Looking to get a new keyboard for Christmas. Does anyone have any recommendations for what to get?
My budget is up to £70/whatever it is in euros.
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Looking to get a new keyboard for Christmas. Does anyone have any recommendations for what to get?
My budget is up to £70/whatever it is in euros.
My budget is up to £70/whatever it is in euros.
What features do you want?
-Mechanical? If so what kind of switches do you want. Do you care if they're cherry/gateron/zealios or not.
-Do you need a numpad or function keys?
-Do you care if its backlit or not.
-Do you like a certain brand.
What features do you want?
-Mechanical? If so what kind of switches do you want. Do you care if they're cherry/gateron/zealios or not.
-Do you need a numpad or function keys?
-Do you care if its backlit or not.
-Do you like a certain brand.
-Mechanical? If so what kind of switches do you want. Do you care if they're cherry/gateron/zealios or not.
-Do you need a numpad or function keys?
-Do you care if its backlit or not.
-Do you like a certain brand.
Loving my Roccat Suaro, you can get it for around the £62 mark..
http://www.roccat.org/en-GB/Products/Gaming-Keyboards/Suora-Series/Suora/
Loving my Roccat Suaro, you can get it for around the £62 mark..
[url=http://www.roccat.org/en-GB/Products/Gaming-Keyboards/Suora-Series/Suora/][/url]
http://www.roccat.org/en-GB/Products/Gaming-Keyboards/Suora-Series/Suora/
[url=http://www.roccat.org/en-GB/Products/Gaming-Keyboards/Suora-Series/Suora/][/url]
http://www.roccat.org/en-GB/Products/Gaming-Keyboards/Suora-Series/Suora/
Yeah i should have been more specific. Would like a mechanical, tenkeyless one. Prefer mx cherry browns for switches. Not really bothered about brand as long as its good.
Yeah i should have been more specific. Would like a mechanical, tenkeyless one. Prefer mx cherry browns for switches. Not really bothered about brand as long as its good.
Look into the ducky one. depending on where you look you can probably find a good deal somewhere for it.
Look into the ducky one. depending on where you look you can probably find a good deal somewhere for it.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01AHI0GY4/
Noppoo Choc Mini w/MX Browns
Had one of these for a few years, great wee keyboard.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01AHI0GY4/
Noppoo Choc Mini w/MX Browns
Had one of these for a few years, great wee keyboard.
Noppoo Choc Mini w/MX Browns
Had one of these for a few years, great wee keyboard.
BuRnMEnowBuy corsair or cooler master
Coolermaster's good but I can't recommend Corsair. Corsair's got awful keycaps + incompatible-with-basically-every-replacement-set keycaps because of a non-standard bottom row + painfully bulky cable + excess key wobble + extra pingy sounds on key release from the switches not being seated in the case well + bad software imo. They still make decent enough keyboards, but you can get much better for much lower prices.
A magicforce68 with Gaterons is the go-to budget board (gaterons are equal to cherry in every way except the switches are smoother and the browns' tactile bump is bigger). You'll have money left over but it's approximately the same as Coolermaster's quality, and a fair bit better than Corsair. The keycaps are its only real downfall in terms of quality, but they're not absolutely terrible and until you get into the $150 / £120 and up price range no keycaps are going to be particularly good.
The Ducky one as Koncept mentioned is a very good board also, though slightly out of your price range. Noppoo's are decent enough for budget boards, haven't heard any major complaints, but their switches are produced by Gaote (with older stuff by Kailh), which won't be as high quality as Cherry or Gateron (Gaote blues are decent but everything else isn't as good).
[quote=BuRnMEnow]Buy corsair or cooler master[/quote]
Coolermaster's good but I can't recommend Corsair. Corsair's got awful keycaps + incompatible-with-basically-every-replacement-set keycaps because of a non-standard bottom row + painfully bulky cable + excess key wobble + extra pingy sounds on key release from the switches not being seated in the case well + bad software imo. They still make decent enough keyboards, but you can get much better for much lower prices.
A [url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mechanical-Keyboard-GATERON-Magicforce-Qisan/dp/B01E6RFLS8/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1481400945&sr=8-1]magicforce68 with Gaterons[/url] is the go-to budget board (gaterons are equal to cherry in every way except the switches are smoother and the browns' tactile bump is bigger). You'll have money left over but it's approximately the same as Coolermaster's quality, and a fair bit better than Corsair. The keycaps are its only real downfall in terms of quality, but they're not absolutely terrible and until you get into the $150 / £120 and up price range no keycaps are going to be particularly good.
