Choose a keyboard for me.

No? With no idea what your needs are, or your budget, or your preferences, or anything? No. Stop being lazy, or make your own damn decision.


Might as well say "Choose a graphics card for me".

Not many options to choose from anyways,

All will perform pretty similar, just choose the one you like

Do you want it to be slim? short? that god-awful regular length? (way too big for me) How close do you want your keys to be? Want it to be iluminated? do you think youll ever bother using the num pad? (ive never used it in the 6 years ive been building PCs)

well i've been using the cheap laptop sized Logisys illuminated keyboards for a few years. Theyre like $19/ea.. i usually go through one each year, but then again $20 isnt much. My wasdq+shift keys usually go out in about 6 months, then i have to take it apart and see if i can fix it. You can find them on xoxide. Originally bought it cause well the default "regular" sized keyboard are stupid big.. seriously what am i going to do with a 20"+ keyboard? I think the logisys are like 16", all the keys are squished together (laptop status) and lack a num pad. I got tired of replacing them and just ordered a Zippy EL-730 slim keyboard for $50.

Really a keyboard is a keyboard. I find it funny how companies like Icemat and Saitek are selling keyboards for almost 100/ea when the only difference is looks and BS features that are useless for gaming. Seriously.. a fan built in to cool down my hands from sweating? are you joking? whos idea was this? I never sweat.. i never had.. If anything my right hand MIGHT get sweaty, but, thats what jeans are for.

Whatever you do, do NOT get a wireless keyboard. I dont care how much it is, or if it says "high performance gaming" on it.. nothing beats wired, and ill prolly have you kicked/ banned if you go afk in a match for 5 minutes cause your batteries died. (happenes all the time!) Wireless is for females - yea i said it - wireless is for Mac users who go for looks rather than reliability and performance.

http://www.google.com/products/catal...d=0CDAQ8wIwAw#

Thats just a random google search for "mechanical keyboard" .. Just browsing around, looks like youll be paying atleast $50 for a 'good' one. Check out the Mechanical Keyboard Guide in the keyboards section.

I think that one uses XM clicky switches or something... Pretty mediocre. Just being mechanical doesn't magically make a keyboard good.

Good mechanicals start at around $70, $60 at the lowest.

I'm using a PS/2 Full Standard Size Keytronic Keyboard and I absolutely love this thing. For $17 bucks off amazon this keyboard feels better than most keyboard I've messed with around $50. Of coarse everyone has their own personal preference so I can't say it's good for everyone but the key action feels like an old school IBM or Dell keyboard... Very smooth, crisp and responsive. Perfect for typing and I don't see why it couldn't be good for gaming. The ONLY con about this keyboard is that the delete key is small. It's the same size as the letter keys unlike the long ones on most modern day keyboards.