**Review: Cooler Master Mechanical Keyboard**

I recently had the opportunity to test out the Cooler Master mechanical keyboard, and I must say, it's a beast of a keyboard that's sure to impress even the most discerning gamers. The first thing that caught my attention was the aluminum top plate, which is reinforced with steel for added durability. Despite its sturdy construction, the keyboard surprisingly doesn't weigh too much - in fact, it's lighter than I expected. This is thanks to the large rubber feet that come attached, which provide excellent traction and prevent the keyboard from sliding around on my desk.

The flip-up feet of the keyboard also feature rubberized grips, ensuring that they won't slip or slide around when typing or gaming. The proprietary plug on the bottom of the keyboard connects via a USB cable, which is designed to be recognized as its own USB interface by the computer. This means that the audio and sound effects can be played through the built-in USB driver, rather than having to rely on external software.

One feature that caught my attention was the rapid-fire engine, also known as Quick Fire, which comes built into the keyboard. This allows for 72 megahertz of processing power, making it more than capable of handling even the most demanding games and applications. The keyboard also features a built-in processor and memory, which means that profiles can be saved across multiple computers without any issues.

When it comes to macros, I was pleased to see that there are five different profiles available for customization. Each profile can have up to 75 different combinations of keys, making it easy to create complex macros for games like Battlefield 4. The keyboard also features five macro keys, which can be used in conjunction with the profiles.

Unfortunately, when it comes to backlighting, I found that this keyboard falls short. There are only three modes available: all on, breathing mode, and gamer mode. While I don't particularly care about flashy lighting effects, I know there are gamers out there who might appreciate the option to customize their keyboard's glow settings.

In terms of typing experience, I was pleased to find that I quickly grew accustomed to typing on this keyboard. The metal and plastic construction may seem unusual at first, but it didn't bother me in any way, and I actually found myself enjoying the tactile feedback provided by the mechanical switches.

**Key Features and Specifications**

* 75 different combinations of keys available through multiple profiles

* Rapid-fire engine with 72 megahertz processing power

* Built-in processor and memory for saving profiles across multiple computers

* Five macro keys for customizable keybinding

* Three backlighting modes: all on, breathing mode, and gamer mode

* Aluminum top plate reinforced with steel for added durability

* Large rubber feet for excellent traction

**Conclusion**

Overall, I'm extremely impressed with the Cooler Master mechanical keyboard. Its robust construction, rapid-fire engine, and extensive customization options make it a must-have for gamers and keyboard enthusiasts alike. While the backlighting may not be as flashy as some of its competitors, I found that I quickly grew accustomed to the keyboard's design and features.

