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what's up guys Jays nerdgasm here with Jays to Barclays he's actually in the room fellas what is that smell so since I've got the one and only Jays or the one and only Jays barnacle so since I've actually got Barclays in the room I figured you'd be perfect time for us to do a keyboard review because who else is more of a keyboard whore than me so guys today we're taking a look at the RGB 80 I'll be honest I don't know why it's called 80 maybe czar 80 Keith is 10 keyless and AV key versus a one ohm or yeah I learned something today okay guy says we got the RGB 80 16.8 million color backlit keyboard here from Roseville it's a mechanical gaming keyboard we'll go ahead and take a look and see what the hell this thing is all about now just a little disclaimer here on the box it does show kind of a varying color grade on here as the different regions of the keyboards are met this is just photoshopped really it says right here on the front that you can only have one color at a time will you mute your phone freakin amateur I'm sorry okay so feature wise here it does have sixteen point eight million color capable with a firmware update that's coming in the future six level backlight adjustable does that mean six levels of brightness I guess we'll find out yeah anti-ghosting functions I that's good I hate ghosts there you go scary goes are horrible people a hundred percent mechanical but it doesn't say what kind of keys they are it doesn't say anywhere on here if they're Cherry MX or whatever other any other mechanical switch I've never heard of another mechanical switch other than Terry there actually are oh I didn't know but I'm looking to see where switches now as mechanical gaming keyboard switches okay here's the bottom line with the keys I've used this keyboard already the console video which it's very controversial apparently amongst many people you guys can hear it's very distinctly clicky now I sent them an email and ask them what keys are in this and they basically replied in today's they're like cherry blues I mean you see they're clicky yeah and they do feel a lot like a blue and if these are not Cherry MX switches I couldn't actually tell you but they are because they feel an awful lot like cherries that's a party keyboard a clearly it is a 10 kilos keyboard which a lot of gamers seem to like helps keep down some of the cost if you're not using that that number pad over there the 10 keys are for poor people Jay yeah an accountant and accountants I would agree it does have on the bottom here your USB plug plug it in channel all that stuff you'd expect rubberized feet that pop out big fat rubber feet down here on the bottom for big fat guys like this oh yeah rubberized texture all around little embossed rge RGB right yeah it stands for red green blue yeah yeah yeah actually kind of a though I know it's a GB a GB it's got a nice clean look to it here we'll get some close-up shot are you still Ballmer ish but you know the most important part about this is features where does it feature what are the colors look like and what comes in the box so it's got a 5.9 foot cable they couldn't quite get that six foot they got a nice 5.9 foot but hey they're honest what can I say I wonder if they accidentally put their own connector on and you like cut it off and shorten it a little bit all right like oh god this isn't firewire now it's zip tied together I did that actually but it's alright paracord yeah but it's really stiff that's like me some stiff paracord Jay so the court is nice it's kind of stiff I wish it was a little longer because I do have a long run from my keyboard to my tower and most of us do now especially put your keyboard on the floor might not be long enough but it's kind of the same gripe I have with every manufacturer so cord aside they do give you a key cap puller and they give you some exhilarate they're kind of different in the sense that key cap who are pretty pretty universal there but they give you clear keys Lou that they're pretty clear their sides printed with clear so if you wanted color to show straight through I mean I guess you could do that all right so enough about that let's go ahead and just get this thing powered up let's get the software loaded if I could find out how since it's a CD disc and I don't have a CD drive and I'm not sure if these are available online yet since I don't think these are out yet we'll figure it and if they are then I'm just way behind on this review so yeah enough about talking about it let's go ahead and click on it let's see how fast this guy can type on it I type 100 words per minute he's up to 130 so I guess that makes you 30% better yeah you're gonna get raped you can't say that or not I don't know if people get mad logo okay so the RGB ad here from Roseville took me a little bit to figure out the software I think mr. barnacle even have to agree that the software has a little bit of a learning curve that goes along with it oh yeah yeah but fortunate thing with that is software can be improved over time this is early software for them I certainly hope it improves now before we get to the software let's just talk about some of the functionality here of the keyboard so here's the RGB we've got profile one on here default which is blue as you go through the different profiles