Be Quiet! Light Mount TKL review: a smaller and updated expansion to its already solid lineup
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After releasing its first set of peripherals last year, Be Quiet! is already expanding its lineup. While the Dark Mount and Light Mount brought their own switches and silent designs, the company is now adding another option to its gaming keyboard lineup. The Light Mount TKL is a smaller version of the original, while also bringing some notable improvements.
By removing the numpad and upgrading the switches, Be Quiet! continues its push towards a quieter gaming setup. I put this new mechanical board through its paces in this keyboard review, testing how it performs and how it compares to the previous releases.
- Form factor: TKL
- Key switches: Black tactile/Orange linear, Be Quiet! Silent V2s
- Key caps: Be quiet! PBT double-shot
- Connectivity: USB 2.0 Type C
- Dimensions (LxWxH): 358.0 x 213 x 43.6mm (358.0 x 132 x 43.6 without palmrest)
- Weight: 1.03kg (0.77 without palmrest)
After setting foot in the peripheral space, Be Quiet! is expanding on its selection, and it’s done so in an impressive capacity. With the Light Mount TKL, it expands on what the keyboard has to offer. Cutting out the keypad, it increases your mouse space but also offers V2 even more silent switches and adds Quick Tap to it.
Creating an excellent sound and feel, it improves on what the keyboard has to offer and now comes in at a lower price too, which might make it more broadly affordable. But for that, you get an excellent quality and feel of keyboard with top performance. Although it does limit your connectivity options, and some of the larger keys do take time to fully lube up and get to the right level.
- Great-sounding and improved switches
- Plenty of customization that can be done in browser
- Top ergonomics and included palm rest
- Host swappable key switches and caps
- Stylish and quality design
- Brings new quick tap feature
- Some of the bigger keys are stiff out of the factory
- Lacking in more connectivity options
- Volume dial position takes getting used to
Design and features
Compared to the Ducky design of things, Be Quiet! keeps the packaging minimal and straightforward. The all-black box features the keyboard’s name, image, and key information, with the back reserved for a wall of specifications and additional details.
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Be Quiet! Light Mount TKL box side, Image by PC Guide
Be Quiet! Light Mount TKL box top edge, Image by PC Guide
Be Quiet! Light Mount TKL box front, Image by PC Guide
Be Quiet! Light Mount TKL box back, Image by PC Guide
Opening the box, the keyboard is presented on top, covered in a plastic bag and taking up almost the entire top section. Underneath is a secondary compartment containing the accessories. This is where you’ll find the wrist rest, also bagged up and fitted in front of the accessory box, which itself sits inside a cardboard tube.
Inside, you get the basic essentials for the keyboard: a simple braided and flexible cable, along with a two-in-one keycap and switch puller if you ever want to change either component. Aside from the manual, it’s a fairly minimal selection of accessories.
Be Quiet! Light Mount TKL bottom box accessories, Image by PC Guide
Be Quiet! Light Mount TKL box contents, Image by PC Guide
Be Quiet! Light Mount TKL accessories, Image by PC Guide
Be Quiet! Light Mount TKL open box, Image by PC Guide
Handling the keyboard, I could immediately feel its sturdiness. Despite weighing around 760g, it resists bending and twisting remarkably well, maintaining its shape under pressure. This is likely thanks to the metal faceplate rather than a plastic chassis, as well as the three layers of sound dampening built into the keyboard. These not only help silence the board but also give it a more premium feel.
Be Quiet! Light Mount TKL weight with wrist rest, Image by PC Guide
Be Quiet! Light Mount TKL weight with wrist rest and cable, Image by PC Guide
Be Quiet! Light Mount TKL weight with cable, Image by PC Guide
Be Quiet! Light Mount TKL weight alone, Image by PC Guide
As for the keyboard’s design, it is essentially the Light Mount with the numpad removed. A full set of standard keys is available in US, DE, UK, and FR layouts, alongside the home and arrow keys on the right, a full row of function keys across the top, and three macro buttons in the top-right corner. There’s also a minimalist volume control knob with some satisfying knurling and a mute button in the center. Combined with the pause, skip, and back macro buttons, this gives you some useful media controls.
