hey guys welcome to my Razer chroma series video make sure you hit that
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and mice aren't exactly new and neither are the Razer Death ater Mouse Kraken
7.1 headset or black widow ultimate 2014
but this is the first time we've seen those two things
together
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the simplest of the three the Kraken 7.1 chroma which is basically just a
straight carbon copy of the Kraken 7.1 but I'll give you guys a brief rundown
on it anyway it's got 40mm neodium drivers a headband with size adjustments
and folding the ear cupt swivel for a good fit against your head and it
connects to your PC with a braided USB cable the software includes surround
calibration some dials that you can use to tune the integrated sound card I'd
recommend turning down Bas boost by the way more on that in a minute a mixer in
case the one in Windows wasn't enough for some reason an EQ which is actually
nice to have included and finally lighting controls of course you can
choose between any solid color breathing in any color and cycling through the
entire 16.8 million color spectrum and I guess this seems like a good opportunity
to point out how responsive and bug-free the software is but also how limited
these options are two-color breathing and breathing rates as well as color
cycle speed adjustments would be welcome additions to this product if I thought
it made any sense to buy it anyway um unless you must have RGB Lighting on
your headset I don't really recommend the Kraken 7.1 at $100 even with base
boost off lows are very overpowered to
my ears and the microphone is well well
I'll uh I forgot to press record over here so I'm going to do that now and I
will let you evaluate that for yourself
now while I'm sure Min Lang is in the process of writing an angry tweet to me
um I guess this might help to stay his hand because with the death ouer chroma
it's a very different story this seems to have gotten some very tangible
improvements over the death ouer 2013 ergonomics are still a strong point the
rubber side grips still feel great but now the braided cord is one of the best
I've ever encountered with almost no Kink left after back bending the right
and left click are significantly heavier
so I don't accidentally press them constantly and the sensor has been I
don't know what word you'd want to use for this type of interpolation Tom fery
so let's just say overclocked to 10,000 DPI or CPI if you prefer from 6,400 in
the original death outer 2013 so next time you're gaming at the local IMAX you
can crank that the lighting is better implemented then with the Kraken but
still kind of incomplete feeling the razor logo on the back supports the same
modes as the Krakens so solid breathing and cycling but the scroll wheel doesn't
support breathing for some reason so that's the bad news the good news though
is that unlike the headset the mouse supports different lighting schemes when
your mouse profiles auto switch as you launch various programs great inclusion
and I really like how smooth the color transitions are very neat which leads us
finally to the Black Widow ultimate chroma this is my second Black Widow
ultimate 2014 and if you didn't show me the lighting tab in the software well I
probably would never know the difference you can get my full thoughts in a review
here but in a nutshell it's still got a matte black finish with subtle frosted
lock key lighting and a shiny razor logo at the bottom it's still got five extra
macro keys on an otherwise standard layout where every key is fully
programmable and however you may feel about this it still uses razer's own
brand branded mechanical key switches manufactured by Kyla and China due to
the constrained supply of Cherry MX switches back to that lighting tab in
the software again though the keyboard obviously got the most attention from
razer's devs in addition to Auto profile switching and the modes that the other
devices support the keyboard gets a sweet wave pattern that can run either
left to right or right to left but regrettably doesn't support custom
colors or speed alterations it gets a reactive mode that Fades incredibly
smoothly and looks really nice and a custom mode that you can use to either
apply profiles for a variety of genres or even specific games or build your own
according to your preference I went with a combination of hot pink and purple
that I think looks absolutely fabulous so it's conclusion time and I'm
finally going to address the elephant in the room razer's chroma products are not
the only RGB gaming products to be released in the last month or so so who
has the best RGB product lineup razor or Corsair we'll start with the headset the
revised h1500 from Corsair sounds much
more balanced than the Kraken and is more comfortable for me but
unfortunately not only lacks RGB lighting uh but has a horrendous yellow
accent to go along with the new stamp logo and so there you go frankly I
wouldn't use either of them so we'll call the headset a draw I guess on to
mice Corsair would have had a shot at this if they' done an M45 RGB instead of
an M65 RGB because I really like the shape of their mice and the M45 uses is
an excellent sensor along with a firmware that doesn't it too hard a
combination that's surprisingly difficult to find but even though
Corsair has more lighting zones due to the M65 use of a laser sensor with
inherent acceleration I have got to give the nod to the Razer death add chroma
which leads us to keyboards and general thoughts I guess both razors and
Corsair's implementations feel a bit rushed to me but in different ways Razer
hides it a lot better than Corsair because the synapse 2.0 interface even
though the functionality hasn't been changed since the old keyboard and the lighting modes are very limited is super
easy to use and this allows Razer to gracefully Without End user confusion
add more features as time goes on whereas Corsair built in shedloads of
functionality on day one lots of extra lighting modes and some really cool
programmability that makes their RGB line a serious improvement over their
original Kline but overlooked some
Basics like default profiles for lighting modes and then they went and
shipped the keyboard with 140 page manual that you will legitimately have
to read in order to do anything with it not a great end user experience but
software will improve for both so let's focus on the hardware trade-offs for now
razer's backlight is noticeably brighter but Corsair's is theoretically less
prone to LED failure due to electrostatic discharge Razer has passed
throughs for USB and audio however poorly positioned they might be while
Corsair includes dedicated media Keys r Razer includes macro keys on their $1
169.99 model while Corsair provides them only on the $20 stepup k95 model and in
terms of looks beauty is in the eye of the beholder but I think razer's matte
black and Corsair's brush metal both look awesome so if we say that those
tradeoffs all cancel each other out the decision for me and for you probably is
going to come down to the usage experience rather than the fancy lights
Corsair includes a wrist rest in the Box which personally I find to be very
important but you might not care and they use Cherry MX switches whereas
Razer uses their Razer switches so
ultimately that's the decision-making factor for me guys thank you for
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