I need a new keyboard..hated my k70 rgb

[minimalist]

I play battlefield and pretty much battlefield alone.  What are some good keyboards?

 

I've been eyeing the Razer ornata chroma

[Castdeath97]

What did you hate about the K70?

[Hip]

4 minutes ago, minimalist said:

I play battlefield and pretty much battlefield alone.  What are some good keyboards?

 

I've been eyeing the Razer ornata chroma

I would recommend you to look towards Cherry keyboards. The are very nice.

But first weren't you pleased with the mechanical cherry keys or what was the problem with your odl keyboard?

[flibberdipper]

What didn't you like about the K70? In terms of keyboards they really don't get that much better.

[Oshino Shinobu]

To know what to avoid, we really need to know what you didn't like about the keyboard. I could well be more about the switch than the keyboard itself. 

 

My personal recommendation would be to look at the Ducky Shine series (I think 5 is the current one). I've had my Ducky Shine 3 for a couple of years now and absolutely love it. I have no desire to move to a new keyboard as this one is already so good. I personally like Cherry MX Brown switches (I prefer MX Clear, but they're rare), but that's very subjective. 

[dizmo]

I'm quite fond of my KM780. I hated my K70 as well. 

 

4 minutes ago, tmcclelland455 said:

What didn't you like about the K70? In terms of keyboards they really don't get that much better.

Eh not really. They're hyped more than anything. They might have been the go to at one point but there are better options now. 

[flibberdipper]

3 minutes ago, dizmo said:

I'm quite fond of my KM780. I hated my K70 as well. 

 

Eh not really. They're hyped more than anything. They might have been the go to at one point but there are better options now. 

I don't see why people can't like them. I have a Strafe (aka plastic K70), and while personally I would go for the Strafe RGB over the K70 (because I'm not gonna spend my life savings on a keyboard), I still think the K70's are solid little keyboards.

[Praesi]

G910. For Gaming perfect, for writing not the best choice.

[dizmo]

14 minutes ago, tmcclelland455 said:

I don't see why people can't like them. I have a Strafe (aka plastic K70), and while personally I would go for the Strafe RGB over the K70 (because I'm not gonna spend my life savings on a keyboard), I still think the K70's are solid little keyboards.

My experience was the build was OK, for the most part. The scroll wheel is sticky and feels like trash. Same as my buddies K95 and his gfs K70 as well. Switched to the KM780 and it was smooth as butter.

There's also some design choices, like the lack of the G Keys. I get them on the KM780, at a lower price.

Both have very similar aluminium builds, I liked the wrist rest of the KM780 more, and it was $40 less.

Just seems like the K70 isn't great value for the money.

[minimalist]

1 hour ago, Castdeath97 said:

What did you hate about the K70?

Constantly had issues with it while playing bf and pressing keys with no response from them.  I thought it was an overrated keyboard.  I'll never buy a corsair keyboard again.  And it always seemed to happen at the most crucial moments too 

[minimalist]

1 hour ago, dizmo said:

My experience was the build was OK, for the most part. The scroll wheel is sticky and feels like trash. Same as my buddies K95 and his gfs K70 as well. Switched to the KM780 and it was smooth as butter.

There's also some design choices, like the lack of the G Keys. I get them on the KM780, at a lower price.

Both have very similar aluminium builds, I liked the wrist rest of the KM780 more, and it was $40 less.

Just seems like the K70 isn't great value for the money.

That too.  For the $160 I spent on it I didn't feel like the value was there.  I know I could have gotten the same for $100.  

[minimalist]

1 hour ago, dizmo said:

I'm quite fond of my KM780. I hated my K70 as well. 

 

Eh not really. They're hyped more than anything. They might have been the go to at one point but there are better options now. 

Only thing with the km780 is its too gamer looking for me.  I want simple but with white lights hence something rgb.  Do you know much about these new switches on the ornata?

[flibberdipper]

1 hour ago, dizmo said:

My experience was the build was OK, for the most part. The scroll wheel is sticky and feels like trash. Same as my buddies K95 and his gfs K70 as well. Switched to the KM780 and it was smooth as butter.

There's also some design choices, like the lack of the G Keys. I get them on the KM780, at a lower price.

