welcome to my unboxing and first look at what is clearly a pre-production retail
package because I don't think Cooler Master with all of their experience
would release a retail product that looked like this but this is pretty much
what you'll get inside your real one with a more fancy graphic on it this is
the quickfire TK so if you didn't know already Cooler Master has been doing
mechanical keyboards for a little while now actually so they are quite well
regarded they have a pretty wide variety of products I mean you look at some
companies where they'll release sort of one mechanical keyboard with one
particular key switch and maybe it has a backlight or it doesn't have a backl and
you should be happy to get what you can I suppose um Cooler Master is taking a
completely different approach and they're going after more like the guys who do a lot of different SKS with a lot
of customizability so the quickfire t
alone is available in Cherry MX Blue
Cherry MX red switches and Cherry MX Brown switches they also come with
different backlight colors to correspond to the types of switches in them so this
I asked for if you know if you guys follow me on Twitter and you know what I
think of keyboards I asked for obviously the Cherry MX Blue version oh check that
out it's oh hold on oh there it is all right I thought we
were going to be missing a key there oh well this is a good opportunity to show you guys what what it looks like so
there you can see the Cherry MX Blue switch you can hear if I move it up to
the mic a yeah you can hear the sexy sound
that it makes when you actually actuate the switch I'm just going to go ahead and throw that back on it comes with a
key removal to Tool right so uh so yes this is the Blue version with a blue
backlight and a blue and blue switches
I'm just going to show you guys how this works so it comes with a removable cable
which I don't know if I I don't know if that's entirely necessary but I guess if
that's something they want to do then that's great it also has cable routing holes so you can bring it out the one
side bring it out the other side or bring it straight out the back of the
keyboard depending on what you find preferable there are
rubber uh nonslip feet here here and here and the oh the are these are my
favorite check this out so if you get right in there you can see the entire
both sides of it are rubber so it's an entire coating on the keyboard uh Little
Foot itself here that's rubber so what that means is a lot of the time you
deploy these things and the keyboard becomes slippery all of a sudden because
only the bottom two are making contact properly and these will be just plastic
but cooler Master's gone the extra mile and made sure that that's not going to
cause any problems for you comes with a key removal tool so you can go ahead and
remove the keys you can remove the keys without the key removal tool but it's
not recommended because it can damage the switch underneath so let's go ahead
and check this out so there you go you can see the blue the blue back plate it
has a full metal back plate so let's find out oh that's very solid actually
this is among the more solid keyboards that I've encountered even some
mechanical keyboards you can tell these they're still they're not that solidly
built cuz they'll have a lot of flex in them but you can see I'm actually
putting a lot of force on this can you can you see the flex there's a little bit but I mean there's only so much you
can do but it's very very solidly built that makes a great difference when
you're mashing on something pressing buttons hard to have it not have any
Flex to it because that's how you get that sort of that perfect tactile
response now Blue switches are not for everyone you can hear how loud they
are but like I said Cooler Master is making the keyboard available in a
variety of different configurations depending on what you want the brown switch one does not come with a brown
backlight just so you guys know so the blue switch one comes with a blue
backlight the red switch one comes with a red backlight and the brown switch one
comes with a white backlight so don't worry it's nothing nothing ridiculous
like that and you know what this might be a bit of a bit of a problem here
because oh no it works there we go I was worried that it wouldn't work because
I'm not actually booted into Windows but it looks like all the software is running in here so the keys are
individually backl back lit and it comes
with a variety of modes so you can see the mode here for whatever reason has
these ones not illuminated and this one not illuminated and the F12 not
illuminated it also has three different brightness levels so I'm just going to hold down function here and so we'll go
brightness all the way down wow five different brightness
levels you know what that looks stunning look how good the backl looks when they
CU see here if I unplug it so unplug it again you can see they've colored the
back plate blue which means the reflection of the LEDs off the back
plate actually makes the blue much more intense and much more striking than
keyboards that I've seen in the past that is a really nice touch that's smart
I haven't seen that before so let's give it a sec to oh yeah I plugged it into
the right thing okay so give it a sec to turn itself back on here so so give me a
moment so I managed to lock up the computer because I didn't realize it was
doing something and I was mashing on Keys over here and it was obviously
plugged in so I'm going to not Mash Keys too too hard anymore but I want to show
you guys so it has five different brightness levels it has several
different modes so that looks like sort of more of like a oh okay so there's W
ASD mode then
there's sort of full mode except for the function key here and these keys right
here and then there's sort of what looks like kind of a oh is it like pulsating or
something oh cool it has like a breathing mode that's that's really neat
okay and then brightness you obviously can't control in that particular mode
I'm not sure what this guy does back in a sec okay I figured it out so I think I
got got everything down pat now this switches between six key and N key
rollover remember n key rollover is better cuz it means you can type like
this if you want and it'll actually register every single keystroke no big
deal six key rollover however is more
compatible with various bioses or with Apple computers for example that don't
support en key rollover because this is over USB which normally sort of
naturally doesn't support en key rollover all right next we've got I
could not figure out for the life of me why these Keys weren't Illuminating
number lock so when you have number lock off you can see these arrow keys
illuminate because we are in the mode that ows us to use the other
functionality of this of this uh block of keys here so we've got a full number
pad block which I personally still like to see but we have a keyboard that's not
much bigger than a 10 keyless which is really cool so by switching this
functionality so number lock is on other functionality is on you got all your
usual keys and page down page up delete all that good stuff and you have a full
number pad which is very very cool right
here this is a function key lock so this is U this
okay however this works okay one of them's oh no sorry Windows key lock so
you can turn your Windows keys on and off and this is your function key lock
which will lock your function keys on and off so that you can either have them
operate as F1 to F12 or you can have them operate as dedicated media Keys
including play pause stop back forward mute volume down and volume up um as
well as all of your lighting adjustments and all that good stuff so you can go
sort of I think we showed all the different lighting modes I think that
pretty much covers it so thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look
at the very wellb built very solid feeling I mean there's you know the
whole CM Storm thing they just got good little touches that make it look nice
make it function well and that pretty
much covers it as you guys know I'm big into mechanical keyboards would I
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