okay these names are getting out of hand

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u/ThereminGoat Switch Collector : Prototype Hoarder Sep 29 '24

Took you awhile to come up with a different way to say that one, lmao. Try harder on the next edit

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u/ThereminGoat Switch Collector : Prototype Hoarder Sep 29 '24

Please don't slip and hurt yourself on the irony.

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u/0xPsy63686564 Sep 30 '24

TLDR: 2mm pre-travel, 4mm total travel, factory lubed, 50g 15mm springs, sounds like a milky top, you're welcome, i saved you 45minutes of reading schizoposting from OP.

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u/ThereminGoat Switch Collector : Prototype Hoarder Sep 30 '24

TIL the kids these days think anything more than a paragraph is schizoposting

(and by the way you're wrong about the spring weight, lol)