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hello my friends and welcome to awesomesauce news today i will be reviewing this mechanical gaming keyboard from Roseville this is their RK 90 100 and this particular model that I had with me here today features the Cherry MX blue switches you can also get this keyboard in a different model that features Cherry MX brown switches but I will be comparing the two of those momentarily in this video so I also want to point out at least at the time of filming this video this keyboard has been sold out on Newegg for a very long time and I just checked today and its back in stock oh yeah so I figured it would be an appropriate time to do a review on this board so with that said let's take a closer look alright so pawn opening up the box you will find your users manual and keyboard itself of course and I believe that's it yeah and honestly there's not much else you really need with the keyboard these days other than a little documentation perhaps but here it is Wow worst unveiling ever there's a keyboard in all of its glory here's a 6 foot more or less a 6 foot braided cable for your keyboard and the 6 foot 6 feet is kind of long for for a keyboard in my opinion but Rosewall has added a nice velcro strap for you to manage that excess cable you can see here we've got two gold plated USB connectors and you're wondering why Kyle why are there two and I'm sure many of you already know the answer there's actually a USB 2.0 hub right here you can plug in whatever USB enabled device you your heart desires whether it be a mouse or a flash drive or an external hard drive it's kind of a nifty feature to have actually the USB cable itself the braided cable is actually permanently attached to the keyboard and I would have liked to see it been able to unattach because honestly the keyboard that I'm using now can detach and it's really nice I've gotten used to just attaching my keyboard without having to mess around with the wires at the back of my system so that's one feature I wish rosal would have included but not a huge deal breaker by any means aside from that take a look at the back back back back you can see we have four rubber accents very small rubber feet and just to prevent your keyboard from slip and sliding around on your desk when you're using it and then you have two feet that pop up just like that and that will actually elevate your keyboard ever so slightly so it provides a little bit more ergonomic feel for your wrists and your hand and stuff like that and these are also rubber accents on the ends aside from that I don't know if I didn't mention this in intro I totally overlooked this this is actually an illuminated keyboard so each of these keys are individually backlit with their very own LEDs and can't really tell here so why don't I plug in and take a look at it all lit up all right boys and girls here's the keyboard plugged in powered up and all of its LED backlit glory and did want to also mention that the lock buttons caps lock scroll lock and unlock are lit up in green whereas the rest of the keys light up in blue and I kind of wish that these lock buttons lit up in red I feel like that might have matched a little bit better with the blue but that's personal preference and honestly I usually don't have any of these keys enabled anyway so I don't think it matters that much just a personal thought and I'm aside from that this is a really nice frame here it's it's actually kind of like a hard plastic but it doesn't feel cheap at all this keyboard actually does have some weight to it and I do like how thin like the bezel and the frame of this keyboard is because for people like me I have a really small desk and a keyboard like this actually saves me a lot of room for like my mouse for example over there or whatever else you know whatever clutter that I want to put on my desk so I do like how small this keyboard is in comparison to other mechanical keyboards I've seen aside from that this keyboard does feature six key rollover so I can actually hold down any six keys on this keyboard at a time about seven actually know about six six are there and all of them will activate no problem so if I'm like playing Wow for example you know doing a crap kind of DPS as long as I'm holding at least six keys or less down I'm going to be just fine the keyboard also does feature eight multimedia shortcut keys up here with your ear F buttons so this is like your web browser email fast forward rewind play pause and volume control down and up or up and down and mute and these four keys right here are actually your led control area keys so if you hold down function press f9 that's actually your mode button so you can go through the different modes this is like your gaming mode got WASD and your arrow keys and you also have basically everything except for your 10 key number pad lit up and the last mode that you can enable is just full-blown everything and the key next to that is you're basically on and off switch so if you're using this keyboard during the day for example there's really no need to have your LEDs on other than it looking kind of cool but you can turn them off completely with that button right there and they're also for levels of brightness that you can use with this keyboard so right now it's just as bright as it is this is the maximum level of brightness you can go down and down and down so