Shopping for reasonably priced mechanical keyboard

[ExoLightning]

Hello all, my girlfriend has been won over by my mechanical keyboard (corsair K65) and is looking to get her own mechanical keyboard. However she wants a 104 full keyboard layout and the K65 only comes in 10 Keyless layout. So we're looking for 

 

-no/removable wrist rest 

-under £70/$100

-104 full key layout 

-MX Cherry blues (red acceptable) 

 

Cheers for your help.

[Vox_Lusa]

Hello.

My recommendation would be the Cooler Master keyboards. They have some very simple looking yet nicely build mechanical keyboards.

Take a look at the original Quickfire XT.

 

It is:

- ANSI-US layout in a fullsize / 104 key layout;

- Comes available in Cherry MX Blue or Brown switches (and maybe Reds aswell, but I'm not sure);

- Detachable USB cable

- No wrist rest though

- Costar OEM (the same OEM as Filco's etc..)

 

It's not a backlit keyboard but it has a standard bottom row which makes it easy to find replacing keysets for the board.

Here's a picture of the keyboard:

 

 

It's available at Amazon.com from $84.99 (Cherry MX Blue) to $89.95 (Cherry MX Brown).

[hydramerlin]

The Cooler Master XT is a great keyboard, but there are also the Rosewill Apollo Keyboards that go on sales every now and then.

 

This one has no backlight, no wrist-rest, or any pass-throughs and it's $80.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00S5E4KH2/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_dp_ss_1?pf_rd_p=1944687442&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=B00HA2086W&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=1RKRT1YS5G5D35H79RYY

 

This one has backlight, a wrist-rest, and USB and audio pass-throughs. It's $100 on Amazon, but it was on sale recently for $70 on Newegg.

http://www.amazon.com/Rosewill-Backlit-Mechanical-Keyboard-RK-9100xB/dp/B00HA2086W

 

So can also check www.reddit.com/r/buildapcsales and see if any keyboards that meet your needs go on sale.