What do you think about this keyboard? What features would you like to see in a mechanical keyboard? Let me know your thoughts on this topic in the comments below!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enguys i would be honestly lying if i said that this was not the biggest keyboard box i've ever seen in my entire life it's huge anyway guys we're gonna go ahead and take a look today at the cm storm it really is a big box i'm not lying the cn storm uh mech keyboard here from cooler master now the mech keyboard here is part of an aluminum series that they have going where we've already taken a look at the reaper mouse and we are going to be taking a look at the pulsar headset this is actually quite a diamond in the rough i can't wait to talk about this a little more in a future video so if you want to know more about the reaper mouse go ahead and click somewhere on the video now it'll bring you to that review and once this review is done i'll go ahead and come back and re-annotate this video to make sure that you guys are able to see that video if you're watching this sometime in the future and if you are from the future i would generally appreciate it if you would tell me the lottery numbers because then if you do and i win i will buy us all entire mechanical uh keyboards and aluminum series from cooler master wouldn't that be awesome okay so since you guys know me and you know that i like to use product rather than just take it out of the box i'm gonna go ahead and take the box and toss it aside and i'm going to unplug the keyboard from my computer because i have been using it and here it is when it comes to the design at first when i first saw this at ces in 2013 i saw it through videos and other other youtubers um i don't know if i was entirely sold on the design but over time it really kind of grew on me because it has that it has a very unique style to it it doesn't look like any other keyboard on the market and a lot of keyboards just look like each other and i hate that i like to stand out and be different um obviously i like to be different i'm a very different kind of guy so what i didn't like about it initially were the angles like see how this is kind of cut this way and that kind of goes that way and in the end it makes it straight but it's just very you know kind of retro looking i guess um but it grew on me and it has a lot of style and uniqueness to it that i really appreciate one of the things that it features that the aluminum series from cooler master is is really about is customization and you see these screw holes on here they do come with a key cap remover as well as a little allen key so that you can remove this plate for easy cleaning you can also remove it for easy customization you can paint it put on some vinyl decals do whatever you want to make it your own nor the keyboard on the market right now offers easy customization of the top plate like that uh the the keys obviously are mechanical i have the brown right here so that naturally means it has a white backlight it is also available in red and blue it may have other colors available i'm not entirely sure you'll have to check out cm the cm store for that right now this keyboard is only available in the cm store at the time of recording but you may start seeing it pretty soon in your local brick and mortar and other online retailers so keep an eye out for it but like i mentioned this is the brown switch uh the f pro has all of the multi-function keys that you come to expect with using function for you know play pause rewind mute volume up volume down windows lock key very important for a gaming keyboard i cannot tell you how many times in the past i have accidentally bumped that stupid windows key that pops me out of full screen mode and then gets me killed and when i used to do arena and warcraft and battlefield 3 and battlefield 4 i still do it because sometimes i forget to block the stupid thing but it's there so it's very important i don't think there's any reason for any keyboard on the market to not include that function uh today now it does have five m keys uh and these are macro keys and we'll talk a little more about that when we talk about what's inside the keyboard now one thing that is very important with this keyboard and it's something that i desperately love when it comes to keyboards i desperately love this like in a very awkward sense of the word it has a built-in usb 3.0 hub with two usb ports a lot of keyboards aren't including these these days they're they're trying to make the keyboards cheaper which means that they're leaving stuff like that out now with that said this keyboard is a little bit on the premium side of cost of things i don't like to talk about cost because it's always changing but i will tell you that this is sort of a premium keyboard because of the features that are included with it so not only does it have a usb 3.0 passthrough and built-in hub it has built-in audio control audio ports for both microphone and your uh headset i don't like to have to reach behind the computer and i don't use front panel inputs on cases because they tend to have more noise in them we'll talk about that later but anyway uh so i can plug my headphone into this which is awesome if it's a usb powered headphone like the pulse r is it gets powered from usb to drive the built-in amplifier for the the drivers you can plug in it right there it's got everything you need now one of the things i'm a little bit disappointed about is you can kind of see it in the video right there there's a little bit of etching hopefully it shows up there's a little bit it's really hard to show there's a little bit of etching there where the cm storm logo continues past the plastic onto the aluminum and if you look at the box right here they kind of show see right there it looks really dark i kind of had hoped that that design was going to show up a little bit more because i like the sam storm logo and so it doesn't it kind of makes me sad but maybe they felt it would be easier if you're going to be customizing it not to have to worry about that so not only does it have um you know a built-in wrist rest which is another really important thing for me personally it has this built-in handle which is really awesome if you're going to be taking it to honolulu that oh it's like 3d too i don't have a 3d camera huh anyway it's got this built-in handle as you can see it's very rigid um there's no flex to it that's really hard to hold like that there's no flex to it see it's perfectly straight and it's really really rigid that's for two reasons one has an aluminum top plate which we've already talked about but it also has steel reinforcement inside so it's very very sturdy but it's actually not that heavy it's a little bit lighter than i expected it to be in fact it's lighter than my black widow from razer was so i like that on the bottom kudos to cooler master for including huge rubber feet like this for a huge guy like me so that i'm not sliding this thing all over my desk when i'm gaming and the flip up feet also have rubberized feet on them so it's not going to slide around that's really cool now when it comes to interfacing with your computer it has a proprietary plug on there it looks like a standard usb plug and not the mini usb like the standard size but with a little extra piece on there so don't lose the cable it is