Mechanical keyboards with cherry switches are hyped for gaming nowadays, but there are two main issues for my liking:
noise and keytravel
they can be pretty annoying loud while playing, and even tho it's enough to press them only about 2mm down to register the keypress, you press them often enough all the way down while you play, in the heat of the battle anyway.
Here is the solution, which makes getting used to mechanical switches obsolete too:
-Take an old cheap shit rubberdome keyboard
-open it up and take the rubberdome layer out
http://i.imgur.com/PPF7B.jpg
-take a scissor and cut out the rubberdomes
http://i.imgur.com/HlY9Z.jpg
-make a hole in the middle of it, and cut everything away but the most stable top of it
http://i.imgur.com/4n1hr.jpg
-now just put that ring of rubber inside of the keycap of ur mechanical board, and put the cap back on the switch
http://i.imgur.com/7p8SE.jpg
DONE
Now the keytravel is only about half the way, and its alot quiter too.
http://i.imgur.com/9KOaA.jpg
noise and keytravel
they can be pretty annoying loud while playing, and even tho it's enough to press them only about 2mm down to register the keypress, you press them often enough all the way down while you play, in the heat of the battle anyway.
Here is the solution, which makes getting used to mechanical switches obsolete too:
-Take an old cheap shit rubberdome keyboard
-open it up and take the rubberdome layer out
http://i.imgur.com/PPF7B.jpg
-take a scissor and cut out the rubberdomes
http://i.imgur.com/HlY9Z.jpg
-make a hole in the middle of it, and cut everything away but the most stable top of it
http://i.imgur.com/4n1hr.jpg
-now just put that ring of rubber inside of the keycap of ur mechanical board, and put the cap back on the switch
http://i.imgur.com/7p8SE.jpg
DONE
Now the keytravel is only about half the way, and its alot quiter too.
http://i.imgur.com/9KOaA.jpg
Edited by thuNDa at 11:00 CDT, 27 April 2011 - 10471 Hits