Durgod Taurus K320 TKL Mechanical Gaming Keyboard – 87 Keys – Double Shot PBT – NKRO – USB Type C ANSI US (Cherry Brown, Space Grey) (Cherry Red, White)

 

I really have enjoyed this keyboard so far. I got the Black switches and they are everything that I wanted. I don’t like reds because they are too easy for me to fat finger keys, but the blacks have just enough force that it makes it so when you rest your fingers on it you don’t accidentally press any buttons.

I haven’t installed the software (bad experience from different products) but the light control directly from the keyboard is top notch and allows good RGB customization right from the keyboard. Comes with a USB and USB-C cable so it works well for me when switching between my work computer and personal computer (mac and PC). If you’re going to use it for mac though just be aware that it doesn’t have the apple key so you’ll have to custom bind your keyboard if you want to have the mac functionality. .

 

This is my first mechanical keyboard and I’m loving it. I could not believe I would get so excited over using a keyboard. I went for the CherryMXBrown switches as I felt it would give me the best of both worlds (good for gaming and typing). I also like how the ten key less design does not take much space on my desk and I can keep the mouse where the numpad would have been on a regular keyboard. I’m not a huge fan of RGB lighting so I went with the space grey. Makes my home office setup look clean and professional.

 

I purchased the Durgod Taurus K320 TKL (non-backlight version) with Cherry MX Brown switches.

This is my first mechanical keyboard, so take my opinion lightly to the veteran enthusiasts. My principal usage for the keyboard is typing essays and articles, but I do enjoy some gaming on the side. I prefer the tactile bump of the Cherry MX Brown’s, which I tried out in a retail store a while ago, so I already knew what switches I wanted. The keycaps are wonderful and feel like a dream; they remind me of my keyboard I had about 20 years ago in both the font and the feel, so maybe there is some sense of nostalgia. I never found a need for the number pad on my full-size keyboard, so the TKL was a natural fit for me. It feels very sturdy, and the rubber standees keep it from moving around on my desk. I enjoy the routing options under the board, which allow me to run the included cable either left or right.

I was debating between this keyboard the Keychron but the height of the keycaps/board and the angle of the board was a real turn off for me. This keyboard does not require a wrist rest and is very comfortable.

If you can forgo the gamer aesthetic, this is the keyboard for you. It has changed the way I think about keyboards and is absolutely worth the steep price tag.

 

super light and fast mechanical keyboard. A nice update to my well loved, aging steelseries 6gv2 (cherry black). The speed switches are better for everything. The construction quality of the keyboard is as good if not better. Slightly noisier when bottoming out.

 

Ich bin sehr positiv berrascht von dieser Tastatur, ich habe davor lange Zeit eine mechanische Tastatur von Corsair genutzt(welche um einiges teurer als dieses Schmuckstck war) und muss zugeben, dass die Verarbeitung von Durgod in jedem Fall besser als die von Corsair ist. Keine klappernden Tasten, sehr stabil und einfach ein Genuss darauf zu Tippen! Klare Kaufempfehlung!

 

Best quality Price you can get out There. It is rock solid, pretty but not flashy. It Wont let you down!

 

Pros:
– Solid build quality considering plastic finishes all around
– Apparently has a metal plate inside adding to the rigidity
– USB-C to USB-A, and USB-C to USB-C Cable included
– Keycaps are nice to use, soft texture but not rubbery
– All larger keys are stabilized well with no clatter. Since they use switches as stabilizers.
– Compared to my older Hyper-X mechanical keyboard with Cherry MX browns, they’re considerabily quieter

Cons:
– Not backlit, considering the pricepoint I’d prefer to see even a simple white led backlit
– Software for key macros seems kind of useless
– No USB passthrough
– Keys seem to take more actuation force than compared to other Cherry MX Browns.

 

I bought this with cherry brown switches. The board and caps feel better than I was expecting. But the space bar I got was a bit slanted.
Switches are authentic cherry browns.

I swapped out the keycaps for custom keycaps so the space bar being slanted wasn’t a long-lasting issue.

This board would get 5 stars if only there wasn’t so much reverb when typing. In a silent environment, you can clearly hear a ping and echo when you type coming from the board.

 

This is a very hefty, solid keyboard. I was impressed when I opened it. The key action is just what I wanted. Great value for money, I’d buy it again in a heartbeat.

