The Razer Black Widow Elite Keyboard: A Comprehensive Review

The Razer Black Widow Elite keyboard is a high-end gaming keyboard that boasts a sleek and premium design, featuring an all-metal construction that exudes quality and durability. The keyboard's unique feature is its exposed switches, which allow users to see each individual light and feel the tactile bump of the keys as they press down. This attention to detail and commitment to quality make the Black Widow Elite a standout among high-end gaming keyboards.

One of the most impressive features of the keyboard is its cable management system. Razer has implemented a range of solutions to keep cables organized, including a thick cable that can be routed through the center of the keyboard, allowing for a truly wireless setup. The cable can also be directed out of the left or right hand side of the keyboard via special channels and feet, providing users with flexibility in terms of cable management.

The keyboard's height adjustment feature is another notable feature, allowing users to adjust the height of the keyboard to suit their needs. There are three levels of height adjustment available, including a high setting that allows the keyboard to sit flat against the desk, a medium setting that provides some height adjustment, and a low setting that allows for almost no height adjustment at all.

The keyboard also comes with an optional wrist rest, which attaches to the keyboard via magnets. While the magnet connection is not particularly strong, the wrist rest is designed to prevent movement on the desktop, providing users with a stable and comfortable typing experience.

In terms of ports, the Black Widow Elite features USB 2.0 pass-through and audio pass-through ports, located below the Escape key on the left-hand side of the keyboard. These ports provide users with flexibility in terms of connecting their devices, including mice, headphones, and other peripherals.

One potential drawback to the keyboard is its lack of dedicated macro keys. While there are five dedicated macro keys on the Black Widow V2 keyboard, none are present on the Black Widow Elite model. However, this may not be a significant issue for users who do not require extensive macro key functionality.

The keyboard also features Razer's Green switches, which provide a tactile and satisfying typing experience. A sound test of the keyboard reveals that it produces crisp and clear audio, making it suitable for use with a range of devices.

To round out the review, some delighting effects are on offer, including breathing, fire reactive, ripple, spectrum cycle, starlight, static, and wave patterns. These effects can be used to customize the keyboard's appearance and provide an immersive gaming experience.

