AULA - F75

As someone who got swindled by them back in the day, I feel ya. The board is a POS. I havent had the pleasure of trying the HE board but there are so many good alternatives, esp for traditional mechanical. I like HE but theres so much better stuff for mechanical if you are not a pro. Some of my favorites: \- AULA f75 - Yes its plastic, but it does have a knob, sounds like a dream and is comfortable to type on. I love mine at home \- EVO 80 For the price point it cannot be beat, 169 and you get leafspring mount, incredible stock switches and free decent keycaps. \- Rainy 75, 89 dollars for the board that remains my daily driver. Same thing as evo 80 except with a gasket mount. And for HE, if you are going to get a board, get the wooting module and throw it into a case from KBD fans. It will take a little longer to get there, but the experience will be way better. I have mine in a holy 80 case, and it's an actual dream. It might even be cheaper. But I understand if you want to keep that board because you have sunk so much money into it. I found that force break mod, tempest tape mod, and putting polyester stuffing in the bottom helped the sound of my old GMMK pro significantly. Hope this helps!

The R75 keyboard is a pretty decent one, sound dampening and its price point seems okay too, leaving great budget for high quality switches and keycaps. The fact that its QMK/VIA compatible is a big plus, also great board to start modding. Generally I don't like Royal Kludge's quality but this product seems to be a solid choice. Apart from that one, I can recommend you Leobog Hi75, which has a nice, durable aluminum case; Ajazz AK820 Max Plus (sound dampening is good); Aula F75 (pretty nice sound dampening and long battery duration, sadly plastic casing); Wobkey Rainy 75 Lite (Amazing value for its price, great sound isolation). If you ask me, R75, Hi75 and Rainy 75 Lite are all solid choices but Rainy 75 Lite and Hi75 are kind of a bit more premium products with their material quality and R75 is a better bang for buck, giving more window and budget for customization and showing the basics of modding a bit better. Apart from that, I can easily recommend you the following brands: Akko, Ajazz, Wobkey, NuPhy, Epomaker, Gamakay, Aula, Mchose and GravaStar. Steer clear from Keychron (not as reliable as they used to be anymore). I think most if not all keyboards come with stabilisers anyways. Kailh Prestige Silent Switches still have a bit of noise and I'm not sure if lubrication can help it, but lubrication will definitely do wonders on Outemu Silent Peach V3 or Akko Fairy switches over the factory-made lubrication. Also O-rings aren't needed much with silent switches but can help you with travel distances of your switches if you don't like the key to go down too much after the key push command is executed. Oof it has been a long writing, lol. Hopefully I could answer all your questions and my answers give you some ideas about your future plans with modding your keyboard. Feel free to ask any other question you have in mind.

Aula F75 can be found for $42 (what I paid), a little above your budget but it has everything you want and I think it has a lot of bang for the buck.

I have aula 75 ice vein and aulaf99 sea salt. I use the sea salt for work and ice vein for casual gaming :) I've been using them for over a year and love them both. F99 I actually got it on AliExpress and the aula75 I got directly from epomaker and both have no issues at all

The Aula F75 has pretty good quality in my experience and I got it for $45 on AliExpress.

Wooting 80he is the best keyboard on the market, but it's a bit expensive. My friend just got this one and loves it if you're trying to save a little money https://a.co/d/1ROpodI

I also went with the aula f75 and replaced the key caps for like 11$ and swapped my own switches (optional) and I love it

Aula F75/87/99 depending on your persuasion. Best bang for your buck.

As the other comment said, any hotswap mechanical keyboard with sound isolation material inside should be sufficient enough nowadays. I recently bought an Aula F75 with Graywood V4 switches and they sounded amazing, but since people around me was disturbed with the noise I swapped them with Outemu Silent Peach V3 switches and it was way more silent than most membrane keyboards I used in the past. Honestly I can recommend you buying any hotswap mechanical keyboard (with sound isolation material inside preferably) with your desired outer case color and design, then mod the switches and keycaps to your heart's content. In addition, there are literally tons of switches and UK layout keycaps on Temu and Aliexpress, you can find pretty good ones there to your liking.

