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AORUS Thunder Series Review! A Modular Keyboard?!

2014-09-21
the last few videos and Instagram photos and Twitter photos that I put up you guys have asked what keyboard is that in the background my gosh it looks awesome it's been kind of sitting there for awhile just teasing you and making you wonder what the heck it is today we're gonna take a look at a few products from Oris I think it's orestes how you say it well embarrassed to say I don't know how to pronounce it ao r us ARS ours we're gonna be taking a look at the Thunder Series today from I'm gonna call it Horus Aris that is right for the last two weeks or so I have been trying out some products from Aris now we are taking a look today at three actually I've never done three products in one video so I'm gonna try and keep it as straight and to the point and not too long but not too short I mean that's the hard part about this whole gig anyway we're gonna take a look at the Thunder k7 keyboard the Thunder m7 MMO gaming mouse and the Thunder p3 gaming pad I'm assuming it's k4 keyboard m4 mouse and p4 pad I came up with that one all by myself actually they didn't even send me a review kit that told me what that meant now I'm gonna go ahead and start with the keyboard because I'm gonna be honest this keyboard has quickly become one of my favorite keyboards I have ever used but at the same time it's not perfect so we're gonna talk about everything now the Thunderer k7 it is a mechanical keyboard plus macro keypad what does that mean macro keypad in fact if you take a look at the photo here you'll see the ten key it's a ten keypad plus an M macro pad but it's on the left side of the keyboard but if you look right here you can see mine he's on the right hmm interesting yeah alright so anyway it is a mechanical red switch with a blue backlight that's kind of problem number one for me was the fact that it was a blue backlight I would have loved a white but I digress now the cool thing is it's got volume control brightness control macro control everything profile control everything is right on the keyboard with these dials and it's pretty pretty neat you can turn up the volume you can turn up the brightness with a dial so it gives you more than just that kind of a three step or a five step brightness but it has got an awful lot of functionality now let me go ahead and show you what I think is really cool about this keyboard as this keyboard is really truly modular now if you're like me I really like a rest pet but maybe you don't well cool you can just take the damn thing right off or you can just put it right back on you see that let me do that again for you guys you can just take it off or put it right back on the damn things magnetic people look at that now maybe you don't want the keypad you just take it off now you've got yourself a ten keyless keyboard maybe you want it on the left side like this show in the picture that's right magnetic BAM there it is so you've got three major pieces to the keyboard right here yeah that's pretty damn cool so a 10 key pretty much with all your volume control and your lighting control and it's also a button when you push it down watch yeah that's neat right it's a nice matte finish it's got some hefty weight to it the anti slip pads are pretty good size it's got the fold-out feet so you can get up right angle if that's more your flavor or if you decide you want that keypad boom there it is now you're seeing kind of problem number one aren't you it's only magnetic now where that becomes an issue is if you're like me and you're constantly sliding your keyboard around now it's not coming off as I'm sliding it as you can see but let me tell you what's happening it's got these tiny little spring-loaded contact pins in here on both sides of the keypad it's got the same flip up foot by the way so it can match the height if you flip up your keyboard these really easily lose contact if you were to say wiggle it like that so when you do that your windows is gonna windows got automatically detect that a device was disconnected because this kind of carries its own little keypad driver and anytime you move it around or go to pick get up it tends to go dead drunk don't dink don't dunk and then starts like recognizing and installing the driver that happens during a game you get a momentary can loss of control of your keyboard that's that's the one problem I had is I had wished that there would could have been like maybe a latch that you could maybe kind of lock in on the bottom so that it doesn't come off and it can stay permanent because I I need my 10 key pad I I need that but now here's the cool part is it also comes with its own cable so you could keep this thing entirely independent so you could be like on what is that high school game game high school whatever video game high school yeah that that's vgs vGHS video a game high school yeah you could use this independently as its own like keypad if you want it I mean it has its own cable and it's separate from the keyboard so you can do that if you wanted this is perfect for left-handed gamers I have a friend who's a left-handed gamer and he'd specifically bought one of those