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got any suggestions for guys who fat finger keys sometimes, all the keyboards I've tried are to sensitive and I cant find any videos that show which key type would help reduce this.
I recently bought the Aula F87 on Aliexpress for $60 and boy is it good for the price, like damn budget boards have improved a lot in the last few years.
@@TiniKiti I also got the f75. Absolutely no need for mods or switches or anything, it sounds so perfect to me, my first mechanical non-gamer KB and it's a dream.
There's a very simple solution for the difficult to remove Kilmat - just cover the board in tape first. Use a good quality tape with some stretch to it, something like 3M Clear Repair Tape.
I've been using this keyboard (tape modded) ($40), Outemu Summer Linear switches (no added lube) ($20), and cheap cherry profile clonekaps ($18) as a daily driver for about 6 months and have been loving it. I probably swapped out the the stabilizers and lubed those up with some cheap kit by Epomaker (sub $10). Nice to see the board discussed on your channel. Also have experience with the Silent Peach and the Silent Cream switches mentioned here. Peach are a little too light for me, so I always come back tot he Silent Cream Yellows on other boards I've put together (all always under $100).
The sound deadening is pretty safe if you never need to remove it as it’s impossible to remove without leaving a bunch of the butyl behind. Being butyl rubber for the aluminum backing you don’t have to worry about shorting anything.
The screen is nice on mine, you can upload up to 2 images/gifs, or you can draw something yourself. The software to do it is pretty garbage, but if you choose a gif with a nice loop, it looks really nice.
As an artist, i love the fact that you mentioned and even tried to protect us while buying, like, i know so many artists suffering due Aliexpress rip offs, Thank you so much for stopping and knowing we exist
Ali ripoffs? Have you checked A-zon? You'll find the same ripoffs there. I stopped thinking about this because those ripoffs are literally on every online marketplace. Not just chinese ones.
This is terrifyingly almost identical to my build. The fact that I am using GMK87 and a PBT keycap set that looks close to the one here is funny. Currently I'm using Akko CS Crystal which is not bad. I've been considering silent build so I bought myself an Outemu Honey Peach. Edit: A little more things I'd like to mention out of nowhere. It's interesting to see that the GMK87 that Hipyo bought has a slightly different set of things that was out of the box. On the barebones that I bought, it already had a poron foam and IXPE sheet in between the polycarbonate plate and PCB but it also had a plastic sheet on top of the PCB that I don't think was in Hipyo's GMK87, so I think it's okay to remove it if the plastic sheet is there. In fact I recommend removing because depending on the IXPE sheet cutout, your stabilizer stems might make extra goofy noises especially if there are air pockets under the plastic sheet right under the stems. The stabilizers are not too bad but they will almost always rattle a bit because of the bad *plate-mounting* design I guess but should be fixable with some small tape mods or just get a better stabilizer. I'm considering to buy something called an Ice Cream V2 stabilizers at my local store which I have no idea what that is and I don't see any info of it in the internet anywhere. One interesting thing is that my GMK87 already came with a poron foam that sticks (and removable) under the PCB that is not present in Hipyo's GMK87, which he used Killmat instead for that. I personally suggest using 2 to 3 layers of masking tape instead because that would be less destructive while giving you the same effect. And then the rest like the PE sheet and silicon layer that was in the case were present so yeah other than the ones I mentioned, it's not too different. At least for silent switches, if you're looking for a good one, I highly recommend to just go with Hipyo and I bought here, the Outemu Honey Peach V2 (5-pin mount variant). Like Hipyo showed, the switches have pads on the sides of the POM stem. It has a light pre-lube amount which is not bad in my experience, I'm the type to enjoy hand-lubing and the lubing on the Honey Peach is pretty good that I didn't feel the need to lube it. The top and bottom housing are made of nylon. Overall, it's just a good silent switch for the price you'll be paying, and that is very cheap considering the average price you'll see for a silent switch. Lastly, if you're considering to start with building a keyboard, unless you have a fixation on the casing material or the layout size (which is a tenkeyless/80%), and some other things that anchors to your personal taste, I would highly recommend starting with a GMK87 right away. I want you to take note of the price of the barebones one more time. For that price, you'll be getting an 80% keyboard that is gasket mounted, has moderate flex cuts on the PCB, a heck ton of foam and sheets for dampening, a knob (KNOB!?), a small screen that you can switch the contents between the keyboard's status monitor and two other still images or GIFs (the highest framerate it supports has a frame interval of 60ms, which gives you around 16.67 FPS or a factor of 50/3) you can set via a software, supports VIA tool, south-facing LEDs with nice lighting modes, and three connection modes including wired, 2.4GHz, and Bluetooth. That is batshit insane.
@@rrinnlonginus I was wondering what VIA does? is it just keyboard hotkeys and rgb? Do I need to download separate software to modify the screen on the GMK87? Also how do the Gazzew Bobagum switches compare to those listed in the video?
@@FlawlessMind-lb3tw VIA is software for configuring various settings in a keyboard, and it's compatible with QMK keyboards too. It's also designed so that whatever settings you applied are permanently saved in the keyboard. The range of customizations depends on the keyboard itself, but normally you'll be able to customize lighting and changing inputs per key. It's very versatile, and is why keyboards that are VIA-compatible are very much sought for by enthusiasts.
