87 key mech keyboard?

[♥♥♥♥ and bollocks]

hey, i'm considering buying a mechanical keyboard in the near future, my budget is quite tight ~€50($55) and i am wondering, is it worth getting an 87 key keyboard for gaming?
i'd like to hear advice from people who own/have owned one.
any reply is appreciated

[dnklgrn]

Get the Cherry MX Board 3.0, which is a fullsize keyboard but the quality is very good, costs about €60 in Germany.
Smaller formfactors cost extra, lighting costs extra, etc.
Good tenkeyless keyboards are the Lioncast LK 20, Ozone Strike Battle (both about €80) and the CM Storm Quick Fire Rapid-i for about €110.

I use a Rapid-i with MX Brown switches and I like the switches as well as the heavy build quality of the keyboard.
What I don't like is, that after about a year some of the LEDs no longer work.

The MX Board 3.0 has no illumination but it's cheap, reliable and of good quality.

Just make up your mind what kind of switch you want.
Most common are:
Red: linear, no feedback but the switch is activated about half way down.
Preferred by most gamers since you push the keys all the way down while playing.

Blue: tactile with loud click, great switch for writing, since the acustic as well as haptic feedback support fast typing as you can let go the switch after is activates (the click) but has not yet reached the bottom.
Many people feel disturbed by the click.

Brown: tactile switches with a slight haptic feedback about half the way down, when the switch is activated.
Somewhere in between red and blue, no click, but still a feedback, good allrounder in my opinion, if you write a lot.

There are more switches from Cherry, those three are only the most common.
Logitech and Razer have both their own switches, while the Razer switches being not as good as the others, Romer-G from Logitech are quite nice.
Kailh switches are a great alternative to the ones from Cherry and then there is the rest which I don't mention.