So I have decided I want a new keyboard, my current one is a Cooler Master Quickfire XT with Cherry mx Browns, mainly because I want an RGB keyboard really bad and will probably give this keyboard to a friend or something. I have been looking at the Corsair K70 RGB and the Ducky Shine 4. The K70 is my favorite design but I don't know what switch I want. I have browns now, I love them, but I also want to try out blues,greens, and clears. So should I go for a K70 RGB in blues or browns or should I go for a shine 4 with clears or greens or blue or browns? And for a second question if you want to answer, which is better the Razer Deathadder Chroma or the Zowie FK2? I do a hybrid grip where I slightly claw but my hand is flatter.
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Switch types are very personal, why some may like will be terrible for others. The only way to find out is to try them.
As for corsair I cannot recommend them as if anything ever goes wrong their customer support is the worst, rude, slow and don't give a single shit about their customers. If you are confident that nothing will ever go wrong by all means buy their stuff but thee support alone is worth saving the headache and just avoiding them.
Ducky I hear great things about, although I don't like LEDs in my keyboards so I have never used one.
There are a bunch of rgb keyboards out and coming soon. Razer, corsair, logitech, ducky, E-Element, Keycool, FL-Esports, and probably more. Find out what switch you want first. get a switch tester.
I can say that Ducky Shine 4 is among the best keyboards I've used in my life, on par with the Shine 3 which I'm typing this on.
In terms of switches, see @Zibob's answer, I personally went away from blue to brown because the clicky sound was too loud in my opinion due to the table I had my keyboard on.
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Sorry I forgot to add it earlier. Switch testers are about $20 and will let you try 8 different switches and if you swap some of the parts around you can make 2 or 3 combinations more, basically with a switch tester you can see what they all feel like your self.
The down side is it is only 1 of each switch so you don't get a typing feel like you would with a full keyboard.
That said just for the differing weights, noises, bump size, and feel it is worth it for me. Not the same but a good place to see what you like.
Edit: Yes as @greenwithao said there are many RGB keyboards coming, massdrop gets many of them through so it is good to keep an eye out for them. Just beware some of them are rainbow LEDs and some are RGB, not the same thing. Rainbow will be one colour only but many one colour LEDs, RGB will be colour changing LEDs.
All the ones I mentioned by name do have rgb models not rainbow. But yes it is something to double check.
I'm just hoping that a rgb keyboard in the 60% form factor come out.
You could get a mechanical key sampler. I got one and found just the right keys (milky-white, not really available in Germany, or in many models in the US). Went with greens instead. A sampler to idly play with while doing deskwork is great, after a couple of weeks you will know what you want.
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Any key sampler you recommend over the other ones?
Razer, I hate. Corsair I trust and the K70 looks sexy. Logitech eh maybe if they came out with a nice looking cherry mx rgb keyboard. Ducky sure but idk when the Ducky Shine 5 is coming and the K70 has the ability to download profiles so you don't have to make your own. The rest I have no experience with so idk.
So I have two choices as of now. Massdrop has the WASD code in Cherry MX Clears on Massdrop for 130 (Or 125$ in TKL) plus 10$ shipping. Should I go with that for a total of 135$ after shipping or should I go with the Ducky Shine 3 TKL in cherry MX blues off of NCIX for 125$ before shipping. So basically WASD code TKL with clears or Ducky Shine 3 TKL with blues?
Any sampler of 6 is okay, they are the same switches, that's what counts. Any sampler with genuine switches will do.
That's an incredibly subjective question.
Depends upon how big a keyboard you want, what switches you prefer, if you can handle the super long time it takes massdrop to ship things etc.