@@rrinnlonginus I'm little confused about which of the sheets I should be removing also, I saw the gmk87 was on sale so I picked it up, I have no clue which sheet is which so I'm wondering what is supposed to be removed if I'm just doing a tape mod? I also saw that Otemu has v3 switches now, was wondering if that would be better? Was also recommended Wuque silents, Lichicx silents, TTC Silent Frozen, and Akko Fairy, are they worth the premium?
For anyone wondering about the switches, mine just got here today and they are perfect. I was looking for quiet switches so I wouldnt wake anyone up at home during nighttime. I put them in maybe an hour ago and they are exactly what I was hoping for.
I have rebuilt this keyboard with the same parts and even without Kilmat only with a tapemod it is ultra quiet. Many thanks also from my colleagues at work!
I bought a Royal Kludge S98 for the numpad and their txt screen is sick. Plus it’s top mount instead of gasket mount. I also bought the GMK87 just to tinker with and I’m happy I have both. I used Leobog ice soul and then tinkered with Outemu Ocean Silent linear switches. Eventually went with the Leobog tactile ice soul because the sound and actuation feels better. I put the Outemu ones in a cheap little E-Yooso z88 that I watched a guy mod and I tried that. It’s like a new keyboard! Thanks for all the tips. I was about ready to trash the cheap E-Yooso til I ran across a mod for it. I also have a cheap Motospeed that has soldered red linear switches so I used that one to practice soldering switches onto. Absolutely love this as a hobby now. I see how people get hooked on this. I usually tinker with pc’s but the keyboard thing has been a real joy and it’s so easy to get into it. For tactile switches, I found a YUNZII Blue Grey switch that feels great and sounds amazing. My daughter uses a YUNZII B75 Pro with those and she won’t let me swap it out for anything else.
I'm loving the silent peach v2 on the Varmillo Bluebell. Also got some silent peach v3 (same sound profile in an mx housing style), and they are incredible lubed and filmed
Keen to see the review of the Lucky 65. Also keen for a review of the Ajazz 820 Pro - another cheap plastic keyboard but with hot swap, knob and screen
I was looking for a new board and thank you for this. I did go with the Lemon V3 switches and Womier XVX/ ISA profile keycaps. I also did a 2 layer tape mode on the PCB but man thank you. I love this keyboard, the quality, the silent switches. It is better then any of the prebuild keyboards I used from Ducky, Fnatic, SteelSeries, Roccat, Razer and Cherry which are almost twice the price in my country.
I have some of the Outemu silent tactile limes in a nextime 75. It is my office keyboard (I'm a medical claims processor) and wanted something that wouldn't bother my coworkers. It came out super nice. I ended up using some cheap transparent acrylic keycaps which actually added a little bit of sound and chatter but it was still easily the most quiet board I've ever built and it still feels pretty good. It's more silent than my gatereon silent brown optical numbpad and that's pretty quiet itself.
woah $25 off $100 is actually a decent deal - building one of these myself with either the tactile silents or a linear graywood v4. Though the price of the base board went up to $50, two sets of 100 switches (in case I wanna build a 96% like I usually prefer with one later) and these caps (from another vendor, since they're sold out from the linked description) was $90 shipped with tax using that code. nice.
I got the Outemu Silent Honey Peaches recently and was surprised by how truly silent they were. Not really sure if I like the feel of the silicone dampeners in linears yet. For quick light presses they feel fine, but for firm hard presses they feel a little unsatisfying. I didn’t really mind the feel of the Akko silent penguin tactiles as the bump helps it feel more meaty. Though the bump on the penguin’s do introduce more noise then the dead silent Honey Peaches.
I put the Outemu Silent Peaches in a Keychron K8 pro. I haven't done anything else to it yet but the switch from Gateron Browns to the Outemu Peach was really nice. Initially I was really concerned about the peach tinting the RGB since by comparison it was very pink. But once they're all in as a full set you can still get really nice blues and greens. It's my first ever mechanical keyboard.
Ok, I must say it's the first time I really consider building almost exactly the same keyboard you did. I was after a non-aluminium wireless keyboard and landed with RK84 which is in my opinion very good value, but I really wish I've seen this video earlier, because I don't think RK is as good value as this (via? KNOB??? 🥴), but here we are...
Been using a Modded Keychron Q6 Pro (added more mass) and Akko Fairy linears which are kind of similar with the silicone squidge on the stem and I'm using some lovely Traitors infinity caps. The thing is silent in the office which makes it perfect
I've used the silent cream switches for a few years now. They've gone through a few monor revisions. Thry are excellent switches. They use the same molds as the expensive Gazzew switches (U4T for instance).
Since i started to watch your channel i was about build one myself this GMK with some akko yellow cream was a dream come true, thanks for puting me in this world Hipyo!
Awesome video. I discovered these switches years ago and i like them a lot (I use cream yellow and lime, prefer the creams). Do you think is really necessary to modify the board for using silent switches? I have the impression that the overall sound wont change much since the switch sounds are near mute.
Literally my setup (except keycaps) can confirm that keyboard is pretty nice, been using it for abt 6 month now. only issue it sometimes looses its 2.4Ghz connection for no reason and clock on the screen is absolute trash (it drifts a lot and only way to set it to real time is to connect with usb and run image custom tool - app that changes pictures on that screen)
In order not to anger my workmates, I recently changed my office keeb switches for the Peaches. And man these are SILENT. I think I don't like the mushyness that much, I prefer my Kailh Deep Sea), but they are definitely really good switches given the price.
