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Looks interesting but budget priority means probably i will get upcoming GPU (5090 probably) and New PSU first. CPU/Mobo/Ram year after. Then caselabs replacement year after - gives plenty of time for caselabs revival to sort out its situation.

@neurotix You just need to keep it simple as i said. Just aim to pickup hand me downs/freebie keyboards. There is lot less risk of damage due to customs checking stuff if international shipping involved. Not the first time somebody keyboard got destroyed because customs sent an drill bit through it during inspection. When you are getting the said freebie item you will still have to do what your diagram shows (most people will leave foam/pcb separate and daughterboard from the board) and you just have to follow the instructions on configuration you want and install the hotswap switches. I am always foamless and go plateless if its an option now. The actual way of sourcing the stuff is like PC parts sourcing nowadays. It's kind of global sourcing with multiple options to save and lot of air freight/sea freight involved maybe. All in the name of getting things faster and cheaper. I wouldn't do for warranty reasons/heavy weight and watercooling parts are better off just paying shipping versus having your luggage space occupied by waterparts.

Actually there may be one but it's pretty far out lol. It's currently on loan to my friend while he wait for the Geon F1-8X-V2 GB to arrive (its 10-12months) so probably anywhere from Q1 to Q2 2025 to be fulfilled. By then i may have found something else to replace it. It's an Grey Studio Aero75 in Coffee Brown Ano. Though you are better off just buying something like : TKD Cycle 8: 150USD Mark [IC] TKD Cycle8 - A new chapter GEEKHACK.ORG [IC] TKD Cycle8 - A new chapter and Geon F1-8X-FE instead (plastic version of Geon F1-8X): 100USD F1-8X GEON.WORKS The first product to be officially sold to consumers.Plates and O-ring gasket mounts designed with frequency simulations are applied.Since June, 2020, it has been sold only in Korea, and a total of 2900 units...

All that matters is the word hand me downs/freebies lol.

Its an fun project just try to get as many freebies/hand me downs as possible from the watercooling community to reduce your overall costs.

@GanjaSMK Honestly in the current market wait for watercooling enuthiast to upgrade and pick up there hand me downs for cheap to free even. While my project got delayed and am still working out final budgets, I should have large amounts of waterparts plus pc parts to give away over next 2-3years. Including the caselabs s8 case. I just committed to giving away my watercool cpu iv intel block when i swap over to optimus intel sig v3. I might have an aquacomputer ultitube d5 (no pump) too depending on how the situation with planned singularity computer compact dual d5 distro plate goes. Brand doesn’t really matter now just what fits your budget though solution the market kind of changed. Even the world of fans have changed lot of cheap good 120 and soon next gen 140mm that are on par with phantek t30. Even the china brands have really closed up the gap including price wise that you can’t go wrong with them.

At the current rate, too many switches released on daily basis (with the current trend being magnetic hall effect switches). Same situation with keycaps and more vendors carrying less and less. Also running more and more sales to offload inventory. You can find GMK sets now for bargain basement prices. There's almost no point to buying the amazon keycaps to be honest. That and too many people entered the hobby and now have too much excess and they are leaving completely and downsizing at minimum. So many bargain available now. I literally gave away for free an Matrix 8xv 3.0 (Mcflurry), Promise Bespoke (Red) and Neo70 (Blue) just recently as part of my own downsizing effort to make room for new stuff. The bottom has been reached for custom with Neo and it various competitors releasing aluminum chassis with nice colors/quality control and multiple mounting options (plateless/o-ring/gasket) and foam/no-foam. All layout being covered too - eventually Neo full size is coming in near future too. All around 100-150USD Range. Then there's the upcoming Geon F1-8X-FE which will be under 100usd but have the sound/feel of the alumiunum/brass internal weight F1-8X TKL

I have tactile too just haven't rotated them in yet lol. KncKeys Black Jackets (JWK), Green Jackets (Tescee), UWE Chocolate (Tescee) and Haimu Silent Linear (Red Color). Actually may add an future tactile from the likes of HMX.

I am actually interested in the upcoming APU for laptops. I view them as the ultimate successor to my 4800h/rtx2060. Been looking to go IGP and dump the dGPU and appears we are getting there.

Well the 5090 will mark my return to the PC building side (from my vacation exodus on the custom keeb side).

Blue (Matrix Navi) - DMK In Former Days, Clackbit Linear Silver (Neson Nico) - GMK Earthtone, JWK Hoshizora Linear Blue (Geon 722) - GMK Stargaze, IV Works Darkmoon Linear Switches Red (Owlabs Evolv) - KAM Outline, Gateron Summertime V1 LInear I just ordered/following coming too: Matrix 8xv 3.3 (Olive), Geon F1-8X-V2 (Burgundy), Gok Lily (Taupe) and have Werkone (Space Cherry but may reano it). I still have a ton of other switches to use.

These are my keyboards. Will be pausing as I reallocate funds to PC side rebuild based off future Intel CPU and 5090.

xvx has its own site too. The best deals are the china drop shipping and china vendors now. Shipping is 4-15usd using epacket small parcels (under 2kg). Switches everyone after the hmx, bsun, cheap switches that can be bought off unikeys (its an chinese dropshipper with sales staff based in canada). Clickclack.io is the us version. Cheap good switches stock that don’t need lubing. If your spending 200-250usd, you can buy neo/qk and cycle with keycaps included. Boards that have wireless, rgb and multiple mounting (gasket,top,oring) and can be plate (many options with foam or not) or plateless. Its pretty close to the expensive stuff and great colors too. Expected though as there premium brands are big names in custom scene.

That is good news. Hopefully the people up top for the rest get it and reverse the heavy monetization trend going on.

Not good optics nonetheless. Less choice is never good. Though for me I gave away the bulk of the bluray/vcd movies. Also find don’t rewatch movies now. Nothing really worth keeping with digital distribution. My media tastes are changing too, not into hollywood/western media as much. Much more difficult to find something you really want to see both plot wise and artists wise.