 

I love this keyboard, the keys are light, it feels solid, it’s very clean and there is an insert button. This is a no fuss keyboard and it doesn’t have any Christmas lights (like so many other keyboards). It reminds me of my old Packard Bell 486 Pentium. It stays flat on the desk, doesn’t move, it’s heavy and there is some good rubber padding under it.

I picked it with no numpad, which is what I wanted for work. It’s a little bit noisy, but that’s expected from a mechanical keyboard.I picked it with no numpad, which is what I wanted for work. It’s a little bit noisy, but that’s expected from a mechanical keyboard.

Overall, very satisfied with this purchase.

 

The keyboard itself is very well made. Heavy deck, the flip-out feet feel sturdy and the finish on the space grey model is quite nice. The frame is plastic with a steel plate inside, but the plastic feels substantial (no bending or flexing). Overall, it’s well built.

On another note, this was an upgrade from a keyboard with Outemo Brown switches. Wow. What a difference. All I can say is that the Cherry MX brown originals are better. Much smoother, and the sound it makes is subjectively way nicer (more of a clip-clop rather than a click-clack).

 

This is a very solid keyboard. The keys are made from nice double-shot plastic and have a premium feel to them. My only complaint is that the keyboard makes a very noticeable ringing noise when you bottom out the keys. This is just loud enough to be annoying as you type. Even when I type relatively softly (avoiding bottoming out as much as possible), it can be quite annoying.

Nonetheless, I would still recommend this keyboard for people seeking a quality mechanical board at a fair price.

 

I use it at work. It’s one of my last reminders that a real and better world outside of the corporate sludgery may actually exist. As if typing “Per my previous email” to Dave in Project Management wasn’t satisfying enough, the endorphin rush of every fingergasmic keypress on your Cherry Brown double shot PBTs will have you believing that maybe you aren’t just a cog in a giant machine of unethical waste.

 

Update 2:

The USB issues have been mostly solved, although the keyboard still can’t wake my my from a deep sleep, while ever other connected piece can. On the other hand, since I switched to a different (and better quality) cable, I haven’t had the situation where the keyboard wouldn’t work until disconnected and then reconnected.

Since I got the keyboard I’ve been using it exclusively and have a couple more notes:

– The mechanism feels a bit scratchy. I’m not super happy with it, but it works okay.

– The keycaps, when off, feel a lot less good than when installed. I don’t have a lot of modern comparison, but compared to an Apple Extended II keyboard, these caps are low(ish) middle class feeling at best.

– The hollow clacking when bottoming out (fairly easy on Cherry Blue) got on my nerves so I added o-rings on all keys, this made the keyboard sound less “hollow clacky”, but also added a certain “mush” to the feel. Not sure what I like better, the hollow sound without the o-rings or the very slight mush with them installed.

– I had to add some shortcuts through MacOS built in tools to get some of the functionality back. Mostly Ctrl-F12 as a shortcut for a restart. It’s a bit unfortunate that I can’t remap ScrLk and Pause, these keys just don’t come through on the Mac tools I’ve tried, although I was able to map PrtSc to something more useful than the default “nothing”: it shows the notification center side bar now, which works for me.

– For ergonomic reasons I’ve added a wrist rest, since I found the keyboard plain too high to ergonomically use without one. It’s unfortunate that you have to buy something extra to adjust this.

– The media keys work, which is fortunate as it would have really irked me if they didn’t.

Overall I think this keyboard is okay. I just can’t find it as great as some reviews want me to believe, maybe I’m just spoiled having used AEII and other nowadays “vintage” keyboards, that nevertheless were better than 99% of what’s available today.

If not considering the price, the keyboard would get three stars at best from me. Given the price and the currently existing competition I give it four stars, slightly reluctantly, but okay.

Update 1:

Unfortunately I’m having issues with the USB wake when the computer went to sleep. I’ve swapped the cable and port now to see whether it makes a difference. I hope this doesn’t persist. It feels like I’m not able to wake the computer from deep, power saving sleep with the K320. And once woken up, the keyboard often doesn’t work. The caps lock light shows, but nothing happens on screen. I have to disconnect and reconnect the keyboard in this case.

If this persists, I’ll have to downgrade my review. For now I’ll leave it as is, giving it the benefit of the doubt.

Original Review:

I”m using the K320 with a Mac and MacOS Mojave. Since there is no Mac software I’ve just remapped the Alt and Win keys to have swapped functionality. The media keys work, but are of course slightly different than on a Mac keyboard. I don’t have much of a problem with that. I don’t use it as gaming keyboard but as my daily keyboard since I wanted something with more hub on the keys and with the brown switches it’s acttually pretty good for this. Not too loud, but of course louder than one of the super low profile Apple keyboards.

