Glorious Gaming - GMMK 3 Barebones Custom Gaming Keyboard Kit with Knob, 75% Mechanical Keyboard, Modular Gasket System, Hotswappable MX, Sound Dampening Foam, Aluminum Switch Plate (Black)

This board is great I have zero complaints. It can support 5 pin switches, and these are north side facing leds. If you already know what switches you are going to put in this board you cant beat the price. You will want to lubricate and tune the stabilizers, or just replace them altogether. To me the stock didn't sound/feel great stock. Aside from the stabilizers the board sounds great out of the box. The unit feels very solid, and the build quality is awesome. The software misses the mark completely. Glorious Core would not load at all. Normal troubleshooting yielded no results. Clean boot/compatibility modes/admin mode/uninstall/reinstall nothing really worked. Personally I would ditch the Glorious Core software and use QMK. I think its worth the time investment in learning how to use QMK with your GMMK2. If your Glorious Core experience was anything like mine it may be a lot less frustrating.

Great keyboard. Overall amazing quality. +Price, This keyboard is a great price for what you get. It is the cheapest barebones 1800/96% keyboard. +Quality, Surprisingly very high quality. For the price I wasn't expecting something quiet this nice. No complaints. +Software, The glorious core software is great. Allows you to program macros, change led colors, remap keys. Very useful. +Support, Glorious has some of the best support around. some cons - screw in stabilizers don't seem to fit without modification, Even the gsv2 from glorious. I tried with 2 different gmmk 2 pros. Both had the same issue. Random stabilizers are stuck no matter what I did. I think the top frame interferes with how the stabilizer lines up making it bind and get stuck bottomed out. -LED colors are slightly off. The sidelight led won't display yellow. It has a very obvious green tint. My gmmk pro does not have this issue. Overall I really like this keyboard. Was easy to build/work on and came out great when finished.

Overall, this is a good barebones keyboard for the price. You get a lot of customization via the software which is neat. Build quality doesn't feel the most premium but definitely not bad either. My biggest problem I have is when I updated the firmware to version 0009 it completed bricked the RGB and would not light up or respond on the software, the way I fixed it was FN + ESC then F1 + F3 + F5 (Hold for 10 Seconds.) Everything worked fine after doing the factory reset but I get some occasional flickering on the side RGB light that I did not have before updating the firmware. If you can get this keyboard on sale, I would recommend it, just don't update the software and save your self the headache.

I've purchased several 65% keyboards in the last few months and this is by far the worst. The keyboard itself is not terrible, but the software is an absolute dealbreaker. If you want to remap any keys, adjust the lighting, or the adjust the time before going to sleep (the default is pretty short)...you just can't. The software appears to have all of these features, but they just flat out don't work. You see the options, but when you click them nothing happens, and sometimes even puts the keyboard in a weird state where you have to unplug and quit the software to get it back to normal. I have never seen software this bad ever in my life. I have no idea how someone could have decided to release it in this state. If they fix the software (which, apparently, they never do), then this keyboard may not be a bad budget option. But until then, it's just an exercise in frustration.

I’ve been really happy with this barebones keyboard. It works great and feels very durable right out of the box. It comes with some test keycaps, a switch puller, and a keycap puller, which makes building and swapping parts super easy. It also includes a mini screwdriver and some extra small repair tools, which is a really nice touch in case you need to open it up or make adjustments. The RGB has a lot of different modes to choose from and looks really clean once everything is set up. It’s not too heavy, but still feels sturdy and well-built on the desk. Overall, a great base if you’re looking to build a custom keyboard. Would definitely recommend it.

Love everything about this bare bone keyboard! You can download a software to control the profiles and rgb settings, but you can also use kb shortcuts with the Fn key to do this (I saw this on a YT video). It’s my first time building my own kb so there’s a lot more to uncover in this niche, and I’m here for it. I will be taking it apart to mod though, so it’s nice that it comes wrapped in PE foam already. :) Also, there’s definitely some weight to it which overall, does give it a more quality-like feel.

UPDATE 1/2025: They now have their Core platform available for Macs. It is fairly janky and took multiple installs, forced opens, circumventing Apple's malware "protection", restarts, and applying changes, but.... I HAVE CUSTOM COLORS AND PATTERNS NOW. Definitely will buy from Glorious again in the future. --- Super quality build. Gorgeous. Amazing. Everything is great. Except... MACS! The software to fully customize the colors for this IS NOT AVAILABLE FOR MACS. I'm fine with keepin' the colors basic but honestly it really sucked to buy this and build it only to realize that after. I would've purchased the competing brand I was looking at because their software is Mac OS compatible. I didn't test both beforehand and that was my mistake.

Pretty good build quality. This is my first (and last) custom keyboard, and I'm generally happy with this base. However, I absolutely hate the LED layout/design. I MUST have a backlit keyboard, and the lighting on this drives me nuts. It's super customizable but the performance is just awful. They're either too bright or too dim, per-key customization and lighting poorly bleeds into neighboring keys, and the software is slow and clunky. As a point of comparison, the Razer keyboard I'm coming from just stomps this into the dirt as far as lighting. All-in-all, I'm $200 into a keyboard trying something new and I have an arguably worse keyboard than my 6+ year old Razer Ornata Chroma. But it's okay because I can just buy more switches, more keycaps and another base and maybe have $400 in a keyboard that performs with pre-built $100 keyboard! Lol.