Asus Rog Falcata. Excessively priced. But is probably the most fully featured gaming keyboard I can think of.
Wireless, HE, split, rgb, 8k polling. Literally everything you can think of.
Now do I recommend it? No, unless you need that specific combination of features plus a gaming brand. Technically no other keyboard has the feature set but most people don’t need that feature set.
Only real downside other than price I can think of is the space bars are weirdly shaped so custom keycaps might be a little challenging.
I've had the board for about 2 months now. It's a decent gaming board and I do enjoy typing with it tented (although I realize it's not a true tenting that other boards can do).
The price has been covered already. I still think Wooting is the gold standard in gaming boards. This is not it but having wireless and the ability to only use half the board is kind of nice.
Sound is about what you would expect in a gaming board. Meaning not totally awful but far from great. I haven't taken it apart to try and mod yet but I would assume the modding abilities are pretty limiting due to the thickness of the case. All I've done is hand lube each switch and bag lube the springs.
My biggest gripe are the spacebars which are 3.125u and nobody makes those. Last I checked, that information is nowhere to be found anywhere on the product description and if I would've known that, I would not have bought the board strictly due to that.
It will take 3u bars without wobble if you pull the stabilizer stem out as they are just cheap clip ins (another gripe on a $400 board cutting corners). But it leaves a hole where sound will rattle around in. Like I said earlier, when I have time I'll take this thing apart, cover up the hole, put some GMK caps on and see if I can't tighten up the sound a littlebit.
Quick note: I found one set off 3.125u bars on AlieExpress by some Chinese mfg who pumps out a lot of cheaper boards I see on Amazon. But the stems didn't line up with the stabilizers on the Asus board. I don't have a 3D printer yet either but if I can get one or find someone who does, I'll try going that route.
That is barely an ergonomic board. Almost all proper ergonomic boards use ortholinear or columnar layouts, feature thumb clusters, and sometimes are concave shaped as well, all to minimize movement and strain of your fingers and wrists. There is no way this thing is worth $400+. That's enough for a proper ergonomic keyboard like a Glove80 (my personal choice), Moonlander, Advantage 360, Dygma Defy, etc, and I can't imagine this does anything important better than any of them.
Edit: it has hall effect switches it seems, so I guess it does have one potentially major advantage, but if you're a serious enough gamer for that to matter I imagine there are better keyboards for you anyways.
I picked one of these up this week. I came from a dygma raise 2 so this is similar but at the same time quite a bit different. I might add my own review at some point. Several things I like more, and several I like less.
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