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we know you like cheap keyboards because we've made this video before and

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you liked it but look at that wrinkleless face and

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discontinued merch that was over three years ago so today we're gonna look at

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eight of the top keyboards from amazon.com for under 20 bucks

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off glass wire at the link in the video description

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first up the unfortunately named ree rk

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100 plus for around 17 us dollars it's a

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10 key keyboard that is to say that it does in fact have a numpad with slim

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bezels rounded corners and a box that's impossible to get the sleeve off of

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there we go and it's got RGB lighting or

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that is to say it looks like it has RGB

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lighting it's actually just multiple single color leds giving you an RGB

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aesthetic you can adjust the lights through four brightness levels and as

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for effects they're static or breathing but there's not actually

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that many leds under the keys so the illumination isn't very even the typing

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experience also isn't great the board's low 600 gram weight and mushy membrane

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switches are bad enough although they do have a tactile bump for that mechanical

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feel then the egregious levels of deck flex

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take it to another level of suck this keyboard actually manages to compress in

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the middle as you type the problem is that it's all plastic

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without a metal face or a metal back plate to give it a nice rigid base for

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you to type against the keys themselves are clear painted

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plastic which lets them use negative space to let the led light shine through

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the legend but the problem is that these types of keys can have a chalky almost gritty

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feel and a tendency to wear off after just a few months of use

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also apparently the white is really good at picking up dirt or makeup too bad it

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can't pick up something nice like this garment from lttestore.com

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still the gamery but easy to read legend secondary media keys on the f row splash

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proofing drainage holes and adjustable feet make the rk100 plus an acceptable

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baseline at this price point or do they

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a challenger approaches we ordered the

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npet g20 for 14.99 but what we got is

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actually the npat g11 which

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honestly doesn't seem to really matter they look about the same the superior

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build quality of this board compared to the last contestant is immediately

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apparent the plastic looks and feels more

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quality the switches are a bit less mushy especially the arrow keys for some

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reason and it's got more reassuring heft

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to it despite being a 10 keyless design without the number pad it too has the rg

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wannabe color scheme thing going on here with four brightness levels this time

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but it actually has three different variants of it so you can pick your

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favorite that is unless you want to use the breathing effect that cycles between

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all three of them for some reason the keycaps have a more corporate legend

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that's easier to read but might make you lose some fortnite street cred and makes

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it so the backlight doesn't shine as brightly through the numeric and the f

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keys whose symbols are smaller you've still got to worry about the

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paint wearing off the keycaps but at least they're contoured for a nicer

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typing experience the legs have rubber feet on them and the leds automatically

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turn off after 10 minutes of inactivity this thing is a pretty good value

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but the styling and higher quality cardboard

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of this next box gives me confidence

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this is the db power k928 for 1990

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hey hold on a second this is the same keyboard as the first one it's just

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black and now that i think about it this is the same keyboard that was in our

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roundup from three years ago wait

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what if

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this one's the same

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no these are all the same

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yes my friends four of our eight keyboards obviously

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came from exactly the same factory wow that's just great that means all of

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them are gonna have the same deck flex poor switch feel and paint over spray on

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their keycaps as the first one but that

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actually doesn't mean that they are exactly the same the db power here has a

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braided cable weighs almost 70 grams more somehow and has three led color

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options though it defaults to red on maximum brightness every time you plug

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it in and if you want the breathing effect it has to cycle through all three

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but hey at least it's got a two year warranty

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except the inside of the box and the website both say one year and

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wait exclusive offers invites to sales event

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that's not a warranty this is marketing

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oh you as for the mafidi

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wow this one this one feels even flimsier somehow this one hits the

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features to price sweet spot though that is unless you think the db powers

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braided cable is worth an extra three dollars for twenty four dollars you can

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also get the blue finger combo i take it back it's the same clumsiness this one

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includes the keyboard a blue finger mouse

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and even a cloth type mouse pad now i'm not sure

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that i would recommend it the board is lighter than its cousins it has the

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european style enter key which can be very annoying if you're not used to it

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and instead of giving it a dedicated lighting key like the other ones they

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mapped it to scroll lock except it's not like function and scroll lock it's just

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scroll lock i mean yeah people barely ever use the scroll lock but mapping two

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functions to one key is generally a pretty bad time and

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the funny thing is they went ahead and they did that on the mouse again

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so it's the same button that changes the dpi and the color of the led which is

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fine if you look at your mouse to remember what dpi setting you're on and

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you want to be able to tell quickly but it just means less configurability if

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you were trying to like make your whole desk setup match or something

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now i would excuse that if this were a good mouse

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but it's not thankfully at least the mouse pad is

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exquisite exquisitely ripping off bloody gaming's uh bloody hand thing

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if you're looking for a combo i'd say you're better off going for the ree

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rk900 plus combo it's the same price and

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it actually does not include a mouse pad but it's just better in every other

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possible way

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oh wow this i have made a mess it's the heaviest board of the bunch with the

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least deck flex it's got dedicated media buttons up top

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and curiously on the function row as well

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lol along with drainage holes legs a braided

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cable and an integrated wrist rest the lights can be breathing or static

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through six brightness levels but while the manual and apparently other

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customers indicate that you can cycle through multiple colors ours doesn't

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seem to have any way to do that as for the mouse it too has a braided

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cable although it doesn't match the keyboards for some reason it's got nice

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tactile clicks it's got eight buttons and a soft touch

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rubber finish it's probably best suited for larger hands and i think ours might have

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a light out because it's not very consistently lit but it is a nice

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inclusion considering you're only paying a couple extra bucks for it next up we

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have the parex perry board 317

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value creator this one was designed in

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germany

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and made in china i'm going to call this one the boomer

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board it's got a huge readable legend a

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simple white backlight that goes on and off and is this on

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wow that's really dumb and it's got all the keys you're used to with none that

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you're not it's only 500 grams it's bendy it's mushy

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and the too short cord terminates in a usb plug that's easy to remove but

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fights you on the way in somehow basically i don't recommend this one

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bringing us finally to the rush rk303

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now ours has turkish writing on the box

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so i guess it shouldn't be a surprise that

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it features a european iso layout and

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some extra symbols on the keys it apparently has a compact design ideal

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for shooter games despite looking like a regular old keyboard to me it's got no

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legs and apparently it breaks if you rage but hey it does have

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a smashing looking gray cable and an

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integrated wrist rest so i guess compared to the rest of them

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it's it's fine i guess my official recommendation out of these boards then

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is the npet g11 where'd it go here it is

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if you don't mind a 10 keyless which leaves you more room for your mouse and

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gives you a more ergonomic stance for gaming or if you do need a numpad i

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would actually go with where'd it go here it is the

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re-rk-900 plus which is decent enough and also comes with what i would

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consider to be basically a free grade mouse

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that is to say sometimes it comes with that sometimes it doesn't

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