I Built A SILENT Keyboard Using Only AliExpress...
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- I built a budget silent keyboard (GMK 87) using ONLY AliExpress!
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Yayy im early
13h ago???
The keycaps is a copy of PBTfans Ronin (KBDfans)
Seems like the code doesnt work in my country :(
got any suggestions for guys who fat finger keys sometimes, all the keyboards I've tried are to sensitive and I cant find any videos that show which key type would help reduce this.
I recently bought the Aula F87 on Aliexpress for $60 and boy is it good for the price, like damn budget boards have improved a lot in the last few years.
I have the Aula F75 and it's amazing!
My F87 came this week, I'm very satisfied with it
My favorite keep right now
@@TiniKiti Yeah Aula F75 is the best ($42 from taobao I think?)
@@TiniKiti I also got the f75. Absolutely no need for mods or switches or anything, it sounds so perfect to me, my first mechanical non-gamer KB and it's a dream.
As an artist, i love the fact that you mentioned and even tried to protect us while buying, like, i know so many artists suffering due Aliexpress rip offs, Thank you so much for stopping and knowing we exist
Ali ripoffs? Have you checked A-zon? You'll find the same ripoffs there. I stopped thinking about this because those ripoffs are literally on every online marketplace. Not just chinese ones.
9:08 You're a legend for using this clip
A bit more info on the screen, and overall opinion of the board/switches would've been nice.
The screen is nice on mine, you can upload up to 2 images/gifs, or you can draw something yourself. The software to do it is pretty garbage, but if you choose a gif with a nice loop, it looks really nice.
mine came with a rattly spacebar stabilizer on the left side so its kinda yuck to press it...i put gateron yellow pros v3 and its sounds amazing
The sound deadening is pretty safe if you never need to remove it as it’s impossible to remove without leaving a bunch of the butyl behind. Being butyl rubber for the aluminum backing you don’t have to worry about shorting anything.
hipyo try not to clickbait with keyboard price challenge: impossible 😭😭
as always tho great vid much love
There's a very simple solution for the difficult to remove Kilmat - just cover the board in tape first. Use a good quality tape with some stretch to it, something like 3M Clear Repair Tape.
I bought a Royal Kludge S98 for the numpad and their txt screen is sick. Plus it’s top mount instead of gasket mount. I also bought the GMK87 just to tinker with and I’m happy I have both. I used Leobog ice soul and then tinkered with Outemu Ocean Silent linear switches. Eventually went with the Leobog tactile ice soul because the sound and actuation feels better. I put the Outemu ones in a cheap little E-Yooso z88 that I watched a guy mod and I tried that. It’s like a new keyboard! Thanks for all the tips. I was about ready to trash the cheap E-Yooso til I ran across a mod for it. I also have a cheap Motospeed that has soldered red linear switches so I used that one to practice soldering switches onto. Absolutely love this as a hobby now. I see how people get hooked on this. I usually tinker with pc’s but the keyboard thing has been a real joy and it’s so easy to get into it. For tactile switches, I found a YUNZII Blue Grey switch that feels great and sounds amazing. My daughter uses a YUNZII B75 Pro with those and she won’t let me swap it out for anything else.
I've been using this keyboard (tape modded) ($40), Outemu Summer Linear switches (no added lube) ($20), and cheap cherry profile clonekaps ($18) as a daily driver for about 6 months and have been loving it. I probably swapped out the the stabilizers and lubed those up with some cheap kit by Epomaker (sub $10). Nice to see the board discussed on your channel.
Also have experience with the Silent Peach and the Silent Cream switches mentioned here. Peach are a little too light for me, so I always come back tot he Silent Cream Yellows on other boards I've put together (all always under $100).
This is terrifyingly almost identical to my build. The fact that I am using GMK87 and a PBT keycap set that looks close to the one here is funny.
Currently I'm using Akko CS Crystal which is not bad. I've been considering silent build so I bought myself an Outemu Honey Peach.
