Peripherals Keyboard - £60-£70 budget

Hey guys,

other half gave me a Lycosa as an early x-mas present, literally a week ago today.

USB port on it doesn't work, and it's dropped connection twice in game in the last 2 days.

Going to return for a full refund, so I'll have some pennies to spend

Anybody got a suggestion for a keyboard in this price range?

Cheers.

Matt

 

CMStorm Quickfire Rapid
http://www.scan.co.uk/products/cool...id-mechanical-cherry-black-mx-gaming-keyboard

 

Need a numpad ideally I prefer larger keyboards and I do a lot of numerical input outside of gaming!

 

http://www.scan.co.uk/products/genius-numpad-i110-slim-numeric-number-pad-usb

 

Definitely worth going mechanical, with that budget you have a couple of options. The Steelseries 6Gv2 is £65 on Scan and has a numpad.

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I would get the CM Storm with a USB numpad! well worth it!

 

Or could use a wireless numberpad if you didn't want an extra wire on your desk

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Logitech-N3...P9V4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1353757954&sr=8-1

(I know that takes it above budget but you might find one cheaper somewhere else)

 

Trying one of these tonight

Cheers

 

If you're thinking of the SteelSeries....
http://direct.asda.com/SteelSeries-...aa58-05eff6da2486&istItemId=aqtptiil&istBid=t

 

I'd go for a CM Storm Quickfire Pro at this price point. I've just moved from one of these to a Rapid due to a bit of desk downsizing, and the two boards are very comparable in action and build quality.

The proper hardcore mechanical keyboard enthusiasts will warn you off the Pro for no other reason than it was built by iOne instead of Costar, but having owned both within the last week (as well as having tried a number of other boards) the differences would only be noticed by an expert in the peripherals game.

Plus with the Pro you get the partial back-light for gaming as well as it being a full size board.

I uploaded some shots of it here. Of course, this depends whether you get on with Cherry MX red switches

PM scott_chegg for a second opinion, I sold mine to him.

 

Steelseries are a good keyboard mines got black switch's only thing is if you want to change the keycaps some of them are real buggers to get

 

http://direct.asda.com/SteelSeries-...aa58-05eff6da2486&istItemId=aqtptiil&istBid=t

 

SteelSeries 6GV2

 

Awesome price on the 6Gv2 at ASDA. Rep for that post.

 

I've got a Sidewinder X4. I love it. It is backlit, has a nice numpad and a lot of macro keys. I've heard bad things about those Arctosas, or any Razer product in general. Apparently they flex a lot in the middle.

 

My Razer Naga's been going well last couple of years, had the Lycosa keyboard less than a week and it's buggered.

Got the 6GV2 coming via the other half tonight

Cheers all for the help.

 

Got the 6GV2 BTW.. Fell in love with it as soon as I unboxed it.

The other half hates me due to the noise, but I don't give a monkeys!