very nice features there there's Roseville Roseville logo to your right and oh yeah the main feature of this keyboard I want to save this for last because it is the best feature cherry MX blue switches all of these keys even the 10 key number pad and the F buttons up top feature cherry MX blue switches they're rather clicky you can hear that and there some would say they're a little bit noisy depends on how fast they're the type where you are how how much pressure you like to put down on your keys but it is rather quickie and it does have a high pitch sound to it I personally don't mind it at all some people hate it some people love it I personally use a Cherry MX brown switches or dat home and hey I'm home right now so why don't I pull out that board and we can compare the sound between the two all right so since I have my cherry MX brown switches in between the different key press properties of Cherry MX blue and Cherry MX brown switches so first taking a look at the RK 9100 here with the Cherry MX blues just see what happens when I press down the key all right you get I click well I also felt a little bit of resistance on my finger there felt a little bump and that basically is the activation point of any of these keys on with the Cherry MX blues and I can continue going down quite a bit further so here it is again activation point with the click and bump and I can continue going down so that's really nice because it activates pretty much halfway down you don't have to press it all the way down to make contact like you do with the older membrane keyboards and I think that's one of the benefits of mechanical keyboards is that you don't have to apply so much pressure to activate those keys so it's especially nice if your gaming or typing for long periods of time you're not going to get as fatigued with with mechanical keys because that early activation point the other thing I want to mention about Cherry MX blue switches is that they have a very fast release time so after you're done pressing it they snap back into place very rapidly and that's good because you can just kind of tap as fast as you can and it's going to keep up with you it's gonna reach back at your finger it's gonna follow your finger pretty much right behind it the entire time and the main benefit of that is for for gamers I'd like to say just because a lot of gamers have to like press Keys rapidly and you never want any redundant key presses or redundant keystrokes when you're gaming that to be the difference between life and death so that is one of the main benefits of Cherry MX blues that you see very commonly with a lot of hardcore gamers now I'm gonna take this opportunity to compare the Cherry MX blues let the Cherry Max Browns so we can see some differences here to find out which keyboard is right for you and so here with the same control button here I'm going to press it down hope we do that again so right there I felt the bump I felt the bump I feel the resistance but notice there was no click it's absolutely silent I'll do it again just totally silent so that is one main difference between chair mix blues and browns that there is no click to indicate that you've hit the activation point with Cherry MX browns only the bump and the other thing the other difference is that the release time for cherry MX browns is not quite as rapid as with cherry MX blues and you notice it's it so it feels a little bit more mushy for lack of a better term than the Cherry MX blues which feel very snappy and responsive but that's not necessarily a bad thing because a lot of people prefer the Cherry MX browns for typing because you're not necessarily going to need that quick response when you're typing you know 70 words a minute or whatever but I personally feel like carry mix Browns are a happy medium between gaming and typing whereas a cherry MX blue I'm probably opt for that type of switch if I were strictly just gaming so there you have it Oliver writes me lovely lads that is gonna wrap it up for this review on this mechanical gaming keyboard from Roseville once again this is their arcane 90 100 in Cherry MX blue switches also available in Cherry MX brown if you're into that kind of thing and closing thoughts and words on this keyboard I do wish once again that there was a removable USB plug right here and I also do not completely agree with the blue and green color scheme of the LEDs here but personal preference of course and aside from that I really do love the build quality of this thing I think it's very sturdy very durable and I also love how small it is like the frame and the bezel so thinly curved as I've it especially for a small desk like the one I'm using right now this is perfect for me and honestly I this board for a couple hours I'm considering replacing my current board with one of these granted I'd probably get the Cherry MX brown version of this and they didn't pay me to say that I swear to God I just I really do like this board and I have a new a gift card lying around somewhere but I would recommend this board if you're looking for a gaming mechanical keyboard so that said thank you guys for watching this review let me know what you guys think of this board in the comment section below or if you have it if it's working out for you or not let me know something you like subscribe to awesomesauce news if you haven't already and i'll see you guys in the next video