Fantech ATOM Mizu M63 Review: A Great Budget 60% Keyboard for Beginners

Fantech Atom Mizu 63 Mechanical Keyboard

About several weeks ago, I was reviewing a retro styled keyboard from Rexus Retro Rexus KM10 Keyboard Review | Tech Monday. It was pretty disappointing to find that the keyboard was quite low-quality and poorly made. I found out that the words on the keycap disappeared a week after use and somehow while it has the look that I love and the keycaps that I preferred, it was quite unusable after a few weeks. That made me look for another keyboard and I eventually wanted to compare them to Fantech, the uprising local brand that is also available around South East Asia.

Fantech as a brand is mostly catered to gaming accessories and their products are mostly equipped with RGB. I already have one of their mouse and it’s pretty durable for the price that was offered then. At first, I wanted to get the Go MOCHI combo keyboard that is the same style as Rexus KM10 but after some thought, I decided to go with a mechanical keyboard from Fantech.

There were a few products on sale and I decided to get Fantech ATOM Mizu M63 which is a 60% keyboard layout. This series has a few other layouts up to 95% but I decided to get something small and compact for my table which is 60% and I will tell you more the pros and cons about a 60% layout in this blog.

There are several variations to this series but I picked the navy based with yellow and white accents to it. The board is still definitely plastic but given how it was priced just under $50, it’s definitely given that the material of the main board isn’t going to be similar to a $100 keyboard. However, even under $50, this mechanical keyboard has some awesome features such as hot-swappable which is already compatible with 3 switch pin, keycaps with double injection that won’t cause the words to disappear like what happened to the previous keyboard and more importantly it already features anti-ghosting which ensures all the keys you pressed are executed without delay.

Fantech Unboxing

The product comes with the switch puller and keycap puller as well as extra switches. There is also the user manual that has information on the shortcuts that can be done with the keyboard. While the packaging is pretty simple, I certainly didn’t expect the puller would be included. So, this definitely makes it a good mechanical keyboard for a first timer like myself to customize and play with.

Switch Options

Unlike a regular keyboard, a mechanical keyboard has something called switches. These switches produce different sounds. The sound profile of a mechanical keyboard is something that people like me enjoy listening to. This is where switches play a huge role in how different switches are able to produce different ranges of sounds from silent to clacky to hollow and something called creamy and thocky sounds. Technically, they are divided into 3, tactile, linear and clicky. Tactical comes in brown, linear comes in red and blue comes out as clicky. You can refer to more information about switches over here Switches.

This Fantech Atom series only comes in two switch options, red and blue. If you work from home and enjoy the loudness of typing, definitely go with the blue. I definitely choose blue because the sound is a lot more audible, clicky and really fun to hear whenever I am typing. If you wonder how the linear switch would sound, this is where you can listen to it.