logitech gaming pads so this could double is that you've got you've got your right up here when you push it down it'll light up and change colors based on profile so you have different macros for different games and different profiles you can set a color on that that's an RGB and so the keyboard is pretty awesome and now putting it together I think is really neat too because you can just slide it over slide it over and there it is well J but the wrist rest if you move the thing off the right and you move it to the left right it's gonna look funky like that well got you covered all right so that's enough about the keyboard I've been using it for a while I've managed to learn to move it around without it disconnecting on me but there are times I move it in the middle of a game and it disconnects and I get very very frustrated but typing on it is absolutely fantastic a lot of people don't like cherry MX Reds Cherry MX Reds are one of my absolute favorites which next to that would be Cherry MX browns and blues so now we're going to go ahead and take a look at the m7 MMO gaming mouse now just like you would expect with other gaming mice it has lots and lots of buttons but what's cool is it's got this kind of acrylic window both on the top and inside right there so that you can you can see in there engine and she was a little engine in there and it's got a mac artist weeping not a macro but it's got a profile select button on the right it's got one two three four five six seven eight thumb buttons so it's perfect for mmo's I find it very comfortable it's more of a claw Mouse though I find it's not so much a palm Mouse it feels like more of a claw Mouse you got to kind of hold it like this I would prefer it to be a little bigger but that's just me it's got very very smooth feet on the bottom it glides really nicely especially on their mouse pad Oh once again there's one thing that's not perfect about it oh of course it's got a scroll wheel which is also a button it's got some LEDs on the front that light up braided cable I'm a big fan of that now there's something on here that I not a fan of and that's the location of the profile switch right here is I tend to find that when I'm got my ring finger over there it tends to rest right near that I don't if you can see that it tends to rest right near that button and so what happens is I find myself accidentally changing profiles in the middle of a game specifically battlefield or other shooters and all the profiles have their home dpi sensitivity so my DPS says dpi sensitivity could be changing mid game so I would definitely maybe had suggested them a different spot for that button but either way so it makes also finding out which profiler on really really easy because the LEDs down inside of the little window here will change color based on the profile you have selected as well as the LED on the scroll wheel will change colors depending on the profile you have selected so the mouse is actually really comfortable I really do like it it's a little smaller than I'm used to but hey you know we can't all have the size that we care about and last but not least we have the massively huge Thunder p3 gaming pad now this isn't designed to just be a mousepad it is just that this sucker is a and you see I tried to pick up the keyboard and all fell apart on me this thing is a gaming pad it is designed to run the entire length of the surface where you're going to be doing your gaming and as you can see just like that you can have pretty massive size surface area for all of your stuff it's pretty big now it's sort of like a neoprene material on the bottom it is not gonna slide and the only downside is because it's a fabric it tends to pick up dust and dirt and and things really easily so it looks dirty kind of quickly but you can pretty much wipe it clean with a damp cloth with absolutely no problem but it's cool because it's not just a mousepad it's a gaming pad so your keyboard and everything goes on here your entire gaming surface then becomes your mousepad and their Mouse in fact any Mouse actually smooth or rides really really smooth on their their gaming pad here but I see I've got like lint and stuff already on this and I find myself cleaning it quite a bit so guys this has been the thunder series here from Oris and if I'm saying it wrong please correct me down in the comments section let me know jay you're an idiot you're saying it wrong it's a Oris or our rust it's pretty awesome actually is what it is it's been a while since I've come across any gaming peripherals that really made me have like wow this is this is pretty cool and fun to use so this is the entire series here go and check them out I'll put links into the description if available I'm not entirely sure where they're available yet but I'll be putting those down there as they become available guys Jase 2 cents follow on twitter social media and all that other fun stuff you got a lot of cool stuff coming up on the channel here you're getting pretty backed up and I have a lot of stuff to review also have been eating a lot of red meat with it okay that's probably little bit too much TMI see you the next one
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