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when I spend a lot of cash nor flagship mechanical keyboard I really wanted to have everything and it looks like the g.skill ripjaws km 780 RGB might just tick all the boxes g.skill of course typically known for their high performance memory but last year they entered the peripherals market and today I'm gonna find out whether they're a real player the km 780 is a pretty cool looking keyboard in my opinion it's a full sized full layout board with a wealth of extra keys including 6g keys which Logitech might have something to say about lining the left-hand side of the keyboard which can of course be assigned to any function there's for macro control keys at the very top left followed by a Windows lock key to disable the Windows Keys during gaming a three step backlight brightness toggle and something I haven't seen before in a keyboard a timer key with g.skill software installed this allows you to set a quick time and a remind you of anything you want with lighting effect on the keyboard in the top right hand corner there's also five media control keys with the volume wheel and a volume indicator showing you your current windows volume level pretty damn cool the only downside to this is these lights are stuck on red so you can't make them match the rest of your keyboard if you're not using an all-around red design the overall feel of the design is industrial I'd say the backplate is nice looking brushed aluminium with the g.skill logo at the top center either side of the keys or two brackets which support the pipe that wraps around the sides and back of the keyboard this pipe isn't just for looks either it actually holds the custom key cap case and the mouse cable guide both of which can be slid along this pipe to a location of your choice a large removable wrist rest can be attached at the front of the keyboard and this features a nice texturized plastic insert the underside of the keyboard is simple just between two flip-down legs to prop up the keyboard the braided cable for the km7 80 is thick thick enough to carry USB and audio pass-through and splits off at the end for these functions the ports which can be found at the right back of the keyboard these are inclusions that I love to see and I find USB pass-through extremely handy though it'll be great when we start seeing USB 3.1 onboard I mentioned earlier a custom key cap case cheese coolers included bright red texturized and aggressively shaped keys for gamers that like to feel the difference between they go to keys and the others the WASD keys are extremely aggressively shaped I personally found these pretty annoying for you some general typing and even gaming if I'm honest they take a lot of getting used to but we can only compliment you skill for this extra inclusion really the included key cap removal tool is great to have to a neutral color for the keys may have worked better too since this is an RGB keyboard g.skill seems to live red the key caps are also slightly different heights for a slightly contoured outlay which I personally didn't notice very much at all but it felt good so I suppose I liked it there isn't too much to say about the switches that hasn't already been said the Cherry MX browns and of course there's some of the best you can buy the keyboard also comes in Cherry MX red and blue the lighting behind these switches is pretty good it's not the brightest I've seen but it was definitely satisfactory and created a nice glow around the keys on the military grade aluminium backplate here's how the keys sound when typed on for those interested the software that goes with this keyboard is serviceable it's definitely nothing special and it took me a little longer than normal to figure out how to do things so a little work can be done on the UF side of things but it definitely serves all the purposes it should and I don't have any specific complaints one thing I really liked about this keyboard is the fact that the profiles can be saved directly to the device this means you don't need to have the software constantly running and when you switch PCs your lighting and macro settings come with you overall I love what G school have done with this keyboard for once I'm not reaching this conclusion section with a list of features I wish have been included this thing really has it all and then some extras like the key caps case and removal tool Mouse cable router LED volume indicator and timer key are all features I could comfortably go without but I'm certainly happy to have them USB pass-through the big wrist rest and Cherry MX switches are all features that I personally love to see included though I have been impressed with custom switches from other manufacturers lately so with all these features included this keyboard must cost an absolute fortune right wrong in Australia you can pick it up for 109 from a few online retailers and if you don't care about RGB and get the km7 a dmx LED for a hundred and fifty nine dollars this is a pretty unbelievable price for a flagship keyboard of this caliber and with this feature set Amazon has the keyboard for 140 US dollars and if someone can point me to a similar keyboard for around this price and please do so thanks for joining me for another mechanical keyboard review I'm your host Matt as always and I'll see you guys next time youtubers like me depend on your support to continue improving the quality and content of our videos to support the channel directly consider becoming a patron to also get access to a heap of cool rewards and exclusive giveaways also don't forget you can check prices and buy the products I looked at in this video through the Amazon links in the video description below thank you kindly for supporting me and the hardware on box channel it means a lot to me and I really do appreciate it and in return I'll continue to work as hard as I can to keep producing the content you enjoy