Edit:
A little more things I'd like to mention out of nowhere. It's interesting to see that the GMK87 that Hipyo bought has a slightly different set of things that was out of the box. On the barebones that I bought, it already had a poron foam and IXPE sheet in between the polycarbonate plate and PCB but it also had a plastic sheet on top of the PCB that I don't think was in Hipyo's GMK87, so I think it's okay to remove it if the plastic sheet is there. In fact I recommend removing because depending on the IXPE sheet cutout, your stabilizer stems might make extra goofy noises especially if there are air pockets under the plastic sheet right under the stems. The stabilizers are not too bad but they will almost always rattle a bit because of the bad *plate-mounting* design I guess but should be fixable with some small tape mods or just get a better stabilizer. I'm considering to buy something called an Ice Cream V2 stabilizers at my local store which I have no idea what that is and I don't see any info of it in the internet anywhere.
One interesting thing is that my GMK87 already came with a poron foam that sticks (and removable) under the PCB that is not present in Hipyo's GMK87, which he used Killmat instead for that. I personally suggest using 2 to 3 layers of masking tape instead because that would be less destructive while giving you the same effect. And then the rest like the PE sheet and silicon layer that was in the case were present so yeah other than the ones I mentioned, it's not too different. At least for silent switches, if you're looking for a good one, I highly recommend to just go with Hipyo and I bought here, the Outemu Honey Peach V2 (5-pin mount variant). Like Hipyo showed, the switches have pads on the sides of the POM stem. It has a light pre-lube amount which is not bad in my experience, I'm the type to enjoy hand-lubing and the lubing on the Honey Peach is pretty good that I didn't feel the need to lube it. The top and bottom housing are made of nylon. Overall, it's just a good silent switch for the price you'll be paying, and that is very cheap considering the average price you'll see for a silent switch.
Lastly, if you're considering to start with building a keyboard, unless you have a fixation on the casing material or the layout size (which is a tenkeyless/80%), and some other things that anchors to your personal taste, I would highly recommend starting with a GMK87 right away. I want you to take note of the price of the barebones one more time. For that price, you'll be getting an 80% keyboard that is gasket mounted, has moderate flex cuts on the PCB, a heck ton of foam and sheets for dampening, a knob (KNOB!?), a small screen that you can switch the contents between the keyboard's status monitor and two other still images or GIFs (the highest framerate it supports has a frame interval of 60ms, which gives you around 16.67 FPS or a factor of 50/3) you can set via a software, supports VIA tool, south-facing LEDs with nice lighting modes, and three connection modes including wired, 2.4GHz, and Bluetooth.
That is batshit insane.
Bro pulled a reverse TLDR and put his whole thesis in the edit section
@@XenHat I commented first after watching halfway and then another more after finishing the vid lol
@@rrinnlonginus I was wondering what VIA does? is it just keyboard hotkeys and rgb? Do I need to download separate software to modify the screen on the GMK87? Also how do the Gazzew Bobagum switches compare to those listed in the video?
@@FlawlessMind-lb3tw VIA is software for configuring various settings in a keyboard, and it's compatible with QMK keyboards too. It's also designed so that whatever settings you applied are permanently saved in the keyboard.
The range of customizations depends on the keyboard itself, but normally you'll be able to customize lighting and changing inputs per key. It's very versatile, and is why keyboards that are VIA-compatible are very much sought for by enthusiasts.
GMK 87's are awesome, I remember trying to find a review from you when I built my keyboard using it.
Keen to see the review of the Lucky 65. Also keen for a review of the Ajazz 820 Pro - another cheap plastic keyboard but with hot swap, knob and screen
Never have I ever expect a keyboard could be this SILENT
Nice editing and explanations on keyboard mods and building btw
My rainy75 is coming in in 5 days
I bought one for my wife and it arrived a week ago. You're going to love it. It genuinely lives up to the hype.
