BUILD vs BUY Custom Mechanical Keyboard!

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Chapter Titles:
0:00 Intro
0:55 Not as Easy as it Looks
1:49 What's a "Budget"?
4:06 The Most Popular Keyboard
5:00 How Hard Could it Be?
5:49 My Keyboard Parts
7:30 Switches
8:44 Keycaps
10:32 Desk Mat
11:39 How to Lube Switches
13:09 Behold, The Build
13:59 Razer vs Custom Build
14:42 Typing Test
15:56 Is the Huntsman Better?
16:35 Enter the Nuphy
17:14 Buy vs Build?

[Hangishta]

Oh boy, keyboard content! Would you be willing to do it again and have one of the keyboard enthusiast to come on and take part?

[PrestonsThoughts]

Bro chose one of the worst kits and some of the worst switches too crazy luck lmao

[bonanzabrandon]

Please note that the Durock v2 screw in stabilizers will not work in the drop ctrl keyboard. The ctrl uses plate mount stabs, which can become acceptable if you clip, lube, and bandaid mod them :)

[andrewvoorhies]

I built my own custom keyboard, using mostly Amazon, and it was $100, almost on the dot. If you just take your time to research switches and boards, you can find cheap stuff that’s still good. Mine has a nice weight to it, the key caps were cheap, but they feel good and look awesome and haven’t worn out at all so far. Custom keyboard making is just fun tbh

[RageKilla]

the thing about keyboards are that you can build them in a lot of different price ranges, the razer keyboard that was $200 you could with some research build a enthusiast keyboard that would subjectively be better than the razer, but as he showed in the video a lot of keyboard stuff is on pre order or back order or group buy which could take months or YEARS to arrive. the thing i like about keyboards is that with enough trial and error you can get the perfect keyboard to your exact preference like linear/tactile/clicky, the actuation force, travel distance, sound, and feel.

[zHazedz-rh]

Pro Tip for Austin and friends- Dielectric grease will fix that spacebar rattle. Also clip the bottom of the stabs.

[junkybastrd]

Loved the video very informative for the customizable part and the do’s and don’ts. Keep it coming i want to build my pc eventually i just learned how to soder.

[Olly__]

Austin just does all of these challenges so we don't have to. We salute you for the amount of stress you must go through just for some switches :)

[samgao]

Keychron has enthusiast grade prebuilt keyboards that are better than 90% of first attempt builders! Especially with their new Q Pro line that also features BT 5.1, and the best part, it’s all available!!!

[-duck]

i think the real budget move is prebuilt keyboard upgraded, i got a redragon k630 for my first mechanical keyboard with akko cs cream yellow v3 lubed with krytox 205g0 and for the mushy stabs u can clip the extra legs and lube them and its genuinely 100x better also i put pe foam in the case and tape modded the pcb and it solved the pinging mainly and i got this for only around £62/$79

[DaCyberman]

I have the Halo65 keyboard from NuPhy and it is a killer keyboard. Love this thing I take it everywhere.

[jxcuhww]

Ich hope they are going to do a PC buy vs build! Great video Austin & Austin‘s team

[NightFoxZero]

I wanna see this video again but with going to amazon for the DIY keyboard stuff because on there you can build some pretty solid stuff that runs circles around pre-builts for like half the cost

[kalark]

built a gmmk pro last year for around 300, used those durock stabs and holy pandas with some nice keycaps. Obviously not a cheap project but it was a fun project and easily the nicest feeling keyboard I've ever used.

[rbrookstx]

That look in Austin’s face at the end of the video when they are talking about price….the look of, ” the next mystery tech is gonna be soo expensive”. Love it

[IXISSV]

I put O rings on my space bar, return & enter buttons, they helped to reduce the clang/chatter noise 👍

[Flarticus]

Honestly a very great and informative video! If you guys happen to do another episode comparing major brand pre-builts, I'd like to see how the Asus ROG Azoth holds up against a similarly priced custom. The Azoth, in my opinion, is definitely one of the best pre-built keyboards that basically gets your foot in the door for custom boards.

[Simon-trhv]

Im currently using the moonlander ergo keyboard, its expensive but not custom keyboard expensive, hotswappable keyswitches, ortholinear layout and most importantly ergonomicl which is awesome to prevent rsi

[myaccount__]

I AM EXTREMELY happy with nuphy keyboards. Ordering direct from them. Wisteria switches and Air 96 is a dream to type on

[cheese]

Nothing tests your patience like hand lubing each switch