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now today we're gonna be taking a look at a keyboard here mechanical keyboard from Nick CS which is the same brand that also makes AMD freesync panels now granted it's not as cheap as say a membrane keyboard but it is a lot cheaper than other mechanical keyboards on the market so we're gonna see how it stacks up and if it does stack up then maybe we'll find some use for it around here or something but other than that guys we're gonna check out the cattle keyboards today to see if it's even worth you know your money and stuff it's kind of the point usually the mastercase 5 and mastercase 5 pro from Coolermaster combines modularity with creativity giving you the freedom to build it your way make it yours by clicking the link down in the description now mechanical keyboards they're they're kind of a funny oddity if you will and the reason for that was back in the 80s that's all that existed were mechanical keyboards membranes and the PCB keyboard as you know it today didn't really exist then they were individual switches under each key that sent the signal to the computer to say the a key was pressed or the Y key was pressed or enter or whatever the people also complained back in office spaces and stuff then these keyboards are way too noisy which gave birth to the rubber dome membrane style keyboard well the reason why I say mechanical keyboards are kind of funny is we as people are fickle especially the enthusiasts and the gamer because most people now are like screw membrane we want mechanical and it's kind of like you know how fashion makes a big circle over what is it every 20 or 30 years fashion kind of recycles itself which is why we're now starting to see a lot of dudes with long hair like girls and stuff kind of like they had back in the 70s yeah we're going full circle again here especially with keyboards so this is the Nick seus Moda v2 it is a mechanical keyboard and it features Cale switches now that's kind of the first thing you noticed between companies that are trying to save a little bit of money to make things more affordable is they're not going with cherry switches they're going with kale now kales can actually interact with cherry keycaps because they use the exact same style of key cap holder mechanism if you will they just simply pop right off you can actually put cherry key caps on there without any problems whatsoever now it is a very No keyboard as you can see right here there is no 10 key whatsoever there's no macro keys on here whatsoever it's not even backlit no a lot of people especially myself like that lit backlit keyboards but there's a lot of people that have spoken up in some of my peripheral reviews and said Jay we don't like backlit keyboards I don't understand why companies keep making backlighting now there's people out there that don't care for that so that's exactly what this is kind of tailored towards now it's got all the standard features that you would expect for a mechanical gaming mechanical keyboard that is also good enough for gaming I keep saying gaming keyboard it's really not even branded as gaming it's just branded as mechanical and it's got three color options from kale red brown and blue which pretty much do mimic the same feel and weight of their cherry counterparts are much more expensive German cherry counterparts kale are made in China it has a three year limited warranty free tech support and key role over all the sort of stuff that you'd expect including a Windows gamer lock which is kind of neat because you know bumping Windows key when you meant to hit croucher alt and getting kicked out of your game is super annoying now it's got a fairly long rubberized cable but it doesn't seem to really get tangled it's kind of thick you do have multiple routing here as I'm bumping keys in the keyboard you have multiple routes in the bottom of the keyboard so it can go straight out or either side big rubber feet on the bottom so it's not gonna slide around as long as well as big giant rubberized feet that pop out on the bottom so you can get as you can see I mean that's that's not sliding as you can see you push that thing it just how that hurts it's not going anywhere which is kind of nice and then you get a nice you know tilted upright typing angle if that's what you want as well and I tend to like my keyboards that way but also it does have function buttons on there with IQ multimedia keys play pause rewind fast-forward volume up volume down mute in that sort of stuff now in terms of durability this thing is pretty weighty because it's got a steel reinforced plate on the top where all the switches connect to so you're not gonna be able to twist this thing it makes no creaking sound when you twist it what you are hearing is my hands slip on it oh yeah it feels like it's a quality piece the only question I have is how do the Cale switches really stack up well I've already use this thing for a little bit in fact it's got those scratches on it because I I'm a little clumsy at times but for the most part all the switches feel pretty uniform in fact I'll go ahead and do a quick typing test here so that you guys can hear the way it sounds