Cheap Mechanical Keyboard

LOLanater001 · September 24, 2020

I am looking to buy a mechanical keyboard but only want to spend £30. I'm probably going to get this: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mechanical-PICTEK-Adjustable-Anti-ghosting-Programming-Black-dp-B08CXR4HCL/dp/B08CXR4HCL/ref=dp_ob_title_ce

I wanted to check here to see if there is a better option before I buy it.

Oliver Michael · September 25, 2020

Maybe not exactly at your price point, but I've found that the RedDragon keyboards are decent bang for your buck keyboards at a lower price. I just dont know what that would be in your currency, sorry.

whm1974 · September 25, 2020

What sort of switch do you want or perfer? Personally I think Blue Clicky kind like the Cherry MX Blue or it's clones are the best, but YMMV.

White15gt · September 26, 2020

22 hours ago, Oliver Michael said:

Maybe not exactly at your price point, but I've found that the RedDragon keyboards are decent bang for your buck keyboards at a lower price. I just dont know what that would be in your currency, sorry.

Came here to say this. I have a redragon with brown switches that I use for work. It’s a fantastic keyboard for the price.

Dr0y · September 26, 2020

I've never used that board and don't know the brand. It has blue switches so they should be clicky. It's rainbow and not rgb so you won't be able to customize the color.

I have a redragon k552 with outemu blue and damn they are quite loud. The click is loud and the have a lot of spring ping when you type enthusiastically I would say. Over all the board is still well build, quite sturdy and it stays in place well when typing. For the price I don't think that you could find better. Also my 552 is swappable and I could put other outemu switches. To fit in other brand of switches I've heard that I would have to modify the two contact lead to fit them in so I didn't bother trying and I bought the gmmk which is hot swappable and compatible with a lot of switches.

If the noise doesn't bother you much, I would try to find a used redragon in your budget. Careful which version you get ... for the k552 (and I think it's the same for the k551 which is full size) you can have it in black and white and each color comes with either no led, red led, rainbow led or full rgb.