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Good budget mechanical keyboard

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Looking for a budget mechanical keyboard around 30€ any good recommendations? 

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My recommendation is save up, Mechanical keyboards and 'budget cheap' doesn't go along.

 

It's better wait another month and then get something you can keep using for years and years to come than try cheapening out only to have to get something else within a year.

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If you don't mind a small keyboard, I'd recommend the Anne Pro from Odins, great mechanical keyboard with a variety of different switch options, although you are liukely to have to import it from a site such as aliexpress or banggood. However, it is around $60, so higher than your budget. Have had it for over a year now with no issues.

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What size of keyboard would you want? Do you need the arrow keys? How about the kind of switch that you want? What materials do you want in your keyboard?

Who needs fancy graphics and high resolutions when you can get a 60 FPS frame rate on iGPUs?

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I'm not sure if you could get it in your country but I got a Gigabyte K83 in the US for $40 on Amazon. It is by far the cheapest mechanical keyboard you get get with cherry switches that I can think of and the build quality is pretty good. Mine with blue switches just came in the mail today and I love it so far! You can get it with Cherry mx red switches as well. As long as you can live without some extra features like macro keys and back lighting this thing is a steal. Here's a US link:

Gigabyte K83

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Aukey, Red Dragon are your best bets. Z-77 keyboard does get pretty good reviews, but full sized version is weirdly expensive, more compact one is around 30 pounds, bit over €30

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