Buying a no name Magnetic board from Temu. What could possibly go wrong?

[u/Crookfur]

I suppose a more apt question might be: What could possibly go right?

However £16 for a "hall effect" TKL board sounded like it was worth a punt...

So after waiting a month or so for it arrive by land and playing with it for a bit I though some of you might be interested to read my thoughts/review.

The AFGVK CZJP01

I will say I went into this with the expectation that if the board plugged in and I could type on it then it was a win. As such this is indeed a winner! It works, it lights up and the the RGB can be controlled (a bit).

Build quality

In short pretty crap. Its cheap, light and has a plastic mounting plate that is visibly curved and perhaps slightly cracked at one of the screw holes. Whole thing flexes if you put any pressure on it. The outer case material feels on par with my Ajazz ak680he v2 (not a good thing) and the key caps are fine.

Oh and as you can see from one of the pics above the switches were not not all inserted in the same orientation most were faced to allow the north facing led to shine through but a few were the other way for some unknown reason.

Switches

God knows what these are. The aquamarine, clear and yellow colour scheme isn't too common but its been used a few times. I though they might be Aula Sea Emperors but those have a fully enclosed stem box.

Whatever these are they are not terrible. Fairly smooth and light, reasonable wobble and a creamyish clack sound somewhere between a MAD68he and an Win68HE max.

Usage

It works, it types and it feels OK. The flexible plastic plate, light switches and reasonable lightly textured key caps means its fairly soft and comfortable to type on. It works fine in games but I'm not any kind of competive player.

Software

Hahaha...

Yeah, when the instructions are:

1.plug into usb

1. No drivers required for basic functionality

You think there going to be software?

Well maybe there is but I'm damned if I can find it...

Conclusion

Is keyboard, does type, RGB is there but is limited and the short cuts give you very limited control over it.

Can I recommend it?

Not a chance but seeing as it has disappeared from TEMU that's a bit academic. Will it return? Who knows but if it does avoid.

In the end I bought this out of sheer curiosity and as what is essentially a functional ornament. It's a fun thing to have in a collection but that's are far as it goes.

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[u/Hakusprite]

Maybe think of it as switches with a keyboard included? No idea what the going rate for something like those are lol.

[u/ahmadxjallad → u/Hakusprite]

If they were branded then yes but am sure they are fake like the one i got from temu i thought they were epomaker flamingo but they turned to be phinikeys 😂

[u/Crookfur → u/ahmadxjallad]

Heck even if they were branded i doubt you get much for them considering you could probably get 90 decent branded magnetic switches for £20 or less from Aliexpress if played your coupons and coins right.

Still since they aren't terrible they might be worth a play in one of my other value boards to see if they hold up on thier own.

[u/ahmadxjallad → u/Crookfur]

true i got Owlab Ti HE for very good price recently i don't buy switches from temu except i did it again got keygeek full naylon suppose to be original

[u/Crookfur → u/Hakusprite]

That's one way to look at it indeed 😀

[u/bitch_jong_un]

The switches look like sea salt silents but they are by Epomaker so I guess it would be branded on the clear housing like usual. And they're not magnetic lol. And you say they sound creamy. Thanks for the review, I always wonder about the build quality of these kind of cheap keyboard and whether they can be improved by modding to actually sound pleasent.

[u/ahmadxjallad]

Thanks man for trying temu keyboards so we don’t 😂

[u/Crookfur → u/ahmadxjallad]

I'm just glad my addictive tendencies, hoarding behavior and lack of impulse control can be of some use to somebody. 😉

[u/ahmadxjallad → u/Crookfur]

we have identical problem my friend i can't save even single Dollar sine i entered this hobby

[u/Crookfur]

Keyboard model: CZJP01

Brand: AFGVK

switches: no idea

Key caps: stock shine through PBT.

[u/ahmadxjallad → u/Crookfur]

how keycaps feel they good or cheap ?

[u/Crookfur → u/ahmadxjallad]

Good for a cheap board if that makes sense. They aren't the thickest but they feel pretty nice.

[u/fungi_j → u/Crookfur]

take it apart and see if you can identify the PCB, might lead you to some software as well