Be Quiet! Light Mount TKL in box, Image by PC Guide
Be Quiet! Light Mount TKL front on, Image by PC Guide
The top faceplate is made from brushed aluminum, giving the keyboard a refined finish and feel. There’s a relatively stealthy Be Quiet! logo above the arrow keys, with hidden status LEDs beside it. The keycaps are PBT doubleshot, which is fairly standard, but they feel solid and durable. They also feature translucent lettering to allow the individual ARGB lighting from the switches to shine through.
The switches are Be Quiet!’s V2 Silent switches, which are available with either linear or tactile actuation. This gives you the choice of which typing feel you prefer, while both options are designed to deliver speed, precision, and accuracy without adding unnecessary noise. They’re also pre-lubed from the factory for smoother performance and use a 5-pin MX design, making them hot-swappable with other compatible options on the market.
Be Quiet! Light Mount TKL switch side, Image by PC Guide
Be Quiet! Light Mount TKL switch top, Image by PC Guide
Be Quiet! Light Mount TKL switches and PCB, Image by PC Guide
Be Quiet! Light Mount TKL switches, Image by PC Guide
Be Quiet! Light Mount TKL keycaps, Image by PC Guide
Be Quiet! Light Mount TKL powered switch, Image by PC Guide
Be Quiet! Light Mount TKL switch bottom, Image by PC Guide
Moving around the rest of the board, the top features an RGB diffuser spanning its entire length, sitting above the sloped rear section. This leads to the recessed USB-C port, which is the only connectivity option available on the keyboard.
The sides of the Light Mount TKL expose the switch lighting, while the chassis slopes inward towards the bottom and another smaller RGB diffuser that illuminates the sides. At the front, the keyboard has a relatively flat face compared to the rest of the design. There are also a couple of plastic tabs protruding from the front to guide the magnets in the included palm rest, which clicks into place easily.
Be Quiet! Light Mount TKL powered top edge, Image by PC Guide
Be Quiet! Light Mount TKL powered side on, Image by PC Guide
Be Quiet! Light Mount TKL left side, Image by PC Guide
Be Quiet! Light Mount TKL bottom edge, Image by PC Guide
Be Quiet! Light Mount TKL top edge, Image by PC Guide
Be Quiet! Light Mount TKL underside RGB diffuser, Image by PC Guide
On the underside, the keyboard uses a simple plastic chassis with an angular, carved design. The main section features cut-out lines that create a textured finish, along with a sticker positioned in the center. Further down, three simple rubber feet provide grip and raise the keyboard slightly.
The top edge is the main point of interest, as it is already slightly raised and slopes away from the keyboard before finishing with additional rubber feet. There are also folding feet that provide two additional angles, allowing you to adjust the keyboard to a comfortable typing position. I found this particularly useful when paired with the palm rest.
Be Quiet! Light Mount TKL powered underside, Image by PC Guide
Be Quiet! Light Mount TKL rubber feet, Image by PC Guide
Be Quiet! Light Mount TKL folded foot, Image by PC Guide
Be Quiet! Light Mount TKL foot 1st step, Image by PC Guide
Be Quiet! Light Mount TKL foot 2nd step, Image by PC Guide
Be Quiet! Light Mount TKL underside, Image by PC Guide
Pricing
When it comes to pricing, the Be Quiet! peripheral doesn’t come cheap. This is particularly noticeable given its limited connectivity, with the Light Mount TKL costing $139.90/£119.99. That’s still a reduction compared to the full-sized Light Mount, which launched at $169.90/£169.90.
Compared with other keyboards on the market, the Be Quiet! board actually sits somewhere in the middle of the pack. The SteelSeries Apex Pro TKL, for example, costs $239.99/£184.28, while its Apex 3 TKL is $49.97/£49.99. Similarly, Logitech’s G413 TKL is $79.99/£59.99, while the G515 comes in at $159.99/£129.99.
Performance
Finally, I put the keyboard through its paces, plugging it into my PC and testing it across a variety of tasks while also exploring the controls and customization options it offers. I initially ran it without IO Center installed, so it defaulted to its basic setup, with the RGB following Windows Dynamic Lighting.
