RK61

The obvious part is your buying cheap products....From this subreddit I've always heard RK Royal keyboards(currently on amazon right now the RK61 is $39.99) are trash. I know Redragon(Redragon Fizz K617 currently on amazon for $29.99) is trash from experience and never bought another one. Googled Zi

A build for $1k should be using the RX 9060 XT 16GB if you can swing it. Also you are buying DDR4 RAM and you need DDR5, preferably 6000mhz ram for Ryzen. Just a heads up as well, that RK61 keyboard is pretty bad. I owned it for about a year and started having issues with it turning off and back on

There are so many other better prebuilts than the RK61 now tbh. But personally I just got used to not having a volume knob, I’m not sure if there’s a dedicated key for changing volume but if there is you’d have to use a combination like FN + vol up key or something And not having arrow keys, honestl

The RK61 has hot-swappable and non-hot-swappable versions. It's annoying. Best way to find out if yours is is to do the old, "Grab a switch, give it a good tug, and see if it moves."

Then no Raspberry Pi based boards are open source because the Rpi boot process is psycho closed magic. :) (I still did a VIAL port for my Pi60-HSE) Honestly, I think QMK should make an exception for wireless drivers and establish a hard API boundary for them, like Linux did for video cards, and you

I know it's not a popular board, but I personally think the latest QMK-based RK61 is quite nice... but not with the stock layout. The standard RK61 layout is terrible. Awful. It's designed by someone on acid. BUT... If this is the QMK RK61 you can program it to use the right hand modifiers as arrow

It's a fairly old board, there's nothing particularly special about it other than the cool programming trick with the arrow keys. It's also soldered which is kind of something to avoid. It's mostly historically interesting. It was amazing when it came out but now any QMK board is almost certainly be

Their old ones that start with rk like rk61 are definitely a hard pass due to quality being poor. The new ones are ok enough. I'm guessing you want a 98 keys layout that has a screen and volume knob? Also you said you wanted backlit, does that mean the letters light up in the dark?

40%: Inland MK47 * ($35) 60%: Redragon K717 Alcor * ($33) CIDOO QK61 * ($60) Skyloong GK61 QMK/VIA * ($54) Royal Kludge RK61 QMK/VIA * ($40) Womier WK61 Pro * ($31) YMDK DK61 * (barebones, $88 wooden case, $38.50 bare PCB) KBDcraft Adam 60% * ($70 lego case) 65%: Womier VK66 Pro * ($39) Womier Q61 v2 * ($42)

Okay pa nmn RK61 ko from 2022. Pero, build quality is far from the best. Sorry, it's just the truth. Keycaps are meh and clacky. Even after foam mod + keycaps dampeners + Creamy purple switches, still behind pa rin sa ibang options like F75 or Inky. Kung ako, sa budget mo, add ka konte and get a Tac