I Tried The $500 ASUS Keyboard... (So you Don't Have To) 

Does asus always have expensive keyboards

I dont have money

I’m honestly not a fan, even if it was £200. £500 is mental

Can you do a lemokey L1 and L3 review pls? Love the content

@HipyoTech I’ve seen the RU-vid short already but could you do a full video review on the 8bitdo keyboard I wanna know what you think about it since I’m planning on picking one up

Corporate greed and rog tax

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i think i saw a keyboard that cost more than a ps5

I have a feeling only sponsored streamers will be using this thing.. it doesn't make any sense.

Nooooooo really????

Ego, i assume.

They're just trying to bring people into their ecosystem. Some people are silly and might think that they should buy other products from the same company so that everything is on the same software.

Imagine selling a $500 keyboard without qmk/via

@@moonvenuslunaimagine paying for a $500 keyboard and STILL having your data stolen from its software like they haven't gotten enough from u

@@edenem They can never have too much data. You can get a $100k car and still have your data stolen.

True

that price i can buy a lot keyboard

@@phillipdonald3542 thank you, I really wanted to say everything and was scared people wouldn't watch that long

More like 9. My Yunzii B75 was $56 shipped and it's great for the price. Take away the $5 clip and lubed stab service and it would be $459 for 9 of them, which would be much better than this single keyboard. You could have 9 different switch combinations at your disposal..

Or for actual gaming like the keyboard is intended to do, get wooting

hottake: and you wiil still just use one.

Or a used ps5 or even a decent PC, which can do more than typing

i rather buy a low-end graphic card or upgrade my other hardware tbh

also Akko has a 75% volume knob 8khz wired/1khz wireless hall effect rapid trigger keyboard for $150, i got it for $117 on sale. I like it more than my wooting and is the only wireless HE kb i know of

I agree a $500 “gamer” keyboard with no rapid trigger is crazy. But this is really for someone who doesn’t want to get into modding, and just wants a high end keyboard without doing any work. It’s a good keyboard other than the huge omission of rapid trigger.

​@@colemanbarns4032Akko has a fake 8Khz that only runs just on wasd but other key they run at just measly 125hz.

@@phantom498this board is not high end by any stretch. Lmao.

@@bren.r it is for the average gamer and person. Most gamers are probably spending $100 or less on their keyboards and really serious gamers still probably aren’t spending more than $200. I know most pro players use a keyboard that costs well under $100 according to pro settings website tracker. You are not the norm if you think this isn’t high end.

Not even close👎

No such thing as a perfect keyboard but sure as heck doesn't justify this price tag.

I mean, nothing is gonna be perfect for any price, but this is a $200 prebuilt board upcharged to $500. $500 is the price for an artisan custom keyboard, not a prebuilt gaming board with pointless features like changing the firmness or a super sharp screen.

This! for 300+ ish you can get a vintage style model F, a actual model M is 200. I think someone is even working on a keyboard with GD display under it. I thought I read that'd be 400ish. Asus's ROG line for motherboards, mice, and computers are, well, low quality to be nice.

For five hundred bucks, the keyboard better offer sexual favors.

i got a 30$ chinese keyboard recently, and its even got a numpad meanwhile they cant squeeze a numpad into 500$

@@bikeman1431 not everyone wants a numpad... theres a reason smaller keyboards are so popular

Where? What's the name of the keyboard? 27?

​@@bikeman1431tbh lots of people like board without numpads either for portability or aesthetics, and the inclusion or exclusion of a numpad has nothing to do with cutting costs because honestly the money saved from shortening the length of the PCB is marginal

@@bikeman1431 Numpad is not needed. E-gamers need a smaller keyboard to free more space for their mouse to move.

fr and i dont even use it even tho i have asus product

My favorite part about Armory Crate is how it sometimes corrupts your Windows install when you try to remove it.

@@JustAFan444 No it doesn't. Sounds like you need to check your overclock stability.

Lol, yes, it can. Specifically if you uninstall and then try to reinstall it. I also don't need to check shit... that was on my old system. Not a chance in hell I'm putting that garbage on my pc again... especially not just for a keyboard.

@@JustAFan444 I've got roughly 8 ROG devices, all with Aura Sync capability. Never has it "broken" Win 11. Sounds like memory instability to me...It's worth noting that if you've got software that polls the system a fair bit it exposes these things quickly.

Depends on how good the keyboard is and how long it will last (price to performance and price to longevity)

go pickup the normal azoth. its really really nice

300$ is the maximum for it to be somewhat reasonable given how good it is imo, but 500??? They really missed the mark by pricing it terribly alone.

@@dominiorrr6510 are you aware there are keyboards which are far more expensive?

@@ayckm Yes and I am also aware that almost no one buys them

And even that's not all that!

Five hundred dollars is insane for a keyboard, full-stop.

And a lot of that premium build quality is for things you won't even see on a regular basis

To be fair its only flaw is the software and most people don't care about it all that much.

@@CptJistuce There are productivity input hardware that cost as much if not more. Ergonomic Split keyboards cost $300+

Similar for the new NuPhy keyboards, too. The Halo series v2 is south-facing.

Makes sense , that being said If the RGP is not impressive on this spesific board doesn't that kinda make that useless ?

