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Review on HyperX Alloy FPS RGB - Mechanical Gaming Keyboard with ๐ŸŽฎ Controlled Light & Macro Customization, Silver Speed Switches, and RGB LED Backlit by Terry Myers

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Wow, this keyboard feels good. Nice weight on the keycaps (Feels better.

Day 1 review (updated in 6 months): Wow, this keyboard feels nice. Nice weight on the keycaps (feels better than my CM Storm Quickfire)) , excellent matte black finish and minimalistic design. I have a problem: most keys have a metallic "ringing" after being quickly pressed and released (which is what you usually do while typing.) It's louder on some keys than on others. Hopefully this will go away over time. Update 7 months later: It's holding up well. The metallic ringing issue I mentioned earlier is gone. However, I ran into another quirk: That's why I play Street Fighter 5 on this keyboard "In fighting games, clean input and no interference is crucial. I've recently found myself losing matches and suspecting erroneous input as the culprit. Testing in practice mode it's natural it turns out that sometimes the keyboard resets the input even if I hold down the key (the loading punch requires you to hold down the directional key for 2 seconds before typing a command). In other words, there is jitter or noise in the signal so the computer registers that I released the key when in fact I didn't. It doesn't always happen, but I've noticed. Unless you're playing games that require clean signals are of paramount importance, this probably isn't a problem.If you're a casual user who likes a minimalistic keyboard r is looking for, I can still recommend it. 1 year update: still holding up great. However, the left arrow key's cap is cracked where the cap attaches to the mechanical switch (where the "+" shaped stem is inserted). As a result, the button wobbles a bit when pressed. This probably happened when I was pressing keys in Street Fighter, so it's probably not caused by normal usage.

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