DrunkDeer A75

The A75 is where DrunkDeer's range started. It is a wired 75% with adjustable magnetic switches, Rapid Trigger and a physical volume wheel. The maker's page sells it with black, white and grey cases, with Space Grey and Silver White PVD aluminum cases as separate variants, and with ABS keycaps, shine-through PBT keycaps or no keycaps at all. It is also the only board among the eight DrunkDeer models covered here that comes in ANSI plus ISO-DE, ISO-UK and ISO-FR.

Reviews of the A75 split along hardware and software. PC Gamer called the typing feel buttery smooth and the stabilizers solid, with Raesha linear magnetic switches, ABS keycaps and a 1000 Hz polling rate, but marked it down hard for the driver software it shipped with at launch and for missing functionality; SemiPro Tech+Gear said the switches made its other linear boards feel scratchy by comparison. HLPLANET later wrote that the software has come a long way since the early criticism, and DrunkDeer now configures its boards in a web driver. On hot-swap, the maker's FAQ says the switches are not soldered but recommends against swapping them, because each switch is calibrated to its sensor at the factory and a replacement can shift sensing accuracy slightly, while PC Gamer's launch review listed the board as not hot-swappable.

Pick it over the later boards mainly for the ISO options or the original design. The A75 Pro and A75 Ultra are the later 75% models; the Ultra adds 8 kHz polling.