1/2/2024 0 Comments Quickfire xt brown![]() The profile of the keyboard is compact at only 440mm long, and leaves plenty of room on the testbench, so this is a great unit for those that are space-constrained. It boasts a steel plate which gives it a potential military application it would be interesting to test that on the grenade range one day! Weighing in at 1.1kg the keyboard is solid and does not move around the table thanks to its weight and large rubber 40mm by 10mm grip pads on the underside of the keyboard. The actuation response for me is perfect, In Starcraft 2 I felt I my overall TPM increase marginally (note I am Bronze league so far from a superstar but heck I’ll take any help I can get). Like the Func 460 and sporting the same Cherry Red MX switches, it’s a noisy sucker, but I like that. A check of Wikipedia reveals that as of now they have released the following MX switchesįigure 1: The switches included in the Quickfire XT lineup are highlighted with a thick black border Build and performance They developed the first MX switches in the 1980’s. She was the first person to teach me BASIC programming and for that I am forever indebted to Cherry Red! But anyway I digress….įor those of you who don’t know what Cherry is, they are a computer peripheral maker founded in Germany in the 1950’s. Her name was Cherry, she was 5 foot nothing tall with flame red hair. In the 80’s when I was in grade 4, my best friends mum used to come to our school and teach us Computing. ![]() What’s all this Cherry stuff about then, hey? You might have heard of Cherry Red, I have a funny emotional attachment to those two words. The version we were sent is the SGK-4030-GKCR1 model (Red switch). The keyboard sports coveted “Cherry MX” mechanical switches with switch color (red, blue, brown, green) that vary by region, according to Coolermaster. Model NumbersĦ-Key over USB / N-Key with PS2 connection Let’s get into the most important part, the specs. In fact it looks very similar to the Func 460 we reviewed back in January with its black and red highlights, raised LEDs for nostalgia and no frills key layout. The bling is minimal on this one but that’s not an issue, where it is a bit of a “Plain Jane” in the looks department it makes up for it in build quality and feel. Vendors have recently added more and more bling to keyboards and mice, the Logitech G910 being a prime example.īring your bling to a LAN party by all means but perhaps you need something simpler, and more clean looking for your everyday home use.Įnter the Coolermaster CM Storm Quickfire XT. I find it hard to get excited about peripherals in the same way I do about the stuff I mentioned above, even so the importance of a good keyboard and mouse cannot be understated. It’s only human to get fixated on our CPU’s, graphics cards, motherboards, cases and the like and forget about the important stuff: the peripherals.
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