Reason why I might not have watched a Hipyo video: I missed it in the vast sea of RUclips notifications from my bloated list of subscriptions. That's pretty much it. I'm still trying to catch up from my move. Also, I'm team split-ergo 4 life due to a shoulder injury, so I may still be a little spicy about your scathing review of split-ergos. I love my Keebio Iris more than anyone should love an assemblage of plastic, acrylic and copper. Also - the flat pliers used for chain maille jewelry (which I already have because serial niche interests are my jam) also work well for straightening bent pins.
I'm not the first to mention it, but the title's probably misleading 🤔. I can agree that Aliexpress does make for a nice place to acquire some switches though. During sales that also have coupons they tend to get pretty darn cheap and a nice occasion to pull into a set(s).
Eh, well. I don't have much (if any) respect of Hipyo...yet. He's a cringe burnt out hack as far as making videos goes. Purely for switches...hmmm--- yeah it's not bad! (potentially?) better variety than keychron lol. My (so far) first any only custom keyboard the switches..are jwik that were a eye watering 80 dollars alone. yeah yeah ZealPC's for a enough to cover a TKL are more. lol now that was cheaper than amazon, because it turns out these were B-Stock and amazon wanted another 10-15 which was rediculous for emergency replacement keyboard, 90-95 fucking dollars for switches alone wasn't happening. These came as a realyl nice christmas bundle with pudding caps.
I'm using the outemu cream yellow (or milk yellow depending on translation) silent tactile since earlier this year, and it was great. I also tried out their linear silent peach but the lack of feedback on both tactility and sound makes them feels really uncomfortable. However, I uses the linear ones for modifier keys like Ctrls and Shifts to reduce strains on my pinky fingers. I uses a regular tactile (Everglide Wild Pansy) for the spacebar because silent switch on spacebar feels really really mushy. The keyboard I'm using is Aula F87, which is damn nice, full RGB, side RGB, and an RGB strip above the arrow keys that can indicate battery level
Nice work :) I've finally managed to make my (nearly) ideal silent keyboard - the Keychron K3 with optical switches, lubed with GPL105 using a syringe (ain't nobody got time for disassembling switches, surely?), the keycaps from a K1 Pro and cheap rubber o-rings from Amazon. Absolutely silent, wonderfully low travel and only six mismatched keycaps, because Keychron hate people who use the One True Layout (ISO).
This made me excited to get a mechanical keyboard. I don't like how loud most keyboards are. I'm just a little sad you didn't show how the keyboard sounded before mods. Because if I'd order the same items, I don't have that foam, so mine would be louder.
I tried putting Outemu Ocean linear switches in this keyboard. One thing I didn’t realize is that most Outemu have one “jagged” pin (must be an Outemu thing because the set of browns and blues I have from older keyboards have that same one jagged pin). Needless to say, the switch went in but trying to get it out was a pain. I know Outemus are notoriously awful to remove but I don’t have an issue removing them from older mechanical keyboards that are designed to use them. I think the poron on a hot swap keyboard like this one causes Outemus to stick. Glad I only put 4 in because two of them bent a pin going in and two broke pulling out along with tearing some of the pvc pad. Atrocious switches and I would recommend anything but Outemu for this keyboard. I used some Leobog Ice Souls I had and they went in and removed smooth. Very poppy sounding and no one jagged pin/leg to get stuck. I think that makes a difference
Imagine they pit the knob on a 3 axis Dpad Still turn it for volume, but now you could press in for play/pause, left right for next/previous, and then up/down could be contextual, or like on my car, next/previous folder.
To remove killmat and other sound deadener car builders tend to use dry ice to hard it and break it off in frozen pieces, probably doesn't work well for keyboards but FYI.
Heh, that's kind of funny. I bought this exact keyboard, with the exact same switches about 2 months ago! I'm still using a modified CloudNine c989m as my daily driver, but when I need more deskspace (while gaming), or want a more silent board, I can plug in one of my other keyboards. I did use a different keycap set and I chose the black version of the keyboard, but it's funny to see it back in a video here. One of the things that annoyed me though, was getting the switches in. I did not put anythin on the back and the PCB and plastic 'plate' flex a WHOLE lot, making it hard to put in the switches. It is still a very silent solution, though for some reason, I disagree with you on the switches feeling good. I think they have a slight gritty feel to them... It's hard to explain, it's not like they aren't lubed, but something just feels off. Then again, maybe it's because my daily driver uses Gateron Milky blacks that I filmed and lubed myself, making them feel super smooth, but with enough resistance to feel like you're actually pressing something. Anyway, the plastic housing flexes a bit, making it feel a little cheap, but... Well, it IS, so... And the software for the screen is indeed kind of meh (Slow to update and partly in Chinese), but once you upload an image, or a gif, it stays on the keyboard, without you having to keep using the software, so that's nice.
Yeah, that keycap set is definitely a clone. I mean, some shops literally even call it GMK Rome Clone. And they're a clone of KBDfans' PGA Sparta keycaps from 2021.
Personally I don't care. I prefer PBT double shot over ABS, and the quality of the clones on Ali have ALWAYS been pretty awesome from my experience. They all eventually shine and I'm not big on spending $150 to then have them turn shiny anyway.
I had to return that exact GMK87 base a few weeks ago because it randomly shut off and did not want to wake up again. Might give that Lucky65 a try although I like 87key boards more...
