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Ne1 haz an atk shark k85?
« on: Sun, 19 January 2025, 11:19:45 »
Gud o' meh?

Looking for the most reasonably priced keyboard with rapid trigger.

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Re: Ne1 haz an atk shark k85?
« Reply #1 on: Tue, 21 January 2025, 13:08:16 »
Guys, are people modding their magnetic keyboards?

Do these keyboards not have a factory calibration step to compensate for the switch variances? If you swap a switch or bend the PCB/chassis even a little, that could be a pretty large offset?

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Re: Ne1 haz an atk shark k85?
« Reply #2 on: Wed, 22 January 2025, 10:56:33 »
Just received.

Build quality is so-so. The whole chassis is soft. it uses a Polycarb plate instead of metal. I guess the trendy thing is to make very soft touch keyboards at the moment. Silicone gaskets, it feels very soft.  Quality control is alright, although Tp4 did receive a unit where the keycap has a broken insert post.

The keys are outemu magnetic switches. Spring weight is 35 or 40. It's super super soft very smooth. It's cloud of boob all over again, but where mx red had the metal leaf grinding, this has nothing like that, it's fully soft, very very little friction. The only switch smoother than this is probably the new razers, which has a stabilizer for each switch reducing edge friction.

Performance.  It's polling correctly at 1000hz via keyboard inspector. No issues there.

Rapid trigger works. Changing directions and stopping is indeed quicker and more responsive. You can notice this in armored core because you have to strafe alot.

The switch overall is not very easy to type on, noticed this first with the razer opticals, it's TOOOO smooth. There's almost no feedback except the bottom out sound. You can overcome this with skill, but this is not a typing first keyboard. It's a gaming keyboard.