What I like:

– High quality switches
– Good heft to the construction, it’s not moving on the desk
– High quality materials, mostly plastic but even that feels good
– The keycaps are great, feel good and will probably last a long time
– The included cables are decent quality and I appreciate that there is an USB-C cable included as well

What I don’t like or think could be made better:

– I wish there was a good wrist rest included, but I understand the financial constraints
– The cables could be a bit more flexible and braided
– I’d love to have simple white backlighting, but I can live without
– I wish there was a simple Mac software to create Macros and map keys like PrtSc, ScrLk and Pause
– I think it could still be slightly quieter (dampened?), but maybe I’m just spoiled in this regard

Since most nearly all keys work nicely, the missing Mac software is not a problem for me, it would still be nice to be have a Mac variant (Cmd key caps). I have a third party wrist rest on order and hopefully that will take care of the remaining issues I have with the ergonomics of a higher keyboard.

Overall I can highly recommend this keyboard and look forward to using it for a long time.

 

As always the Cherry MX Blues in this one are nice like always, The rest of the board has a nice feel weight and risers. Nice and solid with good weight and pads to ensure no movement when vigorously typing or gaming. Long time since i have had a keyboard with double shot PBT Keycaps and i forgot how nice they are to touch and deal with long term should be great.

 

Good build quality, and thankfully not gamer/RGB themed. All keys sit straight and have a consistent feel when pressing/depressing. The larger keys (space bar, shift, enter, etc.) can be pressed from the edge and will still move straight up/down.

No software issues. Function keys work as expected (brightness adjust, volume keys, etc.). Did not have to install any special drivers (tested on linux mint and windows 10).

The package included two cables (USB-C to USB-A, and USB-C to USB-C), a key cap puller, and a velcro cable tie.

The only issue I can come up with is that some of the larger keys aren’t evenly illuminated (caps lock, shift, etc.). This is because each key uses the same sized LED for backlight, so the LED doesn’t shine evenly underneath the entire lengths of the long keys. You will only notice this if you spend a lot of time staring at the keyboard (ha-ha). It did not bother me.

I included 3 pictures. One of the top of the keyboard, and two with the F1 key removed to show the switch and the underside of the key cap.

 

Solid keyboard. I got it with Cherry MX clear switches. No frills (except for the multimedia function keys), no LEDs, just a solid well made keyboard.

 

I took a chance on Durgod having never dealt with the company and oh man I am so happy. What a build!

Pros:
– Screams quality. Very solid build / rugged + weighty + stylish
– Every key is snappy and responsive
– The sound of the keys being pressed is delicious to the ears on this board. Not a “tinny” or scratchy/springy sound but more like that satisfying “clack” you get with stacking dominos or quality/heavy poker chips. As an audiophile this was very important to me and I’m soooo pleased with the sound!
– Clear font on the keys, paint doesn’t look to be wearing down at all after months of use.
– Basic but nice features, some programmable things and macros in the software, windows key lock functions right on the board.
– Removable usb-c cable with great design. It’ll feed the cable left, right, or center as you like.
– Usable as a blunt force weapon in case of break-ins. Would possibly win in a cage match vs a Maglight flashlight or a Nokia 3310.

Cons
– No backlight or numeric keypad for the highish price.
– Switches are not hot-swappable so choose wisely unless you want to get into the modding/solder world of switches.
– Cherry Speed Silvers might be too sensitive for typists, read below

Overall it’s incredible.

Note of caution: If you get the cherry silver speed switches, they are _VERY_ sensitive. It will take a bit to get used to. I’m saying if you simply rest your fingers on the keys the slightest weigh can trigger input from this. Like if you accidentally brush your hand on the board grabbing for it, it might mute your audio and open 3 chrome browsers, that level of sensitive. Early on I was trying to figure out why my character in Vermintide 2 was listing right and left until I realized just resting my fingers on WASD was sometimes causing input. Silvers do NOT require a full press, they require an overweight fly to land on the key lol.

But this is not a con, it’s actually great after you re-train muscle memory a bit to accommodate it. Now I can get ridiculously fast input when I need them for gaming, really changes things for the better.

Get this beast!

 

I’ve used this for ten months every day now. I use it more for typing and productivity than for gaming. I am very happy with the quality and the feel of this keyboard. Having no number pad takes some getting used to, but I figured I needed to improve on my touch-number-typing skills.