In conclusion, the Razer Black Widow Elite keyboard is a high-end gaming keyboard that boasts a range of innovative features and premium materials. While it may lack some of the more advanced features of its V2 counterpart, it remains a compelling choice for users seeking a high-quality gaming keyboard with excellent build quality and customization options.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhello everyone and welcome back to tech blog today we're going to be unboxing the newly released razer blackwidow elite keyboard right here this just got delivered this morning and i can't wait to actually unbox it all so this does come with like this little plastic film on it which we can take off quite easily i'll just put that to the side there right so here's the actual keyboard itself there are some actual switches exposed uh in the little packaging here so you can actually have a feel for the switches before you bite if you do find this keyboard in store but apart from that it's your typical razer packaging really very similar to the packaging of the huntsman elite that i have beside me here and i do actually have the huntsman elite keyboard in my setup and i'll be posting two videos over the next i think week or two uh comparing the newly released black widow elite keyboard to the previous generation black widow chroma v2 and then i'll be doing another video comparing the black widow elite to the newly released huntsman elite so expect to see those videos coming soon and if you're new to the channel hit that subscribe button so you'll be notified whenever i upload a new video but apart from that let's go ahead and actually unbox this i've got my awesome little red knife here that i unbox everything on the channel with and i am planning on upgrading this to something more fancy here's the keyboard we're going to be unboxing it razor green switches so we do have a little booklet here as well uh let's take this out we'll probably get some razor stickers will we get some fancy new ones as with all razor products you do always get this little piece of paper here i guess welcoming you to the razer community and then right here we have the black widow elite booklet that you get with the keyboard as well uh so here just kind of shows you uh that the keyboard is compatible with razer synapse three a way to get support if you need help with the keyboard it shows you how to set it up and stuff and some of its features and ooh some stickers slipped out so let's put the booklet away so here we have the generic like rgb razer logo sticker right there we have the actual razer logo in text two powered by razer chroma stickers here as well these actually look very nice and then we also have the four gamers by gamer sticker down there as well so some pretty nice stickers that you get with the keyboard the same exact stickers that you go with the huntsman elite keyboard as well but now that we've gone through all the manuals and stuff and all the stickers we can actually take the keyboard out itself all right so how are we actually going to unbox this there's a little lever here and that pops out okay cool then this will pop out as well i'm guessing we have the keyboard wire right here i'm guessing this is like a let's try that again i'm guessing this is like a two meter wire you need two usb ports for this keyboard one for the keyboard itself and an optional one i suppose for the usb passthrough that you get with the keyboard unfortunately it's only a usb 2.0 pass through not usb 3.0 and then of course you also get your audio password here as well for your microphone or headset i guess as of all razer keyboards you do get a very nice braided cable right here very high quality quite thick as well but then it does separate into three different ones your two usb ports and your audio pass through in the end all right so let's go ahead and actually take the keyboard out of its packaging and i think below the keyboard we also have the black widow wrist rest that you get with all black widows okay so here's the keyboard let's take off the rest of the packaging all right so let's actually unbox the wrist rest first i wonder if it's going to be an improvement over the v2 it feels very very soft but i'll compare this in the side-by-side comparison video that i'll be releasing soon but you know i gotta say fantastic wrist rest it's super super soft probably one of the best on the market i think razer's wrist stress are actually like probably the best if not one of the best on the market right now they're just so soft and very very lovely to use in general this one actually feels quite low to the ground as well i think the rubber pads here are a little bit slimmer than the v2 so it kind of sits like more flat against the desk i guess which i'm a fan of it looks pretty cool so let's actually take the rest of the packaging off off of the keyboard itself all right so i'm actually quite impressed so far the entire keyboard has an aluminium construction so it's not plastic you don't have to worry about all that it feels super high quality and the metal that it's actually made out of is quite fingerprint resistant as well like like i can touch the metal with all my fingers and stuff and no fingerprints really appear well they do appear but they disappear after like a second or so so fantastic job there it feels heavy it feels high quality there's a little illuminated razor logo there as well that actually looks fantastic even though it's not even lit up yet okay so before we actually do anything else let's plug the keyboard in we'll do a little sound test in just a moment and i'll show you a few delighting effects and stuff like that all right cool so it's already on the lights are shining as you can probably see the little razer logo there is lit up as well looking fantastic feels high quality the whole keyboard actually looks super cool from this angle as all these switches are actually exposed so you can see each individual like led light on each switch so you can see that so you can see that each individual led light on the actual switches it looks pretty cool right all right so i just plugged the keyboard in razer synapse is now updating the software and downloading all the necessary drivers and stuff for the keyboard but yeah okay that's updated we'll update it again apparently it's updating twice all right so synapse is now telling us to restart the pc all right so while my pc is restarting let's talk about some of the cool features of this keyboard now i didn't think that i'd actually like the keyboard as much as i do and i'm kind of considering replacing my huntsman elite with this but i'm not sure yet it's actually a pretty cool keyboard so right here we have the razer logo that's sliding up now each one of the switches on the keyboard are exposed so you can actually see each individual light and stuff it looks freaking awesome above the numpad of the keyboard we also have the multimedia dial found on the huntsman elite as well as the multimedia keys right here so we can actually mute the audio on our pc using this keyboard we can also increase it and decrease it we can play music we can pause music previous track next track but absolutely awesome keyboard so far razer have also implemented some pretty cool cable management solutions for the keyboard so as we have this thick cable here not only can we put it through the center and it kind of just goes out of the keyboard like this and you know if you have a hole in your desk what you can actually do is because the cable starts like just here you can make your entire keyboard literally look wireless which is absolutely awesome but if you don't want to do that you also have a bunch of different choices here so you can make the cable go through this little cable channel here that they've built into the keyboard and it will come out of the left hand side of the keyboard like this but you do actually have to put some force into there to make sure it stays in place by the escape key here and if you don't want to do that you can also make it come out of the right hand side of the keyboard and it will come out of the side of the multimedia dial here so absolutely awesome feature i wish all keyboards had this you also do get some height adjustment for the keyboard so we have some feet on either side of the keyboard allowing you to adjust the height of it and there are three levels in total uh the highest one which is here then there's just a little bit of height adjustment there and we can make it completely flat and make the entire keyboard just kind of like flat against our table pretty cool the keyboard does also come with an optional wrist rest here that attaches to the keyboard via some magnets but i have to say the magnet connection isn't actually that strong as you can see right there but at least the wrist rest and the keyboard have tons of these non-slip rubber pads at the bottom of them preventing the keyboard from moving around on your desk like i can move my desk around but i can't move the wrist rest or the keyboard on the desk it is like super stationary this keyboard is not going anywhere by the way if you're wondering where the usb pass through and the audio pass-through ports are on the keyboard well they're not on the right hand side of the keyboard like they were with the blackboard or chroma v2 keyboard there they're not on the back of the keyboard either they're not below the keyboard but instead razer have now moved these ports below the escape key over on the left hand side of the keyboard so we have one usb 2.0 pass through as well as an audio pass-through for some headphones for example pretty cool what i really like about this keyboard is the built-in cable management feature allowing you to not only run the keyboard y in three different directions but also allowing you to run a separate wire if not probably a few wires below the keyboard improving the overall cable management of the setup so right here i've currently got a mouse wire running below the keyboard and it's plugged into the usb pass through over there so it's pretty nice before we end this video before we end this video let's do a quick sound test of the keyboard so let's put the wrist rest back on and let's do a quick sound test of the razer green switches and finally let's go over a few delighting effects here we have breathing between random colors then we have fire reactive then we have a ripple effect then we have a spectrum cycle effect starlight a static effect and now back to wave and by the way if you haven't noticed already there are no dedicated macro keys on the blackwidow elite keyboard none at all there are five dedicated macro keys on the blackwidow v2 keyboard there but none on the black widow elite but apart from that i hope you enjoyed watching my unboxing and quick overview of the razer black widow elite keyboard razor's newest keyboard at the moment and to my surprise i'm actually really liking the keyboard so far i didn't think i'd like the black audio elite keyboard as much as i do but it's a pretty nice keyboard very very well made all metal construction no more plastic keyboards coming from razer i'm very glad that they're finally making all their high-end keyboards out of metal they feel so much high quality but yeah oh my god almost dropped the keyboard there but thank you very much for watching as always i have my dedicated comparison videos and probably a review coming out on this keyboard over the next few weeks so expect that video coming soon but yeah thanks for watching i hope to see you in another video soon goodbye foreign\n"