- I'm sick of buying junk from Amazon,
so today I'm going straight to the source: Micro Center.
Does Micro Center have what it takes
to build a high quality keyboard
or is it better to shop online?
Jake will be using the internet to build a keyboard
while I only get Micro Center.
Here we are on the Micro Center website
and we'll see what we can find.
Gaming keyboards.
There are so many options, so many prebuilts.
(gasps) There's a custom keyboard.
It says I could buy it, but it says in store pickup,
so screw this, let's go to Micro Center.
To the car!
(soft music)
After arriving, I realized they had a ton
of pre-built keyboards,
weird stuff like this Logitech pop keyboard,
or this huge Alien red dragon keyboard
that we upgraded a few months back
and tucked away in that lonely cave in the back of the store
was a custom keyboard section.
I almost didn't see it, it was so well hidden.
The GMMK pro.
It's not the best keyboard, but it was the best chance
I would have at beating Jake's online keyboard
so I was sold.
I ended up picking up the GMMK pro
along with a bunch of other accessories
for a grand total of (drum roll)
$380!
(grunting)
My heart.
Here are all of our packages from Micro Center.
The first thing I got was
the GMMK Pro
in white ice.
The store associate even said
this is the best custom keyboard they have to offer
in their store.
He even showed me his own GMMK Pro on his phone.
It was sort of awkward.
(metal clinks)
Sticker.
I've got a knob and I think that makes me an ultra winner.
It's not the best, but I can make it better.
This is the secret to making my GMMK Pro amazing.
Oh yeah.
This is gonna make my keyboard sound floppy.
Here are my switches of choice.
Glorious links linears, prelubed of course to save time,
and they're $35 each.
That's really expensive.
These are my key caps.
They look beautiful.
I got G-lube.
This might not be the best option, but it was all they had.
This was super awkward to get,
'cause you had to bring the entire box of G-lube
to the front and then they would give you one singular
bottle of lube and they'd look at you funny,
because why are you buying something called G-lube
in a tech store?
Seriously though, that's weird.
Now that I was finally ready to build my keyboard,
I had to check up on the competition.
I took a sneak peek at what Jake had ordered,
and I was shocked.
He had a truly custom keyboard.
If I wanted to win this competition,
I would have to take this keyboard build
a lot more seriously.
We had decided whoever made
the best sounding custom keyboard
would get to pick wherever we ate dinner,
and I desperately wanted sushi in my mouth.
Sushi.
The worst part is his keyboard costs way less than mine did,
but I could have saved money too if I had shopped online
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To get started with my build,
I searched for every GMMK Pro mod I could find
to make this thing sound better,
and what I found gave me a lot of hope
that I might actually win this thing.
I thought about doing the tape mod,
but then I remembered that might not be the best idea.
On stream, I attempted a tape mod
and almost caused an electrical fire.
My house almost burned down,
so is that a no for me, dog.
Things go so weird while building this keyboard
that I started singing this song called Keyboard Mutilation,
sorta like the Power Rangers theme song.
Some of these mods required some intense surgery,
like cutting out bits and pieces here and there,
and I sure hope this is enough to beat Jake in the end.
Keyboard Mutilation.
So now that my keyboard is done, let's check up on Jake.
Apparently he's been done for a while now
because he didn't even do that many mods to his keyboard
so it only took him half the amount of time that it took me.
It's time to see if Micro Center can beat
an online custom keyboard or not.
To decide the winner,
we recorded sound tests of our keyboards
and uploaded them onto Twitter to be judged on sound alone.
We thought about doing looks too,
but it would be pretty obvious
who would be the winner there.
Me, of course.
And after a whole day of waiting,
it was time to tally up the votes.
(beeping)
Twitter.
The votes are in.
This is my finished keyboard,
the GMMK Pro that's been heavily, heavily modded,
and this is what it sounds like.
(keyboard clicking)
And this is Jake's keyboard, his online custom keyboard
that's only been through a few basic mods like foam,
stabs, and pre-lubed switches.
(keyboard clicking)
- [Jake] What do you think?
- It's pretty nice.
With 60% of the votes,
Jake ended up winning with his Nova 65.
(keyboard clicking)
And it sounds pretty dang nice.
But in terms of looks, I am the clear winner.
So where do you want to eat tonight?
- [Jake] Uh, I kinda want sushi.
- Perfect, that's where I wanted to eat too, I'm a winner.
Watch this video right here
where Jake and I fought neck and neck in another competition
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(upbeat music)