all right rascals i get it you want me to review a board that's not idabel well howdy hey everyone
i'm hippiotech and i accidentally deleted half of this video in this year video i'm gonna be
building the nk65 entry edition now anytime i review another board there's always one goober
that tells me that this is better than that board but are they a goober or were they right all along
well i mean even if they're right all along i probably won't admit it but anyways we'll be
building this out with some ktt roses as well as these blue cat keycaps that are ma profile
so it's definitely a pretty pretty build but did it break my expectations
should you buy this board stick around and you'll find out
hey jim hey alfred hey how's it going i just got a key cult wait like
in the victory auction how much did you end up paying um
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was that good that was awful but whatever as i mentioned earlier i accidentally deleted a lot
of this video some of it was much easier to film than others but the unboxing part
is the most scuffed i had to fish this cardboard box out of my recycling bin um but you know we
really tried our best talking about the packaging though i think the box was very nice it came
branded with a little novelty sleeve on it and it definitely shipped very protected as you can
see here i got the cartridge gold version and this board comes in a wide variety of color options but
we'll talk about that soon breaking into the box you can see that this is definitely not my first
unboxing of it but what you can also see is that it came with a very nice carrying pouch that was
originally wrapped in plastic this carrying pouch reminds me of a nintendo switch case like one of
the really cheap ones that you can find for 5 or 10 bucks on amazon but it's a nice touch to come
with a keyboard especially a pretty cheap keyboard it's nice and fabricy and relatively padded
with the cute little novel key zipper look at it go anyways zipper go and we're opening up the case
ignore this ignore the fact that it's built it doesn't come built don't look at this however
the board does come really well secured and i wouldn't have any worries about it getting damaged
and shipping it also came with some stickers and a card that reminded you that this board
works with via and we'll talk about that later and this abomination of a telephone usb-c cable
i gotta say i've seen a lot of really bad cables in my day but this is one of my least favorites
as someone that doesn't like coiled cables but that's just a nitpick whatever but also since
i'm bashing the cable it's incredibly short and doesn't even reach anything it's so short okay
but you probably came here to hear about the board right this board sells out incredibly quickly and
is rarely in stock so keep that in mind if you're ever considering it but if you manage to find it
in stock you can get it for 95 us dollars but there's also shipping and taxes which made mine
come in at about 114 us dollars this board is made out of injection molded polycarbonate and comes
in nine different color options as of riding this video now i like shiny shiny so i got the
cartridge gold but this was kind of a mistake for filming the video as far as build quality
some people have reported problems of creaking and wobbling and scuffs and mine was no exception also
the sport has south facing leds and factory lubed plate mount stabilizers but are they any good
they're not the worst but uh yeah those weren't very good but we'll try and loop them up later
this board is a modified top mount aka a tray mount where they went let's put screws everywhere
the plate is made from aluminium look ultimately if you're getting this board because you're trying
to avoid the stiffness of an integrated plate or tray mount you're going to be getting the same
typing experience here so nothing really special now you're probably thinking hip hip-hop what's
this purple thing is it squishy can i squish it i don't know how you're asking this good
of questions but yeah it's a purple thing and it's squishy this here's the silicone dampening
pad that comes pre-installed in every nk 65 ee it's dummy thick and honestly dampens the
board really well i really love the sound profile that silicone gives to boards it can kind of just
save any bad board and make it sound relatively thocky also it's 241 grams that's a lot of grams
taking it out though reveals that this is just your average polycarbonate case that you paid 95
for oh man my wallet yeah did i mention i paid my own money for this one yeah here you can see that
the board is hot swap has south facing rgb leds supports five pin switches but only supports plate
mount stabilizers plate mouse stabilizers aren't the end of the world but they're definitely a
little bit harder to get tuned so kind of annoying looking at the back of the board here's where you
can see all of the screws around the perimeter this is something that's been nitpicked by a lot
of other content creators but this is how they get away with calling it a top mount like it's
connected to the top but like you're gonna screw it in to the bottom standoffs anyways i mean
it's gonna be just as stiff magic time this magic has been brought to you by the wow stick wow
speaking of magic these stabilizers definitely aren't and we're gonna be taking them apart and
lubing them if you watched my last video i don't have duroc plate mount stabilizers which you can
get from prevail key company use code hippo in the description so i'm gonna be giving these
stock stabilizers a chance they came with a little bit of factory lube on them that i had to wipe off
