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Just picked up the Razer PBT set to renew a ~7 year old Ducky board that came with ABS caps Feels really nice and it's only 30bux. Comes with everything for ISO, ANSI, US and UK layouts.
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Klyith posted:A decent-but-not-expensive PBT set is one of the best upgrades you can do for an inexpensive board that comes with ABS caps. It doesn't mean you have to start joining group buys or becoming a The Razer PBT set is a nice option for this, it's only $30 and comes with both ANSI and ISO keys (AFAIK the more boutique sets tend to be ANSI only) repiv fucked around with this message at 16:01 on Jul 2, 2021 |
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collector. One set is all you need, $40 for some PBT caps will last many years before you even have wear on the surface texture. This is exactly what I did a long time ago -- I bought a rosewill during the first wave of mechanical popularity, then put some PBT caps on it after a year.
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Yep, it's a common feature nowadays The bullet point to look for is "N Key Rollover" or NKRO
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I fancy building up a tactile switch tester to get a feel for what exists outside of the MX Brown bubble, is there a good list anywhere of the most relevant ones nowadays? I found this but I don't know how complete it is: https://switchandclick.com/top-5-best-tactile-switches-for-your-mechanical-keyboard/ There's a good store here I can order single switches from but it's pretty overwhelming, they have over 120 different tactiles in stock repiv fucked around with this message at 14:03 on Jul 22, 2021 |
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Thanks, that looks very useful down the rabbit hole i go
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The upcoming Keychron Q1 is quite similar to the GMMK Pro, if you can wait a little while
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Traditional full-size seems very hard to come by in the enthusiast space, but there are some compressed layouts that keep the numpad Maybe this? https://drop.com/buy/drop-shift-mechanical-keyboard
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Keychron may actually fill that gap, they've mentioned amongst the Q1 stuff they plan to make a bunch of size variants including full size The next release after the Q1 is an even smaller 65% version though, the bigger versions will come later
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Thanks, got my tester in today... people weren't kidding about MX Browns having almost no tactility compared to just about anything else today  noob takes - drat zealios are insanely loud for a tactile switch - drat zilents are underwhelming compared to U4s at half the price I think the U4 will be my first choice if/when I build something, currently waiting to see how the Q1 turns out repiv fucked around with this message at 19:09 on Jul 28, 2021 |
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Jul 28, 2021 13:30
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Speaking of Bobas, is there any reason not to get the clear-top versions? I noticed they're the same price as the opaque versions and can't think why you wouldn't get the clear versions, unless the opaque housings have better tolerances or something.
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They already revealed the early bird pricing on their Discord $139 for barebones $169 with Gateron switches and doubleshot ABS caps $29 for a top-right position metal badge with custom printed graphic The knobless version also has a switch socket in the top right position, so if you remove the badge you can have an extra key there
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Also they just emailed this demonstration out, showing the stock switches and the PBT sets they will be selling as extras https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8ZgD3QQTqY Looks good to me, but I'm holding out for the ISO version
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https://www.keychron.com/products/keychron-q1 booo no barebones option in the first batch, only the bundle oh well the ISO version is launching later anyway
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nice Reviews will go live on or before the 24th apparently, the day pre-orders begin Hopefully it's an improvement over the GMMK Pro
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Apparently the FC660M uses a weird non-standard spacebar (it's standard 6.25u wide but the mounting points aren't in the standard position) so you're probably SOL unless you can find a keycap set specifically designed for that keyboard.  It looks like Tai-hao used to make FC660M add-on kits with the weird spacebar but I can't see them for sale anymore
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If it's delayed past the 24th at least that means you can find out whether the Q1 is the better buy, while it's still easy to cancel your order
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How about 75%s? I'm still eyeing up the Keychron Q1 but if it ends up being junk I'm not adverse to getting a soldered kit instead The Tofu84 sticks out as a babbies first custom 75%, but it's tray mount and people seem to be souring on that style I just want to build a quiet board with Boba U4s, so it doesn't matter if a board has the wrong kind of clack or whatever keyboard nerds obsess over
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Yeah the GMMK Pro is the other obvious one, but it just seems like no end of issues with bad QC and shoddy software/firmware The Q1 being designed with QMK/VIA first rather than an afterthought should hopefully mean things go more smoothly
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What's especially off-putting is that Glorious say they're switching to a different MCU around about now, which will break the existing QMK support, and given their half assed support for QMK so far (AFAICT they never got around to adding RGB or ISO or VIA support, and the community had to reverse engineer them) I don't have much confidence in the updated board being supported any time soon, or ever.