Man congratulations, it's out of stock sadly everywhere
@@ImusNoxa sweet
@@anirudhmathur5555Pantheon Keys has them instock with all variants
I've yet to get info about mine
I'm loving the silent peach v2 on the Varmillo Bluebell. Also got some silent peach v3 (same sound profile in an mx housing style), and they are incredible lubed and filmed
I was looking for a new board and thank you for this. I did go with the Lemon V3 switches and Womier XVX/ ISA profile keycaps. I also did a 2 layer tape mode on the PCB but man thank you. I love this keyboard, the quality, the silent switches. It is better then any of the prebuild keyboards I used from Ducky, Fnatic, SteelSeries, Roccat, Razer and Cherry which are almost twice the price in my country.
Hipyo: "We're gonna need a *rewind* " Somewhere: _"mArKASs bRoWnLEE kPop!"_
So. I hear you're writing a book. "Thockomancy. The Esoteric Keyboard Arts" 😁
yeah those peach switches are really good
Just assembled this board and god, what a sound, it's my first mechanical keyboard, and it sounds beautifuly!
Thank you Hipyo for this thing!❤❤
I just finished this build, it really was
Neat. I'll have to keep those Outemu silent switches in mind next time I'm looking for stuff. I love me some silent tactile switches.
Yes! This is just the video that I wanted, I've been considering building a custom keyboard from Aliexpress. Now I have a parts list!
This is perfectly timed because I ordered a GMK87 a couple of days ago.
There's also the GMK81, which has the screen but no knob, and is a bit smaller. As well as the GMK67-S.
Hipyo! Please do a review of the best keyboards with knobs and/or screens!
The lucky 65 seems to be interesting!
I put the Outemu Silent Peaches in a Keychron K8 pro. I haven't done anything else to it yet but the switch from Gateron Browns to the Outemu Peach was really nice. Initially I was really concerned about the peach tinting the RGB since by comparison it was very pink. But once they're all in as a full set you can still get really nice blues and greens. It's my first ever mechanical keyboard.
Since i started to watch your channel i was about build one myself this GMK with some akko yellow cream was a dream come true, thanks for puting me in this world Hipyo!
38 bucks? How? Where? This thing has been sitting at €58 (lowest price) for over 2 months now for me. And I'm checking every seller on a daily basis.
Literally my setup (except keycaps) can confirm that keyboard is pretty nice, been using it for abt 6 month now. only issue it sometimes looses its 2.4Ghz connection for no reason and clock on the screen is absolute trash (it drifts a lot and only way to set it to real time is to connect with usb and run image custom tool - app that changes pictures on that screen)
If we're goin' for weird AliExpress kits I'd totally run an ALPS board.
Matias made those wacky court-stenographer switches with the biggest dampeners in the world and thick PBT Alps keycaps are finally available in cool, tho admittedly limited colors.
Bought this and it's arriving in a week... I'm new to building keyboards... Any tips on how to build it ... Guide or something
As someone who didnt see the Asus keyboard video, i can say that it's because i didnt want to hear your voice too much and accidentally fall inlove❤
I've been using Outemu Silent Yellow Jade switches in my keyboard and they are an absolute wonder to use at a fairly budget price.
I've used the silent cream switches for a few years now. They've gone through a few monor revisions. Thry are excellent switches. They use the same molds as the expensive Gazzew switches (U4T for instance).
I have some of the Outemu silent tactile limes in a nextime 75. It is my office keyboard (I'm a medical claims processor) and wanted something that wouldn't bother my coworkers. It came out super nice. I ended up using some cheap transparent acrylic keycaps which actually added a little bit of sound and chatter but it was still easily the most quiet board I've ever built and it still feels pretty good. It's more silent than my gatereon silent brown optical numbpad and that's pretty quiet itself.
Thanks for including my fav switches ever! Peach Silent V2's are so money
Ok, I must say it's the first time I really consider building almost exactly the same keyboard you did. I was after a non-aluminium wireless keyboard and landed with RK84 which is in my opinion very good value, but I really wish I've seen this video earlier, because I don't think RK is as good value as this (via? KNOB??? 🥴), but here we are...