@@Frizzyy Given that the point of shine-through is just to be able to read the legends in a dark room, no it's fine. Is it as pretty if it's dim? No. Is it still functional in the way it needs to be? Yes. RGB only really exists because they were already putting LEDs on keyboards for visibility, and when addressable RGB LEDs became common/cheap enough they could easily incorporate them.

​@@Lord_zeelBacklit keyboards were originally for the look-cool factor, not readability.

@@CptJistuce That's really debatable. Functionally they help with readability in dark lighting towards why Logitech and other productivity-oriented keyboard manufacturers use backlighting

for real, please tell us what that is

Armory Crate is generally terrible.

While I think HE is better for some gaming circumstances, its pretty disingenuous to say the wooting smokes this in every way - the typing experience on HE is still pretty inferior compared to mechanical switches, and the boards build quality is stellar.

Wooting is no where near top of the line but yes, that is still better than this.

@HipyoTech Of course you saying that they’re your sponsors lmaoo. Gtfo

@@Keeki549 Wooting is overrated .. and sucks LMAO ... and NO .. Hall Effect switches will never feels or sounds as good as mechanical

@@kyosukeshidou1370 QK65 Classic HE switches sound great.

Basically a gaming company is finally giving a pre-built custom mechanical keyboard to gamers, but everyone is up in arms about the cost because they have no idea what it is.

I think it's the Redragon K605.

yeah it shocks me every time they come back, but it shows they really do care to a certain extent

I don't care about a company known for shitty customer service taking a liking to a RU-vidr. I care about price to performance ratio.

@@ThisisDD to be fair that's mostly their us branch I I deal with their Taiwan branch who work on the products themselves

This comment never ever gets old Wooting is realistically the best keyboard for gaming in my eyes. I have an Apex Pro Full. If you gave me a Wooting keyboard, I’m unsure if I could feel any difference anyways 😅

@@browniex5120 that’s because it’s true

@@browniex5120You’d feel a massive difference.

Said no one ever who actually uses decent keyboards. Stop falling for the gamer marketing bullshit and buy real keyboards.

@@kleinkalibar7486 Blud doesn’t understand that the wooting can be modded and even when it isn’t modded, if you get it for the first time it’s actually a really good keyboard for the price plus all the features it has is actually beneficial for gamers, with rapid trigger and DSK, no keyboard is even close to beating wooting yet, if you want just a good quality sounding keyboard out of the box wooting definitely is it. Also, even if you didn’t want to use those gaming features, typing on the wooting is a solid 8/10. Hate it if you want but wooting is still better for the price. Now kiss me or stay single lil bro

How is, "I can't use a wrist rest because it physically hurts me" an opinion?

And what's wrong with shine through key caps?🤔

@@johanb.7869 that was my point, there is absolutely nothing wrong with them. They work the best with north facing LEDs, can be of great quality and are imo essential for certain applications. Such as RGB keyboards with visible key legend. The whole "south facing" crap is purely snobbery of the highest tier, considering that it's 2024. It's one of those things that are a hold over from old times

THANK YOU!!!!

I don't think people realize that the 'right keycaps' for south-facing would be awkard as hell, because all the legends will need to shift to the bottom as well.

Did you etch anything offensive in a consumer product before? lol These are pre-built, but you can open them up to see, or change the amount of dampening (you can remove a layer to make it even softer).

so do some even cheaper razer ones that have had 8khz since 2021

@@kurtmarkusmattsson even the dumb ones hehe

What's the CH layout? Chinese?

@@ayckm No, Ch isn‘t chinese! It it is the shortend form of Switzerland wich has a layout on its own.

You mean the original Azoth? The Extreme hasn't even been out 4 months.... Not sure why people buy stuff and expect companies to provide warranty from a different country, the are some special cases, but it's not a given with any company afaik.

@@ayckm Nice catch! I was talking about the original Azoth and I'm editing my original comment to fix the mistake. For the other question, we've bought many computer parts from Corsair, Deep Cool, Asus, and Thermaltake for the past few years. Among those companies, Asus is the only one that has offices and a factory in my country and also the only one that didn't honor the warranty even if we bought their product from a reputable distributor (my country's Amazon). Their UX makes it painful to raise an RMA ticket (compared to the other companies' websites), and when we finally managed to contact them, my assistant was treated like she was some kind of beggar. Therefore yes, when I pay top dollar for the stuff I buy I expect to be treated fairly for the products we have that are still under warranty, and even if the answer is "no" at least I expect to be treated with respect, because It hurts me that I've been trusting them with my money and my preference for the last 20+ years and and that money was not free. As a lifelong Asus fan, It really breaks my heart that after dozens of awesome products bought from them over the years, the moment something goes wrong they treat me like this. Also, I understand they also had problems recently for treating US customers unfairly with their warranty policies so this is most likely not an "out of the country" issue. People and companies want to feel safe when buying expensive products. Thanks for pointing out that this was about the original Azoth. Edit: I can see that this is an Asus-sponsored video. Please feel free to delete/hide my comment (after reading it). I just want things to improve and be able to keep buying Asus products safely. Regards.

They kinda already did with that one gaming board that looks like a lambo