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what's up everybody Jays two cents here and I'd be lying if I said that this was the first time a memory company has decided to make peripherals but today we're going to be talking about G's skills brand new Ripjaws gaming keyboard specifically the km 780 which features Cherry MX RGB switches authentic Cherry MX not the cheap Chinese kale knockoffs like a lot of other brands have used so today we're going to go ahead and see whether or not G scale made the right move by stepping into a new very oversaturated arena and then we'll see whether or not this guy actually deserves a spot on your desk the new z170 classified motherboard from EVGA features eight phase-- PWM 4 Way SLI support along with top notch components to offer gamers and enthusiasts more of what they want a badass motherboard with no compromises click the link below to learn more now since I know that everybody is going to constantly ask which is better this or the Corsair k70 RGB and I just wanted to say this is not going to be a comparison video but I will say that this has features that the Corsair does not which in my mind makes this thing feel a little bit superior specifically the non RGB version of the K 70 had USB pass-through which was great I liked using that I could plug in my USB drives have quick easy access to USB but when they did the RGB I don't know if they did it to make it a price cut but they remove that from the keyboard entirely well fortunately the g.skill ripjaws mechanical keyboard here brings that back where we have not only USB pass-through but also an analog microphone and headphone jack pass-through as well right here on the back of the keyboard this guy right here there you go you also have your BIOS polling switch on there just like the k70 does so that your keyboard is guaranteed to work in your BIOS and things like that now it has all the standard features you would expect now things that I'm just going to gloss over because every mechanical keyboard on the market pretty much features this now which is you know anti-ghosting full and key rollover that sort of thing but I'm still very excited over the fact that this uses authentic German Cherry MX RGB switches in there now the construction of this thing is very very beefy the whole top and wrapped around the front is protected by a brushed a low top plate on this thing so obviously it's weighty it's very very sturdy it's not gonna bend or I'm trying to bend it right now look it's very very little flex in this thing the Ripjaws keyboard also features a lot of additional things going on here you've got your G switches over here you've got your macro switches multiple profiles of course your gamer lock your brightness button full media center controls and a volume top or slider on here which is like a rolling switch and with the actual visual indicator telling you what your volume level currently is which is nice because I don't want to have to you know click out of the game and congest my volume in the control panel and I sure as heck don't want to have to lean forward and turn the knob on my speakers man I'm way too fat and lazy for that but anyway you've got indicator right there of exactly what your volume level is and of course a mute switch now the wrist rest on this thing is rubberized so that if you're a sweaty gamer or you're in a gaming in a hot room like I do your hands and your palms are going to be slipping all over the place and obviously it's removable I personally don't like using wrist rests so I'm going to go ahead and set that aside but it does also include a complete set of gamer keys for the qwe RC asdf in G keys which are very common keys used amongst FPS games but the textures on these keys are a little different they're angled also to make it a little bit easier so that your fingers don't slip like if you've ever slipped off of W and accidentally hit E or Q which you usually interact buttons you can sometimes mess up because you bump the wrong key it's very very annoying that's good gonna keep you from slipping your finger off of W which is very very nice but you've got a key cap puller located inside here as well and this thing can snap on to the back of your keyboard so you don't lose the damn thing it's really annoying when you switch out the keys and then maybe later you want to go back to more of a comfortable typing setup and you can't find the keys that you removed from your keyboard I'm guilty of that I have no idea where my case 70 extra keys are I've even looked in the box they're not in there but something else that's featured on here that I am very excited to see is this little guy that flips up right here from under the keyboard and this is a little wire a retaining mechanism here so that you can snap your mouse wire into that and now you have slack control on the amount of cable slack on your mouse and it's always going to follow your keyboard so if you move your keyboard around a lot in your desk like I do you're always going to have the same amount of slack on your mouse I think it's really annoying when the mouse wires kind of off doing its own thing this stupid little function right here this little piece of plastic is making me so excited about this keyboard it's not even funny all right let's go ahead and do a quick demo of the software because obviously you can control the lighting on this thing and let's do a typing test and then that's end with some final thoughts okay so I finally figured out how to use the software after messing around this for a while and I don't feel this is as e is as easy to use as it could be so I feel like G skill needs to get their developers to really rework this app because it's not as easy to use as they advertise it to be and that's important because this is half of the user experience it's setting up the damn thing alright so you've got here your macro section that's all pretty simple lighting profiles we'll talk about that in a second but you've got these three menus over here customized for the different key presses and macros setting for like n key rollover polling rate alert mode repeat delay sleep mode all that sort of stuff repeat rate acceleration all self-explanatory stuff but the lighting the lighting is the part that most people are going to be