If we're goin' for weird AliExpress kits I'd totally run an ALPS board. Matias made those wacky court-stenographer switches with the biggest dampeners in the world and thick PBT Alps keycaps are finally available in cool, tho admittedly limited colors.
I watched a bunch of your videos before I decided to build a silent keyboard. I went with the Silent peaches V2 as well, I got, like, 70 of them, completed with outemu purples just because I was curious to see if it was any better than the browns (it's a bit more tactile, but still a bit too wobbly). Then I regret using the purples and bought the silent lemons V3 instead. They're very good too. Because I like ABNT2 keyboard format, I ended using a Redragon K552 barebone as a base, but it's ok.
Outro brasileiro 🎉 Eu me rendi ao ANSI, achei de boas a adaptação. Só o que me incomoda é que as aspas viram teclas mortas, ou seja, você precisa apertar duas vezes pra aparecer, e quando aparece, vem duas vezes. Similar ao que seria tentar imprimir somente o assento no ABNT.
@@regisdrift Eu tentei me acostumar, queria um 70% antes. Peguei um teclado mecânico velho TKL ANSI emprestado, tentei usar de vários modos, mas não curti, no geral me atrapalhava durante o meu trabalho, tentei até usar o Power toys pra remapear umas teclas. É tudo costume e preferência, eu até gostei do Kumara Barebone no fim das contas, só acho ele meio feinho. Se usasse o teclado só pra jogar, sem dúvida teria pegado um ANSI, mas como uso para trabalho também, aí complica.
Dude, this sounds amazing, would take a look on the Irok N87, i want to get a cheap hall effect keyboard. Great vídeo, the only thing that is missing on your video is your cat =D
Personally when I tried the Cream Yellow as well (Super Deals and Early Bird specials are the way to go if you're willing to wait for great deals) they were great other than the spring ping. I tried everything and including lubing the leaf and you basically have to change the spring. I've heard there's newer versions of the Outemus... (Silent Lemon V3 for tactile gang) which fix the spring ping. ~$18 once the Summer Sale starts
What are your thoughts about the Royal Kludge RK S98? It has all the bells and whistles at a budget price and is really decent for a full sized keyboard
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got any suggestions for guys who fat finger keys sometimes, all the keyboards I've tried are to sensitive and I cant find any videos that show which key type would help reduce this.
I recently bought the Aula F87 on Aliexpress for $60 and boy is it good for the price, like damn budget boards have improved a lot in the last few years.
I have the Aula F75 and it's amazing!
My F87 came this week, I'm very satisfied with it
My favorite keep right now
@@TiniKiti Yeah Aula F75 is the best ($42 from taobao I think?)
@@TiniKiti I also got the f75. Absolutely no need for mods or switches or anything, it sounds so perfect to me, my first mechanical non-gamer KB and it's a dream.
There's a very simple solution for the difficult to remove Kilmat - just cover the board in tape first. Use a good quality tape with some stretch to it, something like 3M Clear Repair Tape.
I've been using this keyboard (tape modded) ($40), Outemu Summer Linear switches (no added lube) ($20), and cheap cherry profile clonekaps ($18) as a daily driver for about 6 months and have been loving it. I probably swapped out the the stabilizers and lubed those up with some cheap kit by Epomaker (sub $10). Nice to see the board discussed on your channel.
Also have experience with the Silent Peach and the Silent Cream switches mentioned here. Peach are a little too light for me, so I always come back tot he Silent Cream Yellows on other boards I've put together (all always under $100).
The sound deadening is pretty safe if you never need to remove it as it’s impossible to remove without leaving a bunch of the butyl behind. Being butyl rubber for the aluminum backing you don’t have to worry about shorting anything.
A bit more info on the screen, and overall opinion of the board/switches would've been nice.
The screen is nice on mine, you can upload up to 2 images/gifs, or you can draw something yourself. The software to do it is pretty garbage, but if you choose a gif with a nice loop, it looks really nice.
mine came with a rattly spacebar stabilizer on the left side so its kinda yuck to press it...i put gateron yellow pros v3 and its sounds amazing
@@SuperBunny312 you can switch or lube the stabilizer to try to fix i think
As an artist, i love the fact that you mentioned and even tried to protect us while buying, like, i know so many artists suffering due Aliexpress rip offs, Thank you so much for stopping and knowing we exist
Ali ripoffs? Have you checked A-zon? You'll find the same ripoffs there. I stopped thinking about this because those ripoffs are literally on every online marketplace. Not just chinese ones.
9:08 You're a legend for using this clip
This is terrifyingly almost identical to my build. The fact that I am using GMK87 and a PBT keycap set that looks close to the one here is funny.
Currently I'm using Akko CS Crystal which is not bad. I've been considering silent build so I bought myself an Outemu Honey Peach.
Edit:
A little more things I'd like to mention out of nowhere. It's interesting to see that the GMK87 that Hipyo bought has a slightly different set of things that was out of the box. On the barebones that I bought, it already had a poron foam and IXPE sheet in between the polycarbonate plate and PCB but it also had a plastic sheet on top of the PCB that I don't think was in Hipyo's GMK87, so I think it's okay to remove it if the plastic sheet is there. In fact I recommend removing because depending on the IXPE sheet cutout, your stabilizer stems might make extra goofy noises especially if there are air pockets under the plastic sheet right under the stems. The stabilizers are not too bad but they will almost always rattle a bit because of the bad *plate-mounting* design I guess but should be fixable with some small tape mods or just get a better stabilizer. I'm considering to buy something called an Ice Cream V2 stabilizers at my local store which I have no idea what that is and I don't see any info of it in the internet anywhere.
