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almost a year ago we asked iconics if we

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could check out a few of their keyboards and you know what it took a while but at

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long last they have arrived the iconics zx75 is here we got two of them uh I

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also don't know if I'm pronouncing iconic's right kind of sounds like Articuno to me take that as you will

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this one says dark side on it so it's probably black or dark blue and it is

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indeed the Black Version as you can see here uh it's a TTC Ace key switch I am

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not familiar with them uh but it looks nice and it's got RGB and this one is uh

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oh it's green very cool this one's also got a TTC gold pink looks very pretty

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I'm actually really excited for this um it's a plastic board and it's got a

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bit of a hefty price tag that we'll get into later but I think the design is

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really cool and also it's wireless so if you need a wireless keyboard you're just

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gonna end up paying more money zx75 what's in here a little envelope

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with some quick start stuff it's mostly

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in what looks like simplified Chinese

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but I am not sure oh the back is English okay that's cool uh yeah cool it's just

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got a bunch of like indicator light status Stuff how to do with the wireless

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things you can do 2.4 gigahertz or Bluetooth which is very handy uh if

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you're doing the 2.4 gigahertz it stays at the 1000 Hertz polling rate that

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you'll get if you plug it in directly but if you do Bluetooth it's down to

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125. totally fine for like typing but

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you probably don't want a game on this thing if it's in Bluetooth let's take a

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look at it it's got some cool keycaps on it that I can see through this little

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plastic case this is a really tight fit though they

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could have gone with a slightly larger

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slightly larger plastic sleeve oh underneath actually yeah sorry I mean

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you guys can see this here but I'm going to check out what's underneath we got a cable like other keyboards we've checked

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out it doesn't have a sleeve cable it's just a regular old USBC to a could be a

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little nicer I know that this guy is more expensive than some of the other

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boards we've looked at so you know higher expectations but

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that's all right we've also got a bunch of extra keycaps a little option oh it's

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the Mac stuff okay so this one is also another Mac uh easily adjusted to Mac

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keyboard I don't use Apple products it's not for me but I like that there's an

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option for people we've also got a switch puller and a keycap puller we've

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also got the USB dongle ah get out of there dongle

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as if you want to do Bluetooth it's USB a to c uh so if you only have C ports

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which is great for a lot of laptops you can still use this and then on top of

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that we've got this little oh it's a brush what okay I have not had a

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keyboard come with a brush yet they get extra points for this this is awesome I

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would love a little brush to just like wipe the cat hair and stuff off of my

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keyboard and out from the keycaps I want to keep this I don't care we've got two

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of these I'm putting this one in my pocket before I leave now the keyboard

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this thing is actually surprisingly Hefty for a plastic case uh let's give

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it away actually before I do anything else

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1.15 kilograms so that's not super Hefty

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uh about not quite three pounds it's pretty cool though and actually really

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do like it it's really grippy on the bottom here it's a textured plastic and

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it's all see-through as well oh it's just super cool uh I think my only

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complaint so far I haven't even typed on this or anything so I don't know how it

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feels but my only complaint is that especially with it being see-through it

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would have been really nice to have like a silicone layer or something on the

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bottom or some foam I've got for reference I've got a portico 75 and that

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one is a similar plastic case like this but it comes with a big silicone pad on

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the very bottom that really helps deaden the sound so we'll see how this one is

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I'm going to open the black one and take a look at that just to take a quick look

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see I'm so excited I've actually been waiting for these for like a pretty long

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time they caught my eye on their website and you know I just thought they look

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neat they've got this really kind of retro design I don't know if this is an

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actual speaker or not but it looks like a little speaker Port that it's got a

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plastic knob on it nice and tactile I like the sound of it too

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oh these switches feel good too

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these are just linear

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spacebar could sound a little better it's a little Hollow

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but overall I actually really like how it sounds and you're getting 81 Keys

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it's basically it's a 75 so you're getting your fro still which is really

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nice for a lot of people and then like delete insert home end and then some

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arrow keys let's check out the green one though because what I'm really excited about is these keycaps they've got this

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really cool Camp life keycap set it's got Camp life there you know it's like a

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moon it's all green there's a little Camp symbol up there west east north and

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south directional buttons that's great and then they've got really cute

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um optional keycaps for the side here for like delete and insert and and

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whatnot they got a little campfire and a backpack and a tent and then I guess a

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compass or something I don't know I just think it's a cute keycap set I kind of

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want this too I oh

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I like these switches more the spacebar could be improved on this

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one as well I don't know anything about the stabilizers in here they're I'm not

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sure if they're clip-on or screw in and I can't quite see them

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so they might be clip on if I'm wrong I'm sorry it's just really

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hard to see through this board either way

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they sound pretty good these are definitely better than a lot of like

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manufacturers that you get like Corsair or Logitech or something and the

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spacebar can be improved it's not rattly it's just a little Hollow so you can put

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some foam in there or something and it would really bump it up oh one other really

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interesting thing to talk about is that these are KDA profile keycaps which I'm

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really not familiar with at all I've never typed on KDA I like sa I like SDA

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I like XDA but yeah I've never tried KDA and I'm not sure just kind of looks like

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a slightly lower version of sa I'm not

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I'm not sure don't quote me on that but it looks cool and you know what

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yeah it feels okay to type on kind of digging it one pretty cool thing that I

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just noticed is the knob is like

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this is Beefy I don't the push down is

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just crazy I've never had this tactile of a push down on a knob before and I'm

