Royal Kludge - RK R75

I had similar thoughts when I built my PC, ended up with a royal kludge and haven't looked back, first one died on me, drink spilled on it not by me. Immediately ordered a second one it is worth the $80 and I don't see any reason to spend more for a full mechanical keyboard

I had a rk years ago and it was fine, until a key failed. I have a keychron now and love it. But I'm also not a small keyboard person. For the price it will probably work fine for a few years, but also probably good for someone who wanted to try 60% and see how they like it.

Search in this sub for "under 4k" you will get lots of suggestions but here I will suggest you some which you can check and do research for your own benefit. VGN N75/ V87 Rk 71 (Wireless) Rk R87 Rk R87 pro (you have to pay 700rs extra) Rk R75 (a good keyboard but a slight over your budget, 700rs extra) Rk R65

If your budget is strictly under 5k. Go with RK R75 (Wired, build quality is great) If you can extend your budget to 6k. You have 2 options the RK M75 (wireless, build quality is great, clacky sound) or the Aula F75 (wireless, Thocky, decent quality) There's one slightly expensive option as well around 8k. Rainy 75. I think you can find this on Genesispc PS: I prefer 75% keybs for both gaming and work

as someone who first had royal kludge r75 or whatever and now owns the aula epomaker 75 or whatever (bad with names sorry), i couldn’t recommend them enough!!!

I have the RK R75 (practically the same thing) and I bought it on AliExpress for €50. The best keybaord, hands down. No keybaord at this price point is better. Especially the grey switches. Man, they sound soooo good. Idk much about latency, but it's wired only so it shouldn't have noticeable latency.

I have a 50$ rk 75 lab for a year now and so far works very well, worked the second plugged it in, I play games aswell and haven’t noticed delay so 

My current one is the royal kludge r75. I recommend it, it's like sub $50 and it's great

i am using a HyperX Alloy Origins for gaming. It has been great. I prefer the switches of Hyperx over Razer, Corsair, Logitech. Post sales service of Logitech has been the best. Same day repair and replacement here in Delhi, India. Overall though, I find linear switches gaming keyboard bad for typing. I make a lot of mistakes. As I don't game as much anymore 😭, I have been using Royal Kludge RK75 with tactile switches and it has been the best keyboard for me. The typing experience is amazing. In gaming also it fairs quite well, but for competitive games the wired Hyperx still feels faster (very slightly)