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what's cooler than a 360. two of them a

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720 and we've got the CK 720 from Cooler

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Master the really cool thing about this guy not that it's Cooler Master it's

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just that it's hot swap it's 65 apparently there's an aluminum top plate

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and what I'm really excited about is these stabilizers are apparently lubed

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so it seems that uh the bigger companies

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are finally kind of getting on board with this and I am really down the

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Corsair one was okay but there's definitely room for improvement so I'm

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very curious to see how uh Cooler Master does I've actually never typed on like a

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single Cooler Master keyboard I don't think so I'm stoked to check it out uh

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we've got two one of them I think it's just the switches oh there's a black and

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a white version very cool uh we've got clickies it just says clicky I think

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they're kale box V2s or something and then uh this is just as tactile but that

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looks like a cherry Brown I kind of want the black one even though I really don't

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like clickies I kind of want to open the black one so let's open the black one I've never really been one of those like

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all white uh edit kind of people I prefer black or

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colors we've got a how to remove the aluminum top cover oh this is super cool

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I don't know if this is entirely tool-less it looks like you actually don't even need to take all of the

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keycaps off just where the stabilizers are maybe and then you open up the side

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panel here and then you flick a switch

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and then you take it off so we're gonna try that we've also got a quick start

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guide it's basically just warranty and other

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stuff some quick stuff like function plus t for Led modus oh that's not

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English that's German I think uh what else do we get in the Box

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oh that's cool it's got like a little I

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mean it's plastic it's not actually gold or uh anodized metal or anything maybe

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that's just the tape yeah I think I think it's just the tape is gold oh okay

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cool that makes a lot more sense that's the aluminum top plate so we'll try to

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take that off I should only have to take uh these guys off to get at it

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as per usual we've got a keycap puller and a switch puller I prefer these ones

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personally I find that these are just really easy to get switches especially

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when um they're right on the very edge and then these keycap pullers that work

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like this with the tongs I like these as well because it's really easy to just

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like get in and out uh whereas with one of

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these guys I brought another puller uh with one of these guys like this that's

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also easy but like see how I've got to push down a

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bit more but I think that's it I don't think there's anything else in here oh

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cable it's not anything special it's just seat a with no sleeving of any kind

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but the reality is uh if you check their website I'm pretty sure they mentioned

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that they are going to be making custom cables so that's cool really excited to

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see how those end up for now I'll just use this regular guy I already took a

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couple keycaps off and you can see that they're just kale box V2s pretty nice

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click use if you're into that sort of thing apparently they come with some greens as well so you can try those out

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maybe that's just the final release and on ours

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space bar is okay you know what I'm actually going to open

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the other one really quick I don't want to judge the sound of it based on the

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clickies okay now you guys get to see the white one too you know I'm Gonna Leave This

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yellow accent tape on I kind of like it yeah okay

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there are a couple silicone layers in this I think and that helps these feel

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uh a lot sturdier than regular Browns too the space bar is okay

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there is some Rattle and stuff in there still and I think it's because they're

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using clip-on stabilizers instead of screw in which is fine it's you know we

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like screw in actually I'm gonna take the space bar off you can tell because they've got Clips right here normally

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those would be screw in or at least in higher end products they'd be screwing

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it's really not the end of the world and there is lube I can definitely see the

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lube why is there a do not remove Cooler Master sticker on here what what happens

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if I remove that sticker well I'm gonna remove the sticker oh I got it okay

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there's a screw there why and why do they only put it over one of them okay I

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don't understand whatever if you need to tear this thing apart don't worry about

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the sticker I don't know why it's here I hate the whole warranty it doesn't say

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warranty void it just says you know do not remove but whatever the knob is very

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tactile you can really feel each individual click on it and I like that a

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lot press down forward back doesn't come out

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super easy is there a little hole where I can unscrew it I am not sure let's try

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taking the top plate off that's what I'm really curious about I also don't know

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why you need to remove these switches like like I don't understand I'm just

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going to try doing the thing on the side so we're going to open it

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take this little guy off push this over okay so I have to remove these guys

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okay knob came off pretty easily actually I don't understand so these

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ones I kind of get because they're stabilizers but I don't understand why the page down and the the numpad has to

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get taken off I think there's plastic Clips still

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yep ah there we go cool

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yeah it just pops right off so they've got two layers of silicone in here

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there's one on the very bottom of the case and then there's one just above the

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PCB in between the PCB and the top plate

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and it's a cool purple material so it fits the stabilizers I actually really

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like that I don't know I'm a big purple guy I got the purple sweater on and everything today I'm a big fan otherwise

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the case is okay the case itself is plastic uh the top it is Aluminum but

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it's very thin the keycaps themselves they're basically just double shot pvt

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and uh I'm gonna put this back on oh do

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you like slide it over oh you do oh okay so that's the thing is you push and then

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slide over and then pull it off that's what was going on with those clips it