Be Quiet! Light Mount TKL setup (4), Image by PC Guide
Be Quiet! Light Mount TKL setup (3), Image by PC Guide
Be Quiet! Light Mount TKL setup (2), Image by PC Guide
Be Quiet! Light Mount TKL setup (1), Image by PC Guide
The first thing I noticed was, of course, the silence. Much like the V1 switches, the V2s keep noise to a minimum, but they feel even more refined. A lot of the remaining noise comes from the keys physically bottoming out against the board, but the built-in dampening prevents much of that sound from reverberating. As a result, the keyboard is impressively quiet both to the touch and ear, meaning you don’t have to worry as much about your microphone picking it up during group chats. You can hear a recording of the keyboard taken from around 10 cm above it below to get an idea of the noise level.
One issue I did encounter was the initial stiffness of the space bar. While most of the smaller keys felt fine from the outset, the larger keys were noticeably stiffer. After many hours of typing and use, however, the space bar became much smoother and felt more consistent with the other keys. This could simply be down to the pre-lubed switches requiring some use for the lubricant to spread more evenly.
The positioning of the volume knob also takes some getting used to. It occupies the usual position of the Escape key, meaning I found myself hitting it accidentally fairly often. Once I adjusted to its position, though, it offered a smooth and comfortable experience. I also appreciated the included palm rest. It provides good support and, although it may still be a little thin like the previous version, I found it much more usable this time around, perhaps due to how I positioned my hands.
Be Quiet! Light Mount TKL in use (1), Image by PC Guide
Be Quiet! Light Mount TKL in use (2), Image by PC Guide
Be Quiet! Light Mount TKL in use (3), Image by PC Guide
Be Quiet! Light Mount TKL in use (4), Image by PC Guide
With the range of foot adjustments, I was able to find a comfortable angle for the keyboard. It doesn’t raise the board particularly steeply, which should help avoid unnecessary wrist strain, and it held up well during long-form writing and extended use.
Be Quiet! also introduced its Quick Tap feature on this keyboard, giving it a useful gaming-focused feature that prioritizes your most recent input when two conflicting inputs are pressed. For example, if you press A and then D, the latter input takes priority. This can be useful for responding quickly to inputs, although I sometimes used to cancel out movement in CS2 by pressing both directions, so overriding that movement once again takes some getting used to. It’s turned off by default and may also be bannable in some games, so it’s a feature you may not end up using anyway.
Be Quiet! Light Mount TKL in use (7), Image by PC Guide
Be Quiet! Light Mount TKL in use (6), Image by PC Guide
Be Quiet! Light Mount TKL in use (5), Image by PC Guide
I also spent some time in IO Center for customization, which is available both as a standalone app and on the web. It’s a versatile tool with plenty of customization options. The illumination section offers a wide range of presets, while also allowing you to create your own lighting layers or let Windows take control. This produces a great-looking keyboard, with the diffused RGB providing a subtle glow that adds to the overall design.
There’s also a dedicated key-binding tab that lets you customize each individual key. An FN layer provides another set of inputs to work with, while you can also assign macros and record them directly within the software. Overall, it’s a useful and versatile piece of software that doesn’t even require installation if you want to use the web version.
Be Quiet! Light Mount TKL software (1), Image by PC Guide
Be Quiet! Light Mount TKL software (2), Image by PC Guide
Be Quiet! Light Mount TKL software (3), Image by PC Guide
Be Quiet! Light Mount TKL software (4), Image by PC Guide
- Form factor: TKL
- Key switches: Black tactile/Orange linear, Be Quiet! Silent V2s
- Key caps: Be quiet! PBT double-shot
- Connectivity: USB 2.0 Type C
- Dimensions (LxWxH): 358.0 x 213 x 43.6mm (358.0 x 132 x 43.6 without palmrest)
- Weight: 1.03kg (0.77 without palmrest)
Conclusion
Overall, the Be Quiet! Light Mount TKL is a high-quality keyboard that builds on the original Light Mount in several useful ways. Its smaller TKL layout frees up more space for your mouse while also bringing the price down from the full-sized model.
The updated V2 switches further improve the already quiet typing experience, and while some of the larger keys were initially stiff, they became much smoother after extended use. Combined with the solid construction, comfortable typing angle, and extensive customization options, the Light Mount TKL makes a strong case for a quieter gaming and productivity setup. Its limited connectivity is a notable drawback, but the addition of Quick Tap and the updated hardware give this TKL board some useful new features to go alongside its core strengths.
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