Retractable mini USB cable, Daiso got.

Does cm storm mech had made in Taiwan, costar oem, bling bling reactive mode led, standard layout, and lastly the access and compatibility with almost all keycaps set out there?


Even when not take into consideration of the non standard layout, I will always take Corsair K65/70/95 over cm mech anyday anytime.

This post has been edited by Human10: Nov 22 2013, 12:24 PM

Firmware problem? Try flashing to the latest firmware.

Shine 2 tkl
Shine 2 dragon year
Shine zero tkl
Shine 3 tkl

The 1st 2 almost end of life in everywhere on the earth (except for Taiwan) sy.

The remaining 2 is available locally, but need back to back order with distro.

Haram jadah pricing, daiso retractable cable FTW!!

Placebo effect and epenor grow over lvl 9000 yoh!!!

Get a rosewill with the switch of your preference. If you got no particular preference yet, just go for brown.

Fixed.

Gaming mech is still mecha, but loaded with lots of gimmicky features that you probably need or use. Also, generally, normal mech kb had better price and built quality compared to gaming mech kb (with a few exception though).

Got budget go for Filco.
Got budget and need backlit, go for Ducky (or the coming soon Deck Hassium/Francium).
Low budget go for Rosewill.
Even lower budget, get Chinaboards or 2nd hand mech kb in garage sale.
Extra hefty budget, go for Korean custom.

Coated ABS/PC.

Improved.

Not yet, but I pretty sure the 2shot backlit pbt on Deck is made by same maker of ds PBT of Vortex/KBC.

Deck, Vortex, KBC and even Ducky are greatly related to one another.

ps/2 is the interface of connecting kb to PC. Not all kb with ps/2 connectors are mechanical though. B4 the use of ps/2, din5 is used, and b4 that there are other type of connector used.

Generally, back then in 80/90's, most keyboard is mechanical. As PC become more and more affordable, they had to do cost cutting on keyboards too, resulted the birth of rubberdome.

Nope, mech kb not necessary only 4 types or typing feel. Mech kb can be using Cherry MX, ML, Alps, Buckling spring and bla bla bla, many more mechanism. Each having their own typing feel.

Modern mech kb you found in the market now is mostly using Cherry MX switches, which having 4 types of mainstream switches, namely blue, red, black and brown. Again, each is different from another. There are also cherry mx clear, green, grey, milk, and bla bla, many more, but they are less likely to be seen on mass market keyboard out there.

Changing of switches involving finding replacement switches, desoldering and resoldering. If you think it is easy/economical to do so, then the answer is yes, you can change them. If you think it is too much hassle, then you better sell existing board and buying a new one.

One of the beauty of mech kb is there are options for replacement keycaps for it.

Generally, there are 5 types of methods for font printing on keyboard out there, namely pad printing, laser (with infill), engraved, dye sub and doubleshot.

Again, like what I stated in above, the born of the 1st two printing method is due to the phenomena of PC becoming more affordable over years. Those 2 printing methods are fairly durable and suitable to be used on a mass scale, hence almost all kb currently out there in the market are using those 2 printing methods. A thing to take note is for backlit keycaps, it is made by coating a transparent/translucent white keycaps with black coating, laser lasered off some coating to make the legends.

For the later 3, it is pretty much exclusive to mech kb due to the niche market and high cost and price.

Back on your story, the short answer will be no, not all mech kb using dye-sub/doubleshot keycaps that had virtually unlimited lifespan. Most mass market mech kbs are still using pad printing/lasered. Almost all gaming mech keyboards there are using lasered keycaps, where the backlit one using laser on coated keycaps. Pad printing and lasered keycaps are quite easy to be worn out after prolonged use.

At your budget, I will say go for Rosewill RK9000 then, it is a good keyboard.

Try remove it and reseat it and see if it improve. If not, try using other spacebar (borrow from friend or so on).

If all failed, then better RMA it.

Ekchelli, F-104 spacebar is known to be stucky too.

But for some reason, yours seem ok, LOL.

Here is it.

Though, I will say I am not responsible for any loss if you brick your kb in the process, I simply recompile it from china's forum. Flash it at your own responsibility.
 poker2fwupdate.zip ( 916.13k ) Number of downloads: 7


This post has been edited by Human10: Nov 22 2013, 03:24 PM

You need to understand how is backlit being achieved in mech kb.

There are a small holes on each switches for LED mounting. The max dimension for the LED is 3mm wide. Anything bigger will not fit in and will result your keycaps to hit the LED.

Even the white one from massdrop also can't?

Same maker, same material, same method.

But different font, and different refinement. As you can see back on the Deck's keycaps I posted earlier, they purposely made the part under the legends to be transparent, resulting a far better light transparency than the one on F-104. The one on the F-104 didn't had the purposely made doubleshot which made only white part under the legends, resulting only partial backlit.