I'm torn between "take my money" and there is absolutely no point in this.
Source: https://youtu.be/OIIYxlIEEt0
If you are a touch typer then you are not looking at your keyboard.
If you are not a touch typer (like me) then you need to be able to see the letters on the keys, not a load of fish.
Oh and the recessed patter is a dirt trap.
Waste of money. Buy a £10 one from Amazon.
If you are not a touch typer (like me) then you need to be able to see the letters on the keys, not a load of fish.
Oh and the recessed patter is a dirt trap.
Waste of money. Buy a £10 one from Amazon.
Oh Lord! Don't do that, pay some real money and get a Cherry mechanical keyboard, not some cheap trash that will drive you mad.
I always bought the cheap trash and it always did the job it needed doing.
I'll take that back. Buy a keyboard that fits the style you want, one that clicks (if you like clicks), one that is silent if clicks annoys other people in the room. Buy a mechanical one if you like them or a spongy pad one if you like those. Just don't buy one cos it has pretty fish on it.
The latter is the correct reaction.
This would take my typing from average to the deepest realm of appalling.
Good thing about mechanical keyboards...you just buy cheap replacement key caps for the ones the paint has worn off.
...It also introduces possibilities for tarting up your keyboard to look more expensive than it actually is
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Meanwhile I'm still using the keyboard that came with my first Gateway PC I bought decades ago. 
Yeah, but I'm cheap and repainting the letters cost nothingGood thing about mechanical keyboards...you just buy cheap replacement key caps for the ones the paint has worn off.
...It also introduces possibilities for tarting up your keyboard to look more expensive than it actually is
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I've been toying with the idea of faffing up my new-ish PC build with some added internal doobery-ferkins recently...a new fangled AM5 CPU screw down locking frame and one of those Thermal Grizzly re-useable carbonaut thermal sheets...eliminates the need for thermal paste... which I hate almost as much as black Molybdenum axle grease...vile stuff that takes 3 days to get out from under your finger nails and 3 washes to get the marks out of your jeans
According to reviews by most of the well known hardware afficionados, these carbonaut sheets have better thermal conductivity than even liquid metal (doesn't mean lower overall temps than the traditional paste)...but anyways, we shall see how they both perform once I get around to fitting the new locking frame and the thermal sheet... when I can be bothered ripping my PC to bits again.
I'd be interested to hear from anyone who's used one of the carbonaut sheets or CPU clamps already (Intel or AMD). Seemingly, you can also use the carbonaut sheets on GPU's if you service them... as I do occasionally...taking the heatsink off and renewing the thermal paste and VRM pads etc
To be honest...I'll still probably default to using decent brand thermal paste, the carbonaut sheets are just another option...
According to reviews by most of the well known hardware afficionados, these carbonaut sheets have better thermal conductivity than even liquid metal (doesn't mean lower overall temps than the traditional paste)...but anyways, we shall see how they both perform once I get around to fitting the new locking frame and the thermal sheet... when I can be bothered ripping my PC to bits again.
I'd be interested to hear from anyone who's used one of the carbonaut sheets or CPU clamps already (Intel or AMD). Seemingly, you can also use the carbonaut sheets on GPU's if you service them... as I do occasionally...taking the heatsink off and renewing the thermal paste and VRM pads etc
To be honest...I'll still probably default to using decent brand thermal paste, the carbonaut sheets are just another option...
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