now you're probably thinking oh what is this i clicked on this for a keyboard video this is a
keyboard channel huh not a pillow channel well howdy hey hypiotech here and i'm gonna be taking
a nap okay okay i know nap time's fun but i will be taking a look at a keyboard in this case royal
clutch sponsored me to take a look at their g68 but they said i could do whatever i wanted so
i'm filling it with the foam for my hundred dollar pillow why who knows but stick around it
could be good i'll also be building it out with some stock matches that i got from prevail key
company they're just a jwk recolor and these mojito pbt keycaps that i got from banggood
ignoring the pillow this build comes out to about 160 dollars will it be worth it will the pillow do
anything well this will be a bit of a longer video so grab some hippo stacks stick around
and find out hippia from the blue void here to say that i want to make big number become small number
and 72.5 percent of you are not subscribed the only way you can make big number become small
number is if you hit subscribe thank you anyways as i mentioned before this video is sponsored by
royal clutch and they sent out two of their keyboards for me to check out the g68 and the
g100 so hypio disclosure time my contingency with any of my keyboard sponsors is that i get to say
whatever i want about the products i get to check out now nobody's perfectly bias free but i try and
be as objective as possible while still being able to eat you know though it's a win-win anyways the
info i'll be telling you about today is from my own experience or just pulled straight from
their store page i'm not reading from a script or anything like that i never script my videos
a little bit of background about this board is it's one of the top selling boards on amazon
at least in america now coming in at 75 dollars it's a little bit more pricey compared to some
budget boards but at the time i'm making this video there's a 10 off coupon on amazon that
makes it like a decent competitor to the sk68 because it's not optical now i should start
this video by saying this is a keyboard that's marketed towards gamers and not enthusiasts
everything about the listing says gamer gamer time that type of thing and you know we're
enthusiasts we hold stuff to a weird standard so i'm gonna try and be at least kind of nice to it
while still taking an enthusiast approach with it because you know i'm an enthusiast
okay so product info time you can buy this in classical red or the dulce which is basically just
white alphas or dark alphas and it comes with gatoron reds blues or browns personally i was
sent the version with blues which i'd normally be kind of angry about but you know we're going to be
taking those out anyways so i guess it doesn't really matter this board is oh oh gosh yikes
this board is low profile and you can see all of the switches while using it this could be a perk
but personally i think low profile boards tend to sound worse than higher profile boards
the keycaps that come on this thing are actually relatively nice and i'll be checking them out
just a little bit closer later now what i see is personally separating this board from other
budget boards on the market is that it offers a lot of options as far as usage all right what
does that mean hip bill you're being vague okay okay well you see this little dongle right here
hey little dongle you can use this thing with 2.4 gigahertz wireless bluetooth or wired and
that's a lot of options now i can't decide if these are dye sub or double shot but they're
pbt keycaps they're relatively thick and they're honestly pretty good unlike the stock garand blues
but hey we can pull those out because this board is hot swap and supports 5 pin switches now my
eagle-eyed north facing led spotters will spot the north facing led now this is kind
of a relic of rgb gamer times and i'm hoping it disappears from boards soon as it causes
a little bit of interference when using cherry profile keycaps which i'll show later don't worry
now i'm sorry you had to hear that you're probably thinking oh no my ears oh god hippie oh they're
bleeding please help hip yo no uh to that i say sorry but uh stay tuned i'll make it up to you
so i think this board would sound moderately okay with reds or browns but gather on blues are kind
of unsavable and i can't really do much about that we'll be making this sound pretty decent actually
let me just get my magic out of the way and and the keycaps are off revealing the blues yeah
but let's get rid of these with just a tiny bit more magic right oh god that was a little
bit more violent than i wanted sorry guys my magic is a little bit hard to control today
but there will be a lot of it in this video so because this board is hot swap i did not have
to desolder to remove any of those switches and i won't have to solder to put any in this is great
and really wonderful for beginners as soldering is bad for your health something like that also
let me just pull out my wow stick uh wow's in the chat please thank you but don't spam it just
this is an electric screwdriver if you want one check out the link in the description
to disassemble this board it's actually a lot simpler than a ton of other boards
and you kind of just unscrew a couple screws pull out a couple ribbon cables and you're done it's
disassembled wow congratulations good work oh man all that good work's got me really needing a nap i
