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Im using my first mechanical keyboard and the experience has been great so far but, it is quite loud, especially at night, which cheap mods i can make to make it quieter while i can do something like changing the switches?

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[-] Nibodhika@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Depends on your board. I had a Redragon K530, here are the list of mods I applied to it in order of price:

  • Put foam on the bottom (the type of foams that come with PC components works great), stuff like this
  • Added O-rings
  • Replaced the switches with Redragon A113 Bullet-QT soft tactile

I think the switches made the biggest impact, but that's also the most expensive and it requires your board to be hot swappable.

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