Budget Cherry Brown (or red) Keyboard, beat my Dell!

[Benny144]

As you can see my rig at the moment is pretty dire. My PC is quite nice but my monitor and keyboard let it down.
So I need a new keyboard, I'm looking to upgrade to a mechanical.
My PC is my workhorse, it's used daily for both gaming and coursework (CAD, Matlab, word processing).
I live in a shared student house so can't have a ridiculously loud keyboard.
Again, being student puts a budget on things.
Ideally I'd like an orange backlit keyboard to match my other items but I'm not overly fussy (my current keyboard has no backlight at all).
So these are the budget items I've identified, they're all brown keys as the reds seem out of budget:

• 1 x Cougar Attack X3 Red Backlight Mechanical Gaming Keyboard, MX Brown= £69.95
• 1 x Roccat SUORA - Frameless Mechanical Gaming Keyboard, Blue LED Backlit - (ROC-12-202)= £79.99
• 1 x Ducky Channel One Mechanical Keyboard Brown Cherry MX Switch - UK Layout (DKON1508F-BUKADAAB1)= £79.99
• 1 x Cooler Master MasterKeys Pro M White LED Mechanical Gaming Keyboard - Cherry Brown Switches= £79.99
• 1 x Corsair Gaming K70 LUX Mechanical Keyboard, Backlit Red LED, Cherry MX Red (CH-9101020-UK)= £94.99
• 1 x QPAD MK-80 Mechanical Gaming Keyboard - Blue LED Backlight - UK Layout - Red Switches= £79.99

Any advice would be appreciated, I'd like to keep it below £80 but can step up slightly if there is a significant increase in features/performance.

 

[Benny144]

Oh i also considered this deathstalker:
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/raze...-gaming-keyboard-rgb-backlight-kb-106-ra.html
It's not mechanical. I'm used to typing on this big chunky Dell so I don't really know what would be a good step from here.

 

[olivier renault]

Not much wrong with my CM Storm QuickFire TK (Browns, white LEDs), which looks identical to that MasterKeys.

Takes getting used to the strange tenkeyless layout, but it works. Feels chunky, heavy, good illumination, stable feet, main gripe is with the cable. Straight forward mech keyboard, no software, basic micro-USB connector, cable held in place just by friction in the cable channels underneath the keyboard. Still holding up quite well though, but not confidence inducing, not a keyboard to be thrown around.

Also, it's a UK layout, not a US layout like in the picture, but I think all keyboards are UK layouts, unlike their pictures, but better make sure.

My QPad MK-85 on the other hand, had issues with flickering LEDs.

For the rest, I dunno. Usually can't go wrong with Ducky, but maybe you need back-lit, and non-stealth (easily readable keys).

I tend to stay away from Roccat, and generally other 2nd tier brands (Cougar). Although CoolerMaster is considered 2nd tier, I'm positively impressed with the Quickfire.

Oh yeah, keep in mind mechanical keyboards are loud. Even MX Browns.

 

[ci_newman]

You can buy a set of rubber o-rings to help with the noise though

 

[foster grant]

I just last week got myself a Blackwidow Chroma Mechanical for £120 ...it's not loud that I have noticed...but some keyboards seem more loud than other.s....even with the same MX switches, the most quiet keyboard I have used so far is a Ducky Shine

Could have a look at this one though OP

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/mionix-zibal-mechanical-gaming-keyboard-mx-black-kb-012-mi.html

But I think they are black cherry switches

 

[Benny144]

Thanks for the replies.
Looks like I won't get exactly what I want for less than £80 then...
So choice is now to choose between a new monitor or a new keyboard

 

[Limpnoodle]

In that picture, keyboard looks fine, monitor not so much!!

 

[pingu666]

er asus strix tactics
best feature set and orange

 

[Benny144]

er asus strix tactics
best feature set and orange

on the wish list now!

 

[madindehead]

I can recommended the Coolermaster Masterkeys. Although, I have an L with Cherry Red switches. But it's gorgeous. Went for red as I use my PC mainly for gaming.