NuPhy - Field75 HE Wired Magnetic Gaming Keyboard

Keychron K8 HE, NuPhy Air75 HE or Field75 HE with the Gateron Jade switches. Both brands have really solid software, decent build quality, and they're not horrifically expensive.

Honestly, unless you're looking to dump $100+ into a keyboard, HE doesn't make sense. Cheap HE boards are just not it in terms of reliability, build quality, and software experience. The cheapest HE board I can actively recommend is something like a NuPhy Field 75 HE or Air60/75 HE. Keychron's K2 HE or K4 HE are also a steal for what they cost. But it's all preference. Generally speaking, mechanical keyboards still have the upper hand when it comes to sound, and to a degree build quality. But if you're not particular about sound, and you can handle more or less only having linear switch options, HE is fantastic for both work and play.

TMR is supposed to be the best from a technical standpoint, but I don't think anyone can actually notice a difference in accuracy... As for a combination of good features, fast response times, and good build quality, look at NuPhy, Iqunix, and Keychron/Lemokey (there's only one Lemokey keyboard with 8 kHz polling, but that's also marketing wank IMO). The only reason I hesitate to recommend a wooting to anyone is because they can't be used as "daily drivers" by a lot of people because of the lack of onboard macros.

Not really. The NuPhy keyboards will feel a little stiffer compared to the 80HE. Both will require mods to sound truly good. Just different mods. The Iqunix HE boards are pretty solid across the board aside from the software being a little less intuitive and polished. Keychron and Lemokey's wireless HE boards are all limited to 1 kHz polling, but you'll NEVER notice 1 kHz vs 8 kHz in a keyboard. There's one Lemokey board that's 8 kHz. I think the L5 HE (?) but that's also only wired lol. The biggest drawback with Keychron/Lemokey HE boards is that they're only compatible with Gateron Double-Rail Magnetic switches (and unofficially, the switches that the Glorious GMMK 3 Pro HE uses). So that's a downside if you wanted to try other switches. But those Gateron switches are decent. The rest (stuff like build quality, keycaps, sound, and feel) all match or surpass Wooting.

At that price, the only HE boards that I can recommend are the Keychron K2 HE or NuPhy Field 75 HE and Air 75 HE. Keychron's firmware is QMK-based, and very feature-rich, and NuPhy's is also decent,although not quite as feature-rich.

If you are looking for a cheap HE option with a condensed F-Row, consider Aula Hero 84. The software is a bit clunky, but it does the job. Don't even think about getting the Wooting, it is overpriced as heck. Nuphy Air 75 HE also seems like a decent option. I own Field75, and I absolutely love it. The build quality is good, and the NuphyIO is pretty convenient. Overall, I think that any keyboard with a condensed F-row will do.

field75he uses older shenzhen arbiter oem with worse performance, wouldnt recommend over xingshan boards like melgeek real67 or chilkey slice75 p1 he uses flipped polarity ks37 and the implementation of HE features is pretty lackluster

Silent Switch exist. There is way more choice that what you can find on garbage retailer \*Gaming\* brand. And now you want a Hall effect switch. And all mainstream gaming brand are garbage with it. The Good thing are with Wooting, Nuphy, Iquinix and Keychron on HE board now. And the great thing about all these brand is that they are all easy to mod for sound profile change and make them quieter. If you don't care about Hall effect then Wobkey have still the best sounding and quality for the price on the market with the Rainy75 and Crush80. Thier Hall effect board is a bit on the expensive side. Nuphy Field75HE is the most feature full and insane great value currently in the HE departement.

Razer got dethroned by Nuphy several months ago. Even the HE keyboard of Iquinix is way better. There is not a single Mainstream retailer gaming brand that made a single great product in the last 5 years.

