I need to replace my Keyboard

so after muddling around and milling about in the PC Peripherals section of my local bestbuy, talking to a very helpful rep who actually told me a lot about the differences between various keyboards. She personally recommended the Razer Huntsman Elite-- but it was 299.99! I couldn't possibly justify or see myself spending 300 dollars on a keyboard....because, it's just a keyboard. I'd put that kinda money towards a power supply, but a keyboard is merely a peripheral. Then I was also looking at the Corsair K95 RGB PLatinum, but she said "while Corsair has an additional pad of programmable keys on the left side of the board, which can be quite handy for gaming....The tactile feel and quality of the switches is better on the Razer keyboards. Don't get me wrong both Corsair and Razer are excellent for quality and longevity...But I think you'll like the keys on a Razer board much better." Another one she recommended was the Razer Onata V.2 for 259, because she said it was the closest iterms of feel and versatility to the MS Media keyboard I was coming from. But then I saw the Razer Black Widow (2019 refresh version) for 159.99, and I'd always heard amazing things about the original Black Widow....and while still expensive, 160.00 was more of a price point that I could live with...so I bought the Razer Black Widow.

Thus far, I've only used it for about 3 hours but I really really like the very mechanical, *click* and responsiveness of the keys. I also really appreciate the slight texture of the keys and how each individual key is slightly indented rather than totally flat or raised up; those kinds of keys, I definitely do not like. While I was at it, I also replaced my original Logitech G5 mouse from 2005. That mouse is still my favourite mouse of all the ones I've used (not including the new one), but it was kinda dirty and the buttons were a little sticky with crap getting trapped in the seams. And for being 15 years old, it has served me well. I have absolutely no complaints. I won't throw it away, I will keep it as a spare. It still works and will have a special place in my memories. But after 15 years I thought was due time for an upgrade. So I bought the 1600 dpi G 502 HERO. It's a little lighter than my orginal G 5 and a slightly smaller profile....But over all I think I am going to love this new mouse just as much as the old one once I get used to it.

Anyway, over all I'm very happy with both purchases.

My only complaint is that I would liked to try out more keyboards before I made my purchase. I settled on the Widow ebcause I was able to touch the directional arrows and get a sense of the feel of the keys, which I instantly liked very much. But being able to touch some of the other keyboards would hav helped me make a more informed decision. Though I understand the restrictions due to COVID 19, they need to keep everything as clean and sanitized as possible so preventing tactile contact was best.

I never said it was.

I want to buy a new affordable desk top, not sure what to get. I am highly annoyed that as usual, as always i am going to most likely have to buy an adapter if i want to use my perfectly good existing monitor.

Well i bought a computer on sale last night and also bought a new monitor as well.  I just hate moth balling a perfectly good monitor that has always worked really well.

I   the Etch-A-Sketch!  I played with mine for hours on end!

the answer depends on the situation, are you the sort that did all the updates religiously especially during the various intel centric cpu and mobo hotfixes to mitigate problems with things like spectre and meltdown and the rest?

not that a newer intel cpu would actually remove those problems (maybe if they ever get around to a new core architecture....

you would see a slight performance boost if you moved over to something like the ryzen 7 3700x or above (with at least 16gb's of 3200 ram, no point getting faster ram it just degrades overall performance) the actual mobo you run that lot on doesn't matter as much but I would suggest a mid range x570 purely from a price to performance ratio wiht the scope of possibly upgrading in the future...

as to the gfx card, unless you planning on a new psu then there is absolutely zero point in looking at the new 30 series rtx cards, after you waste nearly 2k on buying something that has almost identical performance to your current card you still need to spend another 150 bucks on the psu capable of running ....

just save your cash for another year and then buy something in the spring 4th gen ryzen release (becasue lets face it intel has been flogging the same tweaked cpu cores for more than a decade and the only things they actually managed to change are lower chip yields per wafer and improved profit margins...

Hi, and thank you for your reply and your advice....I have always been an Intel guy; I had an AMD CPU the Althalon X2 in '07 and it was so under-powered, overworked and overheated that it literally FUSED itself to the motherboard within two weeks.  I took it back to the guy who built it for me, showed him what happened and he then built me the equivalent Intel Core2Duo E4500 series CPU and a Intel/Foxtronn motherboard which I had no problems with whatsoever.......Until my house was struck by lightning later that Fall.   After that experience I swore I would never buy AMD ever again.


Then in the Winter of 2007-08 I bought an Intel 9550 with an ASUS P5E Deluxe Gaming motherboard, which was rock solid- amazing Board.  As was its successor the P6T Deluxe, but those were the last actually good quality motherboards I had from ASUS. (except for the ASUS/ATI gpu GTX 570 that had funky fans which, which I replaced with the EVGA GTX 760 Dual FTW).  My last ever ASUS Board was the Maximus VI "Anti-HERO" (what a piece of JUNK!)  I had it for two years and had nothing but problems.  severe BIOS Issues, 2x defective RAM slots, warped GPU socket, warping PCB...and I RMA'd it three times in the two years I had it.  Had it lost twice by the fools down in Mexico.  I had it paired with the great CPU, the Intel 4770.  The CPU, RAM and GPU were amazing.  The Board sucked.   After that, in 2016 I switched my motherboard brand to Gigabyte and I personally have had only one board that I am still using to this very day.

So....all that to say there are popular brands that I have had terrible experiences with that have completely soured my outlook.  ASUS may well be the quality company I remember for its Boards...I know lots of people who swear by ASUS for the quality of the product.  It's just that I personally haven't had the most luck, and their customer service down in Mexico is atrocious.

I've been using Logitech's cheap AF mechanical keyboards for years now and no regrets. Bought something more electrical and expensive and colourfully backlit once but it broke after one coffee spill which is simply not acceptable for the rate of coffee spillage in this household.

I bought this keyboard recently Roccat VULCAN 80 Mechanical Gaming Keyboard - Brown Titan Switches and it wasn't for me keys too high, too noisy so bought this one instead: SteelSeries Engine 3 Apex 3 and it's great, not mechanical but it's really nice to type on and very quiet. It's also designed so stuff doesn't get caught under the keys. I love it.



I do miss my old Lgitech G510 with it's LCD display though.

Also I use this keyboard: