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Do o-rings work with the new sidewall switches?

I just got a Blackwidow Elite with orange switches last week and I'm mostly loving it. I also bought the o-rings to go with it, as my wife is often sleeping in the next room when I am still up working or gaming. Unfortunately, the o-rings seem to make no difference at all due to the sidewall design of the new switches. They bottom out before the sidewalls go below the level of the switch housing, so the o-rings can't keep the keys from bottoming out loudly. I have tried with multiple o-rings, but all that does is make the keycaps not insert as far and wobble a bit more. This could very likely be a deal breaker for this keyboard and it will have to get returned if I can't figure out how to make it quieter when the keys bottom out. The puzzling thing to me is that the Blackwidow Lite comes with these same orange sidewall switches and o-rings. My niece recently bought that keyboard and tried the o-rings with the same results. There seems to be a logical disconnect if Razer is shipping th

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