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Title: Gamdias Hermes M3 -any thoughts on this keyboard?
Post by: coccosoids on Wed, 16 May 2018, 06:50:27

Hi guys.

So do you have any thoughts on this keyboard? Anything better in the price range? It's about 73E/$ in my region. Brown gamdias switches -whatever those are.

Here is a link: http://www.gamdias.com/products-en-gb/keyboards/hermes-m3-rgb-en-gb (http://www.gamdias.com/products-en-gb/keyboards/hermes-m3-rgb-en-gb)

Thanks

Title: Re: Gamdias Hermes M3 -any thoughts on this keyboard?
Post by: ag36 on Thu, 17 May 2018, 05:45:52

As long as you like low profile switch, but this look very overpriced. Non cherry rgb are usually around 20~50€.

Title: Re: Gamdias Hermes M3 -any thoughts on this keyboard?
Post by: DALExSNAIL on Thu, 17 May 2018, 06:28:31

Looks like a cheap overseas keyboard with low profile switches.

Probably a medium quality board with mediocre keycaps. If you like RGB and low profile I guess it's fine though.

Title: Re: Gamdias Hermes M3 -any thoughts on this keyboard?
Post by: coccosoids on Thu, 17 May 2018, 07:07:26

Quote from: ag36 on Thu, 17 May 2018, 05:45:52

As long as you like low profile switch, but this look very overpriced. Non cherry rgb are usually around 20~50€.

I can't find anything cheaper in my region... or alas -I don't know what to look for. Anything comes to mind?

I think I do prefer low profile -I once played with a Logitech G Pro TKL keyboard and didn't like it at all. Not a sucker for RGB but some kind of backlighting is welcome.

Title: Re: Gamdias Hermes M3 -any thoughts on this keyboard?
Post by: Blaise170 on Thu, 17 May 2018, 09:42:04

Gamdias' older stuff was actually quite good - I own the Gamdias GKB2010 which had genuine Cherry MX Red switches. I haven't kept up with the company as of late though, and if they are now using their own switches then they have probably lowered the quality of their stuff quite a bit. I'm going to guess that they are probably rebranded versions of Kailh's new low-profile switch, which may or may not be as good as their regular MX-compatible line.

Title: Re: Gamdias Hermes M3 -any thoughts on this keyboard?
Post by: ag36 on Thu, 17 May 2018, 09:54:54

Which region are you at? For Chinese budget boards I usually browse on Amazon.co.uk presumably your local Amazon sell them too, alternatively go ebay.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_3_5?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=mechanical+keyboard&sprefix=mecha%2Caps%2C147&crid=1LW5K0CV4SCFL

Edit: If this is using kailh low profile then replacement keycaps can be hard to get,