New Keyboard - Recommendations?

[[TC] Stephen]

I've had both versions of the K95 and both are night and day differences.

The K95 (non rgb) I had worked fine, but the backlighting began to die slowly after a few months, random keys would stop lighting up. I later realised why, because the LED's are exposed to anything, they are susceptible to ESD and the right shock on them will destroy the LED. In the end I returned it, got a refund and swapped it for the RGB version (so I ended up paying roughly $60 for it).

The K95 RGB fixed that issue by enclosing the LED inside the key mechanism, so there is no chance it can pick up any ESD. I've had this version for 6 months or so and haven't had any issues with it yet and has worked great.

The non RGB version I bought with red switches, which I thought were a bit strange at first but I eventually got used to them. I was always missing some sort of feedback from keystrokes so when it came to getting the replacement, I got brown switches instead.

Both are quite noisy, as people on TS may know already