Posted September 14, 2018 · Original PosterOP I've been looking into buying a mechanical keyboard for a while now and think I would like MX Blues the best because I like the clicky sounds and care more about typing because I'm not really a competitive gamer. The only potential issue I can see is the level of noise of the keys, as I live in a house in close proximity to other people and don't want them wanting to kill me every time I go to type something. I'm currently using an old Logitech G15 keyboard (I think second gen, whichever one has the orange LCD screen) and am a fairly heavy typer to begin with if that is any comparison for noise levels, and am thinking about getting the Corsair K70 LUX keyboard. Also, if anyone knows a store where I could go to try typing on a mechanical keyboard in the Phoenix (AZ) area please let me know. Thank you for any help you can offer! Edit: Also, has anyone used the K70 with OSX (*cough* hackintosh *cough*)? I would assume they'd be compatible but I just wanted to check. Intel i7-8700K | GTX-1070Ti | LG 34UC80-B | 32GB DDR4-2400 | Corsair SPEC-03 | WD Black 256GB M.2 SSD & Toshiba P300 3TB 7200RPM HDD | ASRock Z370 Killer SLI/ac | Corsair TX550M | Cryorig H7 | Logitech G15 & G500S | Windows 10 Home & OSX 10.13 Link to post Share on other sites
Posted September 14, 2018 Blue switches are pretty loud, they do sound decent and have decent keyfeel but if you type decently fast then you are in for a lot of sound I spent $2500 on building my PC and all i do with it is play MTGA & watch anime at 720p... Builds: The Toaster Project! Northern Bee! The Cassette Deck! The original LAN PC build log! (Old, dead and replaced by The Toaster Project & 5.0) Spoiler "Here is some advice that might have gotten lost somewhere along the way in your life. #1. Treat others as you would like to be treated. #2. It's best to keep your mouth shut; and appear to be stupid, rather than open it and remove all doubt. #3. There is nothing "wrong" with being wrong. Learning from a mistake can be more valuable than not making one in the first place. Follow these simple rules in life, and I promise you, things magically get easier. " - MageTank 31-10-2016 Link to post Share on other sites
Posted September 14, 2018 · Original PosterOP Okay, do you know if MX Browns having any audible feedback that is quieter than the blues? Intel i7-8700K | GTX-1070Ti | LG 34UC80-B | 32GB DDR4-2400 | Corsair SPEC-03 | WD Black 256GB M.2 SSD & Toshiba P300 3TB 7200RPM HDD | ASRock Z370 Killer SLI/ac | Corsair TX550M | Cryorig H7 | Logitech G15 & G500S | Windows 10 Home & OSX 10.13 Link to post Share on other sites
Posted September 14, 2018 Just now, aleksfacco said: Okay, do you know if MX Browns having any audible feedback that is quieter than the blues? The Browns don't really make much of a clicky sound, though it will make a sound if you bottom it out. And it's much less tactile. For more tactile tactile switches, there's things like Zealios, Zilents and Box Royals. I think Matias also has some tactile switches. Quote Women. They are a complete mystery. -Stephen Hawking I think the hoomans put their builds here? Why do you hoomans give your builds a name? Here's my build, which I shall call "Do as I Say, Not As I Do" (seriously, don't get this build) Spoiler Ryzen 1500X @3,925 GHz Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo + 2x ML120 MSI B350 Tomahawk Arctic 2x8GB Corsair Vengeance LPX 3000 MHz CL15 (Micron B-die) @2933 MHz Sapphire Radeon R9 280 Dual-X @1120 MHz / 1450 MHz 120GB 850 Evo 120GB Kingston SSD 500GB WD Blue Cooler Master Elite 430 Seasonic Prime Titanium 650W Logitech G710 with Kailh Box Jade Logitech G502 HyperX Cloud And my laptop, which I shall call "If It's Stupid But It Works" (It can actually play CS:GO at 50 FPS, and Civ V at 25 FPS) Spoiler Lenovo Thinkpad L460 Intel Core i3 6100U 4GB (probably) DDR4 2133 MHz Intel HD Graphics 520 0.3-1.0 GHz 128GB Samsung MZ7LF128HCHP Corsair M65 Pro RGB (worst mouse I've ever had) Sennheiser CX 5.00G And here would be where I would put a picture of my cat. But apparently, images are not allowed here. So take this instead (*ΦωΦ*) Hello fellow night theme users Link to post Share on other sites
Posted September 14, 2018 The force used in typing also affects how much noise it makes, since hitting the bottom of the keystroke also produces noise Studying abroad, ditched the crappy laptop for a do-all laptop double. Dried factory CPU paste, long memory timings, cooler cools the inductors but not the mosfets and an inch of unused internal space on both left and right Model: HP Omen 17 17-an110ca CPU: i7-8750H (0.125V core & cache, 50mV system agent undervolt) GPU: GTX 1060 6GB Mobile (1696MHz 0.812V ~ 1860MHz 0.95V) RAM: 12GB DDR4-2666 19-19-19-43 2T Storage: 128GB Toshiba NVMe SSD (KBG30ZMV128G) + 1TB Seagate 7200RPM 2.5" HDD (ST1000LM049-2GH172) Monitor: 1080p 120Hz IPS G-sync The best thing to do is reading the clock speed that doesnt end in a pair of zeros. Software voltage readings are wrong if your motherboard's not a high end model CPU: i7-2600K 4493MHz (multiplier: 43x) 1.35V (software) --> 1.4V at the back of the socket Motherboard: Asrock Z77 Extreme4 (BCLK: 104.5MHz) CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 RAM: Adata XPG 2x8GB DDR3 (XMP: 10-11-11-30 2T 2133MHz, custom: 10-11-10-30 1T 2229MHz) GPU: Asus GTX 1070 Dual SSD: Samsung 840 Pro 256GB (main boot drive), Transcend SSD370 128GB PSU: Seasonic X-660 80+ Gold Case: Antec P110 Silent, 5 intakes 1 exhaust Monitor: AOC G2460PF 1080p 144Hz (OC'd 150Hz) TN Keyboard: Logitech G610 Orion (Cherry MX Blue) with SteelSeries Apex M260 keycaps Mouse: BenQ Zowie FK1 Results: Cinebench R15 Single thread:159 Multi-thread: 770 (thx Meltdown Spectre patch) Super Pi (v1.5 from Techpowerup, PI value output) 16K: 0.11s 1M: 8.4s 32M: 7m 45.9s Link to post Share on other sites
Posted September 14, 2018 · Original PosterOP Okay, I might want to consider the browns then because based on my use of my g15 I will probably be bottoming out the keys (it also helps that the brown version is on sale on amazon right now). Intel i7-8700K | GTX-1070Ti | LG 34UC80-B | 32GB DDR4-2400 | Corsair SPEC-03 | WD Black 256GB M.2 SSD & Toshiba P300 3TB 7200RPM HDD | ASRock Z370 Killer SLI/ac | Corsair TX550M | Cryorig H7 | Logitech G15 & G500S | Windows 10 Home & OSX 10.13 Link to post Share on other sites