One interesting thing is that my GMK87 already came with a poron foam that sticks (and removable) under the PCB that is not present in Hipyo's GMK87, which he used Killmat instead for that. I personally suggest using 2 to 3 layers of masking tape instead because that would be less destructive while giving you the same effect. And then the rest like the PE sheet and silicon layer that was in the case were present so yeah other than the ones I mentioned, it's not too different. At least for silent switches, if you're looking for a good one, I highly recommend to just go with Hipyo and I bought here, the Outemu Honey Peach V2 (5-pin mount variant). Like Hipyo showed, the switches have pads on the sides of the POM stem. It has a light pre-lube amount which is not bad in my experience, I'm the type to enjoy hand-lubing and the lubing on the Honey Peach is pretty good that I didn't feel the need to lube it. The top and bottom housing are made of nylon. Overall, it's just a good silent switch for the price you'll be paying, and that is very cheap considering the average price you'll see for a silent switch.
Lastly, if you're considering to start with building a keyboard, unless you have a fixation on the casing material or the layout size (which is a tenkeyless/80%), and some other things that anchors to your personal taste, I would highly recommend starting with a GMK87 right away. I want you to take note of the price of the barebones one more time. For that price, you'll be getting an 80% keyboard that is gasket mounted, has moderate flex cuts on the PCB, a heck ton of foam and sheets for dampening, a knob (KNOB!?), a small screen that you can switch the contents between the keyboard's status monitor and two other still images or GIFs (the highest framerate it supports has a frame interval of 60ms, which gives you around 16.67 FPS or a factor of 50/3) you can set via a software, supports VIA tool, south-facing LEDs with nice lighting modes, and three connection modes including wired, 2.4GHz, and Bluetooth.
That is batshit insane.
Bro pulled a reverse TLDR and put his whole thesis in the edit section
@@XenHat I commented first after watching halfway and then another more after finishing the vid lol
@@rrinnlonginus I was wondering what VIA does? is it just keyboard hotkeys and rgb? Do I need to download separate software to modify the screen on the GMK87? Also how do the Gazzew Bobagum switches compare to those listed in the video?
@@FlawlessMind-lb3tw VIA is software for configuring various settings in a keyboard, and it's compatible with QMK keyboards too. It's also designed so that whatever settings you applied are permanently saved in the keyboard.
The range of customizations depends on the keyboard itself, but normally you'll be able to customize lighting and changing inputs per key. It's very versatile, and is why keyboards that are VIA-compatible are very much sought for by enthusiasts.
@@rrinnlonginus I'm little confused about which of the sheets I should be removing also, I saw the gmk87 was on sale so I picked it up, I have no clue which sheet is which so I'm wondering what is supposed to be removed if I'm just doing a tape mod? I also saw that Otemu has v3 switches now, was wondering if that would be better? Was also recommended Wuque silents, Lichicx silents, TTC Silent Frozen, and Akko Fairy, are they worth the premium?
For anyone wondering about the switches, mine just got here today and they are perfect. I was looking for quiet switches so I wouldnt wake anyone up at home during nighttime. I put them in maybe an hour ago and they are exactly what I was hoping for.
GMK 87's are awesome, I remember trying to find a review from you when I built my keyboard using it.
I just finished this build, it really was
I have rebuilt this keyboard with the same parts and even without Kilmat only with a tapemod it is ultra quiet. Many thanks also from my colleagues at work!
hipyo try not to clickbait with keyboard price challenge: impossible 😭😭
as always tho great vid much love
When you're using the word "very" when describing something silent it's always not silent at all. And this video proves it again.
I bought a Royal Kludge S98 for the numpad and their txt screen is sick. Plus it’s top mount instead of gasket mount. I also bought the GMK87 just to tinker with and I’m happy I have both. I used Leobog ice soul and then tinkered with Outemu Ocean Silent linear switches. Eventually went with the Leobog tactile ice soul because the sound and actuation feels better. I put the Outemu ones in a cheap little E-Yooso z88 that I watched a guy mod and I tried that. It’s like a new keyboard! Thanks for all the tips. I was about ready to trash the cheap E-Yooso til I ran across a mod for it. I also have a cheap Motospeed that has soldered red linear switches so I used that one to practice soldering switches onto. Absolutely love this as a hobby now. I see how people get hooked on this. I usually tinker with pc’s but the keyboard thing has been a real joy and it’s so easy to get into it. For tactile switches, I found a YUNZII Blue Grey switch that feels great and sounds amazing. My daughter uses a YUNZII B75 Pro with those and she won’t let me swap it out for anything else.
I'm loving the silent peach v2 on the Varmillo Bluebell. Also got some silent peach v3 (same sound profile in an mx housing style), and they are incredible lubed and filmed
My rainy75 is coming in in 5 days
I bought one for my wife and it arrived a week ago. You're going to love it. It genuinely lives up to the hype.
