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.

Great keyboard base if you’re looking to choose your own switches and caps . The software is really nice ,the overall feel and weight of the keyboard assembled is very nice

A few of the sockets were loose upon arrival and broke while trying to insert switches, and tbh I didn't feel like going through any kind of return process so I bent them back into place and soldered them back myself. Kind of a rough initial impression. The software is kinda trash. The LEDs go to sleep after a very short period and I could not figure out a way to disable this... Aaand the final nail in the coffin - the LEDs just died after a little over 2 months of use. If I really liked this board I would definitely troubleshoot the issue and try to fix it, but I kinda hate it at this point and already ordered a new keyboard.

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.

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.

All the keys work for me despite other reviews. Great starter board with a heavy and solid build. I like that the edges are taller too. makes for a slicker look

I purchased this because the Glorious I built a year ago has no volume control, and I wanted one with that feature. I was using a GMMK87 with a volume control, but I found this used Via software, and that software cannot control the RGB on every key individually, which makes it sort of useless for gaming. I know the Glorious would do this, so I ordered this base with the volume control. I sold the GMMK. Disappointed as soon as I opened it and discovered it's plastic instead of aluminum. Why is a plastic keyboard base so expensive? The GMMK cost less than half of this price. But it has better software, so I transferred all my switches and keycaps over. It's OK, but it's plastic. I would go back to my original aluminum Glorious if it had a volume control. This definitely not worth the money they are asking. To top it off, I installed the software. The RGB per key works, but more than half the patterns don't do anything, and just shut off all the RGB. So out of maybe 12 or 15 patterns, half of them Don't work. It seems these companies don't want to make decent software for their products. Next time I decide to build a keyboard (if I ever do again), it's going to be a different brand with software that works correctly. One good thing to note. This base has North Facing LEDs, and this will work on the vast majority of shine-through keycaps. (I still don't know why anyone would build an RGB keyboard and not use caps that shine though). So, if you are using top printed shine-through keycaps this keyboard will work perfectly. The only keycaps that may be a problem on this keyboard are the ones printed on the front (South Face) of the cap.

The escape key does not work at all, doesn’t show it in the photos but the bottom is a very ugly orange colour. The software customization does not work at all can only use the pre made options

Arrivée brisé, la moitié des touches sont non fonctionnel... Ce n'est pas mon premier projet, mes sûrement mon dernier avec Glorious

I definitely recommend this keyboard. However, mine did arrive damaged. The S key wasn't working, turns out the contact the switch goes into was broken off from the solder on the PCB. It was an easy fix though, a guy was willing to fix it for me for ten to twenty dollars. I doubt you'll have the issue as I did because most people don't. My only thing is I wish there were more RGB options in Glorious Core.