Cherry MX Board 3.0 S Wired Gamer Mechanical Keyboard with Aluminum Housing – MX Red Switches (Slight Clicky) for Gaming and Office – Customizable RGB Backlighting – Full Size – Black

Greatness in a keyboard
I absolutely love this thing. It’s got a great spring-back but is easy enough to press down that I can type really fast. It’s the quietest keyboard I’ve ever had. The colors are really nice, too.My ONLY feedback for the creators would be:-Please make the font bigger on the keys, including the symbols-Make the home key nubs a smidge…nubbierIn no way do these detract from the quality, but I WFH as well as run a business and am on the keyboard 60+ hours per week, large fonts and good home nubs are a must. These nubs are just good enough, and the font is just large enough, but if they could add those in that would be amazing. Still 5+ stars for the product. It’s solid, non slip, quiet, nice and heavy, and I really like the amphitheater style curvature. It’s a subtle curve, but nice and unique to my previous keyboards.

Way beyond expectations!
I have never owned an actual Cherry branded keyboard, although I have many with Cherry MX switches. The reviews seemed good, so I figured I’d give it a shot. SO glad I did! When I opened the box, and got the board out, I was very impressed. Full aluminum frame, very solid, but not too heavy. Excellent build quality, the board feels solid, and sits flat and stays put on the desk, thanks to nice rubber feet. The keycaps are excellent, provide great feel, have very good shine through caps with the RGB lighting. Very impressive job with the lighting, very even, well distributed and bright. I ordered mine with Cherry MX Blue switches, and these are the best (maybe in my mind?!) MX blue switches I have ever used. The clickiness (that is what blues are for, right?) is awesome. Both the feel, and the sound, outstanding if you are a lover of blue switches, like me! One of the best typing keyboards I have ever used, and I’ve got more than a few! This keyboard exceeded my expectations by a mile. Very high quality build, super nice to type on. I can’t comment on the gaming aspect, as I don’t use it for that. All around, an excellent keyboard, you can hardly go wrong with this one. The only real negative I have for it is the non-removable cable. Not a deal breaker for me, but it might be for some. The cable that is has, however is nicely made, and seems high quality and durable. It has a USB-A connection, for reference. I would purchase this keyboard again, no question about it. Very impressed!

Cherry MX 3.0 S: Robust, Solid, Stable…Quiet, But Not Quite “Silent”
My taste in keyboard feel runs toward mechanical key switches with a distinct tactile bump-through and an audible click, as with the Cherry MX Greens and Blues – but that click is for home, not for the office, where a good neighbor doesn’t use a clicky keyboard. Good office neighbors choose quiet key switches.So I used to use the rubber-dome-type keyboards, the best of which, in my experience, was the Logitech K740, quiet and with adequate tactile feel. But rubber-dome keys wear out (I’ve had three of those boards), and the K740 is now a collector’s item.Hence, I looked around for a mechanical keyboard using the Cherry MX Silent Red switches. In the good old days, I would have ordered a custom board from WASD Keyboards, but those folks, sadly, appear to be out of business.There are good-quality boards from many brands using other Cherry switches, but darned if I could find any others with the Silent Reds – the regular Reds, yes, but the Silent Reds are rare. That’s why I bought this board, one of Cherry’s own, and using the Silent Reds. (It’s available with other Cherry switches, too.)About these switches: I am informed that “linear” switches – no tactile bump, just a smooth swish to the bottom of travel – are preferred by many gamers. That’s not what I am, and as above, I like a tactile bump on the way down. But one learns by trying, so I’m getting used to the linear feel of these keys.How is the board otherwise? It’s metal-bodied, heavy, solid, and stays put. If one is used to relatively flat rubber-dome keyboards or laptop keys, one might want to add a wrist rest to use with this “taller” board, and if so, that’s easy. The board comes with optional screw-in metal feet to raise the rear edge slightly, if desired.But then there’s the blaring, candy-colored rainbow backlighting in the product description’s photos. In action, this actually moves, and it’s the out-of-the-box default. If you’re a kid trying to impress other kids, okay, that’ll do it. If you’re an adult and trying to concentrate on work, you’ll want to turn this into something else. Fortunately, the documentation explains that with a simple key combo you can cycle through many variants of colors and moving patterns, two of which, thankfully, are “off” and “just constant white backlighting, please.” I’ve included a couple photos of the keyboard with the latter turned on, and that’s how I run it at work. Reminds me of my WASD Code Mechanical board at home.(In the first photo, taken from directly above, some red is “leaking” around some of the keys. This seems odd, but it isn’t a factor when working with the keyboard from one’s normal viewing angle, as seen in the second photo.)Finally, are the Cherry Silent Red key switches actually silent? Well, no. When a key hits bottom there’s a subtle thump, and the keys have the usual mechanical freeplay. Office neighbors close by will know when you’re in action, albeit only if they are themselves bored. Suffice it to say that these Silent Reds are more quiet than other mechanical keys, even regular Reds or the stiffer Blacks, and also more quiet than the tactile-bump non-clickers such as the MX Browns.I should add that one can download some optional Cherry software that makes a wide range of customization possible. But that isn’t necessary for simply changing the color scheme, and I haven’t any use for customization, because I use several other machines and keyboards and so must be satisfied with the standard layout and function.So to sum up, this is a robust and solid board with mechanical key switches that, unlike rubber-dome types, will never wear out. The key feel is consistent across the board, every press the same. The key action is smooth and…almost Silent.

The keyboard is sturdy and easy to use. Would recommend.

As a previous owner of multiple Razer, Steelseries and Corsair keyboards, this thing is like a breath of fresh air. The cherry red switches are as quiet as a membrane keyboard and I find myself making far less typos while speeding through typing. I honestly didn’t think I would be nearly as impressed as I am with this little keyboard.No extra software, macro keys or any of that nonsense. Plug and play. The way it should be