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8/23/12 at 3:34pm

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I'm a complete noobie when it comes to mechanical keyboards. I've read Brown switches are a nice middle ground between gaming and everyday use.
If someone can recommend me a mech keyboard in the $100 range.

-Brown Switch
-Preferably a Matte finish and not glossy
-White or Blue LED's on the keys
-$100 range

Thanks

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8/23/12 at 3:36pm

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http://www.overclock.net/t/538389/mechanical-keyboard-club

Not a giant help, but you could check the newest 10-20 pages or so in this thread, to get an overall idea

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8/24/12 at 4:17am

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Well its not quite to your description but I would recommend the cooler master cm storm quickfire rapid. I actually just picked mine up recently and in love with it.
-under a 100
-rubber/matte finish
-brown switches
-no leds(with an exception to 3 red leds: one on caps lock, f9, and screen lock keys)

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8/24/12 at 1:23pm

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Ducky Shine w/ white or blue led's and brown switches seem to fit the bill. I can't find them anywhere though.

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Monitor	Keyboard	Power	Case
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Intel 520 Cherryville 120GB	Western Digital Caviar Black 500GB	Corsair H60i Push Pull	Windows 7 64Bit HP
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8/24/12 at 1:32pm

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try a corsair k90, it;s not a full mechanical, the home keys are domes if i remember correctly. blue and white leds.

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8/24/12 at 3:06pm

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Extempt

try a corsair k90, it;s not a full mechanical, the home keys are domes if i remember correctly. blue and white leds.

Blue LED's on the buttons, and the CAPS buttons on the top right is small white ones.

Don't know if they come in other switches, but mine is Cherry MX Red.

Home, Delete and those buttons along with F1-12 and the Macro keys are not mechanical. The rest are.

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Intel i5 2500k	ASUS Z77 TUF	Nvidia GTX 670	Corsair Vengeance
Hard Drive	Hard Drive	Optical Drive	Cooling
Samsung 830 SSD	Seagate Barracuda® 1TB	Lite-On	Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO
Cooling	Cooling	OS	Monitor
3x Corsair AF120	Aerocool 200mm fan	Windows 7 64-bit	Philips 27E LSB
Keyboard	Power	Case	Mouse
Corsair Vengeance K90	OCZ 600W	Corsair 600t SE	Corsair M90
Mouse Pad	Audio	Audio
CM Storm Mousepad	Beyerdynamic DT990 Pro 250Ohm	Fiio E7
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Intel i5 2500k	ASUS Z77 TUF	Nvidia GTX 670	Corsair Vengeance
Hard Drive	Hard Drive	Optical Drive	Cooling
Samsung 830 SSD	Seagate Barracuda® 1TB	Lite-On	Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO
Cooling	Cooling	OS	Monitor
3x Corsair AF120	Aerocool 200mm fan	Windows 7 64-bit	Philips 27E LSB
Keyboard	Power	Case	Mouse
Corsair Vengeance K90	OCZ 600W	Corsair 600t SE	Corsair M90
Mouse Pad	Audio	Audio
CM Storm Mousepad	Beyerdynamic DT990 Pro 250Ohm	Fiio E7
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