What keyboard should you buy? (BUDGET FRIENDLY) - YouTube

okay okay you want to know what keyboards to  buy i got you well howdy hey hypnotech here  

and i've been making videos for about a year now  congratulations to me in this video i'm gonna be  

showing you some of my favorite keyboards that  i've checked out in the last year however they  

must be in stock like you can actually buy them  they must be hot swap and obviously i need to have  

reviewed them i could have made a list of just my  favorites but what good is that if they're not in  

stock if you've ever tried to look at keyboards it  could be really confusing and really overwhelming  

and i'm gonna make this pretty easy for you  guys i'm gonna be breaking it down into layout  

preference and budget and then you guys can  go from there if you need more help building  

a keyboard i recommend joining my discord anyways  let's get started speaking of getting started let  

me give an extra howdy hey to the 20 of you that  are actually subscribed you should get started by  

hitting that subscribe button right now there you  go so my list here follows no particular order so  

no one keyboard is better than others but first  let's take a look at the drop alt high profile  

now this bad boy is definitely overpriced and  comes in at 230 to 250 dollars it's a 65 keyboard  

meaning the f row is gone but it still keeps the  arrow keys on the right which i definitely prefer  

for most people getting into the hobby now you  can either get this board as a fully built kit  

with the keycaps and switches included or bare  bones so you can build one yourself and i'll  

include links to all of these things down in the  description now this board has some perks like the  

fact that if you get it from drop you can bundle  it with keycaps and save a little bit of money  

however it does have some cons like  drops very long shipping time on average  

and the fact that these switches have north  facing leds which can cause interference with  

some keycaps if you're new to the hobby  i recommend searching up cherry profile  

north facing interference and that'll explain it  a little bit the vast majority of people won't  

care though so don't worry about that let me give  you a tiny little test of before and after modding

now this is definitely one of the most expensive  options on my list here and i would wager to say  

if you can find it on sale like for a hundred  and eighty dollars for the fully built kit  

then it could be worth it however there's really  just not a lot of good 65 that are reliably in  

stock for me to recommend so on to the next board  often when i have friends get into the hobby  

they really don't want to go with the keyboard  that's too small because they feel like giving up  

keys will kind of ruin their freedom in this case  i've chosen the epo maker ep84 you can find this  

keyboard on apple maker's website and it comes in  at 85 us dollars which is a pretty good deal fully  

built i just recommend getting it with gadaron  reds or gatter on black switches as the other two  

are going to be kind of crummy something to keep  in mind with a lot of these boards is they'll have  

cramped arrow clusters or weird right shifts or  bottom mods if you're looking to swap out keycaps  

then definitely make sure that your set supports  it in this case the board has a 175u right shift  

it's made from plastic so it's definitely on  the cheaper side but it is one of the better  

sounding plastic boards that i've gotten my  hands on and the keycaps were actually pretty  

decent quality i'd say of all of the boards  on my list this board definitely has the most  

potential for being so budget now as i mentioned  before all of these boards have hot swap sockets  

meaning that you can remove your switches and  replace them without having to desolder and  

re-solder them this is super great for someone  getting into the hobby as it's really hard to  

assume that everybody has a soldering iron  laying around and two hours to spare this  

means that if you want to upgrade the board  later you definitely can and that makes it  

a bit of a better option for someone that might  not know if they feel like upgrading stuff yet  

let me just give you a quick little five  seconds of this board and this is stock  

because this is a 75 keyboard having those f keys  around might make some of you very happy i know  

it definitely makes me happy and it's honestly one  of the better sounding board stock of anything on  

this list okay time to go to the next one right  now i know what you're thinking you're probably  

saying hypio brah my freaking my i need my numpad  my numpad is my lifeblood please don't let go of  

my numpad and yeah i know what you mean not really  but a lot of people definitely ask me to cover  

boards with numpads and this is definitely one  of my favorite that i've covered in the last year  

this is another epo maker board but it's rebranded  under a ton of different names and it's the gk96xs  