Both have very similar aluminium builds, I liked the wrist rest of the KM780 more, and it was $40 less.

Just seems like the K70 isn't great value for the money.

K70's are extremely overpriced for what you get. Hell, the strafe is nearly as solid as the K70 (at least in my experience with flexing the one at Best Buy), and the Strafe is plastic with (I think) a steel plate in the bottom for weight and structure. I'm not even all that bothered about having hotkey-style media keys, since I'm used to that from my laptop.

 

Also, IMO, the Strafe is just a lot easier to keep nice looking. And the RGB version of it... HNGGGGGGGGGGGGG

[Castdeath97]

2 minutes ago, minimalist said:

Constantly had issues with it while playing bf and pressing keys with no response from them.  I thought it was an overrated keyboard.  I'll never buy a corsair keyboard again.  And it always seemed to happen at the most crucial moments too 

I would say that it could have been a faulty unit.

[Festive]

Personally I love my K70 RGB but I have been noticing the occasional double key press once in a while but nothing that really effects me. I would recommend something like a G910 if you hate the K70.

[Aytex]

17 hours ago, minimalist said:

Constantly had issues with it while playing bf and pressing keys with no response from them.  I thought it was an overrated keyboard.  I'll never buy a corsair keyboard again.  And it always seemed to happen at the most crucial moments too 

Seems like a QC Problem more than the design I assume?

 

Welp, You can always buy a HHKB3 with like the carbon keycap set (prob like $300+)

Nether less you can go for a MAX Nighthawk, Or ducky shine 6, poker 

 

OR build your own

[protoCJ]

On 11.12.2016 at 9:28 PM, minimalist said:

Constantly had issues with it while playing bf and pressing keys with no response from them.  I thought it was an overrated keyboard.  I'll never buy a corsair keyboard again.  And it always seemed to happen at the most crucial moments too 

Try a blue switch keyboard, you won't regret it. I have Razer Blackwidow TE (although Razer uses green color for blue type switches) and I'm very satisfied with that, Cherry blues however have a deeper click, so you'd have to decide which one is more up your alley. By the way, Razer Ornata should have a similar, tactile feel like blue switches, so you may want to look into that too.

[KaminKevCrew]

On 12/11/2016 at 1:43 PM, tmcclelland455 said:

What didn't you like about the K70? In terms of keyboards they really don't get that much better.

My Filco/past custom boards laugh in the face of your statement.

[flibberdipper]

2 hours ago, KaminKevCrew said:

My Filco/past custom boards laugh in the face of your statement.

My Dell QuietKey laughs at your Filco/custom boards. 25? years old and still works fucking mint. 

[RxL]

ive used many a different keyboards silent and clicky. The best one i had for a while was my razer anansi because im an avid wow player and that is the perfect keyboard but after a drunken night and breaking it i ended up getting the razer blackwidow chroma you might want to consider it. I can honestly say its the best keyboard ive used out of many different ones

 

And nope this is not fanboyism just my 2cents  hope you make a decent choice and you're next keyboard 

[KaminKevCrew]

4 hours ago, tmcclelland455 said:

My Dell QuietKey laughs at your Filco/custom boards. 25? years old and still works fucking mint. 

nah bruh. That's slider over rubber dome.

[treeroy]

I will agree that the K70 is bad value for money since it's so damn expensive and doesn't really offer anything you can't find elsewhere for about half the price. But it's just as good if not superior to most other major mechanical keyboards using the same switches.

 

If you don't like the way the keys are actually built then you may want to avoid Cherry MX based keyboards and look at custom ones - Razer, Logitech and I think Steelseries(?) sell mechanical keyboards with their own custom-made switches, so you could look there. If your problem is with the responsiveness of the key as you said... maybe you could buy a Cherry MX test kit? You should be able to find them online for not much money, basically something with 1 example key of each Cherry switch.  Then you can find which switch you like.

 

If you buy something looking like this then you can try out the different switches at low cost:

 

On the other hand as someone said, you may just have got a defective keyboard.

[SCANNERMAN777]

Get yourself a bunch of vintage PS/2 Keyboards. They're cheap and disposable and you'll never get locked out of your bios again because of usb issues.

[Ethan1234]

How is the corsair strafe keyboard