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SpicyPete posted:fwiw, RGB support in QMK/VIA is fully implemented for the OG controller GMMK Pros. QMK just hasn't merged the development branch into the master which is set to happen this week. Following up on this, they've finally posted an update on the MCU situation https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/comments/pbm5za/gmmk_pro_postlaunch_report/ tldr: they managed to source more of the original MCU and will continue using it for the forseeable future, and they say the potential replacement MCU already has a QMK implementation ready to go if required
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Drop Skylight is missing the 1u right modifiers for the GMMK Pro You need a 1.75u shift, 1u alt, 1u fn, 1u ctrl, and ideally vertical nav cluster keys
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Glorious have backlit sets as well, if you like the pudding style https://www.pcgamingrace.com/products/glorious-aura-keycaps-v2-black
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I'm drawing a blank  Gamer-oriented sets tend to be backlit but not support exotic layouts, and enthusiast-oriented sets tend to support many layouts but not be backlit. And the exceptions all seem to be pudding or not in the colours/material you're looking for.
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hbag posted:overclockers are yet to ship my loving GMMK pro i ordered one yesterday and it just shipped op maybe ocuk just doesn't like you
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i got black iso
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Babbies first custom acquired  
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Unsinkabear posted:I was wondering about that. Is there a standard-ish size for the shrunk keys, or am I going to be hunting for proprietary shapes when I want to upgrade the caps? The shrunk keys are the same across pretty much all 65%/75% boards If you want a cheap set to go with the K2, Keychron themselves have a bunch of them https://www.keychron.com/collections/q1-k2-oem-dye-sub-pbt-keycap-set
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have fun with the stabilizers, the ones on my recent unit were still pretty awful it's fixable, but glorious really should have dialed that in from the factory by now
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on kbdfans own site they point to an appropriate battery on aliexpress https://kbdfans.com/products/kbd67lite https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32879673300.html
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RTINGS tests keyboard latency https://www.rtings.com/keyboard/tests/latency repiv fucked around with this message at 17:58 on Sep 30, 2021 |
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They'll fit in any hotswap board that takes 5-pin switches, but if your board only takes 3-pin you'll need to clip the switches to remove the two alignment pins
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I switched from MX Browns to Boba U4 62gs recently and they haven't given me any trouble when gaming, for what it's worth If you do find them too heavy on your pinky you could try putting lighter switches just on left shift and left control
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Blinkz0rz posted:Days like today I hate that this is a niche hobby so we can't take advantage of economies of scale. It doesn't help that keyboards only tend to run once or twice, so what economy of scale there could be is eaten up by designers having to endlessly develop their own iterations of the metal rectangle from scratch
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Have you checked if it came with the newest firmware? https://www.keychron.com/pages/keychron-firmware-for-k2
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speaking of keychron they've announced the Q2 (the 65% version of the Q1) and what is going on here insert key just floating off into space for some reason
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I suppose it could be for a knob option like the Q1, but they still haven't actually released the Q1 knob PCB yet
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suddenly feeling more glad that i cancelled my Q1 pre-order and got the GMMK Pro instead despite its stupid faults with the stabilizers still being terrible after multiple batches repiv fucked around with this message at 19:41 on Oct 15, 2021 |
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:For comparison, W1-AT preorders opened today at $370. https://swagkeys.com/collections/w1-at  ISO is good actually <  >
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Gearman posted:Also, just a reminder that I sell FR4 plates for the GMMK Pro (https://avxworks.com/). Unlike the stock aluminum plate, these don't suck and you can actually use good aftermarket stabilizers like Durock V2s with them. can confirm it doesn't suck, and works with stabilizers that don't suck, unlike the glorious stabilizers which suck a lot
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