Try a budget keyboard first. Research a little about switches.. like blue, red, black, brown etc. i would suggest you "aula f75" . (r/mkindia join at your own risk..🙃🙃)

Aula F75 and Razer DeathAdder V2X HyperSpeed This is what I'm daily driving

My thoughts? I'd hate it - cutting out so many keys to save a bit of space is (for me) ridiculous. I like the AU75, it's newer and better than the F75 and my son got one, it comes with really nice keycaps too... but really - it's up to you to know what size he prefers.

I got the hype for it when I got my first Keychron, the K10 Pro, but I had just scratched the surface on Mech Keyboards. After using 100%'s for my entire life, I wanted to try something different. I bought the Aula F75 first because I wanted to try 75%, i liked the color scheme, and it was cheap (~$45). There's a lot of things I like about this board better than the K10 Pro but I realized that the way I type is uncommon (self-taught) and I use the right shift to capitalize all of my letters instead of the left. I have some other areas of concern with the Aula F75, but the main lesson I learned was that my favorite layout size is 80% (TKL). I am now asking for what I am hoping will be my endgame (dream board) for Christmas, which is the MCHOSE GX87. I plan on customizing it with new keycaps and potentially new switches (unless I really like the ones it comes with) as well as disconnecting the battery to run it wired. I really think this board is perfect for me because it's the only one that I've found that checks every single box of what I want in the perfect keyboard.

You can't go wrong with Aula f75 or rk87, they're really nice for gaming. Although if you absolutely want it purely for gaming or want the best possible gaming performance and experience then you should be looking at Hall Effect keyboards that come with magnetic switches that allow you to adjust the actuation points of the switch (ie how farther down you press to activate). All HE keyboards available in India are fantastic 🙂

Aula F75 or RK M75 ( stackskb clearance sale I think they got 2 or 1 left so be quick ) Both of them are cool in under 5k!! Aula is more clacky sounding to me with a nice design RK is similar to exact design but it has a little screen so if you wanna flex it lol :) Ordered RK M75 for similar reason!

Aula F75. I got one for $42 and it is such a good board. You can get it cheap on Aliexpress and I have not had any bad experiences with it.

I use my Aula F75 with Fedora 42 (works perfectly, knob control works even better than Windows). Today however, Fedora is refusing to connect to my Wifi for some reason. I just updated it :( On Linux I'm getting incredible battery life out of it, haven't tried it on windows (shouldn't make much of a difference since it is just a keyboard, but I wanna test out how different protocols change stuff.)

Dude get a better keyboard, Aula f75, it's cheap but good

People are stuck somewhere in 2015 with those cherry mx suggestions... There are so many options of customizations with absolutely different sound profiles nowadays, but people still think that mechanical keyboards are still on the same dogshit level like 10y.o Hyperx or whatever. Good example is budget options like Aula F75. Yes, it's not silent, but have very pleasant sound profile. It's just a good affordable base for some silent switches, if you really need it. 50$ for keyboard and ~10-15$ for silent switches set like Outemu Silent Peach V3 and you are done. But, most likely you'd prefer stock sound profile over silence, it's just that good out of the box (for that price, ofc). Even so I own HE keyboard, I won't say it's a complete musthave. Just a great addition to the hobby, when you're playing competitively. Typical mechanical keyboards are good enough for 99% of people.

I ordered both and compared the two side by side and here are my thoughts: This model has the following that the pro doesn't: - Side RGB - An Alt key on the right hand side - Tactile feeling of the knob was slightly better The switches and sound seemed basically identical between the two. I felt like the switches and chassis color on the pro were more in line with what I wanted and I also felt the RGB on the pro seemed a little stronger, but I have nothing quantitative to base this on. I ended up keeping the pro because of the aesthetics, but other than the few things I mentioned above, the two are functionally identical.