think i'm gonna take one of these naps on my nice hundred dollar pillow now story behind this pillow
i bought it thinking it would be good uh i really didn't like this pillow so it sits in my closet
and it's kind of just the bane of my existence but it's got some really nice memory foam in it
and i'm gonna be taking some of that out and taking a nap as well and then i'll be putting
that memory foam in a keyboard why i don't know i got bored i've got manic energy and what else am
i going to do like trying to fill it with plato or something that'd be outrageous ugh anyways a
couple handfuls is probably enough and maybe even more than enough i don't know how i thought that
would fit in this board it's time for hypio disclosure time massive hippo disclosure time
i do not recommend doing this in any of the boards with batteries uh just please don't do this with
boards with batteries it could be a potential fire hazard it could not let the battery get rid of
some of its heat i don't really know how batteries work but yeah i just kind of don't recommend doing
this on any board with a battery but i'm doing it anyways because of science but don't do this
do not do it all right is that enough disclosures maybe who knows so i filled this kind of just
overflowing and here's a bit of a closer look this is like cooling memory foam or something like
that so that's why there's the little weird blue specks i so you know maybe it'll cool my battery
seriously don't don't do this anyways you fill keyboards with something that way you can dampen
some of the reverberations and make it sound less hollow and pinky if you've got really
pinky hollow switches now here on the hippotech youtube channel we like to get creative we like
to put play-doh and stuff in boards and you know we're no exception here honestly one handful was
enough and i think i could fill another like i don't know 20 keyboards or so with that 100 pillow
that's still a really bad return on investment i don't like that pillow but i digress that was
probably why all of you were here and you know you could stick around for the rest of the build right
so as far as the rest of the build goes we've got these matcha switches that i got from key company
prevail key company is one of my affiliates and they sent me these for free uh these are not
lubed up and they're stock but i think they're relatively okay stocks so i really wasn't going
to go through the trouble of lubing them if you want to get some of these yourself you can get
them from the link down below in the description and use code hipio to save five percent wow pretty
cool i really like the aesthetic of these and you know i figure because you can see them because
it's a low profile build it'll look really nice i'm actually contractually obligated to have seven
episodes of magic in this so here's another one i guess i don't know so the switches are all on and
be careful when putting switches on to not bend any pins i definitely bent like six but you know
that's because i dropped them on yeah normally i wouldn't care about the aesthetic of a switch and
i just go oh they're cute or whatever but because this is a low profile case it's nice to have a
switch that looks really good and because i have a switch that looks really good i need some keycaps
that'll look really good and don't worry i've got the keycaps just for you right after we take a
look at these stabilizers and go on a stabilizer lubing detour yeah i don't know now these
stabilizers came quote unquote factory lubed but i'll let you decide whether or not they sound good
oh you want my opinion oh okay um yeah i guess they don't sound very good so we're gonna be
taking these out i mean struggling to take these out and then we'll be lubing them up
okay what do we have for magic in this episode i don't even know but here's another one i guess
yeah so we've got them all taken out i don't know why i even did magic for that that only
saved me like 10 seconds gosh here i am dumbly holding up carbon gs2 because i accidentally
grabbed it to lube these and never realized it we'll also be using permatex dielectric grease
these little clippy boys to clip the legs on the stabilizers and a stem holder and a brush all of
these are down in the description so if you've never lubed stabilizers before here's a mini
stabilizer looping tutorial time granted for these honestly just don't even bother just get
some direct plate mounts and then lube them this way now the reason why i say that uh you'll find
out later don't worry you'll find out so these actually did have a surprising amount of factory
lube on them but it was incredibly inconsistent and i wiped it all off before lubing them myself
now because i'm incredibly silly here's a slightly in focus clipping and then here's a lot of out of
focus clipping good job hippo that was great great work you really captured how to clip a stabilizer
yeah watch somebody else's tutorial for that i guess so then i grab my brushy brush get some
lubey lube and brushy brush the inside of this the housing why are we doing this bit hip yeah
okay you brush the inside of the housing it's not that crazy uh my theory with lubing stabilizers
is more is more but not like too much more just like a little bit more and then i lubed the stem
out with a similar amount of crytox 205 g0 don't use carbon gs2 it's really bad for this job some
people choose not to lube the stem but i like to lube the stem as it ensures that you really