you can have each profile have its own color if you kind of need it you can do like a disco effect and just kind of let it go it's advertises sixteen point eight million colors but right now we were stuck to the standard 256 there was like ten blacks on there actually because it was every RGB main beta main prime color all the way adjusted a shade down to black so really it's not even 256 colors it's like nine yeah with every shade of those nines but they did tell me in an email that there's a software update coming out that will allow you to get the full RGB and I'm assuming at that point what will be getting is like right now currently when you go in and you look at the colors and you say LED settings and you click the color you just get this what looks like mspaint little palette here but I'm assuming what's gonna happen in the future is you're gonna get a color wheel yeah that's that's probably what's gonna happen and and they've decided to go ahead and launch the keyboard prior to the software being completely matured that's not unusual for a lot of companies I mean Microsoft does that all the time and you can adjust the colors of this by simply you know kind of clicking on the let's see what color should we make this red well we already have a red let's do right let's just do white there's no white on the base there you go all right so this is kind of downside to the software number one we're not sure what processors in here like a lot of keyboard manufacturers are starting to go with like arm 32-bit processors which are good enough for like mobile phones and when you hit apply and save this oh okay and apply you can see on the screen right now it says loading it actually takes a little while I think it has like that's 100 bought modem in it it's a yeah it's actually calling the computer right now see we're getting a little progress on the load bar so I do feel that currently the weak link in this keyboard is the software I really hope that they improve it but there's macro functions on there they do have a sync program button where if you click that pushing the button that you assigned can open up a program or some sort of a process yeah see it's still going see that it takes a long time to save your settings to the keyboard like a 30-second it's a tiny change a color a key macro something you have to go through this and there it's done and you can see now we have well I thought it was white I guess it's really really green like light light light light green maybe I selected the wrong color but anyway you can't adjust the colors that way now what I'm a little disappointed about you cannot set individual key colors I thought you could I thought you could I mean I know in the box that said that you can't do different zones of colors but you can't do individual colors either the whole keyboard or nothing it's a little misleading because the box also shows on the front let's do this it's actually showed different regions of colors on the front in the picture so you kind of want to assume that you could do that but right now anyways you can and I guess we don't know if you will even be able to do that in the future right we don't know all I know the only thing they really talked about in the an email with me was that they are going to be making it 16.8 color capable they have to because they advertised is that yeah but who knows what changes they're making to the actual software and let me turn the camera towards you so you're not nothing but echo or them that might get me there we go how's that it's pretty good they did advertise it as being five back a brightness adjustable but I think that's a misprint it is because we've only found three adjustment levels to zone levels plus the breathing mode yeah so I think that was a misprint because if we hold down the function key in the up and down arrow we have the first brightness which is awful yeah it's kind of a given brightness number two is a medium brightness number three is full bright you push it again it doesn't change but it's got one of the slowest breathing modes I think I've seen yeah wait for it okay there goes no.8 wait wait oh here it's coming back yeah and there we go so it's a really slow breathing mode that's mode number four and then if you push it up again you get like a gamer modes just WASD arrow keys enter in the F row yeah or the F eight through twelve anyway which is your profile settings and then you do it again you get I guess this would be like guns different guns and gyms and like macros and minecraft and yeah control shift caps tab and then you push it again give nothing else so there's just so the five levels are actually three brightness into zone three brightness two zones plus breathing four six total seven if you want to include off and it's also got this look I think that back it would be six cuz they count the first brightness is off which is kind of cheating but office they call it they call it a brightness level okay so yeah but there is there's other fun stuff there's like the macro keys obviously I mean I had a little fun here with with the F Road f1 macro as you can see right here in the on the keyboard hopefully you guys can read that well see Jerry is a big poopoo head hahahaha he's such a noob yeah that's true this keyboard where does it fit in the market well it's the cheapest RGB keyboard