Rantopad MXX Chroma RGB Backlight Gaming Mechanical Keyboard - 87 Keys, Black Aluminum Cover, N-Key Rollover (Red Switches)

Initial reaction is extremely positive. Excellent at this price. Super value. Great build quality, the aluminum top is nice and the keys are very nice. Not cheap feeling plasticky keys. This is my first experience with the gateron reds and they are awesome. Wouldn't use them for typing regularly (I've made about five hundred typos doing this review), but for quick reaction they are great. My only negative right now is that you have to maneuver the Chinese Rantopad site to track down the software.UPDATE:Completely dead after 6 months. No power consumption nothing. Just randomly died while the Rantopad software was initializing on my PC. Tried on other PC's and Xbox one. No response, completely non-functional. The good, after about a week of correspondence with Rantopad they have agreed to refund the board through Amazon. Amazon emailed me the UPS return slip and so it is getting sorted. However, the board was ten dollars cheaper when I bought it, so the return doesn't even cover the cost of the replacement. Really dissapointing as I did enjoy the board and the Gateron red switches are fantastic.Will have to shell out more money for a higher end board now, but for the price of this one it is hard to find another gateron red TK with aluminum top plate and fully customizable RGB with software. I just can't justify spending another $10 to get the same exact board again and risk it going out in six months again.

I bought this keyboard on June 5, 2017, by June 7, 2018, one switch died. I bought a few replacement gateron switches, and replaced the bad switch. Luckily, I know how to operate a soldering iron and I have a desoldering pump handy. I ended up buying another keyboard once another switch started to not be reliable. I replaced that switch, and gave the keyboard to my fiance. She's been using the keyboard since. Two keys currently have to be replaced, and I am just so turned off this keyboard that I decided to write a review.There are MUCH better keyboards out there for a small amount more than this one. Keep looking. These gateron brown switches die very quickly. They do NOT last. The key caps that came with this keyboard get slick after a few months. They are cheap thin ABS plastic.I am disappointed in how long this keyboard was able to last for the amount I spent on it. The keyboard that I replaced it with was 29% more expensive, but has not had a single issue in the year that I have had it. It came with double shot PBT key caps, real cherry switches, and a better warranty. Look up my reviews if you want to see what I bought.

Your browser does not support HTML5 video.  The other reviewer had a good summary. I'll say it was a little difficult to find the software (it is on the Chinese version of their website and the download link goes to a Dropbox type Chinese site -- google translate actually doesn't load the download site for me so I went through it untranslated) and it seems the current version doesn't allow for single key color customization. The software lets you do macro's, key assignments, advanced lighting, and is in English despite not being available on their English site right now for some reason.Without the software there's still plenty you can do, there's a single color mode which you can change quite a lot or you can stick with the rainbow variant and there's a bunch of different rainbow variations as well as feedback options for both single color and rainbow modes such as pressing down on a key will cause others around it to dim or rainbow other colors. It takes a little figuring out since the manuals are not in English but there is *some* English in there and the key combinations for functions are there. If you ask their support for a manual they will send you one in English via email. Their customer support is a bit odd but after I called and didn't get through to anything (no automated system or person) they called me back minutes later and helped me out.The keyboard itself seems pretty nice so far. Typing on it now. It's my first mechanical keyboard and so far for this price I'm impressed. It is a bit louder than I expected from the brown gateron's but then this is the first time using or trying anything other than a razer blackwidow green in the store. I want to say it's a bit louder than that but maybe the store masked out some of the widow's volume. Playing Overwatch with headphones though I can't say I noticed it. I'll probably get used to it when just typing. All the keys I've tried so far in typing this out seem to have a consistent trigger point, feel, etc. Also I like that a key doesn't have to be pressed down very far to register a keypress. I have pretty small hands but I think even larger ones wouldn't cause a key to depress when simply resting them on the homerow.All in all I think it's a very fine board for the price if you can workaround the manuals being mostly in another language. If something changes for the worst you can bet I'll come back here.edit: someone below helped me figure out that these were indeed genuine Gateron brown's so I removed a thing.

Your browser does not support HTML5 video.  This is my first mechanical keyboard and I've been using this keyboard more than a week now.The Gateron blue switch was probably the best choice I made in picking among another type of switches, I simply love the sound of the blue switch. Much like others have said, the blue switch can be loud at times to others, but I have nothing to worry about. The colors of RGB are amazing and it really improves my typing speed and durability as I am a programmer/developer also writes reports from time to time.In addition, these keyboards come with many color modes and hitting modes, you can choose and pick what you like. They come with most of the short cuts you need (sound control, gaming, monitor switch, and a calculator shortcut?)The best part is that this comes with the EQ mode ! which the computer lighting goes along with your music/movie/or game sound!All you have to do is download their additional software (if you google this product with EQ mode, there should be people posting links to it, and they have English versions now).