proprietary to this which means it requires their cable to work that's how the audio and stuff works so when you plug it into your computer it's going to be recognized as its own usb interface which means the audio is going to play through a built-in usb driver that's included in this so it technically takes your three and a half millimeter headphones and turns them into a usb device now i was concerned about whether or not that would degrade sound quality at all compared to plugging in directly to my motherboard and i was surprised that the sound quality actually was no different than when it was plugged in so that made me happy now let's go and talk about what's inside it does feature a built on built-in 32 megabytes 72 megahertz um quick fire what they call it rapid fire engine so what that means is that it has a built-in processor as well as memory so that will remember all of your profiles regardless of what computer you hook it up to so you don't have to use any of the built-in software to control any of the profiles i mean you can set up the profiles through the software but you can take it to another computer and those profiles are saved onto the keyboard so you're not gonna have to reset that up if you decide to go to a lan party or you go use somebody else's computer you're not gonna have a problem with that so all in all when it comes to the construction of the keyboard the physical properties it's really really cool now you have 75 different combinations um with between the five different profiles and the five macro keys here that you can save when it comes to various functionality of the macro so 75 is more than i would ever use in fact i generally don't use macros but they're there and i might start using them in the future now when it comes to backlighting this is where i kind of feel the keyboard lacks a little bit and i'm not dogging the keyboard for that because honestly i'm the kind of guy that puts on all keys backlit full brightness all the time i don't care about any of the flashy stuff where it swirls around or it follows your traces of your typing i don't care about that stuff i just like it to be lit but i know there's people out there that do care about that so there's three modes there is a um all on mode where everything's on there's a breathing mode where it fades in and out and then there's like a gamer mode where the only keys that light up are the macro keys the wasd and the arrow keys nothing else not even the little channel light that exists down here inside um i know there's gamers out there that like flashy and they want to see everything kind of twinkling around so it would be nice if they maybe could uh in the future maybe offer some way to incorporate that into the keyboard considering it's a it's a high-end keyboard you can kind of expect that sort of high-end functionality but when it comes to the use of the keyboard i got used to typing on it really quickly i played some battlefield 4 on it immediately when i got it and it feels a little interesting at first because your palm kind of rests on metal and plastic at the same time got used to it real quick didn't bother me at all in fact i love typing on this keyboard so guys what do you think about this keyboard what do you think about the design and the features what would you like to see in a mechanical keyboard like what features are important to you so i'd like to hear it let's go and talk about it let me know what's important to you guys on mechanical keyboards and i'm gonna go ahead and get the hell on out of here and i think you guys should too i think you guys should go play some games and tell me what you think about this keyboard guys as always i appreciate your likes i appreciate your followers it means a lot to me in the channel and i will see you in my next videoguys i would be honestly lying if i said that this was not the biggest keyboard box i've ever seen in my entire life it's huge anyway guys we're gonna go ahead and take a look today at the cm storm it really is a big box i'm not lying the cn storm uh mech keyboard here from cooler master now the mech keyboard here is part of an aluminum series that they have going where we've already taken a look at the reaper mouse and we are going to be taking a look at the pulsar headset this is actually quite a diamond in the rough i can't wait to talk about this a little more in a future video so if you want to know more about the reaper mouse go ahead and click somewhere on the video now it'll bring you to that review and once this review is done i'll go ahead and come back and re-annotate this video to make sure that you guys are able to see that video if you're watching this sometime in the future and if you are from the future i would generally appreciate it if you would tell me the lottery numbers because then if you do and i win i will buy us all entire mechanical uh keyboards and aluminum series from cooler master wouldn't that be awesome okay so since you guys know me and you know that i like to use product rather than just take it out of the box i'm gonna go ahead and take the box and toss it aside and i'm going to unplug the keyboard from my computer because i have been using it and here it is when it comes to the design at first when i first saw this at ces in 2013 i saw it through videos and other other youtubers um i don't know if i was entirely sold on the design but over time it really kind of grew on me because it has that it has a very unique style to it it doesn't look like any other keyboard on the market and a lot of keyboards just look like each other and i hate that i like to stand out and be different um obviously i like to be different i'm a very different kind of guy so what i didn't like about it initially were the angles like see how this is kind of cut this way and that kind of goes that way and in the end it makes it straight but it's just very you know kind of retro looking i guess um but it grew on me and it has a lot of style and uniqueness to it that i really appreciate one of the things that it features that the aluminum series from cooler master is is really about is customization and you see these screw holes on here they do come with a key cap remover as well as a little allen key so that you can remove this plate for easy cleaning you can also remove it for easy customization you can paint it put on some vinyl decals do whatever you want to make it your own nor the keyboard on the market right now offers easy customization of the top plate like that uh the the keys obviously are mechanical i have the brown right here so that naturally means it has a white backlight it is also available in red and blue it may have other colors available i'm not entirely sure you'll have to check out cm the cm store for that right now this keyboard is only available in the cm store at the time of recording but you may start seeing it pretty soon in your local brick and mortar and other online retailers so keep an eye out for it but like i mentioned this is the brown switch uh the f pro has all of the multi-function keys that you come to expect with using function for you know play pause rewind mute volume up volume down windows lock key very important for a gaming keyboard i cannot tell you how many times in the past i have accidentally bumped that stupid windows key that pops me out of full screen mode and then gets me killed and when i used