HIPYO, STILL WAITING FOR THE AULA F75 VIDEO
Once again asking you dear Hipyo to try to do the same with ISO layouts as well. i'd be a really nice challenge.
And you'd help out my fellow ISO bros.
We need a rock climbing collab with Hippyo, Scrapman and Magnus Midtbø!
woah $25 off $100 is actually a decent deal - building one of these myself with either the tactile silents or a linear graywood v4. Though the price of the base board went up to $50, two sets of 100 switches (in case I wanna build a 96% like I usually prefer with one later) and these caps (from another vendor, since they're sold out from the linked description) was $90 shipped with tax using that code. nice.
Holy cow that is a quiet keyboard that is amazing! Well done sir!
Those keycaps look VERY similar to a set I have from KBDFans
I would put first blue tape then on it the killmat for safety reasons.
Yeah, that keycap set is definitely a clone. I mean, some shops literally even call it GMK Rome Clone. And they're a clone of KBDfans' PGA Sparta keycaps from 2021.
Ah heck
Personally I don't care. I prefer PBT double shot over ABS, and the quality of the clones on Ali have ALWAYS been pretty awesome from my experience. They all eventually shine and I'm not big on spending $150 to then have them turn shiny anyway.
@@JustSomeGuy009 Same. I've been using clones from Akko for a long time, and I love them.
Well the clones are better anyway, because only an idiot would name a set with "SPQR" written on it, "Sparta", and not "Rome".
Hi there I'm pretty new to keyboards and I just want you to review AULA F75 pls. =))
Reason why I might not have watched a Hipyo video: I missed it in the vast sea of TH-cam notifications from my bloated list of subscriptions. That's pretty much it. I'm still trying to catch up from my move. Also, I'm team split-ergo 4 life due to a shoulder injury, so I may still be a little spicy about your scathing review of split-ergos. I love my Keebio Iris more than anyone should love an assemblage of plastic, acrylic and copper. Also - the flat pliers used for chain maille jewelry (which I already have because serial niche interests are my jam) also work well for straightening bent pins.
I have the lucky 65 and I got it only for Php 2,200 (38 usd). I definitely recommend this barebone since its already tri mode and gasket mounted. The only thing that I dont like is the pcb and the plate has flex cuts.. They are the same company that created the sugar 65 so I guess this is the better version.
Just a question, not really related, are you going to review the wooting 80he when it comes out?
nooo hipyo! please dont use those incredibly strong rock climber fingers to kill matt! matt has done nothing wrong!!
I got the Outemu Silent Honey Peaches recently and was surprised by how truly silent they were. Not really sure if I like the feel of the silicone dampeners in linears yet. For quick light presses they feel fine, but for firm hard presses they feel a little unsatisfying. I didn’t really mind the feel of the Akko silent penguin tactiles as the bump helps it feel more meaty. Though the bump on the penguin’s do introduce more noise then the dead silent Honey Peaches.
Now build the loudest keyboard possible
Aside from showing off your impressive finger strength, how was it to type on???
*low pass filter
I appreciate the music production reference though 🤘🏼
Nice, incredibly strong rock climber fingers Hipyo.
In order not to anger my workmates, I recently changed my office keeb switches for the Peaches. And man these are SILENT. I think I don't like the mushyness that much, I prefer my Kailh Deep Sea), but they are definitely really good switches given the price.
I'm not the first to mention it, but the title's probably misleading 🤔.
I can agree that Aliexpress does make for a nice place to acquire some switches though. During sales that also have coupons they tend to get pretty darn cheap and a nice occasion to pull into a set(s).
