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Looking for MX Red keyboard

Posted: 23 May 2014, 09:27
by Spikebolt
Hi guys how are you? I'm going to buy my second mechanical keyboard and it's going to have cherry MX reds but I need some help deciding...

Here are my constraints:

- ISO layout - I just can't get used to the american layout, I'm portuguese and the ~, ` and ^ location is just terrible for me. Granted it's amazing for programming but I'm already used to the portuguese keybinds anyway...
Standard layout - I wanna be able to swap those keycaps and I don't want to repeat the experience of being stuck with boring keycaps
-Tenkeyless please (not mandatory but appreciated)
- I'll be replacing the keycaps with blanks, possibly with WASDs keycaps unless someone suggest me some PBT blank keys in red+white (ISO)

I've been looking into WASD V2 for a while, the board seems great, I love the customisation but they seem to be out of red switches at least until july (for the ISO versions only... lucky me) and I don't want to wait that long. I've also looked at [Filco MJ2 Ninja](http://www.kustompcs.co.uk/acatalog/info_30052.html), Ducky 3 TKL or a Das Keyboard... Budget is around 200 euros. I would appreciate some insight in what board to get. Thanks again guys!

Posted: 28 May 2014, 07:26
by bassfreak
The cheapest and most available is Europe is the CoolerMaster CM Storm Quick Fire Rapid Red: http://gaming.coolermaster.com/en/produ ... erapidred/

But be aware that it has fiability issues, I've had one which failed (intensively used Left Alt key suddenly stopped working, probably switch soldering to PCB issue) in less than 2 years, and online shops are indicating a failure rate of over 25% in warranty period. But.. at under 100 euros.. it may worth a try.