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kind of digging it I like how it's really hollowed out in the center too like you're not gonna miss that

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bam I'm doing it then on the back of the board we've got adjustable feet whoa

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those are just magnets okay so do you like reverse these or something how do

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these work okay so they're just like magnets that go in like this normally to

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store it away or whatever or to have it flat and then if you want a little bit

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more of an angle you flip them backwards and they've got the feet there how well

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does it stay actually stays okay it's not great because it's plastic on

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plastic and it's mostly using the magnet to hold it in place there's definitely

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like some slippage on the right here and it's not the keyboard slipping on the

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mat it's the feet slipping in the receptacle that they've got so I don't

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know beware of that if you want a higher typing angle then this might not be for

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you what else it's got a 6 000 milliamp

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hour battery for all the wireless charging that you want looks like

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there's two of them one here one here and then it's got an on off switch right

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here between cabled and wireless other than that it looks pretty standard

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really easy to take apart it looks like you just take apart a bunch of screws here and here and here lift the top off

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maybe take a few more off of the PCB and plate and whatnot and then it'll come up

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right apart yeah I guess that's my only complaint so far is that I really wish

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they'd done anything on the bottom just like a silicone layer or I mean you

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could tape it yourself and it would probably fix it but that's okay I'm

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gonna plug this guy in I'm gonna test it out I really wish this thing came with a

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green cable it really would have amped it up uh but we're not gonna check it out before we talk about our sponsor

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oh yeah I didn't use the brush yo that's

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it that's all you need it for you just got to get in those cracks and crevices

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brush off your keyboard you know I'll be

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anyone's probably laughing at this right now but honestly for any pet owners

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um or someone working in like a Dusty environment I don't know why it would be dusty but maybe it is this is great I

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would absolutely just brush my keyboard down once a week or something if I had

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something like this I was not kidding when I said I'm gonna try to steal it

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wow look at that it's see-through and you can just barely see the RGB lights

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on the back of this thing cool uh on the front it actually looks pretty

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good I like the shine through on the sides and in between these are not uh

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double shot PBT but uh they are using like a hundred percent PBT so they feel

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pretty good oh it doesn't say double shot on them the keycaps that we've got

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on the black one are double shot PBT these are dye sublimated and it still

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looks pretty good I actually really like the feeling of it both the quality of

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the keycap material as well as the uh KDA oh I just realized KDA is like kill

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death's assist and cool all right sweet that doesn't really matter but just neat

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um I got type on it now you know as I like to do

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I like I do like this board I don't know if I'd pay the price for it but I like

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it a lot especially the camping Motif and like the whole like green aesthetic

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that it's going for I really dig it okay let's go

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oh I screwed this up already okay I'm keeping this one

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I get one Mulligan oh no this is bad

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99 95 I screw it up a bunch of times

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it's not the keyboard's fault I actually really like it I am a big fan honestly I

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still don't know what's up with this little area here I'm not sure

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it just looks it's just aesthetic I think it looks neat even if it's not

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actually a speaker I think it really fits this whole thing I don't know if I

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want see-through to be perfectly honest I actually really do like the whole

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see-through thing and I'm kind of upset that it doesn't happen more frequently

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but I I think with the solid green on the

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keycaps I would actually prefer a solid green plastic shell for this thing

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otherwise though it's great I I like the look of it I like the feel I like the

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typing experience it's pretty stiff and sturdy for plastic so obviously you know

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you're not getting a CNC aluminum shell which can contribute to a lot of the

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cost of a board we're going to take a look at the black one too just to see if

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you know it's just the green that kind of has me turned off on the transparency

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or not actually yeah I I honestly it's just the fact that it's green I which is

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crazy because I like colored like old Gaming stuff too

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um it's just the RGB is

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train I absolutely do like the black one

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as transparent maybe because it's a darker transparency so you can still see

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through but like especially on the back here with all these lights lit up that

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looks pretty cool I don't know the green I just I wish it was solid I can't even

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really explain why I just that's what I would prefer in this scenario yeah the

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black one see-through looks great feels great super pretty I'm going back to the

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green one though because that's the one I want it comes down to price

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if you're not paying for CNC aluminum

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then how much is molded plastic worth to

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you this guy is 215 dollars for the RGB

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version and then if you want the unlit non-RGB one it's 195. so you can save a

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bit of money but I mean honestly I think 20 bucks is worth the RGB it's it's good

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and I like it and I've paid about two hundred dollars for plastic boards I'm

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pretty torn I think that if you don't have anything yet and you need something

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Wireless like that's the big thing is I I don't need Wireless I will almost

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never need Wireless that's just not me I try to plug stuff in and there's a big

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value in this board in the fact that it has a big battery and it's got Wireless

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capabilities both both Bluetooth and uh 2.4 gig so I don't know I don't think

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it's worth it to me personally but I think if you're looking for a really

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cool looking board something that looks kind of retro uh maybe something with

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the cool camping uh keycaps like these are sick if you're really want KDA then

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maybe you're going to have to get one of these if they had a cheaper version that

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was only wired I would probably jump on this thing honestly just to have it in

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my collection that's the iconics zx75 if

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you want one I mean I hope they're still in stock we're going to have them linked below took forever for us to get ours

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unfortunately this is a ShortCircuit if you want to watch another ShortCircuit

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maybe check out The Cooler Master Video we got a Cooler Master board it's got

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hot swap in it how cool is that that's pretty cool