The one I'm using is not PBT lol. It's ABS with the similar coating to the matte feel that the stock keycaps of Cm has.
Light shines through, but I don't use the backlight function often, it's so much easier to turn on the normal lights lol.

Blue switch is really nice to type on. But when using it to play games, it can get really annoying (especially when you're losing lol).
I must say that regardless of the switch colour, it's still an upgrade from a membrane type. And all of the switches takes some getting used too, then that'll be your fav switch imo.

i see... well, if the price is at that, then i guess nobody can complain after all....
just hope they can bring in new font next time...

RK9000 is a nice entry mechanical board to be honest, currently im typing on it right now to write this post.
mine is mx blues and i have to say typing on it is just awesome and just feel like typing on and on

Costar stabs, they certainly feel nice and crispier, but the headache is when changing keycaps or cleaning them, which is kind of difficult for me to remove them albeit seeing many videos on youtube. The keycaps.... well, for me they're okay, they're abs lasered with infill i think, you can feel the legends when you type on them.

the build is very solid and on top of that, you get 3 years of warranty for RM299 (last time i bought, now is RM269), what else can you ask for?

CM using cherry stabs???

PBT keycaps, they got those sandblasted rough feel? never tried before, but very interested in trying some...

on top of switches, i might do some explaination/review of how i feel after a "purposely" long period of usage by spamming friend in the chat box on my CM Storm QF TK brown.

I realize that the key register are just a TAD lower from the initial position, and bottoming out the key is far over what u need to register that key. So, i start to have that kind of "gliding-over-the-key" feel to get all my words and sentence typed out.

At first, i tot what is the diff of a good membrane and mechanical. Good membrane like those microsoft sidewinder x4, if anyone know which one i mean is also very nice to type on assuming u bottoming out all key and do not touch type on it. But after u get use to the motion of gliding and touch type. I realize that membrane cant do so. Since mechanical do not need any bottoming out to register a key.

So back to the BROWN switch. I honestly say that i did not try out the red, neither the blue. so i do not know how those feel. But all i can say is BROWN actually sound loud too when u bottom out (maybe i like to be in a silent room). but it gets quieter when i try to touch type on it, which require some practice. FYI, my average typing speed is around 80WPM. so not too fast, but not too slow as well.

Other than the sound of it, the feel of the so called bump. After ton and tons of review from the net, they claim that the BUMP is there on the BROWN and it gets hard to notice when u start to type fast and bottom out. Partially true, but not fully true. Since you are touch typing, u can feel the bump nicely, add on with the bottom out sound (if you do), you definately can feel something there. Its like u dunno what it is, but there is something to tell u, you have already registered the key. I tried out this by typing back and forth from my logitech membrane to the cherry mx brown. and obviously the membrane do not give u the "stop there" feeling.

Finally, the CONs about the cm quickfire tk brown is that the key height. most high end membrane have very very low key, i mean its almost like those laptop or iMac keyboard, just like the microsoft sidewinder. The tall key height make me think of getting a wrist rest mat to shim up slight of my forearm to get that maximum comfort. Another thing is the unusually layout, but i dont think this is a problem for me since i am using the numpad like less than 10 times a year? lol...

This post has been edited by kuance: Aug 24 2013, 01:26 PM

Only cm qfr is using costar stabs I think, qf pro, trigger and tk all using cherry

pro is ione made, should be ione wire style.

regarding trigger, i not too sure.

welcome to the mech kb world, where every keycaps height is like that.
Cherry profile has shortest though.

6mm Cherry
8mm Signature Plastics
12mm most oem

something came in today

hehe how much u got it for? also those spacebar what material?

Rm85++ for 2 sets, include postage
not sure about the space bar, feel like ABS with rough surface

This post has been edited by melvintcs: Aug 24 2013, 03:48 PM

=double post=

This post has been edited by melvintcs: Aug 24 2013, 03:49 PM

oh... so different?

first keyboard problem.... keycaps height and profiles... and layout...

Probably I will get some arm rest for that. Not a problem for me and can get use to it very fast ...

ione wire? is it like those fake costar wire stabs?

yeah, a few different ones. trigger same oem as qfr i think, but uses cherry.

Bro... do u mind giving me link for these keycap. Seems like its on your cm storm. Probably fit nice on my tk as well.

http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?spm=a230r....&id=21363987950

i got bought extra spacebar, let me know if any one is interested

This post has been edited by melvintcs: Aug 24 2013, 04:44 PM

the spacebar is for ??? urs is CM storm QF trigger or TK? if TK... maybe i wan. : )

spacebar length = 12.4cm
hole distance = 10.5cm
cant install on my CM quick fire pro. u can try check urs.

Dafuq, just finish assemble all the switches on my phantom.

And when I try to make sure spacebar stablizers are in good condition, I put my RA 2.0 spacebar on it and I can't take it out.

In the end, I need to unmount the spacebar switches and stabilizers, thenuse pliers to take apart the stabilizers and spacebar.

This post has been edited by skye: Aug 24 2013, 05:49 PM

What happen? you mounted it wrong?