Man congratulations, it's out of stock sadly everywhere
@@ImusNoxa sweet
@@anirudhmathur5555Pantheon Keys has them instock with all variants
I've yet to get info about mine
Keen to see the review of the Lucky 65. Also keen for a review of the Ajazz 820 Pro - another cheap plastic keyboard but with hot swap, knob and screen
This is perfectly timed because I ordered a GMK87 a couple of days ago.
There's also the GMK81, which has the screen but no knob, and is a bit smaller. As well as the GMK67-S.
learning this so i can build a keyb for my anniversary with my bf hehe
Neat. I'll have to keep those Outemu silent switches in mind next time I'm looking for stuff. I love me some silent tactile switches.
Just assembled this board and god, what a sound, it's my first mechanical keyboard, and it sounds beautifuly!
Thank you Hipyo for this thing!❤❤
I was looking for a new board and thank you for this. I did go with the Lemon V3 switches and Womier XVX/ ISA profile keycaps. I also did a 2 layer tape mode on the PCB but man thank you. I love this keyboard, the quality, the silent switches. It is better then any of the prebuild keyboards I used from Ducky, Fnatic, SteelSeries, Roccat, Razer and Cherry which are almost twice the price in my country.
Never have I ever expect a keyboard could be this SILENT
Nice editing and explanations on keyboard mods and building btw
I have some of the Outemu silent tactile limes in a nextime 75. It is my office keyboard (I'm a medical claims processor) and wanted something that wouldn't bother my coworkers. It came out super nice. I ended up using some cheap transparent acrylic keycaps which actually added a little bit of sound and chatter but it was still easily the most quiet board I've ever built and it still feels pretty good. It's more silent than my gatereon silent brown optical numbpad and that's pretty quiet itself.
woah $25 off $100 is actually a decent deal - building one of these myself with either the tactile silents or a linear graywood v4. Though the price of the base board went up to $50, two sets of 100 switches (in case I wanna build a 96% like I usually prefer with one later) and these caps (from another vendor, since they're sold out from the linked description) was $90 shipped with tax using that code. nice.
I got the Outemu Silent Honey Peaches recently and was surprised by how truly silent they were. Not really sure if I like the feel of the silicone dampeners in linears yet. For quick light presses they feel fine, but for firm hard presses they feel a little unsatisfying. I didn’t really mind the feel of the Akko silent penguin tactiles as the bump helps it feel more meaty. Though the bump on the penguin’s do introduce more noise then the dead silent Honey Peaches.
Yes! This is just the video that I wanted, I've been considering building a custom keyboard from Aliexpress. Now I have a parts list!
I put the Outemu Silent Peaches in a Keychron K8 pro. I haven't done anything else to it yet but the switch from Gateron Browns to the Outemu Peach was really nice. Initially I was really concerned about the peach tinting the RGB since by comparison it was very pink. But once they're all in as a full set you can still get really nice blues and greens. It's my first ever mechanical keyboard.
Ok, I must say it's the first time I really consider building almost exactly the same keyboard you did. I was after a non-aluminium wireless keyboard and landed with RK84 which is in my opinion very good value, but I really wish I've seen this video earlier, because I don't think RK is as good value as this (via? KNOB??? 🥴), but here we are...
I've been using Outemu Silent Yellow Jade switches in my keyboard and they are an absolute wonder to use at a fairly budget price.
So. I hear you're writing a book. "Thockomancy. The Esoteric Keyboard Arts" 😁
Been using a Modded Keychron Q6 Pro (added more mass) and Akko Fairy linears which are kind of similar with the silicone squidge on the stem and I'm using some lovely Traitors infinity caps. The thing is silent in the office which makes it perfect
I've used the silent cream switches for a few years now. They've gone through a few monor revisions. Thry are excellent switches. They use the same molds as the expensive Gazzew switches (U4T for instance).
Since i started to watch your channel i was about build one myself this GMK with some akko yellow cream was a dream come true, thanks for puting me in this world Hipyo!
38 bucks? How? Where? This thing has been sitting at €58 (lowest price) for over 2 months now for me. And I'm checking every seller on a daily basis.
Awesome video. I discovered these switches years ago and i like them a lot (I use cream yellow and lime, prefer the creams). Do you think is really necessary to modify the board for using silent switches? I have the impression that the overall sound wont change much since the switch sounds are near mute.
Now build the loudest keyboard possible
Literally my setup (except keycaps) can confirm that keyboard is pretty nice, been using it for abt 6 month now. only issue it sometimes looses its 2.4Ghz connection for no reason and clock on the screen is absolute trash (it drifts a lot and only way to set it to real time is to connect with usb and run image custom tool - app that changes pictures on that screen)
In order not to anger my workmates, I recently changed my office keeb switches for the Peaches. And man these are SILENT. I think I don't like the mushyness that much, I prefer my Kailh Deep Sea), but they are definitely really good switches given the price.
Hipyo! Please do a review of the best keyboards with knobs and/or screens!
Reason why I might not have watched a Hipyo video: I missed it in the vast sea of RUclips notifications from my bloated list of subscriptions. That's pretty much it. I'm still trying to catch up from my move. Also, I'm team split-ergo 4 life due to a shoulder injury, so I may still be a little spicy about your scathing review of split-ergos. I love my Keebio Iris more than anyone should love an assemblage of plastic, acrylic and copper. Also - the flat pliers used for chain maille jewelry (which I already have because serial niche interests are my jam) also work well for straightening bent pins.