you guys remember when i still did silent films  and stop motions oh this is so heartwarming i'm  

looking back at all my old videos it's quite great  anyways this board really blows you away at 109 us  

dollars and the keycaps are quite incredible the  stabilizers come kind of lubed but frankly none  

of the stabilizers on any of these boards are  good and you should replace almost all of them  

with direct plate mounts link in the description  but this board gives you a lot of cool features  

it's bluetooth it supports windows and mac and  that numpad is very special for those of you that  

like it also it comes with the option of getting  gatter on yellow switches which i definitely  

recommend they're freaking great also if for some  reason you prefer your left hand over your right  

hand or left-handed or something it comes with  that option too but i know what you're thinking  

you're probably thinking oh that's way too  expensive 109 us dollars i'm a broke boy i'm  

a proud member of brokeboy gang all right bro  boy gang i got you now this is definitely the  

cheapest board on the list and can range from  60 to 80 but as of filming it was 65 us dollars  

now this is another 65 keyboard so say  goodbye to your f keys if you like those  

but you can still use the f keys via function row  it's just not as handy this is a stacked acrylic  

case and if you're an rgb gamer out there or  just someone that appreciates pretty lights  

this is the board for you it also features  south facing leds and is one of the coolest  

cases of any of these boards honestly stacked  acrylic sounds quite unique and looks really  

really unique as well now i've got two separate  experiences with this board one i built and  

modded myself with gather on reds and you could  check out that video if you want but i also built  

one for cozy one of my fans and that turned out  incredible this was like 140 build to get these  

keycaps and switches in here and this thing  turned out fantastic here's a before and after

like if i had to pick a favorite of all of these  children that i'm reviewing on this list this  

one would probably be it as i recommend this one  to my friends probably the most of any keyboard  

the stabilizers suck but really all of these  stabilizers suck so that's what you get if you  

want a more standard layout i'll link the gamma  k87 in the description as well i've checked out  

that one it's also great now i know what you're  thinking you're thinking ah hippie has made  

a video and he's gone six minutes without  mentioning idobao this is literally insane  

and yeah that physically hurts me okay idabow is a  sponsor of mine however they aren't related to me  

featuring this board in the video by the way now  the idabou id80 holds a special place in my heart  

as it was my very first enthusiast mech now  honestly it's not that great and has a lot of  

things that are better than it now but it's a  75 aluminum keyboard that remains in stock to  

this day and it's only 140 us dollars however  the switches and keycaps are not included this  

bad boy is known for being super hollow and  the optional foam is definitely necessary  

but fully modded out with foam it sounds very  muted and i like it quite a lot there's been  

a lot of hot competition in the 75 market  lately and i'll talk about that very shortly  

but yeah as this was my first mech i kind of  have to recommend it it's what got me into  

the passion and i still keep it around and  use it from time to time here's a sound test

now a lot of options on this list are  not necessarily the best in their field  

but i had to make this list with the idea that you  had to be able to buy it and i had to be a little  

bit reasonable with it not everybody has four  months to just wait around for a board to restock  

or five to six months to wait for a group buy  to fulfill they just kind of want a keyboard  

now if you're one of those people that can wait  for months this video probably wasn't for you

now i imagine some of you goofballs  have already commented about this board  

and you probably didn't watch to the end did  you so i have not yet checked out the gmmk pro  

so i could not include it as  a recommendation in this video  

because my whole thing was only including boards  that i personally reviewed i can't include this  

but if you want a review of it definitely let me  know in the comments similarly another honorable  

mention is the upcoming kikron q1 this is a  75 aluminum board that looks like it's gonna  

shake some things up and maybe be better than  the gm mk pro which i might check it out later  

get subscribed other honorable mentions would be  the nk 65 entry edition the portico the kbd67 lite  

but all of those aren't necessarily in stock  and some of those i haven't checked out yet  

this was definitely different video than normal  so if you liked it definitely hit the like button  

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