Peripherals Mechanical Keyboards

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  1. The_Crapman

    The_Crapman Don't phone it's just for fun. Lover of bit-tech

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    Sack that 60% malarky. I'll be lucky if i survive the mental challenge of not having a number pad without turning into a dribbling wreck.

    The rapid-i does look pretty snazy with the programmable backlighting. Could look pretty fit with white caps and red led covers. Anyone know a good place for caps and especially the colour changers? can only find places that sell a random assortment and not a set of one colour.

    EDIT: Forget the fancy Daydream LED covers. Can just do this but with some red acetate for better results. But now i can't decide on white caps with red LED or red caps with the white LED. Haven't even got the thing and already wanting to upgrade it. :hehe:
     
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  2. GaryP

    GaryP RIP Tel

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    Right some advice needed. I need to test out mech keyboards. Reading up I think I would need browns. I have tried blues in a shop and far too noisy.

    I need a keyboard with spare keys that I can program to type a string with (I code much quicker that way) . I currently use the G keys on my G510.

    Backlit would help too. If anyone has a testing kit witht the different switches I could borrow i would be grateful.

    Can anyone recommend a key board I could do all that with ?

    I don't want much do I.







    ... and a budget of £20 ;)
     
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  3. David

    David μoʍ ɼouმ qᴉq λon ƨbԍuq ϝʁλᴉuმ ϝo ʁԍɑq ϝμᴉƨ

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    It's a lovely board - absolutely perfect for me - and I went with Browns. I only need a numpad very occasionally at home, and I have a Goldtouch pad for that (also with Browns).

    From a typing feel perspective, MX Blues are excellent, but I find the noise too distracting, and Browns fit the bill very nicely for me. I have them on both of my main boards, and I'm in the process of swapping out the Panda Clears on my G80 for Browns too.
     
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  4. GMC

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    http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&id=111617991231&alt=web

    http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&id=311319212793&alt=web

    over your budget with MX blacks. No backlighting but you've set a low price limit ;)
     
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  5. The_Crapman

    The_Crapman Don't phone it's just for fun. Lover of bit-tech

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    Either the CM Strom Trigger Z (£100) or Corsair K70 RGB (£160) would be your best bet, both available with browns.
     
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  6. David

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    That space bar is epic. :D

    The alpha caps look nice though.
     
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  7. GaryP

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  8. GaryP

    GaryP RIP Tel

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    Can stick £160 where the sun don't shine but that Trigger Z looks OK. I've bought a car for less than that £160 !
     
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  9. Noob?

    Noob? What's a Dremel?

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    Shoot, forgot the "Keyboard Overlord", please don't ban me. :hehe:

    I repeat: GeorgeK, Jinq-Sea, Margo Baggins, Shirty. :D Thats FOUR, Not THREE. :D


    @GMC: Nice find that! The Space Bar is a bit too big IMO but we can't have it all our way. :hehe: Got to admit, quite like the layout.
     
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  10. David

    David μoʍ ɼouმ qᴉq λon ƨbԍuq ϝʁλᴉuმ ϝo ʁԍɑq ϝμᴉƨ

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    I once bought a car for £50. I ran it for two years, without problems. It wasn't pretty and it sounded like it ran on coal, but it was a dependable old lump.

    Which one is dogtanion?
     
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  11. Yslen

    Yslen Lord of the Twenty-Seventh Circle

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    I bought a car for £1500, had to spend a lot repairing it over the next three years then nobody would buy it so I had it scrapped. Should have asked you guys for advice, clearly!

    Sent from my GT-I9300 using Tapatalk
     
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  12. Margo Baggins

    Margo Baggins I'm good at Soldering Super Moderator

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    Trigger-Z is awesome board. Way better than the Corsair. it's 100% programmable.

    I bought a car for 300 quid 2 and a bit years ago and it's cost me 1500 in repair since then. I don't know what this analogy is.
     
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  13. Hzza

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    Margo's back! Was getting worried about you there dude.

    Also, I had a £400 Mondeo that lasted years (I think 3 MoTs), spent basically £0 on it (a few lightbulbs went and I got a new set of tires, but they don't count). Best car I ever owned, really sad when the clutch went and the Mrs wanted to upgrade. I even got £50 scrap for it :D.
     
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  14. adrock

    adrock Caninus Nervous Rex

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    my new board has no ps2 connectors. can anyone suggest a suitable ps2 to usb adaptor i can use to connect a g80-3700?
     
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  15. Yslen

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    It was the best car pound for pound I ever bought for £150. It was 13 year old E30 316 BMW. Front wing was rusty, door lock broken and wipers didn't work. Wipers was fixed by a relay pinched from a scrappy, door lock needed the mechanism taking out, reconnected and put back in and the wing could stay rusty. Had it two years, did over 25k in it and all I ever replaced was the tyres once. Straight through two mots and sold it 2 years later for £250 :)

    So £160 on keyboard is never gonna happen :)
     
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  17. Byron C

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    ....You wanna go car shopping with me?
     
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  18. GaryP

    GaryP RIP Tel

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    Only for BMWs or MkI or MkII Ford Escorts... other than that am useless :)
     
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  19. PsYcHoTiC_MaDmAn

    PsYcHoTiC_MaDmAn Unholy Cyborg Fruit Machine

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    anyone know of a decent budget keyboard, probably mx blacks.

    my laptop doesn't do N-key roll-over, so want a cheap keyboard for it. I like blacks (on my steelseries 6gv2) though haven't really tried any others.

    (amazon has cheap zalman with mx-red clones, not sure what rep the Kailh switches have)
     
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  20. GMC

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    I just bought one of these... Black switches, integrated track pad and v cheap.
    http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&id=161641003797&alt=web
     
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