Watching you have hundreds of options as an ISO virgin hurts so bad especially since everything is either expensive or Keychron
As someone who didnt see the Asus keyboard video, i can say that it's because i didnt want to hear your voice too much and accidentally fall inlove❤
Holy cow that is a quiet keyboard that is amazing! Well done sir!
I'm not the first to mention it, but the title's probably misleading 🤔.
I can agree that Aliexpress does make for a nice place to acquire some switches though. During sales that also have coupons they tend to get pretty darn cheap and a nice occasion to pull into a set(s).
Eh, well. I don't have much (if any) respect of Hipyo...yet. He's a cringe burnt out hack as far as making videos goes. Purely for switches...hmmm--- yeah it's not bad! (potentially?) better variety than keychron lol. My (so far) first any only custom keyboard the switches..are jwik that were a eye watering 80 dollars alone. yeah yeah ZealPC's for a enough to cover a TKL are more. lol now that was cheaper than amazon, because it turns out these were B-Stock and amazon wanted another 10-15 which was rediculous for emergency replacement keyboard, 90-95 fucking dollars for switches alone wasn't happening. These came as a realyl nice christmas bundle with pudding caps.
I'm using the outemu cream yellow (or milk yellow depending on translation) silent tactile since earlier this year, and it was great. I also tried out their linear silent peach but the lack of feedback on both tactility and sound makes them feels really uncomfortable. However, I uses the linear ones for modifier keys like Ctrls and Shifts to reduce strains on my pinky fingers. I uses a regular tactile (Everglide Wild Pansy) for the spacebar because silent switch on spacebar feels really really mushy.
The keyboard I'm using is Aula F87, which is damn nice, full RGB, side RGB, and an RGB strip above the arrow keys that can indicate battery level
again, it wasn't 40 dollars.....
The keyboard was $38 my bad 🙌
well the base technically is $40
55 USD. Not 40 dollars at all.
You guys realize that he ordered the keyboard weeks ago and the prices change?
@@HipyoTechwdym it was nearly $100!
I have the outemu silent peach ones. It's incredibly silent and delicious to type on.
Nice work :) I've finally managed to make my (nearly) ideal silent keyboard - the Keychron K3 with optical switches, lubed with GPL105 using a syringe (ain't nobody got time for disassembling switches, surely?), the keycaps from a K1 Pro and cheap rubber o-rings from Amazon. Absolutely silent, wonderfully low travel and only six mismatched keycaps, because Keychron hate people who use the One True Layout (ISO).
Nice, incredibly strong rock climber fingers Hipyo.
The lucky 65 seems to be interesting!
Nice incredibly strong rock climbing fingers hippo😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
We need a rock climbing collab with Hippyo, Scrapman and Magnus Midtbø!
This made me excited to get a mechanical keyboard. I don't like how loud most keyboards are. I'm just a little sad you didn't show how the keyboard sounded before mods. Because if I'd order the same items, I don't have that foam, so mine would be louder.
Aside from showing off your impressive finger strength, how was it to type on???
I tried putting Outemu Ocean linear switches in this keyboard. One thing I didn’t realize is that most Outemu have one “jagged” pin (must be an Outemu thing because the set of browns and blues I have from older keyboards have that same one jagged pin). Needless to say, the switch went in but trying to get it out was a pain. I know Outemus are notoriously awful to remove but I don’t have an issue removing them from older mechanical keyboards that are designed to use them. I think the poron on a hot swap keyboard like this one causes Outemus to stick. Glad I only put 4 in because two of them bent a pin going in and two broke pulling out along with tearing some of the pvc pad. Atrocious switches and I would recommend anything but Outemu for this keyboard. I used some Leobog Ice Souls I had and they went in and removed smooth. Very poppy sounding and no one jagged pin/leg to get stuck. I think that makes a difference
Bought a Aula F99 and threw some of the Peach V2sz in. Stupid quiet and under 100 dollars with minimal effort. The V2s are nice yall
Imagine they pit the knob on a 3 axis Dpad
Still turn it for volume, but now you could press in for play/pause, left right for next/previous, and then up/down could be contextual, or like on my car, next/previous folder.
To remove killmat and other sound deadener car builders tend to use dry ice to hard it and break it off in frozen pieces, probably doesn't work well for keyboards but FYI.
Heh, that's kind of funny.
I bought this exact keyboard, with the exact same switches about 2 months ago!
I'm still using a modified CloudNine c989m as my daily driver, but when I need more deskspace (while gaming), or want a more silent board, I can plug in one of my other keyboards. I did use a different keycap set and I chose the black version of the keyboard, but it's funny to see it back in a video here.
One of the things that annoyed me though, was getting the switches in. I did not put anythin on the back and the PCB and plastic 'plate' flex a WHOLE lot, making it hard to put in the switches.
It is still a very silent solution, though for some reason, I disagree with you on the switches feeling good. I think they have a slight gritty feel to them... It's hard to explain, it's not like they aren't lubed, but something just feels off.
Then again, maybe it's because my daily driver uses Gateron Milky blacks that I filmed and lubed myself, making them feel super smooth, but with enough resistance to feel like you're actually pressing something.
Anyway, the plastic housing flexes a bit, making it feel a little cheap, but... Well, it IS, so...
And the software for the screen is indeed kind of meh (Slow to update and partly in Chinese), but once you upload an image, or a gif, it stays on the keyboard, without you having to keep using the software, so that's nice.