I have the tkl 60$ woot deal and like it for the couch rig. Had a keychronb q5 and its solid alum was beefy, ended up selling the q5 and copped a nuphy he field 75 and it is perfect with the jade switches imo. It is also more than double the price of this keyb

Nuphy Field75 or its HE version is pretty good for wow

Nuphy Field75 or its HE version is pretty good for wow

The top gaming keyboards right now for competitive shooters are the HE switch keyboards like the Wooting 80HE, NuPhy Field75 HE, Lemokey P1 HE, or similar. These keyboards have features that if enabled can actually get you banned from some games! But the most impactful (non-banned) feature that these share is the adjustable trigger point and rapid trigger. The short explanation is these keyboards can be adjusted so that try trigger with as little as 0.05mm of depression rather than the usual 1\~3mm the average keyboard has. Additionally, to release or retrigger the key you don't have to release it entirely and press again. Instead any upward movement over some user adjusted distance on the key is considered as release, and any downward movement of that also user adjusted distance will activate it. This means if you want to press a single button really fast, you can just kind of wiggle it in a half-depressed position and that'll work just as well as lifting your finger off entirely. The banned feature is what Wooting calls Rappy Snappy. Which lets you configure pairs of keys such that if one is press, the other is automatically released, even if you're still actually holding it down. The main use case for this is strafe keys, as in many games if you're holding both left and right strafe you'll actually stand entirely still, this ensures you're always moving. I believe that feature will get you banned in CS2 (and Valorant?) specifically. That said, some people don't like HE keyboards, and keyboards in general are very subjective for what people like. And while something like the features the HE keyboards have can give legitimate advantages between the very high end players, plenty of professional players still don't use it. ... For mice... the only real consistent feature that's valuable is low weight. Razer and Logitech have consistently been the two big names here for a long time, and then Glorious and Final Mouse started pushing the ultra light mice and kind of shook up the market. These days Glorious are kind of just okay, and Final Mouse have serious quality control issues even if you can get ahold of one. And there's been a massive influx of new players in the gaming mouse scene that have been putting out amazing mice for amazing prices. Something like an MCHOSE A7 Pro for $50, ATK Dragonfly A9 for $25, or Attack Shark X11 for <$20, matches a $150 Logitech G Pro X Ultralight 2 in terms of performance and often quality (for all but the AttackShark... but it's <$20). There's also mice from Pulsar and Lamzu which really are better than anything made by Logitech. Razer on the other hand does seem to be keeping up with the rest of the mouse market, but they're still priced like high end Razer products always have been... which is expensive. I will note that a lot of these mice, and the more expensive well known brands, will advertise 8k polling rates. It should be noted that the top players do not use 8k polling because while on paper it sounds like it should make things better, 1k\~2k polling rates are really the max that actually give any benefit. There's a CPU hit when using 4k or 8k that negate any of the on paper benefits it should give.

First question to ask is if you want hall effect or not. Standard mechanical switches are what you are used to, but in recent years many gaming keyboards have begun using magnetic switches with analog input. This allows for features like rapid trigger or dynamic keystroke. If you want those extra features, then there are a litany of cheap keyboards out there that have them. However, the software for them is not always great. If you want the best software experience, then get a wooting keyboard. Their software really is the best. I've tried a few others from cheap brands and go back to the wooting for the software. But wooting is super pricey. The best I've found that is nearly as good as the wooting with easy to use, nice looking software is nuphy. The only thing wooting beats them with is the ability to map a controller joystick to wasd, which is nice for racing games. But, nuphy claims to be working on this feature right now. And when they do have it, I'll say it's better than my wooting. The air75 he is also the only low profile magnetic keyboard if you want that. Otherwise, the field75 he is a direct competitor to the wooting 80he for a cheaper price with additional macro keys if you find those useful, since your k95 had them as well.

Thoroughly enjoying my Nuphy Field 75 HE.

My Corsair K95 had a row of macro buttons on the left. If you don't mind NOT having a display, there still are some options with extra key. Also don't forget you can remap any key to whatever you want on 99% of gaming keyboards...in game it's pretty hard that you'll need the numpad or the block of page down / up / home / del etc...those alone are 9 buttons (if you include scroll, printscreen etc.). A whopping 17 buttons if you consider your numpad block as a macro pad (but still on the keyboard). So...the only limit is your fantasy. Recently I had my eyes on different mechanical keyboards and the nuphy Field75 HE caught my attention for the looks, but it has also several additional "G" keys (but no numpad).