Eh, well. I don't have much (if any) respect of Hipyo...yet. He's a cringe burnt out hack as far as making videos goes. Purely for switches...hmmm--- yeah it's not bad! (potentially?) better variety than keychron lol. My (so far) first any only custom keyboard the switches..are jwik that were a eye watering 80 dollars alone. yeah yeah ZealPC's for a enough to cover a TKL are more. lol now that was cheaper than amazon, because it turns out these were B-Stock and amazon wanted another 10-15 which was rediculous for emergency replacement keyboard, 90-95 fucking dollars for switches alone wasn't happening. These came as a realyl nice christmas bundle with pudding caps.
I'm using the outemu cream yellow (or milk yellow depending on translation) silent tactile since earlier this year, and it was great. I also tried out their linear silent peach but the lack of feedback on both tactility and sound makes them feels really uncomfortable. However, I uses the linear ones for modifier keys like Ctrls and Shifts to reduce strains on my pinky fingers. I uses a regular tactile (Everglide Wild Pansy) for the spacebar because silent switch on spacebar feels really really mushy.
The keyboard I'm using is Aula F87, which is damn nice, full RGB, side RGB, and an RGB strip above the arrow keys that can indicate battery level
Nice work :) I've finally managed to make my (nearly) ideal silent keyboard - the Keychron K3 with optical switches, lubed with GPL105 using a syringe (ain't nobody got time for disassembling switches, surely?), the keycaps from a K1 Pro and cheap rubber o-rings from Amazon. Absolutely silent, wonderfully low travel and only six mismatched keycaps, because Keychron hate people who use the One True Layout (ISO).
I want to imagine you read my comment on the last video. But either way, 80% represent!
I watched a bunch of your videos before I decided to build a silent keyboard. I went with the Silent peaches V2 as well, I got, like, 70 of them, completed with outemu purples just because I was curious to see if it was any better than the browns (it's a bit more tactile, but still a bit too wobbly). Then I regret using the purples and bought the silent lemons V3 instead. They're very good too. Because I like ABNT2 keyboard format, I ended using a Redragon K552 barebone as a base, but it's ok.
Outro brasileiro 🎉 Eu me rendi ao ANSI, achei de boas a adaptação. Só o que me incomoda é que as aspas viram teclas mortas, ou seja, você precisa apertar duas vezes pra aparecer, e quando aparece, vem duas vezes. Similar ao que seria tentar imprimir somente o assento no ABNT.
@@regisdrift Eu tentei me acostumar, queria um 70% antes. Peguei um teclado mecânico velho TKL ANSI emprestado, tentei usar de vários modos, mas não curti, no geral me atrapalhava durante o meu trabalho, tentei até usar o Power toys pra remapear umas teclas. É tudo costume e preferência, eu até gostei do Kumara Barebone no fim das contas, só acho ele meio feinho. Se usasse o teclado só pra jogar, sem dúvida teria pegado um ANSI, mas como uso para trabalho também, aí complica.
Do you maybe know where I can get this kind of keycaps with rounded edges but for the german layout? And which switches imitate the feeling of typing on a C64 the best? Thanks for the answer.
Kind regards,
Dave
I'm looking forward to a review of the Lucky 65
Nice incredibly strong rock climbing fingers hippo😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Watching you have hundreds of options as an ISO virgin hurts so bad especially since everything is either expensive or Keychron
Nice incredibly strong rock climber fingers, Hipyo what else do you do with those incredibly strong rock climber fingers?
Hey hipyo, what else do you do, with those extremely strong rock climbing fingers?
Curious about your monitor, are you using it only for this video?
I'm confused, the insides of this keyboard are different on this video then they are on the KapCo website. This site is also selling this keyboard and was doing a little research and it says theres a layer of sponge and poron cotton under the pcb but the video shows a silicon layer and looks like its missing a pe film layer that is shown on the KapCo website
Try Attack Shark k86. Is basically this but pre built for less than 50 usd.
Could you review the Aula f75? I have recently bought one and I would like you to say nice things about it so that I feel good about my purchase.
Don't forget your lube when rock climbing with these incredibly strong rock climber fingers!