to do arena and warcraft and battlefield 3 and battlefield 4 i still do it because sometimes i forget to block the stupid thing but it's there so it's very important i don't think there's any reason for any keyboard on the market to not include that function uh today now it does have five m keys uh and these are macro keys and we'll talk a little more about that when we talk about what's inside the keyboard now one thing that is very important with this keyboard and it's something that i desperately love when it comes to keyboards i desperately love this like in a very awkward sense of the word it has a built-in usb 3.0 hub with two usb ports a lot of keyboards aren't including these these days they're they're trying to make the keyboards cheaper which means that they're leaving stuff like that out now with that said this keyboard is a little bit on the premium side of cost of things i don't like to talk about cost because it's always changing but i will tell you that this is sort of a premium keyboard because of the features that are included with it so not only does it have a usb 3.0 passthrough and built-in hub it has built-in audio control audio ports for both microphone and your uh headset i don't like to have to reach behind the computer and i don't use front panel inputs on cases because they tend to have more noise in them we'll talk about that later but anyway uh so i can plug my headphone into this which is awesome if it's a usb powered headphone like the pulse r is it gets powered from usb to drive the built-in amplifier for the the drivers you can plug in it right there it's got everything you need now one of the things i'm a little bit disappointed about is you can kind of see it in the video right there there's a little bit of etching hopefully it shows up there's a little bit it's really hard to show there's a little bit of etching there where the cm storm logo continues past the plastic onto the aluminum and if you look at the box right here they kind of show see right there it looks really dark i kind of had hoped that that design was going to show up a little bit more because i like the sam storm logo and so it doesn't it kind of makes me sad but maybe they felt it would be easier if you're going to be customizing it not to have to worry about that so not only does it have um you know a built-in wrist rest which is another really important thing for me personally it has this built-in handle which is really awesome if you're going to be taking it to honolulu that oh it's like 3d too i don't have a 3d camera huh anyway it's got this built-in handle as you can see it's very rigid um there's no flex to it that's really hard to hold like that there's no flex to it see it's perfectly straight and it's really really rigid that's for two reasons one has an aluminum top plate which we've already talked about but it also has steel reinforcement inside so it's very very sturdy but it's actually not that heavy it's a little bit lighter than i expected it to be in fact it's lighter than my black widow from razer was so i like that on the bottom kudos to cooler master for including huge rubber feet like this for a huge guy like me so that i'm not sliding this thing all over my desk when i'm gaming and the flip up feet also have rubberized feet on them so it's not going to slide around that's really cool now when it comes to interfacing with your computer it has a proprietary plug on there it looks like a standard usb plug and not the mini usb like the standard size but with a little extra piece on there so don't lose the cable it is proprietary to this which means it requires their cable to work that's how the audio and stuff works so when you plug it into your computer it's going to be recognized as its own usb interface which means the audio is going to play through a built-in usb driver that's included in this so it technically takes your three and a half millimeter headphones and turns them into a usb device now i was concerned about whether or not that would degrade sound quality at all compared to plugging in directly to my motherboard and i was surprised that the sound quality actually was no different than when it was plugged in so that made me happy now let's go and talk about what's inside it does feature a built on built-in 32 megabytes 72 megahertz um quick fire what they call it rapid fire engine so what that means is that it has a built-in processor as well as memory so that will remember all of your profiles regardless of what computer you hook it up to so you don't have to use any of the built-in software to control any of the profiles i mean you can set up the profiles through the software but you can take it to another computer and those profiles are saved onto the keyboard so you're not gonna have to reset that up if you decide to go to a lan party or you go use somebody else's computer you're not gonna have a problem with that so all in all when it comes to the construction of the keyboard the physical properties it's really really cool now you have 75 different combinations um with between the five different profiles and the five macro keys here that you can save when it comes to various functionality of the macro so 75 is more than i would ever use in fact i generally don't use macros but they're there and i might start using them in the future now when it comes to backlighting this is where i kind of feel the keyboard lacks a little bit and i'm not dogging the keyboard for that because honestly i'm the kind of guy that puts on all keys backlit full brightness all the time i don't care about any of the flashy stuff where it swirls around or it follows your traces of your typing i don't care about that stuff i just like it to be lit but i know there's people out there that do care about that so there's three modes there is a um all on mode where everything's on there's a breathing mode where it fades in and out and then there's like a gamer mode where the only keys that light up are the macro keys the wasd and the arrow keys nothing else not even the little channel light that exists down here inside um i know there's gamers out there that like flashy and they want to see everything kind of twinkling around so it would be nice if they maybe could uh in the future maybe offer some way to incorporate that into the keyboard considering it's a it's a high-end keyboard you can kind of expect that sort of high-end functionality but when it comes to the use of the keyboard i got used to typing on it really quickly i played some battlefield 4 on it immediately when i got it and it feels a little interesting at first because your palm kind of rests on metal and plastic at the same time got used to it real quick didn't bother me at all in fact i love typing on this keyboard so guys what do you think about this keyboard what do you think about the design and the features what would you like to see in a mechanical keyboard like what features are important to you so i'd like to hear it let's go and talk about it let me know what's important to you guys on mechanical keyboards and i'm gonna go ahead and get the hell on out of here and i think you guys should too i think you guys should go play some games and tell me what you think about this keyboard guys as always i appreciate your likes i appreciate your followers it means a lot to me in the channel and i will see you in my next video\n"