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hey guys you're watching Jays two cents and recently we did a video together talking about Cherry MX switches and the different colors and what they mean what they sound like and what they feel like which is armed you to understand we're going to talk about today which is all about the CM storm quickfire Ultimates mechanical keyboard this thing's pretty cool so let's go ahead and open it up and take a look now today we are taking a look at the CM storm quickfire ultimate fully backlit mechanical keyboard if you're not familiar with CM storm it's cooler masters gaming line of products for PC gamers some pretty cool stuff now this is a fully mechanical keyboard which means every switch on here from the Escape key all the way down to the N key is mechanical now this particular model is the Cherry MX brown with clear backlight now this keyboard is available in a variety of different switch colors and the switch color is going to pretty much determine what the backlight color is so the Cherry MX screen will have a green backlight blue with blue red with red and then the brown has the white LED as will the clear so if you haven't checked out my mechanical gaming keyboard video about all the different switches then you're going to want to go and check that out so you know exactly what the difference which is me now in the front of the box here you have a nice little graphic of what the keyboard looks like this is a full keyboard with 10 key however it does not have any macros now on the back of the box here we have some information about the keyboard that is fully backlit that we do have 6 key and key rollover and we do have function keys built into the F keys for multimedia like play stop rewind fast-forward volume up and volume down now there are three backlight modes when it comes to the lighting on this keyboard you have got a fully backlit where every key lights up it has a gamer mode where the WASD lights up and then it has a breathing mode where all LEDs light up but slowly fade in and fade out I do wish it had a programmable programmable mode where you could choose which keys you want it but unfortunately this keyboard does not have that functionality when it comes to backlighting you do have five levels of brightness so you can fine-tune it how bright you want it and of course it has no backlight mode where you can turn off the back light altogether now the keyboard does feature a built-in embedded steel plate to give the keyboard both rigidity and weight which gives it a really nice solid feel I mean there's absolutely no flex whatsoever in the keyboard in fact I have already got the keyboard out and I can demonstrate that for you right now if I take a keyboard and I really try and with this I really can't it's very very sturdy and as you can tell there is no creaking sound which you're hearing is my hands slipping on it so it's very very solid all right now before we talk to you more about the physical properties of the keyboard that's going to take a look at what comes inside the package inside the box you're greeted here with a nice plastic cover on top of the keyboard keeping the keys nice and safe and the keyboard is sitting in this protective sleeve you have your key puller for pulling off the keys on the keyboard you have a nice gold plated USB cable here that is braided so it gives you nice clean look for your cable and you have your manuals that come with this it talks about the right way of installing the USB cable hopefully by now everyone knows how to do that and then you have your product manual that talks all about the different functions inside of your keyboard do's and don'ts and it comes in quite a few different languages so you should be covered okay so when it comes to the physical properties of this keyboard you may notice that it is quite a bit thicker with a higher profile than many other keyboards on the market there are some other keyboards out there that have a much lower profile there is no rest wrist included with this in fact there's not even the spots to add one if you wanted that disappoints me a little bit because I do like a wrist rest with my keyboard but the moment I hooked this up I had absolutely no problems immediately typing with it and I wasn't missing any keys actually found it quite a pleasure to type on with these Brown switches when it comes to the front here also you have this nice design that's kind of built in the plastic there so that's pretty nice on the side here you can see where you have the channel for the USB cord to come out same thing with the other side as well as the back here you have a USB slot on the back as our channel for the cable as well as this nice design built in as well just giving it some nice aesthetics to it now on the bottom here you can see where you have the multiple channels here to run your cable so you have lots of options here where the cable comes out you're not stuck to just the back and I do really like that the cable is detachable now taking a look at the cable up close you can see that it is gold-plated and it does have a very nice high quality braid on there that's going to keep the cable nice and secure and protected and just look really cool on your desk at the same time continuing on with the bottom of the keyboard you can see right here that you have four very thick very sticky or nice and you know friction me feets on here made of rubber that are not going to let your keyboard slide all over the place that's a really cool feature but what Coolermaster did to make it even more secure is if you like to flip the feet up like some people do and have a more you know upright position of your keyboard the ends of these feet are also rubberized as well so that you're not going to be dealing with plastic and rubber causing it to slide around more so it's still going to be nice and secure one thing I wish that Coolermaster would have included would have been some sort of built-in USBs some people use wireless mice and they may like to stick the little transmitter in the back of the keyboard at least that's what I would do to keep it nice and close to the mouse for a good perception but you know again at the price point that this keyboard is currently at the it's something I can certainly live without it would be nice to see that included though in a model here in the future now the key puller is really easy to use use literally push it down over the key and pull it up it's just that simple it pops the key right off as you can see and you can even see that it's a brown switch in there and what makes this feature really nice is it makes the keyboard just that much easy easy year for cleaning now the keys on this are very nice they all felt nice and uniform no switches felt like they were sticking or anything and I did find it very easy to type on it was aesthetically pleasing the position of the keyboard was good and had no problems going right into various games and typing on inward or the Internet and I wasn't missing keys it was it was actually very pleasant to type on as I mentioned before this is a 10 key so you have all of your extended 10 key functions here and know your keypad but there are no macro keys so keep that in mind now when you look at the backlighting on this thing it's very uniform it's very even each key has its own individual LED so it's very pleasing on the eye and it looks really really cool I like the different backlighting functions that are on this keyboard but as I mentioned before I do wish you had a programmable mode so that you could set which ones you wanted to backlight and which ones you want it to be dim or turned off you know based on your style or whatever fits your needs but again it's one of those things that even though it was available on my previous keyboard I never used it anyway I always left all the back lights on so that it was nice and blingy on my desk but I really do like the backlighting on this it looks really amazing it's it's fun to type on I actually look forward to typing on this keyboard but I think that's because it's just aesthetically it works for me I have long fingers so I don't mind that it's a little bit taller but when it comes to the looks of this keyboard it definitely is going to turn some heads if you take this to a land party or something people are definitely going to ask you hey what keyboard is that and once you start typing on it they're going to be really excited and want one for themselves I know I have had multiple keyboards quite a few of them and I was really excited to plug this one in and I've used all the other brands I've used SteelSeries I've used razor I've used Corsair and I really love this keyboard in fact this is now my main keyboard there you have it guys the CM storm quickfire ultimate fully backlit mechanical keyboard from Coolermaster make sure you guys check it out this holiday season it is definitely worth a spa on your desk and as always if you've 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