Stay safe.
yes please review the Lucky keyboard
To remove killmat and other sound deadener car builders tend to use dry ice to hard it and break it off in frozen pieces, probably doesn't work well for keyboards but FYI.
Bought and built a lucky 65 for a Friend. It's amazing.
love this editing, something seems different but I really like it
I have the outemu silent peach ones. It's incredibly silent and delicious to type on.
Can u pls build a budget full size keyboard
I would call the sound of this as: "PHWOCK"
This made me excited to get a mechanical keyboard. I don't like how loud most keyboards are. I'm just a little sad you didn't show how the keyboard sounded before mods. Because if I'd order the same items, I don't have that foam, so mine would be louder.
Budget? sure. $40? nope. You BOUGHT a $40 barebone keyboard and built a "Under $100" keyboard with it.
Edit: original title was "I Built a $40 Keyboard Using ONLY AliExpress (GMK 87)" Take a look, there's a thing called Wayback Machine y'know?
When did he say under 40? it was always under 100 what are you on about
LIAR!!!!
Well, yeah?
When referring to barebones keyboards, most people in this hobby use the price of the kit, not the final price with switches+keycaps as most people who buy barebones kits already have switches and keycaps. The keyboard WAS $40. For example, the Zoom75 is usually referred to as a $200 keyboard, and it is a barebones kit.
Qq
Your monitor looks great. What's the model of that?
Bought a Aula F99 and threw some of the Peach V2sz in. Stupid quiet and under 100 dollars with minimal effort. The V2s are nice yall
While I love my GMK87 and how it sounds. I was highly disappointed when the LED's started failing after about 3 months of ownership. The entire bottom row has gone dark, it still works and sounds great, but the failure if 1/3 of the RGB is a disapointment.
I recently bought an Akko 5075B Plus on aliexpress for $40 and is been excellent the only thing missing is the screen.
Nice video hipyo its always very interesting to watch ur content
Can u pls upload more, I know it cost a decent amount but I really love your content, it makes me laugh all the time but I've watched it all....
There is something wrong with the audio of the sound test at the end, the volume seems to be strangely muted? I mean I practically don't hear.... oh.
I have lubed, filmed, silent ink black in my Q3 and they're soooo damn good.
just ordered the parts. i love the colour of the caps. thx for the vid
I had to return that exact GMK87 base a few weeks ago because it randomly shut off and did not want to wake up again.
Might give that Lucky65 a try although I like 87key boards more...
I'm using GMK87 too right now and it really good for it's price but daily I have this weird problem, it will type random keys and stop from print screen button. Surely wasn't a virus or somewhat because I tried plugging it from another computer yet same thing happened.
Ngl that sounds like there's a short somewhere. You might need a new pcb
ZUOYA refreshed the GMKXX lineup. There is now a GMK67-S (65%), ~~GMK84~~ GMK81 (75%), and the GMK87 (TKL). I built up an 87 for a friend and my, it thocks
I'm having trouble with making my GMK87 thock mainly because I don't know what combinations of dampening should I put to make it do that. How different was this new GMK87 compared to the older and did you do anything with it to thock, if any?
Theres also the gmk81
@@Guy_that_exists my mistake, it was the 81, not the 84
So that's a real budget custom Keyboard!
Wp sir
Is there something like the GK87 that is aluminum and isnt 200 dollars by chance?
again, it wasn't 40 dollars.....
The keyboard was $38 my bad 🙌
well the base technically is $40
55 USD. Not 40 dollars at all.
You guys realize that he ordered the keyboard weeks ago and the prices change?
@@HipyoTechwdym it was nearly $100!
Never in 100 years I expected to be clickbaited by keyboard price Linus Tech Tips style x'D the internet is a fun place 👍
Imagine they pit the knob on a 3 axis Dpad
Still turn it for volume, but now you could press in for play/pause, left right for next/previous, and then up/down could be contextual, or like on my car, next/previous folder.