interested in simply because of the fact that this is the selling point of the keyboard as far as I'm concerned anyway when you have RGB Cherry MX switches in here so if you go to lighting you click the background tab right here this shows you the background base colors for the lighting which obviously is set to you know rainbow because they're demonstrating all the different colors available if you click this whatever color you have selected here you can change the color of those key switches you know as you can see I'm changing all of these to blue now I could even grab like a you know section of the keyboard and be like bin will change over to blue or BAM will change those to yellow self-explanatory easy enough right okay well what if you wanted to do the effects you've now changed this it saves it immediately on the keyboard it's not like are you sure you want to save this and apply it doesn't give you a chance to to really apply it you've got a it does it right away so if I didn't necessarily want pink and I did pink now I've lost my ripple effect right so if I go to effect lighting over here you've got a drop down here for wave Ripple reactive and breathing now if I select breathing you can see right here there's nothing in here there's nothing to select and I can't hit okay or anything cuz there's nothing there because before you can apply anything on this window you've got to go in the lighting profiles and set them up here and what's really interesting about this is there are no profiles for any of these things until you create them I would think that the base you know features of breathing Ripple reactive and wave would already be in here but they're not so as you can see I made a ripple with white and green right here there is no reactive so you have to hit plus call it reactive and then you can set what the reactive color would be so let's set it to you I don't know yellow and let's make it a duration of one second so nothing happened nothing applied it created this saved it but it didn't tell you it saved it so you're sitting here going what what the heck just happened nothing changed on the keyboard the colors didn't change I'm typing nothing's happening it's not reacting well that's because you've got to go over here to lighting now select lighting effect ah there's the reactive that we made so now we get hit okay now look now the reactive works so I don't think that's very intuitive whatsoever at all I think there should be a save and apply rather than clicking one thing wrong and then undoing everything you've worked on so that's not something I'm very interested in I don't like the way that this is working at all now obviously you can't set any of these colors because it's in reactive and it's reacting to the colors that we set over here on the profiles now to modify that instead of doing it over here in lighting tab where it seems like it would make the most sense you then have to go back over here to the lighting profiles and then you can change your reactive maybe I want a purple reactive nothing happened right well we've got to go over here and do background color effect lighting then go back to reactive and there our purple see we had to like reselect the same profile we already have selected to make it take effect that's a terrible terrible programming design so this software although it works you really do have to like get kind of finicky with it I mean it's neat but the software needs a lot of work everyone always complains that they want a typing test well you know it's all I got a sound as loud as my lavell ear mic can pick this thing up but anyway they're Cherry MX brown switches are going to sound just like every other Cherry MX brown and we'll just do a little typing test now so I typed this is doing a typing test with these Cherry MX browns they sound just the same as any other Cherry MX brown on the market so this really is a pointless thirty seconds but hey I aim to please well there you have it guys the K M 780 Ripjaws keyboard from G school I think overall the build quality of the keyboard is fantastic it's got all the features I like switches that I like it's got all the macro keys on there that you could want multimedia Keys volume keys USB pass-through audio pass through headphones pass through Michael all that stuff but I really feel that the software is what really needs to be revamped and re looked at with this keyboard it honestly feels like the keyboards physical aspects got all the attention and the software was kind of an afterthought is sort of just thrown together I don't feel it's very intuitive there's no on-screen help yeah there is a technically a link to the manual with inside the software but I think guiding people through the process is what really makes the user experience nice I mean I've dealt with most of the keyboards on the market and it took me a good 20 minutes to figure out how to use this software I can figure out why things weren't saving why weren't the profiles taking effect where were the freaking profiles why did I have to make profiles for the default lighting profiles that were already existing like it's breathing it says ripple it says reactive why did I have to make a profile for them when they're already there anyway I think if they can get the software up-to-date and make the software a bit more user friendly then the keyboard to me is damn near perfect at the end of the day though I'm still going to use this keyboard probably probably primarily on skunk works for the simple fact of the USB pass-through and then the fact that it also has microphone and headphone pass-through makes it easier for me to do testing too with analog stuff so on to keep reaching behind the computer on the test bench I can start using skunk works easier for some headphone reviews and stuff like that but anyway we are going to be reviewing the complete line of the Ripjaws peripherals including the mouse and the headsets they have a 7.1 a true 7.1 gaming headset as well as a simulus 7.1 more of a Dolby headset will be checking both of those out and doing complete tests on those but anyway guys time to get the heck on out of here I hope you've enjoyed today's video hope it's helped you in some way it's always the point of these videos and as always I will see you in the next one