i guess this made like a tiny bit of a difference but meh i was actually out of crytox so i decided
to use carbon gs2 for the stems and housings i also used or xht bdz this is a very very
very thick stabilizer wire grease that kind of resembles toothpaste this was my first time using
this and holy moly it was a mess i was not a fan but maybe i'll be a fan with the sound test but
yeah i globbed it on the wires similarly to how i use permatex dielectric grease and i also globbed
it on my hands over and over again i normally don't like lubing stabilizers because of how
messy it can get and this kind of made it worse but maybe i'll use it again it kind of felt like
putting mayonnaise on my stabilizer wires which definitely don't do that don't put mayonnaise
on your stabilizer wires and also because this was my first time doing this i definitely over
lubed a couple of them but over lube definitely beats under loop because rattle is annoying i
think just the amount that i got on my hands could probably have lubed one or two stabilizers but i
digress it was a fun stabilizer looping session we have fun here right right guys this is fun right
yeah with all the stabilizers in uh that was a little bit of magic by the way i have to wipe up
my surface again and wipe up my hands again and then we're ready to go so gather on yellows are
out we're using ktt roses now this is a 63.5 gram linear with a progressive spring and it only costs
27 cents a switch that's pretty good however i did pay one of my mods e1 to lube these for me which
made them a little bit more expensive e1 did a decent job i mean he definitely over lubed some of
them but he goes with the philosophy of overloop is good or something i don't know what do you guys
think i think regardless these are some pretty good switches and i might have to do a full review
on them if you want to see that make sure you get subscribed and let me know down in the comments
anyways magic time also this makes me really want some pink keycaps because pink and gold
very pretty oh like olivia on here oh man but i don't really have olivia so we're gonna have
to get creative for this build but before we get creative hippia recommendation time hippie
recommendation time originally i had doubts about the cartridge gold color but wow i think overall
it looks pretty nice i actually fooled a couple people into thinking this was an aluminum board or
aluminium but this is polycarbonate i do think the translucent polycarbonate versions are a
little bit tacky and i probably wouldn't go for them but let's get to the build for the keycaps
i decided to go with blue cat ma profile keycaps if you watched my id67 video you've probably seen
these before these are some 40 keycaps that were sent to me by idabo yeah we can't escape them
and they're really kind of like a cheat code for thockiness if you can handle the uniform profile
so let's just skip to the good part and let me cast my fun little magic spell again
ugh i don't really think you want to see me put on keycaps do you so first aesthetic impressions
i think this build looks really really good and was actually relatively cheap okay it was like
a hundred and seventy dollars total but like that's not the worst however i'd maybe compare
this to the gamma kk66 that i built for cozy it kind of sounded the same in overall sound profile
but the gamma kkk66 is much better if you like big rgb also this cable sucks it's way too short
if you have a long distance between anything and your keyboard it's it's not plugging in it's too
short oh yeah speaking of rgb the sport has full per key rgb and something that makes it a little
bit better than the other budget offerings is that it fully supports via out of the box you
don't even have to flash it wow if you're new to keyboards you might be asking oh hypio what's via
don't worry i got you and if you have any other questions my discord is always there for you
anyways via has a nice little software that lets you control your lighting macros and keymap just
natively by plugging in your board that's really cool in this case i just used it to control the
rgb and i also remapped the home key to the delete key because top right delete key is
best delete key i've heard you can also use via and get really creative with the macro functions
but i think i'm too stupid to use it maybe i'll do that in a future video another great use for
via is you can use it as a key tester to see how many pins you've been i definitely bent
a lot now before i give you my final thoughts i'm going to give you a sound test to the stabilizers
i feel like i did a decent job with these but the top two keys came out a bit mushy
so i'm gonna wrap up with my final thoughts and you're probably wondering is this board worth
it well if you can find it in stock for the base price i'd say yeah you wouldn't go wrong buying
this board it's relatively easy to get set up it has great software support and it offers a little
bit of a deeper sound profile than the idabout id67 does which you can check out my review on
that as well however similar to the id67 it's just as stiff so if that's a problem for you
keep that in mind but really it all comes down to preference personally i think this style of 65
is a bit too cramped and i definitely prefer a blocker at the arrow keys for any of my boards
but i digress this isn't the end-all be-all of boards but it's definitely a good option at this
price point but you can't even buy it anyways i'll be leaving you guys with a nice little sound test
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