Yeah, that keycap set is definitely a clone. I mean, some shops literally even call it GMK Rome Clone. And they're a clone of KBDfans' PGA Sparta keycaps from 2021.
Ah heck
Personally I don't care. I prefer PBT double shot over ABS, and the quality of the clones on Ali have ALWAYS been pretty awesome from my experience. They all eventually shine and I'm not big on spending $150 to then have them turn shiny anyway.
@@JustSomeGuy009 Same. I've been using clones from Akko for a long time, and I love them.
Well the clones are better anyway, because only an idiot would name a set with "SPQR" written on it, "Sparta", and not "Rome".
i didn't expect that to be THAT QUIET
yeah those peach switches are really good
Hipyo: "We're gonna need a *rewind* " Somewhere: _"mArKASs bRoWnLEE kPop!"_
The lucky keyboard is good but the F row is deleted, overall is amazing value.
I'm looking forward to a review of the Lucky 65
nooo hipyo! please dont use those incredibly strong rock climber fingers to kill matt! matt has done nothing wrong!!
For real though, what _else_ do you do with those nice, incredibly-strong rock-climbing fingers?
I'm considering those silent linears for a Planck build. Can you do a video focusing specifically on similar switches?
Nice incredibly strong rock climber fingers, Hipyo what else do you do with those incredibly strong rock climber fingers?
that's pretty quiet, I wonder how long the 'gel' would last
Thanks for including my fav switches ever! Peach Silent V2's are so money
Don't forget your lube when rock climbing with these incredibly strong rock climber fingers!
Stay safe.
Hey hipyo, what else do you do, with those extremely strong rock climbing fingers?
I daily drive the gmk87 with kang white switches and pbt caps. Works well
Bought this and it's arriving in a week... I'm new to building keyboards... Any tips on how to build it ... Guide or something
just ordered the parts. i love the colour of the caps. thx for the vid
I had to return that exact GMK87 base a few weeks ago because it randomly shut off and did not want to wake up again.
Might give that Lucky65 a try although I like 87key boards more...
I have lubed, filmed, silent ink black in my Q3 and they're soooo damn good.
If we're goin' for weird AliExpress kits I'd totally run an ALPS board.
Matias made those wacky court-stenographer switches with the biggest dampeners in the world and thick PBT Alps keycaps are finally available in cool, tho admittedly limited colors.
love this editing, something seems different but I really like it
I watched a bunch of your videos before I decided to build a silent keyboard. I went with the Silent peaches V2 as well, I got, like, 70 of them, completed with outemu purples just because I was curious to see if it was any better than the browns (it's a bit more tactile, but still a bit too wobbly). Then I regret using the purples and bought the silent lemons V3 instead. They're very good too. Because I like ABNT2 keyboard format, I ended using a Redragon K552 barebone as a base, but it's ok.
Outro brasileiro 🎉 Eu me rendi ao ANSI, achei de boas a adaptação. Só o que me incomoda é que as aspas viram teclas mortas, ou seja, você precisa apertar duas vezes pra aparecer, e quando aparece, vem duas vezes. Similar ao que seria tentar imprimir somente o assento no ABNT.
@@regisdrift Eu tentei me acostumar, queria um 70% antes. Peguei um teclado mecânico velho TKL ANSI emprestado, tentei usar de vários modos, mas não curti, no geral me atrapalhava durante o meu trabalho, tentei até usar o Power toys pra remapear umas teclas. É tudo costume e preferência, eu até gostei do Kumara Barebone no fim das contas, só acho ele meio feinho. Se usasse o teclado só pra jogar, sem dúvida teria pegado um ANSI, mas como uso para trabalho também, aí complica.
Dude, this sounds amazing, would take a look on the Irok N87, i want to get a cheap hall effect keyboard.
Great vídeo, the only thing that is missing on your video is your cat =D
A sound clip without the killmat would be nice, then we know what just the aliexpress parts can do before modding.
I recently bought an Akko 5075B Plus on aliexpress for $40 and is been excellent the only thing missing is the screen.
Personally when I tried the Cream Yellow as well (Super Deals and Early Bird specials are the way to go if you're willing to wait for great deals) they were great other than the spring ping. I tried everything and including lubing the leaf and you basically have to change the spring. I've heard there's newer versions of the Outemus... (Silent Lemon V3 for tactile gang) which fix the spring ping. ~$18 once the Summer Sale starts
Damn, that's real quiet. Now I feel like modding my venerable K8 Pro, just as soon as I get a hold of my senses and my will to mod. 😂
That's disturbingly silent for me 😂
What are your thoughts about the Royal Kludge RK S98? It has all the bells and whistles at a budget price and is really decent for a full sized keyboard
HIPYO, STILL WAITING FOR THE AULA F75 VIDEO
Nice incredibly strong rock climber fingers Hipyo, what else do you do with those rock climber fingers - rock climb??
Can u pls upload more, I know it cost a decent amount but I really love your content, it makes me laugh all the time but I've watched it all....
Why not put painter's tape on the PCB first and then the killmat? That will make it trivial to peel off.
Hello hipyo i really wanna know if All of the keyboards in your videos is hotswappable
Curious about your monitor, are you using it only for this video?
Nice video hipyo its always very interesting to watch ur content
I would call the sound of this as: "PHWOCK"
Could you review the Aula f75? I have recently bought one and I would like you to say nice things about it so that I feel good about my purchase.