 

Good board for the $, and Genuine Cherry MX is a plus

 

The white backlit is nice but doesn’t fully light up all the keys… the tab, capslock, enter and both shift keys have letters that aren’t lit up. on the edges.

Other than that it is great!

 

Lovely and clean timeless design, love the Cherry MX Blue switches. Very nice feel, great to work with.

 

I rated this 5 stars because it actually exceeded my expectations (as my first non-strictly-gaming mechanical keyboard).
The build quality is really great and solid. The keyb has a nice weight to it, and 10keyless is just so nice.
Then there’s the feeling of the pbt double shot keycaps – I love how these feel and I think I’m pretty much sold on those for life lol. They have this great textured feeling that isn’t glossy, is just a tiny bit “grippy” if you can call it that? The main thing I like about them is that they don’t get slippery or greasy(?). You always have a good hold on them.
And the sound these keys make are nice and satisfying. I’ll try to get around to making a video at some point.
Mine has cherry MX brown switches which I love.
Love the minimal sleek design as well.

I feel like maybe this keyboard could be a bit more affordable, but I do feel like I got what I paid for.
I think I’d consider this as a good “entry level” mechanical keyboard – that isn’t all sparkly and made for “gamers”

 

Pros
– Nice build quality (casing is plastic, but for $100 it still feels pretty solid)
– Decent out-of-box keycaps.
– Satisfying clack to most keys.
– USB C! And the ability to rout the cable straight out or to either side! This is seriously so important, I don’t want to buy a keyboard without USB C in 2019.

Cons
– The left shift key just doesn’t feel very satisfying to press. Considering that many, many games use this key, it’s something that I pretty much always notice. A lot of mechanical keyboards seem to have this problem and it’s likely because of stabilizers, even though the stabilizers on this keyboard come pre-lubed and lack much play or rattle, the actuation of the left shift just doesn’t feel as clacky and satisfying when you bottom out the switch. I’ve returned keyboards in the past over a very poor feeling LShift, though this keyboard’s LShift isn’t that bad. I can live with it. I just wish it felt better.
– That’s honestly about it. The default cables it comes with are very thick and a bit stiff but that isn’t necessarily a con.

It’s a nice keyboard and I’m glad I bought it. I wish is that there was a CNC aluminum version (which would basically make this keyboard like an RGB-less CTRL clone) because that would be awesome. I also wish LShift felt just a little bit better, but it’s definitely usable.

Update: It’s worth noting that with time and a bit of use, the LShift key has improved in feel a bit. Still not as good as can be had on some other keyboards, but very usable to the point it’s a fairly minor complaint. This is one thing I think mech keyboard manufacturers as a whole could improve on though, stabilizer feel is a tricky thing but so essential.

 

Great looking, inexpensive mechanical keyboard. Included accessories are a bonus. High quality product.

 

The keyboard itself is fantastic. Almost everything someone could ask for (for around 100 bucks mechanical keyboard)

The PBT keycap feels amazing. The genuine cherry mx key switch is great, and although the keyboard case is plastic, it feels solid and it doesn’t feel cheap.

It uses the standard keyboard layout as well, so finding replacement keycap will be fairly easy (which you don’t need to since the keycap provided with the keyboard is already so good)

The main problem with this keyboard is with the Durgod Zeus Engine software. It’s pretty terrible as is right now. Yes, you can use this keyboard without the software and you’ll be a happy man, but if you want to customize what each keys do, or change the keyboard layout, or anything mildly advanced, then you’ll be left frustrated.

That’s why I’m giving this keyboard 4/5 rating. If you don’t care about the software, then this is a 5/5 star keyboard. If your budget is around 100 bucks for a keyboard, don’t get corsair keyboard, don’t get razer keyboard. Buy this.

 

i bought the white version of this keyboard specifically so i could die it to a beige color to match my 90’s era computer case. the keys took Rit synthetic Dye very well but the keyboard case turned an odd pink color. i ended up painting the case Rustoleum satin almond. my biggest complaint about this keyboard is that when it gets humid outside the keyboard presses multiple keys for a single keypress which makes this keyboard pretty hard to use when its muggy. other than that i love this keyboard. would recommend.

 

This really is a good quality solid keyboard. The brown key switches are real cherry switches which are my personal perference. It has a good weight too, which gives it a great feel. One of the things I like is the height of the case surround, it’s low to the point of almost being a floating keys setup which is just another personal preference. Keycaps are a decent thickness doubleshot.

This keyboard gets a lot of daily use and I’m very happy with it.