Bought it second-hand for $2, other 4 units for free. It's about $10-15 on eBay for a used one, which is still a very good price considering what you are getting for your money.
Indestructible, rubber dome, 4 KRO, PS/2, black, price like a bread roll. And indestructible, once again. IBM.
I use Cherry MX black switches because I don't like tactile feedback for gaming. Reds should be good too they are like black just lower resistance. I think stermy uses red switches?
Try the original IBM M-keyboards (best non-ergonomic keyboards ever produced - loud buckling springs & awesome typing feeling, average life expectancy is about 50 years - get a PS/2 model); 2-2.5 kgs of pure self-defense weaponry.
I think my next keyboard is going to be brown switches. I never really noticed how loud blues are until I started using the pc with my headphones off, holy shit
If you want switches like MX blues but with less noise, then MX clears might be the thing you actually want, because the tactile 'bump' in browns is not a bump at all, just a barely noticeable scratch.
Can you recommend any good keyboard that is quiet at the same time? I guess every mechanical keyboard has this noisy click effect. I wish to have better keyboard that my wife is not going to throw through the window. I mostly play at nights so this is really serious requirement.
I would recommend against o-rings for gaming. The friction from holding keys down wears away at them and the debris gets inside the switch and makes it malfunction. They are fine for typing though as you only tap the keys.
I had this happen to two keyboards before it finally occurred to me it was the o-rings. Cleaning the switches helped but a few never worked right again.
Edited by sinistral at 13:11 CDT, 26 September 2016
The keyboard in the video has the MX blue switches, which are clicky. The O-rings can't dampen the click; they only effect clack that results from the key "bottoming out". If you want more silence, consider getting a keyboard with non-clicky switches. These include reds and blacks (linear switches) or browns and clears (switches with tactile feeling).
agreed - i put o-rings in my CM Storm QuickFire Rapid TK and it barely changed the sound, although it's a bit "softer" now, in sound and in feel. It's a cheap mod, so no biggie. Also, I really like the idea of a damping pad underneath the board - probably could find a sheet of rubber at the hardware store, or some sort of purpose-made foam mat online.
Though there's some that aren't as noisy as the usual pick (cherry blue switches). Cherry reds (if not bottoming out) and topres come to mind.
I must be the only person in the world that dislikes cherry blue switches. Way too noisy and gimmicky, as the switch itself is not what produces sound but an addittion included just to make noise.
btw, I use a Leopold tenkeyless kb with cherry reds, looking forward to getting topres.
Edited by megaman3 at 12:57 CDT, 26 September 2016
How would you rate advantage of mechanical over regular keyboard?
I've never had chance to play on it except some dry typing in the store.
Is it that much of improvement for let's say dodging?
actually it's a slight improvment for dodging, almost hidden, but still there.
jigglypuff for example started to dodge better and hit harder when he got a good keyboard (mechanical). Ofc what made him better than ever is more his "practice method" and the fact that he plays only quake and play it quite often and regularly, and the italian quake community was/is rather big with some very good players.
but still it's much more comfortable to dodge with a mech keyboard than with a crappy one. Can only be beneficial in the long term.
Microsoft used to make really, really good keyboards. I had the original Comfort Curve for probably 5-6 years until a few keys died. Comfortable slight curve for ergonomics, small drainage holes in the event of spilling anything into it, didn't suffer from ghosting on USB. Shame it died and a greater shame that they're $70+ on Amazon now or I wouldn't have shopped around for a mechanical.
I had a Thermaltake keyboard last year. It had some issue where certain keys would register multiple presses. They never responded to my emails to have it replaced under warranty. I tried calling their support line and was hung up on twice. Never buying another Thermaltake product again.