Corsair Gaming STRAFE RGB MX Silent keyboard review - Product Showcase

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 10/27/2015 10:25 AM [

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Once connected and the PC powered up, subtlety. No flashing bright LEDs just yet, just ambient red LEDs with white LEDs on WASD and the arrow keys, which quite honestly to is really all I need, me likey it ! There's another button for the keyboards back-lit keys, which can be adjusted in three brightness modes and off. make no mistake, each and every key (including the Corsair gaming logo to the left) can be configured with its own color, up-to 16 Million of 'em.

There's not much going on at the backside. We mentioned the rubber feet already. You can use standoffs as well to allow a little more height and create an angled position. They keyboard has a firm grip due to the combo of nice weight and rubber feet. You can use standoffs as well to allow a little more height and create an angled position.

The Strafe uses a dark rubber cable that is roughly two meters in length. It is however very thick, something I personally dislike a bit. Also the color yellow on the connectors does not match with the overall theme? These connectors and yellow accents should have been dark IMHO. See that 2nd USB connector? What's the reason for that you might wonder? Well, you probably spotted it already but there are two USB connectors at the end of the cable. One is for the keyboard of course, the other is being used as a pass-through. Let me show you that:

Boom ! Didn't see that one coming did ya ? So here you can see that the backside of the keyboard has a USB port on it to plug in your mouse or flash drive, which is a nice feature, but at the cost of that very thick cable.

Once you power on the keyboard it'll lit up in default red with white arrow/WASD keys. Once you have installed the Corsair Cue software you'll be able to select and or make the color profiles/animations and even a macro or two assigned to whatever key you like.

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