Mech benefits?

sadbuttrue said:
Having used and loved my cherry red keyboards for some time now, I'm considering a return to membrane or giving cherry blues a try. There is a significant disadvantage to mechanical keyboards when gaming that gets overlooked. That is the ability to depress a key for a short period of time. If you want to move the smallest possible distance in a game with a mechanical keyboard you need to ride the actuation point precisely. This is nigh on impossible to do. With a membrane keyboard you can just stab the key down and release, giving a very short keypress. I'm hoping the clickyness of cherry blues may bring back this ability.
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shankly1985 said:
Am quite the opposite of what you pointing out. I just got my first mechanical keyboard will cherry blacks, and the first thing I noticed how much more responsive the keys where and how easy it was to move left and right in games like csgo and bf4.
If you played csgo they is a map called dust and on them is door ways with gaps in, if you move left or right and try and stop in side the gab with my old Microsoft sidewinder x4 I always used to over do it. with my new keyboard I could easy keep on track.
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This is where blacks are superior to red (atleast in my experience) and why I rate them slightly behind blacks for pure FPS gaming - atleast with the blacks I've used they do give you that precise control even for very small adjustments - even better than membrane for that which is why I use cherry blacks for FPS gaming. (This may depend a bit person to person though).
 
Sure mechanical makes moving left/right etc faster as the response time is lower (less key travel). The issue is with key press duration.

I agree with you Rroff - blacks give more control on the actuation point than reds. Unfortunately my cherry black keyboard died. Reds are too light for fps gaming imo. Think I'll change the springs and make a working black keyboard.
 
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I've have the new ducky DK-9087 Shine 3 TKL (very nice keyboard) with black switches and find it easier lighter for pressing keys down than my old keyboard which also has black switches (Rapture gaming keyboard). The new blacks feel very nice much less force
 
I think I'm going for the Corsair K-70, partly because I love Corsair products and partly because it has a wrist-rest whereas many of the others don't. The question is Red, Blue or Brown switches? I'm thinking red as 90% of usage for the next year or two will be in BF4.

I see the Qpad MK-85 has a wrist-rest but IMO the design isn't as nice as the Corsair...

I've never had a mech keyboard before and really intrigued to give them a go!
 
I went from a sidewinder x4 to a Razer Blackwidow. The x4 is already considered a pretty decent keyboard to be fair, but i still did notice a different, there seems to be far less mistakes accidental key presses and all that. I find it a lot easier to slip off the keys on membrane keyboards which can be a pain especially on an FPS. You do notice the ease of pressing the keys down, it can really be lightly pressed. The backwidow does have cherry blues, which i must say are rather loud, but i have a headset on the majority of the time, so im ok with it.

I got it second hand for about 60 smackers so im pleased.
 
HecFam said:
I went from a sidewinder x4 to a Razer Blackwidow. The x4 is already considered a pretty decent keyboard to be fair, but i still did notice a different, there seems to be far less mistakes accidental key presses and all that. I find it a lot easier to slip off the keys on membrane keyboards which can be a pain especially on an FPS. You do notice the ease of pressing the keys down, it can really be lightly pressed. The backwidow does have cherry blues, which i must say are rather loud, but i have a headset on the majority of the time, so im ok with it.

I got it second hand for about 60 smackers so im pleased.
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I'm getting mixed opinions on the subject. The price of a good one is really off putting aswell :s
 
I have the QPAD MK-85, and it's glorious. Switching to mechanical wasn't such a paradigm shift for me as I was previously using a scissor switch keyboard for many years. More an issue for me was getting used to chunky keys again. My family, who all chipped in and got me it as a birthday prezzie could feel the difference more then I could, and before this they were like "... £100? for a keyboard?"
 
I've taken the plunge and ordered a Corsair K70 black with red switches. I love corsair products, especially the build quailty and design asthetics, plus a wrist rest is essential for me. I've never used anything better than a Saitek Eclipse and currently on a £5 acer keyboard so no doubt it will take some getting used to! I was undecided between red or brown switches but seemed to find equal number of people who preferred both. The red switch board also came in a bundle with the M65 mouse which I also wanted so that pretty much made my mind up. Really looking forward to testing them out! :D

Just got a 27" 144Hz monitor today and have been blown away with it, its not even a particularly high end model but Im never looking back to 60Hz that's for sure! Running BF4 with vsync off at around 100 fps and it looks utterly epic!
 
Hey guys!

Just wanted to drop by and let you all know that I decided to upgrade :) I went for a Qpad MK-80 with Cherry MX Blue's and I'm kicking myself for not getting this board from the start! It's amazing! £96 is definitely worth it in the long run and I would fully recommend this model to anyone looking to upgrade to a mechanical board.

Check it out: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=KB-000-XM&groupid=702&catid=2705

Thank you for all your help everyone!
 
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