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hey what's going on guys JC sent here and I get a lot of complaints from viewers saying that I spend way too much time dealing with high-end hardware and to that I want to say you guys are absolutely right the new EBG a silent series power supplies offer excellent silence and efficiency through their new EVGA Eco mode technology and also features a seven-year warranty for worryfree gaming click the link in the description to learn more we've looked at a lot of high end mechanical keyboards and high end mice and stuff but you know something we have never looked at on this channel is an inexpensive gamer option that doesn't include a mechanical keyboard or some high-end you know super spiffy gaming mouse but we're going to talk today about the octane from cooler master this is a gaming kit and you guys have seen the add-on that I didn't actually intend on doing a review of this but after using it for a little while and having been used to typing on mechanical keyboards for years now I thought this was something that definitely needed some attention for people who are gaming on a budget and want to get a better gaming experience but without blowing you know what little bit of money that you have and still have some of the cool features that you'd like in a gaming keyboard and not be stuck with just some cheapo 10 or 15 dollar Walmart Dell or HP membrane keyboard that really doesn't give you any sort of bling whatsoever this is a gaming combo now the octane gaming combo comes in at about 55 bucks at Newegg it seems to be anywhere between 50 and 60 dollars depending on where you buy it now it is a full QWERTY keyboard it's all very appealing matte black but the cool thing is is it does have backlighting which is something that tends to cost a bit more on many keyboards especially ones that don't come with a mouse but it has a lot of functions on here on top of that I mean you've got your volume up and volume down controls here you have your media controls and then of course you have a keyboard lock which is what a lot of gamers like when it comes to gaming keyboards is being able to lock the windows key so you don't accidentally knock yourself out of the game especially if you're playing like an FPS and you go to hit ctrl to crouch and you bump that stupid Windows key in next you know you're kicked your game so you can lock that but it has different lighting modes as well which is something that a lot of people like to see especially if you have a nice build a set it going maybe AMD red like we have red stuff going on behind us here you could simply change the color to red this button right here every time you hit it it just cycles through the seven different LED backlight colors we've got blue red green purple a kind of a neon is it's yellow it's more of a neon green kind of an aqua color a very light blue color and then off so unfortunately there's no white it would have been nice to see a white but those are the colors that we have on here it does have a semi built-in wrist rest so it does give you kind of a place to put your palm it's not very big but it's probably plenty proper size for many people you can put your palm on there for me personally half my palm hangs off it's not as comfortable as I would like but one thing that this is this is purely subjective one thing that I'm not a fan of on this keyboard though is the fattened spacebar so when I tend to push on the spacebar kind of on the lower side it doesn't feel as crisp or as responsive it almost feels a bit mushy because the actual membrane is farther up on the key so when you push it down here on the bottom or on this corner it feels a little bit mushy when you're doing your typing and sometimes I wonder did I actually hit spacebar or what but other than that you do have you know varying brightness control here I should actually hit the right button nice so you'd have varying lightness control you've got off one to three different levels of brightness and then if you simply hold function and push the LED there then it will just kind of cycle through the different colors sort of in a breathing motion but that's pretty much it for when it comes to control now the bottom of the keyboard does feature these very large rubber feet in all four corners so when you set it on your desk and you get really involved in your game you're not going to be sliding it all over the place so as you can see I'm hitting it and we can't get it to really slide unfortunately the pop-out feet on the bottom here do not have any rubber on them so once you lift it up for an upright typing position which is something I prefer you lose about half your friction and it does become a lot easier to slide it's not going to move around too much but you do lose quite a bit of the friction so that's something to keep in mind it would have been nice if they had rubberized feet on that so wouldn't slide but hey you know at this price point it's not uncommon for little things like that to be you know part of the total package it is a rubberized cable it's not sleeved it is not removable and there is no built-in USB hub on the keyboard now when it comes to the mouse to the mouse mousse when starts saying a little bit weird eh so when it comes to the mouse you have the same seven backlight colors so you