Treat your fingers to an Aukey mechanical keyboard for $20

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A mechanical keyboard at a membrane price.

Our love for mechanical keyboards is well known. They're simply more satisfying and responsive to type on compared to most membrane keyboards. The superior typing experience usually comes at a premium, though not always. Proving otherwise is a sale on two Aukey brand mechanical planks.

If you can't do with out a dedicated number pad, the 104-key version is currently marked down from $45 to $40. Apply promo code 6VGOUAK4 and it will drop down to $30. The $10 up-charge versus the 87-key model also gets you a six-color backlight with various lighting effects.

Outemo Blue switches are clones of Cherry MX Blues. They offer tactile and audible feedback with a loud "click" sound. Check out our guide on mechanical keyswitches to learn more about the different options out there and characteristics of each one. Also relevant is our list of our favorite mechanical keyboards.

Beyond anti-ghosting, neither of these Aukey keyboards have any gaming features to note. However, if it's a cheap mechanical keyboard with loud click action you're after, then here you go.

You can find the 87-key version here and 104-key version here.

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Paul Lilly
Paul Lilly

Paul has been playing PC games and raking his knuckles on computer hardware since the Commodore 64. He does not have any tattoos, but thinks it would be cool to get one that reads LOAD"*",8,1. In his off time, he rides motorcycles and wrestles alligators (only one of those is true).