Cheap mechanical keyboard?

AndreiArgeanu · April 11, 2019

Hi. I wish to soon buy a mechanical keyboard and I am not sure what should I get. Now I do not have a lot of money to spend on a keyboard. I looked at the video that linus had with 45$ mechanical keyboard but on amazon UK the keyboards were either a lot more expensive or inexistent. Now I do not have a lot of preferences but that I want clicky switches so I suppose any blue switches should work as I'd use it for typing and gaming. Now around 45$ or around 35£ I don't expect much. Now I want to know which one you think its best. Also and additional feature that I'd like to have is swappable switches but it's optional but I did see some keyboards with swappable outemu switches around this price. Can go over the said "budget" but not by a lot. Thanks for the help.

Firewrath9 · April 11, 2019

reddragon K552?

b emoji · April 11, 2019

The cheapest decent hotswap would be around 35-40$ for just the pcb. Note that Outemu hotswap sockets will only work fro outemu and bsun switches unlike kailh hotswap sockets which can accommodate other mx style switches as well.

ImAyaanKhan · April 15, 2019

On 4/10/2019 at 10:12 PM, Firewrath9 said:

reddragon K552?

Yeah, that's a good keyboard. You can buy it here. I would also recommend the Eagletec KG011. They both have switches that are either cherry mx blues or similar (Custom-made.)