Royal Kludge - C98 HE

I recently got the Royal Kludge c98 it's pretty cheap but it's got alot of high end functions like Hall effect switches, rapid trigger etc. They got a smaller version of it in all white. It's half the price of the vanguard but it's definitely way more high end.

Epomaker makes good hardware, for brands it's very close to best product for the money. They're banned on MK because they used to advertise aggressively over there, when asked not to, had mules advertise on their behalf. In my anecdote and many others, their QC seems on par with any Chinese brand anyways -- they just have shit software. Looks like you're not after hall effect/analogue boards anyways, so software shouldn't deter you (especially if you're after a full sized board with basically no software involvement). There seems to be odd brand aversion, because Razer arguably makes one of the best analogue boards as well -- albeit at a rather steep price tag and not the best acoustically. If you're after HE, RK C98 is my recommendation. If you're just after a decent, cheap mechanical keyboard that doesn't sound like shit, I'd recommend Aula F99.

I had similar thoughts when I built my PC, ended up with a royal kludge and haven't looked back, first one died on me, drink spilled on it not by me. Immediately ordered a second one it is worth the $80 and I don't see any reason to spend more for a full mechanical keyboard

I had a rk years ago and it was fine, until a key failed. I have a keychron now and love it. But I'm also not a small keyboard person. For the price it will probably work fine for a few years, but also probably good for someone who wanted to try 60% and see how they like it.

Razer keyboards hot trash. RK royal kludge is a much better option.

Looking for very specific keyboard. My original razer black widow broke on me. Looking for a 75%. I tried these 3 keyboards and they are all missing one thing. Epomaker aula F-75 basically perfect just sounds kinda like shit. Epomaker HE80 sounds great but the lighting is very dim. RK royal kludge- the function keys are just too close to the letters and it triggers me. Looking for 75%, very bright RGB, sounds good, and specifically has the delete key in the upper right hand portion of the screen. A lot of keyboards have the pause break in the upper right, and my game I play doesn’t allow me to change that keybind. so I need the upper right hand key to be delete preferably, or I guess if I had to anything other than pause/break.

no way aula is better than royal kudge I own both and build battery keys each and everything is way superior in royal kudge Aula is way overhyped imo

Looking for very specific keyboard. My original razer black widow broke on me. Looking for a 75%. I tried these 3 keyboards and they are all missing one thing. Epomaker aula F-75 basically perfect just sounds kinda like shit. Epomaker HE80 sounds great but the lighting is very dim. RK royal kludge- the function keys are just too close to the letters and it triggers me. Looking for 75%, very bright RGB, sounds good, and specifically has the delete key in the upper right hand portion of the screen. A lot of keyboards have the pause break in the upper right, and my game I play doesn’t allow me to change that keybind. Please help (: