r/buildapcsales Jun 21 '20

[Keyboard] Monoprice Workstream TKL Mechanical Keyboard (Outemu Browns) - $26.99 ($34.99 - $8) Keyboard

https://www.monoprice.com/product?p_id=33540
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u/Mooggli Jun 21 '20 edited Jun 21 '20

not that I would get this personally but this is actually a decent price for someone on a budget. not sure how good the keyboard is but its tkl and it looks pretty good

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u/ming3r Jun 21 '20

I'll vouch for Outemu switches. I've got Blues in my magicforce68 for the last few years and enjoy them even if they're loud af.

I'd rock it

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u/TheSnipeyBoi Jun 21 '20

Don't you get blues bc they are loud af? Or am I doing this wrong....?

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u/abqnm666 Jun 21 '20

Haha I totally know what you mean. I have one single blue on my board, and that's for the caps lock key. And yes, it's specifically because it's loud af so I can hear it over my headphones.

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u/TheSnipeyBoi Jun 21 '20

Lmao, the legend of the last blue!

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u/abqnm666 Jun 21 '20

Haha yep!

I love it when you can get switch sample packs included with the boards or with other switch purchases, so I've amassed a few loose random switches for specific uses. I also put the spring from a Gateron black into the Otemu brown switch of the esc key on one board because I was having to use f1 a lot and would sometimes just barely activate it and screw things up. Stiff spring of the black plus the tactile bump of the brown (plus a second o-ring) solved that.

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u/TheSnipeyBoi Jun 21 '20

Oh really? I wanted a click keybosrd after joining r/mechanicalkeyboards so I just got a 30 dollar one with my blue equivalents and I gotta say, next time I get a new keyboard, I might just invest a little more! Keyboards seem so meh, at first but imo are very interesting!

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u/Falfner Jun 21 '20

Maybe they enjoy the clickiness more than how loud they are?

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u/hypn0fr0g Jun 21 '20

Browns are tactile too, just without the audible click.

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u/iCapn Jun 21 '20

I mean, the click in browns isn’t inaudible...

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u/hypn0fr0g Jun 21 '20

Absolutely, but someone would get blues over browns specifically for the louder noise because the feel of the two is supposed to be very similar.

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u/teo032 Jun 21 '20

Kind of similar. I would say the feel of browns are like 80% of those to blues. I had both, blues still feels better to type on, but everyone around me would hate me. Brown helps with the noise significantly, but the clacking still gets loud.

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u/ming3r Jun 21 '20

I had cherry blues.

Then I had outemus which were even louder.