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was because I'm dumb and I didn't realize that you have to slide it over

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that is not shown in their how to remove the top cover it just shows them like

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lifting it off so Cooler Master you could do a better job with that in my

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opinion that was not readily apparent but now that I know how to take it on

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and off it's actually like pretty easy I'm a big fan I get why they

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need the keycaps off now too because you got to slide it over and that would touch the keycaps um yeah okay cool

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that's pretty neat on the bottom

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we've got two stage adjustable feet appreciate it two stage yep

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I'm a big fan of this this is one of the

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features that I would really like to see on more high-end Boutique boards I know

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that these feet aren't necessarily as sturdy I know they have more of a

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tendency to break I know that they're probably going to have to be plastic but

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I just also don't care like I just want

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an option for typing experience let me go from like flat like this to I don't

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know whatever incline this is and then something in between

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with uh these guys here yeah that's nice

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just gives you options you know I gotta put away the black one with the clicky

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switches and I'm gonna grab the white one uh try out the Browns see how the

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typing experience really is when I'm actually typing something and not just mashing the keys but not until a word

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international shipping I'm going to take off the accent tape now because I don't

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like it anymore it looks weird

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I wanna know how heavy it is it's 880

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grams so that's uh almost two pounds yeah it's pretty close to two pounds one

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thing that I just noticed uh they've probably done this with other products

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before they have USB cables but the internal plastic on the USB is purple as

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well as you can see there's a bunch of RGB on this bad boy perky illumination

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nice thanks to this double shot keycap you can see it really easily in

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the dark I like how they've got The Cooler Master logo on the function key

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that's pretty cool it looks like it's also ready for Mac layout as well

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because you got like the command symbol and stuff here on the ALT key and whatnot uh so it's probably really easy

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for you to switch this to Mac if you're an Apple user I haven't taken the top

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plate off of this one and it's very loose

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I did not notice that with the black one it's probably hard to see on camera but

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I can actually like really jiggle this around a lot and I haven't even opened

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this I cannot attest for quality control the black one felt fine the white one

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not so much don't know buyer beware I guess I have

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no idea I'm just going to try to typing and see how this goes and away we go

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oh that was very Oh I thought that was every 110 96 not great I'm gonna blame

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myself to set the keyboard that would have gone a lot better if I hadn't thought that every uh was the word there

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but that's okay honestly it feels and sounds okay the space bar is definitely

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apparent

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but that's actually really hard like that something a lot of people complain

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about is that and I've done it too um is that A spacebar is going to sound

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really different from the rest of your board and the part of the problem is

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that it's just a much larger key like they're usually about 6.5 or 7 units

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um versus like one or maybe two or three or whatever on your enter and delete key

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or backspace sorry and it's really easy to make the other guys sound good when

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it's just a 3u stabilizer but once you're going all the way across with

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that really long bar it's hard to make it sound good you could probably improve

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this with a bit of foam under the space bar itself

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and then I yeah maybe just not clip in let me screw in the stabilizers it's

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just it's a lot easier for manufacturers to just clip stuff in I guess let's take

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a look at the software let's see how good the master plus plus stuff is I

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don't like the name but if it works it works oh it's detecting our CK 720 right

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away that's nice uh I don't yeah there's these two little dots down here I don't

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quite know what those are about but whatever they're clearly labeled here

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which is good we can change all the RGB stuff like boom now it's all red if we

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wanted to it could be all blue easy peasy you know change things to like

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that's a reactive fade now

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man I love RGB oh you can change the LED speed and

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stuff too so make it like fast and stuff and you can like move the LED Direction

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around and whatnot uh key mapping as well in here which is great you can just

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looks like you can change anything to literally whatever you want except for

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The Cooler Master button which will change it's the function button you can't really change that

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and you can set up a bunch of macros and profiles honestly as much as I hate the

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name the software seems perfectly usable so this is great honestly I think that

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you can't really go wrong with this it it works no problem detected the

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keyboard uh everything is readily available to me and uh yeah you know

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what I hate the name but I like the product so that's fine Master plus plus

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software you get a A plus rank from me

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here's the real kicker though uh this guy is like a hundred dollars you

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definitely find pretty quality hot

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swappable boards for about a hundred bucks but the fact that you could

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incorporate this easily into a bunch of your other Cooler Master gear on your

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desk and the fact that it does have hot swap maybe these plates will be

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swappable later it comes with switches

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keycaps you're ready to go it's got a knob like

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honestly I think this is a pretty decent buy especially if you want decent RGB

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software and you don't want to use like qmk via and whatnot to program it but I

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think that if you're looking for a keyboard and you want something with a

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warranty and you want something that you can just buy I think this is actually a

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pretty solid purchase for just about anyone looking to get into custom

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keyboards there you have it guys it's The Cooler Master CK 720 I don't know

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where the CK comes from but you know what I like the rest of the board I think for 100 bucks it's not bad uh this

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