
We saw it go for $30 earlier this year, so keep an eye out for those sales.
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Plus it's often discounted for even less.

It's a cheaper board but you're grabbing mechanical for under $50 here. Just don't slam the keys too hard in anger and you'll be okay for a good while. They're made of ABS plastic, which is the least resistant to wear of the two commonly found keycap materials, but ABS plastic is often found on more expensive keyboards, too. The keycaps do look and feel a bit cheaper than you might expect of a well-known brand, but they are easy to read on the E-Element. That means you don't have to worry about the spongey feeling of a membrane no more. Those Outemu switches don't feel as high-grade as the Cherry ones listed above, but they are genuinely mechanical. The Z-88 from E-Element is available in either black or white and offers a variety of Outemu switches, meaning it's great for the cheap connoisseur who likes to pick and choose everything about their setup. There's no wrist rest, no passthrough, or media controls, but I'll happily give it a pass in favor of affordable functionality.īest gaming keyboard | Best graphics cards| Best gaming chairīest VR headset | Best wireless gaming mouse | Best wireless gaming keyboard It's solid, well-built, reliable, and looks pretty decent too. This TKL board is basic, but what it does, it does very well. Normally I like to keep at max brightness all day long, but the KM360 would burn out my retina if I did. If you can't cope with your gaming board not lit up like a rainbow then you may be disappointed with the single-color option, but damn, the white LEDs on this G.Skill board are the brightest I've ever seen. That means a precise, reliable, and impressively smooth actuation for gaming and typing. The fact it offers so little extra beyond the basics is how it's able to deliver genuine Cherry mechanical key switches at an affordable price. However, if you find yourself with some money to burn, the best mechanical keyboards would always be our first recommendation. We've even included some keyboards that come bundled with other accessories to try and save you even more money. Then we picked out the ones that felt best to work and game on, and that didn't crumple under the weight of Alan's heavy-ass typing technique. So what we did was call in a ton of cheap keyboards and test them with a bunch of gaming tests.

The cheaper keyboards sacrifice things like media controls, LED displays, or mechanical switches to keep costs down, but it's sometimes hard to tell what's worth the sacrifice. The first thing you'll notice is that the big difference between these keyboards, and let's say, something you'd find on the best gaming keyboards page, are extra features. This list below merely showcases the best budget keyboards we found for under $100 and, in some cases, under $30.

Also, "cheap" doesn't mean bad quality here, as we've been lead to believe by the droves of false economy tat out there.
