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  1. Thanks, but after watching some reviews it looks like it's a bit worse than my current keyboard in some aspects. That lighting effect is kinda cool though. Thank you, I looked it up and sank into a rabbit hole of low-profile switches and keyboards enthusiasts. First landed on some reddit thread with a list of low profile keyboards and then found a company called Keychron and this keyboard, which looks really sweet, even though it's still thicker than I would've liked. Then I finally realized that I shouldn't look for butterfly switches, because it's just an Apple's branding for scissor (chiclet) switches. So once I figured that out I've found a few more options like Microsoft Surface keyboard (although it doesn't have any backlight so tha's a pass for me). I'm gonna need to spent more time researching this stuff before I make any decision, but that at least put me on the right track, so thank you a lot.
  2. Thanks for the response. I looked up the RK900 and it definitely is not my jam . First of all, I'm not a fan of the design, but mainly I can see right away that it's going to have many issues I'm already struggling with or struggled with in the past. Also I really dislike wrist rests, I have never seen one that would actually improve anything, so if it's not detachable then that's a hard no from me. The most comfortable keyboards I used were slim and flat, so even among membrane ones I'd always pick the low-profile option - that's why I mentioned laptop keyboards. Speaking of which I looked at low-profile mechanical keyboards as well, but they don't seem much more slim and I'm afraid that the keyboard would have to be the height of (or as thick as) the height of a switch itself to fit my needs... So yeah, your suggestion about membrane keyboard with a mechanical feel is on point, but are there any that are slim and don't suffer from typical membrane keyboard problems like uneven, wobbly key presses or the feel and sound of a plastic rubbing against plastic when the key travels down and up? Yup, it looks like it's an ISO layout with some slight differences. I totally agree with you, the backslash between the quotation marks and enter is pure evil haha, and I have to use it all the time!
  3. Hello everyone. I'm a long time user of cheap membrane keyboards. About two years ago when another one of those died I've decided to mix things up and bought Genesis Thor 300 (equipped with imitation of Cherry Brown switches) as it was the cheapest one that was often recommended as a decent mechanical keyboard. There are a couple of things that I like about this keyboard: keycaps are less wobbly than on a cheap membrane keyboard (although still a bit wobbly), it's very sturdy and heavy, switches require pretty much perfect amount of force and travel to activate and it's relatively easy to clean (but that's pretty much every mechanical keyboard). Unfortunately there are quite a few more things that I don't like: plastic used for keycaps is "hard" and too smooth, also keycaps themselves are not as ergonomically profiled as even on the cheapest membrane keyboards, the keyboard is really tall which forces wrists to be tilted up which is very uncomfortable. It's very loud (switches are actually decent, apart from audible spring on some of them) but keycaps make a ton of noise when they hit the aluminum base of the keyboard, and that brings up another problem - switches are activated after 1-2mm of travel (that's really nice because it makes it really responsive), unfortunately there's over 5mm of mushiness after that. The tactile feel is barely there, font that they used on keycaps is quite ugly, there's some weirdness about the layout that I wasn't able to get used to even after two years of usage, and as already mentioned - keys are still quite wobbly (and even inconsistent at that) and they make noise when you wobble them, plus they're just a tiny bit too far apart for my liking. I type a lot (mostly programming) so my perfect keyboard would be as low-profile as possible, as quiet as possible, responsive and tactile with minimal key travel and somewhat ergonomic. I usually enjoy laptop keyboards, although they often have problems typical to membrane keyboards like lack of stability, uneven key travel, sometimes mushiness, etc. When I looked into it some time ago I've came across some keyboards with butterfly switches (like in a macbook). I've never used one of those but I figured it'd probably enjoy it. Unfortunately I can no longer find anything other than articles regarding Apple's keyboards with those types of switches. Welp, sorry about that lengthy post , but I'm hoping that maybe some of you experienced similar frustrations with keyboards and yet managed to find something that satisfies your needs. So, given my awfully specific requirements would you guys recommend any particular keyboard to me?
  4. Case solved. Wrong slots it was indeed. It runs at 3600MHz 15-17-16-17-36-50 1.25V. Thanks a lot guys.
  5. Yup, newest one installed. So it could be just unlucky cpu then. I might have 2600 on hand that for sure runs with 3466MHz so I'll check that. They are paired correctly but thanks, I'll try the other two slots. Yep, no luck there. Thanks for the replies, I'll fiddle around with it again in a couple of hours and update.
  6. Hello everyone. I've recently bought this combo: MB: ASUS Prime X470-PRO CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 2600X RAM: G.SKILL Trident Z RGB (F4-3600C18D-16GTZRX) That particular memory kit is on Asus QVL list and should run at 3600MHz yet it won't run faster than 2800MHz. I managed to pull off 3000MHz with LOWER than initial timings (16-36) but no luck from there on. Any suggestions?
  7. I have Gembird no-model keyboard, it looks like it's from 2011, A4TECH Ecco 612D mouse - I think it's even older. It has only two sliders left, and I had to open up and fold insides of a micro switch, cause my rmb stopped responding. Then it became too sensitive so I placed a piece of sponge under the button, which surprisingly works very well. My headset is AKG K240 Studio, really great headphones for music production.
  8. I have the MSI R9 280X but it broke a month ago (after 3 years). I guess it overheated because of the old thermal grease. Now I'm playing CS:GO on a 640x480 resolution on a integrated Radeon HD4250 OC to 1000MHz. Well this is quite good that I can play on a average of 50fps taking into account how old this motherboard is. Anyway, I miss editing videos the most, it was fun, no fancy effects for me on a integrated gpu, so new card would be a blessing from the sky, especially if it's the Polaris, those cards are great.
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