The Ducky one as Koncept mentioned is a very good board also, though slightly out of your price range. Noppoo's are decent enough for budget boards, haven't heard any major complaints, but their switches are produced by Gaote (with older stuff by Kailh), which won't be as high quality as Cherry or Gateron (Gaote blues are decent but everything else isn't as good).
Coolermaster's good but I can't recommend Corsair. Corsair's got awful keycaps + incompatible-with-basically-every-replacement-set keycaps because of a non-standard bottom row + painfully bulky cable + excess key wobble + extra pingy sounds on key release from the switches not being seated in the case well + bad software imo. They still make decent enough keyboards, but you can get much better for much lower prices.
A [url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mechanical-Keyboard-GATERON-Magicforce-Qisan/dp/B01E6RFLS8/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1481400945&sr=8-1]magicforce68 with Gaterons[/url] is the go-to budget board (gaterons are equal to cherry in every way except the switches are smoother and the browns' tactile bump is bigger). You'll have money left over but it's approximately the same as Coolermaster's quality, and a fair bit better than Corsair. The keycaps are its only real downfall in terms of quality, but they're not absolutely terrible and until you get into the $150 / £120 and up price range no keycaps are going to be particularly good.
The Ducky one as Koncept mentioned is a very good board also, though slightly out of your price range. Noppoo's are decent enough for budget boards, haven't heard any major complaints, but their switches are produced by Gaote (with older stuff by Kailh), which won't be as high quality as Cherry or Gateron (Gaote blues are decent but everything else isn't as good).
JarateKingBuRnMEnowCoolermaster's good but I can't recommend Corsair. Corsair's got awful keycaps + incompatible-with-basically-every-replacement-set keycaps because of a non-standard bottom row + painfully bulky cable + excess key wobble + extra pingy sounds on key release from the switches not being seated in the case well + bad software imo. They still make decent enough keyboards, but you can get much better for much lower prices.
Yeah I'm actually going to try and sell my strafe rgb alongside my old blackwidow ultimate (I can't stand clicky keys) and possibly get a filco majestouch tkl with mx silent switches. I used my number pad a decent bit for my online math homework but I'd much rather have to use the one on my laptop.
Plus I can hear some sort of creaking while typing on it at times and it makes me feel like the build quality on mine wasn't the best. This plus what you mentioned has kind of bothered me for a while now. It's not a bad keyboard, but there are keyboards that are certainly built a lot better.
[quote=JarateKing][quote=BuRnMEnow][/quote]
Coolermaster's good but I can't recommend Corsair. Corsair's got awful keycaps + incompatible-with-basically-every-replacement-set keycaps because of a non-standard bottom row + painfully bulky cable + excess key wobble + extra pingy sounds on key release from the switches not being seated in the case well + bad software imo. They still make decent enough keyboards, but you can get much better for much lower prices.[/quote]
Yeah I'm actually going to try and sell my strafe rgb alongside my old blackwidow ultimate (I can't stand clicky keys) and possibly get a filco majestouch tkl with mx silent switches. I used my number pad a decent bit for my online math homework but I'd much rather have to use the one on my laptop.
Plus I can hear some sort of creaking while typing on it at times and it makes me feel like the build quality on mine wasn't the best. This plus what you mentioned has kind of bothered me for a while now. It's not a bad keyboard, but there are keyboards that are certainly built a lot better.
Coolermaster's good but I can't recommend Corsair. Corsair's got awful keycaps + incompatible-with-basically-every-replacement-set keycaps because of a non-standard bottom row + painfully bulky cable + excess key wobble + extra pingy sounds on key release from the switches not being seated in the case well + bad software imo. They still make decent enough keyboards, but you can get much better for much lower prices.[/quote]
Yeah I'm actually going to try and sell my strafe rgb alongside my old blackwidow ultimate (I can't stand clicky keys) and possibly get a filco majestouch tkl with mx silent switches. I used my number pad a decent bit for my online math homework but I'd much rather have to use the one on my laptop.
Plus I can hear some sort of creaking while typing on it at times and it makes me feel like the build quality on mine wasn't the best. This plus what you mentioned has kind of bothered me for a while now. It's not a bad keyboard, but there are keyboards that are certainly built a lot better.
Mionix do a really good keyboard with black switches called the zibal, its around £60 has a USB and headphones ports as well.
Mionix do a really good keyboard with black switches called the zibal, its around £60 has a USB and headphones ports as well.
no, just green :( rgb 16.8 million colour lighting is very expensive!
no, just green :( rgb 16.8 million colour lighting is very expensive!
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