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these are two keyboards that I've been looking forward to for quite a while they announced them in the fall of 2018 and they showcase some demos of them at CES these are the SK 630 and the SK 650 from Coolermaster they're very nice-looking keyboards and the whole purpose of this particular keyboard is that it's a low profile just aesthetically pleasing keyboard and they look really good I think a lot of people are gonna be interested in these devices because of how good they look now I got these about two weeks ago I've been using them since then and my initial impressions of these particular keepers were kind of lukewarm but I thought I'd try to use them for a while try to get used to them and the more I use them and the more I kind of like open them up and play with them I realized that these are just not good keyboards and I just don't think most people should be buying them or this particular type of keyboard let me explain these are marketed as low profile keyboards and just right off the bat if you compare it to a real low profile keyboard this is another keyboard I'll talk about later but this to me is an actual low profile keyboard it's called the key cron k1 this is like half the height of this the Coolermaster is noticeably taller and it just no longer feels like a low profile keyboard if anything it feels very similar to just like a regular keyboard so right off the bat it's not really a low-profile keyboard and the reason for that I guess the best way to explain this is to open it up I probably should have done this in advance this keyboard has a lot of screws I think it's like 1215 screws most keyboards that have opened up are significantly easier to get into it's not hard it's just time consuming now if you end up buying this keyword and you do want to open it up just a tip there's two screws underneath the space bar and then there's another screw on the bottom of the keyboard underneath the escape button so if top left of the keyword it's underneath the rubber foot okay so on the inside I just want to draw attention to two things the PCB is pretty clean like there's no like super sloppy solder or anything like that it's like a no it's coolermaster they usually make good keyboards and they've done a good job on the PCB I do wish that the USB connection so it uses use PC which is great but the actual connector is not directly on the PCB so they've actually had to have a secondary kind of piece and that makes the whole device a little bit more elevated which is why the device isn't as low profile as it could or should be and the other thing I'll just demonstrate this real quickly this connector it's use PC it's technically Universal but it's a relatively proprietary cable size like you can't stick most use PC cables to this the one that include is perfectly fit obviously but I've tried several other USB C cables and not all of them fit so just keep that in mind now another thing I noticed is that at the bottom of the keyboard tray you'll see kind of like two spaces which I think are for other variants of this keyboard so when they originally announced this thing they said that they was gonna have a wireless version of this and this might be like spots for batteries but they've designed this case to be a low profile mechanical keyboard but it's just not I mean it's just it's not low profile and there's one real big reason as to why this isn't low profile and it's the actual switches themselves so these switches are cherry Reds they are low profile cherry Reds and okay I love cherry switches so my favorite keyboard switches are made by cherry but they've only recently gone into the low profile game this over here I will show is a other company this keyboard switch is also a low profile switch but they've designed this switch so the key caps insert into the switch itself and it just makes the whole switch a little bit more flatter and shorter the cherry low-profile switch uses your standard cherry stem which might seem like a good idea at first because you could switch key caps and such but the problem is that this stem is a lot higher and it inserts into the key so just the whole mechanism becomes a lot taller than your standard low profile switch and it just makes this keyboard not feel like an actual low profile keyboard the typing experience isn't great but I don't mind the switches they feel similar to regular cherry Reds they obviously bottomed out quicker but they actually feel a little bit stiffer to me okay so I also want to talk about the key caps themselves I'm gonna go back to the properly assembled version of this keyboard these key caps are not good they look awesome they look really really nice they just look very clean and just boxy and industrial it's Wyles attracted to this keyboard but they just type really poorly and originally I couldn't figure out what it was that I didn't like about these key caps and it's two things the dish is pretty shallow but that's something that you can kind of get used to over time at least for myself the biggest problem though is the spacing between each key cap like when you're typing on this thing you're constantly making contact with the other keys and even if it doesn't make you have typos like you may not be pressing those other keys but the fact that you can feel them constantly while you type is just an irritating experience and it's just not a comfortable keyboard to use and you might think hey I'll swap out the key caps to something that I do like because it's running cherry stems problem is they're running proprietary stabilizers so none of the key caps that I had would fit onto this keyboard which is honestly a big shame it is such a nice looking keyboard the RGB lighting is really good they had some nice software that lets you do a lot of stuff with it the metal finish on the top looks nice the layout of the keyboard is good but there's so much I dislike about this keyboard that I can't recommend it to anyone and it's not the key cap or the switch individually like if they'd use this switch with a different a key cap it could have worked and if vice versa it could have worked if you really want something like this so look if you really want a low-profile keyboard that is mechanical there is something else on the market that I still don't think this is perfect this is a lower profile keyboard it's the key cron k1 and this is a better implementation of a low-profile mechanical switched keyboard so this is using chiclet keys as well but they've got a blue switch in here and they've just made a low-profile mechanical keyboard a lot better than Coolermaster did for a lot cheaper too and it's wireless so if you want to check either of these things out a link them below but seriously for most people I just do not recommend the Coolermaster SK 650 or 630 okay hope you guys enjoyed this video thumbs if you liked it subs we loved it see you guys next time