the problem I have with Cale switches though as a few of them feel onion where cherries are very very very high-quality they're also pretty expensive for manufacturers to use but anyway some of them feel like they're a little firmer than others and some of them downright make a spring kind of a springy sound in there which is not something you would ever hear from a cherry switch but anyway it's going to do a typing test here I'll do the best I can to make it so you guys can hear it I'm using a lav mic so that's the distance we'll be using right here but I guess it makes sense considering my mic is fairly close to my ears and it's gonna give you a good sense of how things would sound remember these are the brown variants here so they have the same type of feel as at Brown which is going to be a smooth linear action with a tactile bump it's not going to have a click click would be like a blue and then red has no bump whatsoever in fact I even did a video if you guys look all about mechanical switches I explained the different feels and stuff really old video of mine but still relevant today alright so let's go ahead and just type something so I typed this is me typing on my new keyboard from Nick seus this isn't so bad but I'm thinking that some of the keys are not feeling as uniform as I would like it's okay though it could be worse I suppose it's better than typing on a membrane keyboard in my opinion but there are a few keys on here like I said they're a little bit noisy allow me to demonstrate here's the X key which sounds perfectly normal now here's the Z key and a few of these keys make this sound listen to the spring now for contrast here's the X so you've got your little tactile bump in there and then you can hear the key bottoming out but now listen again to the Z and listen to the spring in there you can actually hear the spring kind of clinging around so that gets a little bit annoying and there's a few keys like three or four of them on this keyboard that are actually doing that but again like I said they are kale so there is going to be a little bit of a quality variant there on the Chinese switch versus the German switch and one thing to mention before I get out of here too is they do include a few other switches now usually gaming keyboards will give you like WASD switch replacements so that you can feel them a little bit better a little bit different texture on there sometimes even give you a number okie replacements like Corsair started that with the red keys on the k-series keyboards but they do include in here a key cat puller and they give you Mac keys I guess they assume that a lot of people might be using these on Macs you you can get the command key that's going to replace I I guess you got the option key here which I think is what we're places the windows key and then to command keys to replace what I believe is control on Mac keyboards made a long time something used in Mac it's kind of neat if you are looking at getting this for say a Mac or MacBook Pro or something like that then you can't take out the window specific keys and change them out with Mac Keys I mean it's kind of neat I don't know if I've seen anyone else actually include that with their mechanical keyboards probably I'm just an idiot and don't know but I haven't seen it anyway guys I thought I'd bring you this quick video here to kind of show you the Nick seus keyboard a few people have asked me how I feel about this keyboard because it's not a brand that's is well-known as say leaking a Corsair or Coolermaster you know cm storm or even asus is getting into the keyboard mix now so anyway tell me what you guys think about this keyboard the fact that it's not backlit I hope that the imprinting on the top of the keys will last longer you know sometimes we have backlit keyboards and you have that translucent part of the key the paint around it starts to chip off and it starts to look really really bad hopefully as you can see I was typing all over there hopefully this one will last a bit longer in terms of construction it's fantastic I just would have personally liked to see a cherry switch I don't know how much more it would have cost but anyway you guys can also check it out on Amazon at the time of doing this video you can get them for $69.99 on Amazon Prime if I could put a link in the description weird enough the brown switch costs more it's 74 dollars for the Browns with just five dollars more and I understand why that is maybe it's just a supply and demand thing anyway guys time to get the heck on out of here if you'd have some other peripherals you think I should check out let me know I I'm not that super picky with my peripherals I have my favorite Mouse which happens to be a CM storm Reaper Mouse not even available anymore by far the best Mouse I've ever used I don't know why they discontinued that but I turned down peripheral views all the time because I don't know I don't think they're that interesting but if you guys think there's something out there that I'm overlooking and I should look at make sure you let me know over on Twitter or Facebook or something like that maybe guys thanks for watching as always I will see you in the next video