just got it and showed it who's boss you know you gotta showed his boss that's about how much loop
you want on it by the way next we got a glass grab the bed that we gotta grab our glob of permatex
wow that was hard grab a glob of permatex and put it on the wire then put the stem in the housing
with the two hole side facing the clip side and clip it into the bottom hole of the stem repeat
with the other side of the wire i'm not going to say the glob glove thing again that was ridiculous
and then assemble and congratulations you've lubed the stabilizer but you're gonna have to fine tune
those by testing them out on the board of course personally i found these stabilizers impossible
to tune and i did not get them sounding good so that's you know that's what it is i tried i did
genuinely try but sometimes you know you can't reach perfection or anything sometimes you can't
even reach anything so yeah that's why i recommend dark plate mount stabilizers you could check them
out in the description or something yeah but look it's pretty one of the tricks that i tried was to
band-aid mod it with some climbing tape some of you might have seen this trick before and you
could technically do this on a board with soldered and switches that's kind of why i left the switch
in just to show you that you could try this but i would be very very careful to not accidentally pop
the wire out otherwise you're screwed so be very very careful if you're doing this on a board with
a solid switch basically i just put a little bit of tape under the stabilizers and it stops them
from rattling around this will help with some of the rattle but not all of it oh we're at the
keycaps already okay here we go keycaps so these are the mojito keycaps that i got from banggood
i've used them in a previous build but that was back when i did silent films wow so long ago
this is honestly one of the best sets that you can get from banggood simply because it isn't a clone
and it's actually decent quality dye sub pbt at only 45 dollars it has a decent amount of kitting
support and honestly i would recommend this for anyone that has like a budget need for keycaps
and then hey you're not buying clones so that's pretty cool they're relatively thick
and they sound okay but if you're using north facing leds these are cherry profiles so that's
a bit of a bummer anyways let me just grab my mojito and then i'll just oh oh man sorry guys
i spilled all over sorry let me just let me just clean this up real fast start sorry oh
yeah because i'm a clumsy little hippie oh well at least i got a drink for later
am i right i don't really know what the creative energy is for this video i'm sorry hippo's really
all over the place okay so thoughts on this build final thoughts on this build honestly i wasn't
that stoked with how it turned out simply because i used cherry profile keycaps if you were to do a
build like this yourself i'd recommend getting some keycaps that are not cherry profile like
oem xda dsa etc and then it'll sound pretty good now the switches that i chose are very clacky and
the keycaps that i chose ended up being clacky and a tiny bit clicky because of the north facing led
interference
so as i mentioned before the stabilizers i couldn't really get tuned so they ended up
sounding pretty bad also as you noticed it sounds clacky clicky some people might really like the
sound profile so you know i won't write it off for everyone but just know that's what you'd get
into also bonus unboxing hippie unboxing time or something like that so this is the rkg 100
and it's incredibly similar to the 68 it's just long boy and has uh rubber feet that go in and out
i often get asked a lot about full-size boards from people that are like oh but my number pad
really good hip yo i could never live without my number pad well in that case for all of you
people here you go here's something to take a look at it's very similar to the epomaker gk96
i think that's what it's called i've done a review on that one too maybe i'll do a mod
video of this in the future uh if you want to see something like that let me know i just did
not have the time to lube the 100 switches or 96 switches or whatever that was going on in here
that just sounds like a doozy i'm very busy right now i'm sorry i'm very busy making
videos for you guys but final build thoughts overall it was an interesting budget build
i think there's definitely better alternatives but if you want to just buy something from amazon
you could check this board out i think for your average gamer then they probably won't have any
issues with this but for your average enthusiast there's probably better boards to check out
especially in the budget price range just a lot of them might not be in stock so good luck with
that anyways i'll be leaving you guys with a sound test please watch the whole thing
to support my youtube algorithm overlords as they only care about me if you watch my videos
also to support my overlords please hit subscribe like this video and leave a fun little sound test
of your own in the comments also let me know what you thought of the pillow idea and if you want to
see more zany dumb ideas like that because i kind of had fun doing it also a special thank you to
cool keys the mr man potty platt curb board and aquarius for being members of the hippies chosen
tier want to know why i said their names then consider hitting that join button down below bye
you