so far that I could find it comes in at $99 it does have its shortcomings but I think if you're not if you're like me and I can only talk about me Jerry can give his opinion I don't use macros I'm not a macro guy I'm not a big macro guy either if it doesn't have dedicated macro keys I'm guaranteed not to use macros yeah because I don't want to hit f1 in some other program it starts typing Jerry as a noob like I started to reply to an email to Luke Luke over at Linus tech tips and I hit F wanted to start typing out Jerry is a noob haha so it could get you in trouble if you don't have demonstrated macro that's true but it'd be fun if something if a friend of yours has one of these like I was telling Jane when he's not looking I'm gonna program it so that like that when he presses the period key it types something really fast that's obscene and then hits ctrl s which is usually the universal send email right code so hopefully you'll stumble across that wall writing and if you guys start seeing any promotions of Jerry's channel it's probably he got into the macro settings so I went in to log into Twitter and it's like everyone go follow the Barclays he's awesome yeah thing so that's it's $99 right now and I don't think there's any other 10 key we did confirm that yeah are there already I gots blue switches they're actually green light there but well we'll get a close-up of that they are MX blue switches in there I love blues blues are my favorite switch so I'm gonna be using very smurfy never a clicky I love the click and you got the ability to disable the Windows key so you can switch between game mode and PC mode which essentially kills the Windows key right which is kind of the one other negative we had we found about this PFD ant macro that key we've spent about maybe 40 minutes right now playing with the macros we were trying to macro in some of the windows command functions so that you could bring up a program like we were gonna macro in that you push f1 and it brings up notepad to start it starts typing out Jerry as a new but the problem is that if you go into PC mode there PC mode by the way which they call that's that's the only mode where the windows key works and it's do you do function PC mode right now the color is purple for that one yeah the windows key works as you can see on the screen behind us but if you go into any gamer profile it's dead it's dead you have no control over that every other gaming keyboard have ever used you have the option of disabling that key in any profile or enabling it in your profile yeah so Jerry has a theory as to why they might be doing that yeah the theory is is the windows key it's it's not very deterministic if you disable it you can't use it if you enable it then it's for system functions so if you could Mac her while it was disabled eyes up here buddy sorry I'm like I can see myself everyone's you be like what yeah I know I even do that in my camera I had to get used to that so with the Windows key basically if you disable the Windows key and you were able to create a macro like Windows key did something and then you went in and you re-enable the Windows key we're now Windows means to the system to open the system menu you've now altered the functionality of that key that's not just a macro where is in the macro sense f1 f1 has always have one it always does what f1 does but being able to disable enable the key changes how it works so that's why I think that they basically just said let's not mess with it let's just leave it off the menu but in ROS Mel's defense I dunno I can enable and disable that key but I had not checked on the other keyboards I have if you can macro that keys I suspect you can't that's true I haven't tried it either so that's actually a good test so guys the RGB 80 from ROS will it has all the stuff gamers want it's a 10 keyless if that's what you're into I'd love cherry MX blues my favorites which custom backlighting any color you want so you could match it to color theme I could go yellow for skunkworks or red for this PC green if you're an Nvidia fanboy right if your team red and it's got its comfortable you could actually type pretty quick on it yeah he typed on it he really liked the feel of this keyboard it's it's heavy so it doesn't slide it's got nice rubber feet it doesn't move around on you and it's really basic approach our GP keyboard it doesn't break the bank I mean some of these 10 keyless be 150 bucks or more well hello Plain Jane Cherry MX mechanical keyboard can hit one hundred and fifty dollars that's like that's like the middle price point for them so guys right now it's available over at new egg I don't know where else it's available but is a rose well RGB eighty sixteen point eight million colors in the future go and check it out guys make sure if you stumbled across this channel you guys follow us on Twitter I never have to say follow us it's weird yeah at Barclays Jay's two cents over here we both have the book face and the other YouTube channel this guy has one it's a little little channel though it's not incredibly it's still a little itty bit only like 121,000 little tiny one so guys wring it the neck on out of here I've been hanging out do too much lately yeah we're gonna see what other trouble we can get in as always guys we'll see you in the next one which are probably very soon yeah