can match your keyboard in your mouse and then you do have one dpi adjustment button up here for four different dpi levels the manual says five hundred to thirty five hundred are adjustable but it doesn't tell me the ratios it does have these kind of a led what looks like headlights on the front of the mouse it looks very attractive one thing to point out though is when you cycle through the different colors the scroll wheel stays white so that's not going to change but the matte the scroll wheel does have a very pronounced click so it's very easy to tell when you're scrolling now on the bottom of the mouse it does have three I believe they're like a polyurethane set a feet on here so it does slide pretty smooth even on the desk surface thus the roughness that you hear that's my desk the the parvum scratched it all up so it does actually move really well and very smooth even without a mousepad and once you put a mousepad under it of course the thing glides incredibly smooth FPS shooters are pretty nice on this it's a very light Mouse so movement on this if you're used to a heavier Mouse or weighted Mouse which I am it's going to feel very light at first once you get used to it you can do some very incredibly quick mouse movements with this so I guess the last thing to do before we end this video is to do a little bit of a typing test you guys can hear the way the keyboard sounds it's a membrane so it's going to sound like a membrane keyboard but then we'll just kind of give some feedback on the way it feels when you type and then we'll draw some conclusions now physically draw them that would be like a kind of a draw my life and I already did that so transition okay so I just got notepad open here I know you guys can't see it doesn't really matter we're just going to do a little bit of a noise test on here when it comes to typing but I don't think you guys should expect anything spectacular with the noise they're not mechanical keys so it's not going to click it's just going to sound like a regular old keyboard in fact I'm just going to type this sounds like a regular old keyboard there it is so because it does have a little bit of flimsiness to it none awful lot when you hit keys like spacebar there's a little bit of a noise that goes along with it so I just typed right now when you hit the spacebar there was a little bit of noise that goes along with it and it's not too bad but really for the price of the keyboard and the mouse combo it's no worse than any other membrane keyboard I've ever dealt with it doesn't have a metal plate in there which a lot of mechanical keyboards have so yeah the noise sounds like any other keyboard like I said the spacebar it's a little bit springy because it's got some play in there a little bit mushy but if you guys don't know the way space bars work on a membrane is it actually has a metal bar that goes across it so that it's got you know actuate the membrane no matter where you push on it so it's actually that metal bar to there that you hear making that sound and there's also a spring on either side so it's very springy but other than that it's a actually not too bad to type on I've had it here on the test bench for a while and so far I'm I'm pretty pleased with it especially since I haven't typed on a membrane keyboard in quite a while as I mentioned I wasn't going to do a review on this but I thought it was definitely worth doing review since I know a lot of younger gamers or people who don't have a lot of money to spend on their peripherals would be interested in this option especially for you know about 50 bucks you get a keyboard and a mouse that has you know full media controls as well as backlighting and adjustable switch or sensitivity in the mouse it's the kind of thing we all definitely would like as gamers so like I said after using it for a week I really do think it's a decent product to go and consider especially on if you're on a limited budget so tell me what you guys think I know a lot of people prefer a membrane switch over a mechanical switch I've already mentioned I prefer mechanical but I have no problems typing on this thing whatsoever so what do you guys prefer and why you guys prefer a mechanical switch which is your favorite switch and if you prefer a membrane which is your favorite membrane keyboard sound off down in the comments and represent your favorite keyboard switch type and let's all know how you guys feel I wouldn't be able to do these types of videos without your support so I am eternally grateful for that thanks for watching guys and I will see you in the next one thanks for watching today's video about the octane gaming combo stay tuned later on this week I am going to be bringing you a video on the Sapphire ITX compact r9 285 I've already been doing benchmarks on this thing preparing for that video and this thing definitely packs a wallop they were actually said that word before I hope that means something good this thing actually packs a wallop in a very small packet I mean look at the size of the box it's actually on the test bench back there you can see how small it is I've had software that comes in packages bigger than this so if you guys are looking for a small form-factor graphics card and one that's powerful then you definitely don't want to miss this review you'll see that later this week